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An important step in shape optimization with partial differential equation constraints is to adapt the geometry during each optimization iteration. Common strategies are to employ mesh-deformation or re-meshing, where one or the other…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-27 Jorgen S. Dokken , Simon W. Funke , August Johansson , Stephan Schmidt

We introduce a new efficient algorithm for Helmholtz problems in perforated domains with the design of the scheme allowing for possibly large wavenumbers. Our method is based upon the Wavelet-based Edge Multiscale Finite Element Method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-06-21 Shubin Fu , Guanglian Li , Richard Craster , Sebastien Guenneau

We revisit the cell-based smoothed finite element method (SFEM) for quadrilateral elements and extend it to arbitrary polygons and polyhedrons in 2D and 3D, respectively. We highlight the similarity between the SFEM and the virtual element…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-10-08 Sundararajan Natarajan , Stéphane P. A. Bordas , Ean Tat Ooi

The aim of this paper is to develop a virtual element method (VEM) for the vibration problem of thin plates on polygonal meshes. We consider a variational formulation relying only on the transverse displacement of the plate and propose an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-03-14 David Mora , Gonzalo Rivera , Iván Velásquez

This paper introduces an accurate edge-based smoothed finite element method (ES-FEM) for electromagnetic analysis for both two dimensional cylindrical and three dimensional cartesian systems, which shows much better performance in terms of…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2019-10-30 Yangfan Zhang , Pengfei Wang , Wenping Li , Shunchuan Yang

The presented article contains a 3D mesh generation routine optimized with the Metropolis algorithm. The procedure enables to produce meshes of a prescribed volume V_0 of elements. The finite volume meshes are used with the Finite Element…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2011-03-31 Ilona D. Kosinska

We present numerical experiments for geophysics electromagnetic (EM) modeling based upon high-order edge elements and supervised $h+p$ refinement approaches on massively parallel computers. Our high-order $h+p$ refinement strategy is based…

We present a new framework for expressing finite element methods on multiple intersecting meshes: multimesh finite element methods. The framework enables the use of separate meshes to discretize parts of a computational domain that are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-28 August Johansson , Benjamin Kehlet , Mats G. Larson , Anders Logg

In the context of numerical solution of PDEs, dynamic mesh redistribution methods (r-adaptive methods) are an important procedure for increasing the resolution in regions of interest, without modifying the connectivity of the mesh. Key to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-17 Chris J. Budd , Andrew T. T. McRae , Colin J. Cotter

We introduce an integrated meshing and finite element method pipeline enabling black-box solution of partial differential equations in the volume enclosed by a boundary representation. We construct a hybrid hexahedral-dominant mesh, which…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2022-02-04 Teseo Schneider , Jeremie Dumas , Xifeng Gao , Mario Botsch , Daniele Panozzo , Denis Zorin

We introduce and analyze a virtual element method (VEM) for the Helmholtz problem with approximating spaces made of products of low order VEM functions and plane waves. We restrict ourselves to the 2D Helmholtz equation with impedance…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-20 Ilaria Perugia , Paola Pietra , Alessandro Russo

The Finite Element Method (FEM) is widely used to solve discrete Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) in engineering and graphics applications. The popularity of FEM led to the development of a large family of variants, most of which…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Teseo Schneider , Yixin Hu , Xifeng Gao , Jeremie Dumas , Denis Zorin , Daniele Panozzo

The virtual element method (VEM) is a stabilized Galerkin method that is robust and accurate on general polygonal meshes. This feature makes it an appealing candidate for simulations involving meshes with embedded interfaces and evolving…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-03 Ramsharan Rangarajan , N. Sukumar

In this thesis, a computational framework for microstructural modelling of transverse behaviour of heterogeneous materials is presented. The context of this research is part of the broad and active field of Computational Micromechanics,…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Marco Lo Cascio

Standard PolyCube-based hexahedral (hex) meshing methods aim to deform the input domain into an axis-aligned PolyCube volume with integer corners; if this deformation is bijective, then applying the inverse map to the voxelized PolyCube…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Lingxiao Li , Paul Zhang , Dmitriy Smirnov , S. Mazdak Abulnaga , Justin Solomon

Recovered finite element methods (R-FEM) have been recently introduced for meshes consisting of simplicial and/or box-type meshes. Here, utilising the flexibility of R-FEM framework, we extend their definition on polygonal and polyhedral…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-24 Zhaonan Dong , Emmanuil H. Georgoulis , Tristan Pryer

We develop a fast solver for the spectral element method (SEM) applied to the two-sided fractional diffusion equation on uniform, geometric and graded meshes. By approximating the singular kernel with a degenerate kernel, we construct a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-10 Xianjuan Li , Zhiping Mao , Fangying Song , Hong Wang , George Em Karniadakis

In this study, we present the bicubic Hermite element method (BHEM), a new computational framework devised for the elastodynamic simulation of parametric thin-shell structures. The BHEM is constructed based on parametric quadrilateral…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Xingyu Ni , Xuwen Chen , Cheng Yu , Bin Wang , Baoquan Chen

The presented article contains a 2D mesh generation routine optimized with the Metropolis algorithm. The procedure enables to produce meshes with a prescribed size h of elements. These finite element meshes can serve as standard discrete…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-21 Ilona Dominika Kosinska

To solve large-scale or high-resolution topology optimization problem, a novel algorithm is developed based on modified bi-directional evolutionary structure optimization (BESO) and extended finite element method (XFEM). Within XFEM, a set…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-04-07 Hongxin Wang , Jie Liu , Guilin Wen