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This study develops a polygonal cell-based smoothed finite element method (CSFEM) for two-dimensional seepage analyses in porous media, covering steady-state, transient, and free-surface problems. Wachspress interpolation on convex…
In this paper we study a system of advection-diffusion equations in a bulk domain coupled to an advection-diffusion equation on an embedded surface. Such systems of coupled partial differential equations arise in, for example, the modeling…
Self-consistent field theory (SCFT) has proven to be a powerful tool for modeling equilibrium microstructures of soft materials, particularly for multiblock polymers. A very successful approach to numerically solving the SCFT set of…
Localized features such as singularities, sharp gradients, discontinuities, and moving sources require adaptive finite element discretizations. Conventional refinement strategies introduce significant computational overhead through…
In this paper, we study the stability and convergence of a decoupled and linearized mixed finite element method (FEM) for incompressible miscible displacement in a porous media whose permeability and porosity are discontinuous across some…
Three different displacement based finite element formulations over arbitrary polygons are studied in this paper. The formulations considered are: the conventional polygonal finite element method (FEM) with Laplace interpolants, the…
We present a new approach to discretizing shape optimization problems that generalizes standard moving mesh methods to higher-order mesh deformations and that is naturally compatible with higher-order finite element discretizations of…
The Finite Element Method (FEM) is the gold standard for spatial discretization in numerical simulations for a wide spectrum of real-world engineering problems. Prototypical areas of interest include linear heat transfer and linear…
We consider a Stokes problem posed on a 2D surface embedded in a 3D domain. The equations describe an equilibrium, area-preserving tangential flow of a viscous surface fluid and serve as a model problem in the dynamics of material…
A numerical scheme is presented for approximating fractional order Poisson problems in two and three dimensions. The scheme is based on reformulating the original problem posed over $\Omega$ on the extruded domain…
Stability and convergence of full discretizations of various surface evolution equations are studied in this paper. The proposed discretization combines a higher-order evolving-surface finite element method (ESFEM) for space discretization…
A new field of numerical astrophysics is introduced which addresses the solution of large, multidimensional structural or slowly-evolving problems (rotating stars, interacting binaries, thick advective accretion disks, four dimensional…
The recently proposed soft finite element method (SoftFEM) reduces the stiffness (condition numbers), consequently improving the overall approximation accuracy. The method subtracts a least-square term that penalizes the gradient jumps…
The paper studies an Allen-Cahn-type equation defined on a time-dependent surface as a model of phase separation with order-disorder transition in a thin material layer. By a formal inner-outer expansion, it is shown that the limiting…
This work focuses on a class of elliptic boundary value problems with diffusive, advective and reactive terms, motivated by the study of three-dimensional heterogeneous physical systems composed of two or more media separated by a selective…
In this paper, we propose a deep-learning-based approach to a class of multiscale problems. THe Generalized Multiscale Finite Element Method (GMsFEM) has been proven successful as a model reduction technique of flow problems in…
We propose a Pretrained Finite Element Method (PFEM),a physics driven framework that bridges the efficiency of neural operator learning with the accuracy and robustness of classical finite element methods (FEM). PFEM consists of a physics…
In this article we study adaptive finite element methods (AFEM) with inexact solvers for a class of semilinear elliptic interface problems. We are particularly interested in nonlinear problems with discontinuous diffusion coefficients, such…
In this paper, the generalized finite element method (GFEM) for solving second order elliptic equations with rough coefficients is studied. New optimal local approximation spaces for GFEMs based on local eigenvalue problems involving a…
In the present work, we investigate the computational efficiency afforded by higher-order finite-element discretization of the saddle-point formulation of orbital-free density functional theory. We first investigate the robustness of viable…