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We design the conforming virtual element method for the numerical approximation of the two dimensional elastodynamics problem. We prove stability and convergence of the semi-discrete approximation and derive optimal error estimates under…

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The spectral properties, momentum dispersion, and broadening of bulk plasmonic excitations of 26 elemental metals are studied from first principles calculations in the random-phase approximation. Spectral band structures are constructed…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-18 Dario A. Leon , Claudia Cardoso , Kristian Berland

We present general, computable, improvable, and rigorous bounds for the total energy of a finite heterogeneous volume element or a periodically distributed unit cell of an elastic composite of any known distribution of inhomogeneities of…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-04 Sia Nemat-Nasser , Ankit Srivastava

General properties of conservative hydrodynamic-type models are treated from positions of the canonical formalism adopted for liquid continuous media, with applications to the compressible Eulerian hydrodynamics, special- and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-10 Victor P. Ruban

We aimed to use finite element method to simulate the unique behaviors of liquid crystal elastomer, such as semi-soft elasticity, stripe domain instabilities etc. We started from an energy functional with the 2D Bladon-Warner-Terentjev…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-09-10 Chong Luo , Maria-Carme Calderer

Beam lattice materials are characterized by a periodic microstructure realizing a geometrically regular pattern of elementary cells. In these microstructured materials, the dispersion properties governing the free dynamic propagation of…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-11-04 F Vadalà , A Bacigalupo , M Lepidi , L Gambarotta

We consider flow along a finite-length collapsible channel driven by a fixed upstream flux, where a section of one wall of a planar rigid channel is replaced by a plane-strain elastic beam subject to uniform external pressure. A modified…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-09-22 Danyang Wang , Xiaoyu Luo , Peter Stewart

Bloch wavefunctions are used to derive dispersion relations for water wave propagation in the presence of an infinite array of periodically arranged surface scatterers. For one dimensional periodicity (stripes), band gaps for wavevectors in…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Tom Chou

This paper constructs the first mixed finite element for the linear elasticity problem in 3D using $P_3$ polynomials for the stress and discontinuous $P_2$ polynomials for the displacement on tetrahedral meshes under some mild mesh…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-22 Jun Hu , Rui Ma , Yuanxun Sun

The refraction properties of phononic crystals are revealed by examining the anti-plane shear waves in doubly periodic elastic composites with unit cells containing rectangular and/or elliptical inclusions. The band-structure, group…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-12-15 Sia Nemat-Nasser

Analytic representation formulas and power series are developed describing the band structure inside non-magnetic periodic photonic three-dimensional crystals made from high dielectric contrast inclusions. Central to this approach is the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-10-26 Robert Lipton , Robert Viator , Silvia Jimenez Bolanos , Abiti Adili

We consider within a finite element approach the usage of different adaptively refined meshes for different variables in systems of nonlinear, time-depended PDEs. To resolve different solution behaviours of these variables, the meshes can…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-05-27 Thomas Witkowski , Axel Voigt

We study bandstructure properties of periodic optical systems composed of lossy and intrinsically dispersive materials. To this end, we develop an analytical framework based on adjoint modes of a lossy periodic electromagnetic system and…

Optics · Physics 2018-03-19 Christian Wolff , Kurt Busch , N. Asger Mortensen

We present stable mixed finite elements for planar linear elasticity on general quadrilateral meshes. The symmetry of the stress tensor is imposed weakly and so there are three primary variables, the stress tensor, the displacement vector…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-04-22 Douglas N. Arnold , Gerard Awanou , Weifeng Qiu

This paper presents a combined numerical-theoretical study of the macroscopic behavior and local field distributions in a special class of two-dimensional periodic composites with viscoplastic phases. The emphasis is on strongly nonlinear…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-07-09 Martin I. Idiart , Francois Willot , Yves-Patrick Pellegrini , Pedro Ponte Castaneda

We propose and explore a new, general-purpose method for the implicit time integration of elastica. Key to our approach is the use of a mixed variational principle. In turn its finite element discretization leads to an efficient alternating…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-02-03 Ty Trusty , Danny M. Kaufman , David I W Levin

The wave equation governing the wave propagation in chiral phononic crystals, established through force equilibrium law, conceals the underlying physical information. This has led to a controversy over the bandgap mechanism. In this letter,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-02-20 Wei Ding , Rui Zhang , Tianning Chen , Shuai Qu , Dewen Yu , Liwei Dong , Jian Zhu , Yaowen Yang , Badreddine Assouar

We design a primal-dual stabilized finite element method for the numerical approximation of a data assimilation problem subject to the acoustic wave equation. For the forward problem, piecewise affine, continuous, finite element functions…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-10 Erik Burman , Ali Feizmohammadi , Lauri Oksanen

We construct a finite element approximation of a strain-limiting elastic model on a bounded open domain in $\mathbb{R}^d$, $d \in \{2,3\}$. The sequence of finite element approximations is shown to exhibit strong convergence to the unique…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-02 Andrea Bonito , Vivette Girault , Endre Süli