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This paper is devoted to the construction and analysis of immersed finite element (IFE) methods in three dimensions. Different from the 2D case, the points of intersection of the interface and the edges of a tetrahedron are usually not…

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A new variational formulation is herein proposed for the solution of adhesive contact problems for non-planar profiles of arbitrary shape indenting a deformable half-plane. The method exploits the original idea of accounting for the shape…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-05-21 Marco Paggi , José Reinoso

A discontinuous Galerkin (dG) method for the numerical solution of initial/boundary value multi-compartment partial differential equation (PDE) models, interconnected with interface conditions, is presented and analysed. The study of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-04-16 Andrea Cangiani , Emmanuil H. Georgoulis , Max Jensen

A long-standing issue in the parallel-in-time community is the poor convergence of standard iterative parallel-in-time methods for hyperbolic partial differential equations (PDEs), and for advection-dominated PDEs more broadly. Here, a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-19 H. De Sterck , S. Friedhoff , O. A. Krzysik , Scott P. MacLachlan

Coupled partial differential equations defined on domains with different dimensionality are usually called mixed dimensional PDEs. We address mixed dimensional PDEs on three-dimensional (3D) and one-dimensional domains, giving rise to a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-07 Miroslav Kuchta , Federica Laurino , Kent-Andre Mardal , Paolo Zunino

Matrix-free geometric multigrid solvers for elliptic PDEs that have been discretised with Higher-order Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods are ideally suited to exploit state-of-the-art computer architectures. Higher polynomial degrees…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-02 Sean Baccas , Alexander A. Belozerov , Eike H. Müller , Tobias Weinzierl

We consider a distributed Lagrange multiplier formulation for fluid-structure interaction problems in the spirit of the fictitious domain approach. This is an unfitted method, which does not require the construction of meshes conforming to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Daniele Boffi , Fabio Credali , Lucia Gastaldi

We develop multilevel methods for interface-driven multiphysics problems that can be coupled across dimensions and where complexity and strength of the interface coupling deteriorates the performance of standard methods. We focus on solvers…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-11 Ana Budisa , Xiaozhe Hu , Miroslav Kuchta , Kent-Andre Mardal , Ludmil Tomov Zikatanov

In this paper, we consider the numerical solution of poroelasticity problems that are of Biot type and develop a general algorithm for solving coupled systems. We discuss the challenges associated with mechanics and flow problems in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-08-11 Donald L. Brown , Maria Vasilyeva

Complex processes in perforated domains occur in many real-world applications. These problems are typically characterized by physical processes in domains with multiple scales (see Figure 1 for the illustration of a perforated domain).…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-01-16 Eric T. Chung , Yalchin Efendiev , Guanglian Li , Maria Vasilyeva

We propose a model for the coupling between free fluid and a linearized poro-hyperelastic body. In this model, the Brinkman equation is employed for fluid flow in the porous medium, incorporating inertial effects into the fluid dynamics. A…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-19 Aparna Bansal , Nicolás A. Barnafi , Dwijendra Narain Pandey , Ricardo Ruiz-Baier

This contribution presents a hierarchical multigrid approach for the solution of large-scale finite cell problems on both uniform grids and multi-level hp-discretizations. The proposed scheme leverages the hierarchical nature of the basis…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-08 John Jomo , Oguz Oztoprak , Frits de Prenter , Nils Zander , Stefan Kollmannsberger , Ernst Rank

Multigrid methods were invented for the solution of discretized partial differential equations in ordered systems. The slowness of traditional algorithms is overcome by updates on various length scales. In this article we discuss…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2011-04-15 Thomas Kalkreuter

Multiscale Finite Element Methods (MsFEMs) are now well-established finite element type approaches dedicated to multiscale problems. They first compute local, oscillatory, problem-dependent basis functions that generate a suitable…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-03 Rutger A. Biezemans , Claude Le Bris , Frédéric Legoll , Alexei Lozinski

This work develops and analyzes a variational-monolithic unfitted finite element formulation of a linear fluid-structure interaction problem in Eulerian coordinates with a fixed interface. The overall discretization is based on a backward…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-27 Stefan Frei , Tobias Knoke , Marc C. Steinbach , Anne-Kathrin Wenske , Thomas Wick

We design and analyze a hybridized cut finite element method for elliptic interface problems. In this method very general meshes can be coupled over internal unfitted interfaces, through a skeletal variable, using a Nitsche type approach.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-30 Erik Burman , Daniel Elfverson , Peter Hansbo , Mats G. Larson , Karl Larsson

Finite differences, finite elements, and their generalizations are widely used for solving partial differential equations, and their high-order variants have respective advantages and disadvantages. Traditionally, these methods are treated…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-22 Rebecca Conley , Xiangmin Jiao , Tristan J. Delaney

In this paper, we develop geometry-conforming immersed finite element (IFE) spaces on triangular meshes for elliptic interface problems. The construction is built on a Frenet-Serret mapping that transforms a smooth interface curve into a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-25 Yuanhui Lin , Xu Zhang , Tao Lin

We present a coupling of the Finite Element and the Boundary Element Method in an isogeometric framework to approximate either two-dimensional Laplace interface problems or boundary value problems consisting in two disjoint domains. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-24 Mehdi Elasmi , Christoph Erath , Stefan Kurz

We introduce a new class of unfitted finite element methods with high order accurate numerical integration over curved surfaces and volumes which are only implicitly defined by level set functions. An unfitted finite element method which is…

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