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Variational phase field fracture models are now widely used to simulate crack propagation in structures. A critical aspect of these simulations is the correct determination of the propagation threshold of pre-existing cracks, as it highly…

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In this paper, we study the development of efficient multiscale methods for flows in heterogeneous media. Our approach uses the Generalized Multiscale Finite Element (GMsFEM) framework. The main idea of GMsFEM is to approximate the solution…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-09-26 Victor M. Calo , Y. Efendiev , Juan Galvis , Guanglian Li

In this paper, we propose a general approach called Generalized Multiscale Finite Element Method (GMsFEM) for performing multiscale simulations for problems without scale separation over a complex input space. As in multiscale finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-12 Yalchin Efendiev , Juan Galvis , Thomas Y. Hou

In this paper, we consider a poroelasticity problem in heterogeneous multicontinuum media that is widely used in simulations of the unconventional hydrocarbon reservoirs and geothermal fields. Mathematical model contains a coupled system of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-08-07 Aleksei Tyrylgin , Maria Vasilyeva , Denis Spiridonov , Eric T. Chung

In this paper, we present a mixed Generalized Multiscale Finite Element Method (GMsFEM) for solving flow in heterogeneous media. Our approach constructs multiscale basis functions following a GMsFEM framework and couples these basis…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-06-05 Eric T. Chung , Yalchin Efendiev , Chak Shing Lee

In this paper we use a splitting technique to develop new multiscale basis functions for the multiscale finite element method (MsFEM). The multiscale basis functions are iteratively generated using a Green's kernel. The Green's kernel is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-08-17 Lijian Jiang , Michael Presho

Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) is a sustainable and essential approach for infrastructure maintenance, enabling the early detection of structural defects. Leveraging computer vision (CV) methods for automated infrastructure monitoring…

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Following the so-called Cracking Elements Method (CEM), recently presented in \cite{Yiming:14,Yiming:16}, we propose a novel Galerkin-based numerical approach for simulating quasi-brittle fracture, named Global Cracking Elements Method…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Yiming Zhang , Herbert A. Mang

It is important to develop fast yet accurate numerical methods for seismic wave propagation to characterize complex geological structures and oil and gas reservoirs. However, the computational cost of conventional numerical modeling…

Geophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Kai Gao , Shubin Fu , Richard L. Gibson , Eric T. Chung , Yalchin Efendiev

This work presents a novel three-dimensional Crack Element Method (CEM) designed to model transient dynamic crack propagation in quasi-brittle materials efficiently. CEM introduces an advanced element-splitting algorithm that enables…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Yuxi Xie , C. T. Wu , Wei Hu , Lu Xu , Tinh Q. Bui , Shaofan Li

We present the design and implementation details of a geometric multigrid method on adaptively refined meshes for massively parallel computations. The method uses local smoothing on the refined part of the mesh. Partitioning is achieved by…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2021-08-04 Thomas C. Clevenger , Timo Heister , Guido Kanschat , Martin Kronbichler

The phase-field model (PFM) represents the crack geometry in a diffusive way without introducing sharp discontinuities. This feature enables PFM to effectively model crack propagation compared with numerical methods based on discrete crack…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2019-02-18 Shuwei Zhou , Timon Rabczuk , Xiaoying Zhuang

A series of experimental results on the in-plane fracture of a fiber reinforced laminated composite panel is analyzed using the variational multi-scale cohesive method (VMCM). The VMCM results demonstrate the influence of specimen geometry…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-08-26 S. Rudraraju , A. Salvi , K. Garikipati , A. M. Waas

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

In this work, we present an upscaled model for mixed dimensional coupled flow problem in fractured porous media. We consider both embedded and discrete fracture models (EFM and DFM) as fine scale models which contain coupled system of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-25 Maria Vasilyeva , Eric T. Chung , Wing Tat Leung , Valentin Alekseev

We present a phase field formulation for fracture in functionally graded materials (FGMs). The model builds upon homogenization theory and accounts for the spatial variation of elastic and fracture properties. Several paradigmatic case…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-04-19 Hirshikesh , Sundararajan Natarajan , Ratna K. Annabattula , Emilio Martínez-Pañeda

This paper considers flow problems in multiscale heterogeneous porous media. The multiscale nature of the modeled process significantly complicates numerical simulations due to the need to compute huge and ill-conditioned sparse matrices,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-16 Djulustan Nikiforov , Leonardo A. Poveda , Dmitry Ammosov , Yesy Sarmiento , Juan Galvis

We present a phase field model (PFM) for simulating complex crack patterns including crack propagation, branching and coalescence in rock. The phase field model is implemented in COMSOL and is based on the strain decomposition for the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-02-19 Shuwei Zhou , Xiaoying Zhuang , Hehua Zhu , Timon Rabczuk

This study presents an adaptive coupling peridynamic least-square minimization with the finite element method (PDLSM-FEM) for fracture analysis. The presented method utilizes the PDLSM modeling discontinuities while maximizing the FEM…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-22 Qibang Liu , X. J. Xin , Jeff Ma

In this paper, we propose a multiscale method for the Darcy-Forchheimer model in highly heterogeneous porous media. The problem is solved in the framework of generalized multiscale finite element methods (GMsFEM) combined with a multipoint…

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