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Phase transition problems on curved surfaces can lead to a panopticon of fascinating patterns. In this paper we consider finite element approximations of phase field models with a spatially inhomogeneous and anisotropic surface energy…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-09 Harald Garcke , Robert Nürnberg

We present a novel Hybrid High-Order (HHO) discretization of fourth-order elliptic problems arising from the mechanical modeling of the bending behavior of Kirchhoff-Love plates, including the biharmonic equation as a particular case. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-01-25 Francesco Bonaldi , Daniele A. Di Pietro , Giuseppe Geymonat , Françoise Krasucki

This paper develops a charge-conservative mixed finite element method with optimal convergence rates for the stationary incompressible inductionless MHD equations on three-dimensional curved domains. The discretization employs the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Xue Jiang , Lei Li , Lingxiao Li

For nonlinear reduced-order models, especially for those with non-polynomial nonlinearities, the computational complexity still depends on the dimension of the original dynamical system. As a result, the reduced-order model loses its…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-04-30 Zhu Wang

Motivated by a problem originating in the study of defect structures in nematic liquid crystals, we describe and study a numerical algorithm for the resolution of a Plateau-like problem. The energy contains the area of a two-dimensional…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-01 Dominik Stantejsky

We propose a new unfitted finite element method for simulation of two-phase flows in presence of insoluble surfactant. The key features of the method are 1) discrete conservation of surfactant mass; 2) the possibility of having meshes that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-30 Thomas Frachon , Sara Zahedi

We present a new way to discretize a geometrically nonlinear elastic planar Cosserat shell. The kinematical model is similar to the general 6-parameter resultant shell model with drilling rotations. The discretization uses geodesic finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-01-29 Oliver Sander , Patrizio Neff , Mircea Bîrsan

We introduce a new class of mixed finite element methods for 2D and 3D compressible nonlinear elasticity. The independent unknowns of these conformal methods are displacement, displacement gradient, and the first Piola-Kirchhoff stress…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-22 Arzhang Angoshtari , Ali Gerami Matin

Numerical modeling of strength and non-destructive testing of complex structures such as buildings, space rockets or oil reservoirs often involves calculations on extremely large grids. The modeling of elastic wave processes in solids…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-12 Katerina Beklemysheva , Egor Michel , Andrey Ovsiannikov

A new $n-$ noded polygonal plate element is proposed for the analysis of plate structures comprising of thin and thick members. The formulation is based on the discrete Kirchhoff Mindlin theory. On each side of the polygonal element,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-23 Javier Videla , Sundararajan Natarajan , Stephane PA Bordas

We present and summarize the results of recent studies on non-Euclidean plates with imposed constant negative Gaussian curvature in both the F\"oppl - von K\'arm\'an and Kirchhoff approximations. Motivated by experimental results we focus…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-09-04 John Gemmer , Shankar Venkataramani

We propose a novel mixed finite-element formulation for geometrically exact (Simo--Reissner) beams that introduces the moment vector as additional independent field. The specific mixed form allows for an element-local, discontinuous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Alexander Humer , Ivo Steinbrecher , Astrid Pechstein

By introducing a shape manifold as a solution set to solve inverse obstacle scattering problems we allow the reconstruction of general, not necessarily star-shaped curves. The bending energy is used as a stabilizing term in Tikhonov…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-08 Julian Eckhardt , Ralf Hiptmair , Thorsten Hohage , Henrik Schumacher , Max Wardetzky

We present a stable finite element method for incompressible nonlinear elasticity based on a four-field mixed formulation involving the displacement, displacement gradient, first Piola--Kirchhoff stress and pressure. Unlike existing…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Santiago Badia , Wei Li , Ricardo Ruiz-Baier

We apply the well-established theoretical method developed for geometrical nonlinearities of micro/nano-mechanical clamped beams to circular drums. The calculation is performed under the same hypotheses, the extra difficulty being to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-25 D. Cattiaux , S. Kumar , X. Zhou , A. Fefferman , E. Collin

The study is devoted to the geometrically nonlinear simulation of fiber-reinforced composite structures. The applicability of the multiplicative approach to the simulation of viscoelastic properties of a composite material is assessed,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-03-15 I. I. Tagiltsev , P. P. Laktionov , A. V. Shutov

The Intrinsic Surface Finite Element Method (ISFEM) was recently proposed to solve Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) on surfaces. ISFEM proceeds by writing the PDE with respect to a local coordinate system anchored to the surface and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-08 Elena Bachini , Mario Putti

We study the discretisation of a uniaxial (rank-one) reduction of the Oldroyd-B model for dilute polymer solutions, in which the conformation tensor is represented as $\sig = \vec b \otimes \vec b$. Building on structural analogies with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-26 Ben S. Ashby , Gabriel R. Barrenechea , Alex Lukyanov , Tristan Pryer , Alex Trenam

In this paper, we derive a linearized Kirchhoff model from three dimensional nonlinear elastic energy of plates with incompatible prestrain as its thickness $h$ tends to zero and its elastic energy scales like $h^{\beta}$ with $2<\beta<4.$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-06-24 Yizhao Qin , Pengfei Yao

We propose a sharp-interface model for solid-state dewetting of thin films with wetting potential, where the wetting effect is incorporated through a thickness-dependent surface energy. The model is governed by surface diffusion together…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-29 Weijie Huang , Xinran Ruan