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Fast Fourier transform (FFT) based methods have turned out to be an effective computational approach for numerical homogenisation. In particular, Fourier-Galerkin methods are computational methods for partial differential equations that are…
Fourier solvers have become efficient tools to establish structure-property relations in heterogeneous materials. Introduced as an alternative to the Finite Element (FE) method, they are based on fixed-point solutions of the…
Most of the FFT methods available for homogenization of the mechanical response use the strain/deformation gradient as unknown, imposing their compatibility using Green's functions or projection operators. This implies the allocation of…
Although FFT-based methods are renowned for their numerical efficiency and stability, traditional discretizations fail to capture material interfaces that are not aligned with the grid, resulting in suboptimal accuracy. To address this…
The Fourier-Galerkin method (in short FFTH) has gained popularity in numerical homogenisation because it can treat problems with a huge number of degrees of freedom. Because the method incorporates the fast Fourier transform (FFT) in the…
We propose a matrix-free finite element (FE) homogenization scheme that is considerably more efficient than generic FE implementations. The efficiency of our scheme follows from a preconditioned well-scaled reformulation allowing for the…
The simulation of fracture using continuum ductile damage models attains a pathological discretization dependence caused by strain localization, after loss of ellipticity of the problem, in regions whose size is connected to the spatial…
This study presents a meshfree two-dimensional fractional-order Element-Free Galerkin (2D f-EFG) method as a viable alternative to conventional mesh-based FEM for a numerical solution of (spatial) fractional-order differential equations…
FFT-based solvers introduced in the 1990s for the numerical homogenization of heterogeneous elastic materials have been extended to a wide range of physical properties. In parallel, alternative algorithms and modified discrete Green…
Guaranteed upper-lower bounds on homogenized coefficients, arising from the periodic cell problem, are calculated in a scalar elliptic setting. Our approach builds on the recent variational reformulation of the Moulinec-Suquet (1994) Fast…
We present a novel Galerkin method for solving partial differential equations on the sphere. The problem is discretized by a highly localized basis which is easily constructed. The stiffness matrix entries are computed by a recently…
We propose, analyze mathematically, and study numerically a novel approach for the finite element approximation of the spectrum of second-order elliptic operators. The main idea is to reduce the stiffness of the problem by subtracting a…
A new algorithm is proposed to impose a macroscopic stress or mixed stress/deformation gradient history in the context of non-linear Galerkin based FFT homogenization. The method proposed is based in the definition of a modified projection…
An FFT based method is proposed to simulate chemo-mechanical problems at the microscale including fracture, specially suited to predict crack formation during the intercalation process in batteries. The method involves three fields fully…
We begin by addressing the time-domain full-waveform inversion using the adjoint method. Next, we derive the scaled boundary semi-weak form of the scalar wave equation in heterogeneous media through the Galerkin method. Unlike conventional…
We introduce a meshless method for solving both continuous and discrete variational formulations of a volume constrained, nonlocal diffusion problem. We use the discrete solution to approximate the continuous solution. Our method is…
This work presents a novel methodology for speeding up the assembly of stiffness matrices for laminate composite 3D structures in the context of isogeometric and finite element discretizations. By splitting the involved terms into their…
We propose a new discrete FFT-based method for computational homogenization of micromechanics on a regular grid that is simple, fast and robust. The discretization scheme is based on a tetrahedral stencil that displays three crucial…
The Fragile Points Method (FPM) is an elementarily simple Galerkin meshless method, employing Point-based discontinuous trial and test functions only, without using element-based trial and test functions. In this study, the algorithmic…
In this paper, we assess the performance of four iterative algorithms for solving non-symmetric rank-deficient linear systems arising in the FFT-based homogenization of heterogeneous materials defined by digital images. Our framework is…