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We present a new method to solve nonlinear Hammerstein equations with weakly singular kernels. The process to approximate the solution, followed usually, consists in adapting the discretization scheme from the linear case in order to obtain…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-04-05 Laurence Grammont , Hanane Kaboul

A brief review of the Stefan problem of solidification from a mixture, and its main numerical solution methods is given. Simulation of this problem in 2D or 3D is most practically done on a regular grid, where a sharp solid-liquid interface…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-05-15 Robert D. Groot

This work deals with the problem of stabilizing a multi-agent rigid formation on a general class of planar curves. Namely, we seek to stabilize an equilateral polygonal formation on closed planar differentiable curves after a path sweep.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Mohamed Elobaid , Shinkyu Park , Eric Feron

We present a novel convex formulation that weakly couples the Material Point Method (MPM) with rigid body dynamics through frictional contact, optimized for efficient GPU parallelization. Our approach features an asynchronous time-splitting…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Chang Yu , Wenxin Du , Zeshun Zong , Alejandro Castro , Chenfanfu Jiang , Xuchen Han

Quantitative phase field models have been extensively used to study the solidification behavior of alloys under different conditions. However, a longstanding challenge of phase field models is the directional bias caused by the…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-09-06 Chao Tang , David Taiyen Wu , Siu Sin Quek

The past years have witnessed impressive advances in electronic structure calculation, especially in the complexity and size of the systems studied, as well as in computation time. Linear scaling methods based on empirical tight-binding…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Abduxukur Abdurixit , Alexis Baratoff , Giulia Galli

Highly resolved finite element simulations of a laser beam welding process are considered. The thermomechanical behavior of this process is modeled with a set of thermoelasticity equations resulting in a nonlinear, nonsymmetric saddle point…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-04 Tommaso Bevilacqua , Axel Klawonn , Martin Lanser , Adam Wasiak

In this paper, a fully aggregation-based algebraic multigrid strategy is developed for nonlinear contact problems of saddle point type using a mortar finite element approach. While the idea of extending multigrid methods to saddle point…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Tobias A. Wiesner , Matthias Mayr , Alexander Popp , Michael W. Gee , Wolfgang A. Wall

We propose a Newton-based scheme, initialized by neural operator predictions, to accelerate the parametric solution of nonlinear problems in computational solid mechanics. First, a physics informed conditional neural field is trained to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Kianoosh Taghikhani , Yusuke Yamazaki , Jerry Paul Varghese , Markus Apel , Reza Najian Asl , Shahed Rezaei

A Newton-type active set algorithm for large-scale minimization subject to polyhedral constraints is proposed. The algorithm consists of a gradient projection step, a second-order Newton-type step in the null space of the constraint matrix,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-12 William W. Hager , Davoud Ataee Tarzanagh

A method for adaptive model order reduction for nonsmooth discrete element simulation is developed and analysed in numerical experiments. Regions of the granular media that collectively move as rigid bodies are substituted with rigid bodies…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-12-02 Martin Servin , Da Wang

Nonconvex and nonsmooth optimization problems are frequently encountered in much of statistics, business, science and engineering, but they are not yet widely recognized as a technology in the sense of scalability. A reason for this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-19 Bo Jiang , Tianyi Lin , Shiqian Ma , Shuzhong Zhang

A collision-based hybrid method for the discrete ordinates approximation of the multigroup neutron transport equation is developed for two-dimensional time-dependent problems. At each time step, this algorithm splits the neutron transport…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-02-17 Ben Whewell , Ryan G. McClarren

Purpose - This paper continues the development of a comprehensive methodology for fully resolved numerical simulations of fusion deposition modeling. Design/methodology/approach - A front-tracking/finite volume method introduced in Part I…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-02-27 Huanxiong Xia , Jiacai Lu , Gretar Tryggvason

This paper deals with an implicit Newton-like inertial dynamical system governed by a maximally comonotone inclusion problem in a Hilbert space. Under suitable conditions, we establish not only pointwise estimates and integral estimates for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-13 Z. Z. Tan , R. Hu , Y. P. Fang

We extend the phase-field approach to model the solidification of faceted materials. Our approach consists of using an approximate gamma-plot with rounded cusps that can approach arbitrarily closely the true gamma-plot with sharp cusps that…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Jean-Marc Debierre , Alain Karma , Franck Celestini , Rahma Guerin

We present a detailed derivation and thin interface analysis of a phase-field model that can accurately simulate microstructural pattern formation for low-speed directional solidification of a dilute binary alloy. This advance with respect…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Blas Echebarria , Roger Folch , Alain Karma , Mathis Plapp

The goal of this paper is to study approaches to bridge the gap between first-order and second-order type methods for composite convex programs. Our key observations are: i) Many well-known operator splitting methods, such as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-09-27 Xiantao Xiao , Yongfeng Li , Zaiwen Wen , Liwei Zhang

In this paper, we consider a large class of nonlinear equations derived from first-order type methods for solving composite optimization problems. Traditional approaches to establishing superlinear convergence rates of semismooth…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-31 Jiang Hu , Tonghua Tian , Shaohua Pan , Zaiwen Wen

We propose a new type of multilevel method for solving eigenvalue problems based on Newton iteration. With the proposed iteration method, solving eigenvalue problem on the finest finite element space is replaced by solving a small scale…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-11-13 Yunhui He , Yu Li , Hehu Xie