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In this paper the isogeometric Nystr\"om method is presented. It's outstanding features are: it allows the analysis of domains described by many different geometrical mapping methods in computer aided geometric design and it requires only…
Shell analysis is a well-established field, but achieving optimal higher-order convergence rates for such simulations is a difficult challenge. We present an isogeometric Kirchhoff-Love shell framework that treats every numerical aspect in…
Dielectric structures composed of many inclusions that manipulate light in ways the bulk materials cannot are commonly seen in the field of metamaterials. In these structures, each inclusion depends on a set of parameters such as location…
Easy to construct and optimally convergent generalisations of B-splines to unstructured meshes are essential for the application of isogeometric analysis to domains with non-trivial topologies. Nonetheless, especially for hexahedral meshes,…
This paper addresses optimal design problems governed by multi-state stationary diffusion equations, aiming at the simultaneous optimization of the domain shape and the distribution of two isotropic materials in prescribed proportions.…
In this study, we investigate and compare formulations for computing shape derivatives in bi-material level-set optimization with precise modeling of the interface. The level-set function is parameterized using B-splines, whose coordinates…
Level set-based immersed boundary techniques operate on nonconforming meshes while providing a crisp definition of interface and external boundaries. In such techniques, an isocontour of a level set field interpolated from nodal level set…
The finite element method (FEM) is commonly used in computational cardiac simulations. For this method, a mesh is constructed to represent the geometry and, subsequently, to approximate the solution. To accurately capture curved geometrical…
The isogeometric approximation of the Stokes problem in a trimmed domain is studied. This setting is characterized by an underlying mesh unfitted with the boundary of the physical domain making the imposition of the essential boundary…
Machine learning (ML) has been increasingly used for topology optimization (TO). However, most existing ML-based approaches focus on simplified benchmark problems due to their high computational cost, spectral bias, and difficulty in…
This paper concerns models and convergence principles for dealing with stochasticity in a wide range of algorithms arising in nonlinear analysis and optimization in Hilbert spaces. It proposes a flexible geometric framework within which…
The paper is concerned with the development of efficient and accurate solution procedures for the isogeometric boundary element method (BEM) when applied to problems that contain inclusions that have elastic properties different to the…
This work outlines a diffuse interface method for the study of fracture and fragmentation in ductile metals at high strain-rates in Eulerian finite volume simulations. The work is based on an existing diffuse interface method capable of…
Two non-overlapping domain decomposition methods are presented for the mixed finite element formulation of linear elasticity with weakly enforced stress symmetry. The methods utilize either displacement or normal stress Lagrange multiplier…
Multiscale techniques have been widely shown to potentially overcome the limitation of homogenization schemes in representing the microscopic failure mechanisms in heterogeneous media as well as their influence on their structural response…
In this work, we study the approximation properties of multi-patch dG-IgA methods, that apply the multipatch Isogeometric Analysis (IgA) discretization concept and the discontinuous Galerkin (dG) technique on the interfaces between the…
Surface integral equation (SIE) methods are of great interest for the numerical solution of Maxwell's equations in the presence of homogeneous objects. However, existing SIE algorithms have limitations, either in terms of scalability,…
Strongly coupled immersed boundary (IB) methods solve the nonlinear fluid and structural equations of motion simultaneously for strongly enforcing the no-slip constraint on the body. Handling this constraint requires solving several large…
We introduce a finite element method for numerical upscaling of second order elliptic equations with highly heterogeneous coefficients. The method is based on a mixed formulation of the problem and the concepts of the domain decomposition…
We present a Boundary Local Fourier Analysis (BLFA) to optimize the relaxation parameters of boundary conditions in a multigrid framework. The method is implemented to solve elliptic equations on curved domains embedded in a uniform…