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The paper introduces an adaptive version of the stabilized Trace Finite Element Method (TraceFEM) designed to solve low-regularity elliptic problems on level-set surfaces using a shape-regular bulk mesh in the embedding space. Two…
A higher-order accurate finite element method is proposed which uses automatically generated meshes based on implicit level-set data for the description of boundaries and interfaces in two and three dimensions. The method is an alternative…
During design optimization, a smooth description of the geometry is important, especially for problems that are sensitive to the way interfaces are resolved, e.g., wave propagation or fluid-structure interaction. A levelset description of…
The presence of corners in the computational domain, in general, reduces the regularity of solutions of parabolic problems and diminishes the convergence properties of the finite element approximation introducing a so-called "pollution…
The Finite Element Method (FEM) is the gold standard for spatial discretization in numerical simulations for a wide spectrum of real-world engineering problems. Prototypical areas of interest include linear heat transfer and linear…
To solve large-scale or high-resolution topology optimization problem, a novel algorithm is developed based on modified bi-directional evolutionary structure optimization (BESO) and extended finite element method (XFEM). Within XFEM, a set…
This work presents a polyhedral scaled boundary finite element method (PSBFEM) for three dimensional seepage analysis. We first derive the scaled boundary formulation for 3D seepage problems, and subsequently incorporate Wachspress shape…
Conforming hexahedral (hex) meshes are favored in simulation for their superior numerical properties, yet automatically decomposing a general 3D volume into a conforming hex mesh remains a formidable challenge. Among existing approaches,…
We consider an interface problem often arising in transport problems: a coupled system of partial differential equations with one (elliptic) transport equation on a bounded domain and one equation (in this case the Laplace problem) on the…
In this paper we consider a coupled bulk-surface PDE in two space dimensions. The model consists of a PDE in the bulk that is coupled to another PDE on the surface through general nonlinear boundary conditions. For such a system we propose…
In this paper, we present a robust and efficient unfitted concurrent multiscale method for continuum-continuum coupling, based on the Cut Finite Element Method (CutFEM). The computational domain is defined using approximate signed distance…
In this paper, an important discovery has been found for nonconforming immersed finite element (IFE) methods using the integral values on edges as degrees of freedom for solving elliptic interface problems. We show that those IFE methods…
An optimization-based strategy is proposed for coupling three-dimensional and one-dimensional problems (3D-1D coupling) in the context of soil-root interaction simulations. This strategy, originally designed to tackle generic 3D-1D coupled…
The XDEM multi-physics and multi-scale simulation platform roots in the Ex- tended Discrete Element Method (XDEM) and is being developed at the In- stitute of Computational Engineering at the University of Luxembourg. The platform is an…
This work is concerned with the rigorous analysis on the Generalized Multiscale Finite Element Methods (GMsFEMs) for elliptic problems with high-contrast heterogeneous coefficients. GMsFEMs are popular numerical methods for solving flow…
The aggregated unfitted finite element method (AgFEM) is a methodology recently introduced in order to address conditioning and stability problems associated with embedded, unfitted, or extended finite element methods. The method is based…
In this paper, we present a finite element method (FEM) framework enhanced by an operator-adapted wavelet decomposition algorithm designed for the efficient analysis of multiscale electromagnetic problems. Usual adaptive FEM approaches,…
Immersed boundary methods are high-order accurate computational tools used to model geometrically complex problems in computational mechanics. While traditional finite element methods require the construction of high-quality boundary-fitted…
This chapter provides an overview of state-of-the-art adaptive finite element methods (AFEMs) for the numerical solution of second-order elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs), where the primary focus is on the optimal interplay of…
In recent years, a number of finite element methods have been formulated for the solution of partial differential equations on complex geometries based on non-matching or overlapping meshes. Examples of such methods include the fictitious…