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Fracture mechanics is crucial for many fields of engineering, as precisely predicting failure of structures and parts is required for efficient designs. The simulation of failure processes is, from a mechanical and a numerical point of…

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We develop a hybrid spatial discretization for the wave equation in second order form, based on high-order accurate finite difference methods and discontinuous Galerkin methods. The hybridization combines computational efficiency of finite…

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A dispersive wave hydro-sediment-morphodynamic model developed by complementing the shallow water hydro-sediment-morphodynamic (SHSM) equations with the dispersive term from the Green-Naghdi equations is presented. A numerical solution…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-24 Kazbek Kazhyken , Juha Videman , Clint Dawson

Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods for the numerical solution of partial differential equations have enjoyed considerable success because they are both flexible and robust: They allow arbitrary unstructured geometries and easy control of…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2012-11-06 Andreas Klöckner , Timothy Warburton , Jan S. Hesthaven

We propose and analyze an adaptive finite element method for a phase-field model of dynamic brittle fracture. The model couples a second-order hyperbolic equation for elastodynamics with the Ambrosio-Tortorelli regularization of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-08 Ram Manohar , S. M. Mallikarjuaniah

High-order accurate discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods have emerged as powerful tools for solving partial differential equations such as the compressible Navier-Stokes equations due to their excellent dispersion-dissipation properties and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-12 Patrick Kopper , Anna Schwarz , Jens Keim , Andrea Beck

We present a continuum phase-field model of crack propagation. It includes a phase-field that is proportional to the mass density and a displacement field that is governed by linear elastic theory. Generic macroscopic crack growth laws…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 L. O. Eastgate , J. P. Sethna , M. Rauscher , T. Cretegny , C. -S. Chen , C. R. Myers

In this study, we introduce a novel stretch-based gradient-enhanced damage (GED) model that allows the fracture to localize and also captures the development of a physically diffuse damage zone. This capability contrasts with the paradigm…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-02-06 S. Mohammad Mousavi , Jason Mulderrig , Brandon Talamini , Nikolaos Bouklas

A new discontinuous Galerkin finite element method for the Stokes equations is developed in the primary velocity-pressure formulation. This method employs discontinuous polynomials for both velocity and pressure on general…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-05 Xiu Ye , Shangyou Zhang

The difficulties in dealing with discontinuities related to a sharp crack are overcome in the phase-field approach for fracture by modeling the crack as a diffusive object being described by a continuous field having high gradients. The…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Sindhu Nagaraja , Mohamed Elhaddad , Marreddy Ambati , Stefan Kollmannsberger , Laura De Lorenzis , Ernst Rank

In this paper, we introduce a novel high-order shock tracking method and provide a proof of concept. Our method leverages concepts from implicit shock tracking and extended discontinuous Galerkin methods, primarily designed for solving…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-29 Jakob Vandergrift , Florian Kummer

The mass flow rate of Poiseuille flow of rarefied gas through long ducts of two-dimensional cross-sections with arbitrary shape are critical in the pore-network modeling of gas transport in porous media. In this paper, for the first time,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 Wei Su , Peng Wang , Yonghao Zhang , Lei Wu

We present and analyze a discontinuous Galerkin method for the numerical modelling of the non-linear fully-coupled thermo-poroelastic problem. For the spatial discretization, we design a high-order discontinuous Galerkin method on polygonal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-05-27 Paola F. Antonietti , Stefano Bonetti , Michele Botti

We present a computational framework for solving the equations of inviscid gas dynamics using structured grids with embedded geometries. The novelty of the proposed approach is the use of high-order discontinuous Galerkin (dG) schemes and a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-05 Vincenzo Gulizzi , Ann S. Almgren , John B. Bell

A conforming discontinuous Galerkin (DG) finite element method has been introduced in [21] on simplicial meshes, which has the flexibility of using discontinuous approximation and the simplicity in formulation of the classic continuous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-11 Xiu Ye , Shangyou Zhang

We propose a high order discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method for solving nonlinear Fokker-Planck equations with a gradient flow structure. For some of these models it is known that the transient solutions converge to steady-states when time…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-01-12 Hailiang Liu , Zhongming Wang

We present a new line-based discontinuous Galerkin (DG) discretization scheme for first- and second-order systems of partial differential equations. The scheme is based on fully unstructured meshes of quadrilateral or hexahedral elements,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-04 Per-Olof Persson

We present a gradient-based theoretical framework for predicting hydrogen assisted fracture in elastic-plastic solids. The novelty of the model lies in the combination of: (i) stress-assisted diffusion of solute species, (ii) strain…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-07-15 Philip K. Kristensen , Christian F. Niordson , Emilio Martínez-Pañeda

The modeling of cracks is an important topic - both in engineering as well as in mathematics. Since crack propagation is characterized by a free boundary value problem (the geometry of the crack is not known beforehand, but part of the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Felix Rörentrop , Samira Boddin , Dorothee Knees , Jörn Mosler

We describe a high order technique to generate quadrilateral decompositions and meshes for complex two dimensional domains using spectral elements in a field guided procedure. Inspired by cross field methods, we never actually compute…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-02 Julian Marcon , David A. Kopriva , Spencer J. Sherwin , Joaquim Peiró