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We describe here a library aimed at automating the solution of partial differential equations using the finite element method. By employing novel techniques for automated code generation, the library combines a high level of expressiveness…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2012-05-15 Anders Logg , Garth N. Wells

An introductory exposition of the virtual element method (VEM) is provided. The intent is to make this method more accessible to those unfamiliar with VEM. Familiarity with the finite element method for solving 2D linear elasticity problems…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-25 L. L. Yaw

The finite element method can be viewed as a machine that automates the discretization of differential equations, taking as input a variational problem, a finite element and a mesh, and producing as output a system of discrete equations.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-12-05 Anders Logg

We present a full-vector finite element method (FEM) mode solver for dielectric waveguides based on a mixed Nedelec-Lagrange discretization of Maxwell's curl equations in the frequency domain. The formulation combines edge elements for…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-15 Ergun Simsek

Unfitted finite element methods, like CutFEM, have traditionally been implemented in a matrix-based fashion, where a sparse matrix is assembled and later applied to vectors while solving the resulting linear system. With the goal of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-15 Maximilian Bergbauer , Peter Munch , Wolfgang A. Wall , Martin Kronbichler

This paper summarizes the development of Veamy, an object-oriented C++ library for the virtual element method (VEM) on general polygonal meshes, whose modular design is focused on its extensibility. The linear elastostatic and Poisson…

For an educational purpose we develop the Python package AutoFreeFem which generates all ingredients for shape optimization with non-linear multi-physics in FreeFEM++ and also outputs the expressions for use in LaTex. As an input, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-17 Grégoire Allaire , Michael H. Gfrerer

The Virtual Element Method (VEM) is an extension of the Finite Element Method (FEM) used for handling polytopal meshes. This paper provides a brief introduction to the VEM for a two-dimensional Laplacian problem. Additionally, it highlights…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-10 F. Dassi

We present a simple and efficient MATLAB implementation of the linear virtual element method for the three dimensional Poisson equation. The purpose of this software is primarily educational, to demonstrate how the key components of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-21 Yue Yu

In this work we propose an efficient and accurate multi-scale optical simulation algorithm by applying a numerical version of slowly varying envelope approximation in FEM. Specifically, we employ the fast iterative method to quickly compute…

Optics · Physics 2024-12-03 Fan Xiao , Jingwei Wang , Zhongfei Xiong , Yuntian Chen

The finite element method (FEM) is a cornerstone numerical technique for solving partial differential equations (PDEs). Here, we present $\textbf{Qu-FEM}$, a fault-tolerant era quantum algorithm for the finite element method. In contrast to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-22 Ahmad M. Alkadri , Tyler D. Kharazi , K. Birgitta Whaley , Kranthi K. Mandadapu

We propose VarFA, a variational inference factor analysis framework that extends existing factor analysis models for educational data mining to efficiently output uncertainty estimation in the model's estimated factors. Such uncertainty…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-08-18 Zichao Wang , Yi Gu , Andrew Lan , Richard Baraniuk

This paper presents two approaches: the virtual element method (VEM) and the stabilization-free virtual element method (SFVEM) for analyzing thermomechanical behavior in electronic packaging structures with geometric multi-scale features.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-29 Yanpeng Gong , Sishuai Li , Fei Qin , Bingbing Xu

The widespread success of foundation models in natural language processing and computer vision has inspired researchers to extend the concept to scientific machine learning and computational science. However, this position paper argues that…

Modeling of physical systems includes extensive use of software packages that implement the accurate finite element method for solving differential equations considered along with the appropriate initial and boundary conditions. When the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2018-03-20 O. Kononenko , I. Kononenko

Strain gradient plasticity theories are being widely used for fracture assessment, as they provide a richer description of crack tip fields by incorporating the influence of geometrically necessary dislocations. Characterizing the behavior…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-11-29 Emilio Martínez-Pañeda , Sundar Natarajan , Stéphane Bordas

Scientific visualization tools tend to be flexible in some ways (e.g., for exploring isovalues) while restricted in other ways, such as working only on regular grids, or only on unstructured meshes (as used in the finite element method,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Teodoro Collin , Charisee Chiw , L. Ridgway Scott , John Reppy , Gordon L. Kindlmann

We present a new numerical system using classical finite elements with mesh adaptivity for computing stationary solutions of the Gross-Pitaevskii equation. The programs are written as a toolbox for FreeFem++ (www.freefem.org), a free…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-23 Guillaume Vergez , Ionut Danaila , Sylvain Auliac , Frédéric Hecht

The eXtended Finite Element Method (XFEM) is used to solve interface problems with an unfitted mesh. We present an implementation of the XFEM in the FEM-library deal.II. The main parts of the implementation are (i) the appropriate…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-07-16 Thomas Carraro , Sven Wetterauer

Rahman and Valdman (2013) introduced a vectorized way to assemble finite element stiffness and mass matrices in MATLAB. Local element matrices are computed all at once by array operations and stored in multi-dimentional arrays (matrices).…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-13 Leszek Marcinkowski , Jan Valdman