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The Material Point Method (MPM) is widely used to analyse coupled (solid-water) problems under large deformations/displacements. However, if not addressed carefully, MPM u-p formulations for poro-mechanics can be affected by two major…
In this paper we present a numerical approach to solve the Navier-Stokes equations on moving domains with second-order accuracy. The space discretization is based on the ghost-point method, which falls under the category of unfitted…
The material point method (MPM) has been increasingly used for the simulation of large deformation processes in fluid-infiltrated porous materials. For undrained poromechanical problems, however, standard MPMs are numerically unstable…
In this paper a fourth order finite difference ghost point method for the Poisson equation on regular Cartesian mesh is presented. The method can be considered the high order extension of the second ghost method introduced earlier by the…
Most research on the simulation of deformation and failure of metals has been and continues to be performed using the finite element method. However, the issues of mesh entanglement under large deformation, considerable complexity in…
We present multigrid methods for solving elliptic partial differential equations on arbitrary domains using the nodal ghost finite element method, an unfitted boundary approach where the domain is implicitly defined by a level-set function.…
Unfitted boundary methods are widely used to numerically solve partial differential equations (PDEs) on irregular domains, avoiding the computational burden of generating boundary-conforming grids. In the finite-difference framework,…
Ghost, or fictitious points allow to capture boundary conditions that are not located on the finite difference grid discretization. We explore in this paper the impact of ghost points on the stability of the explicit Euler finite difference…
A semi-implicit two-phase double-point Material Point Method (MPM) formulation, based on the incremental fractional-step method to model large deformation geotechnical problems has been derived. The semi-implicit formulation has two…
Ghost fields have reemerged in a handful of phenomenologically motivated cosmological and particle physics scenarios, and most recently in a cyclic mechanism to address the fine-tuning of gauge couplings in the standard model. We study the…
In this document, we deal with the stabilization problem of slow-fast systems (or singularly perturbed Ordinary Differential Equations) at a non-hyperbolic point. The class of systems studied here have the following properties: 1) they have…
We present a new method to analytically prove global stability in ghost-ridden dynamical systems. Our proposal encompasses all prior results and consequentially extends them. In particular, we show that stability can follow from a conserved…
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…
We introduce an unfitted Nitsche finite element method with a new ghost-penalty stabilization based on local projection of the solution gradient. The proposed ghost-penalty operator is straightforward to implement, ensures algebraic…
We revisit the classic stability problem of the buckling of an inextensible, axially compressed beam on a nonlinear elastic foundation with a semi-analytical approach to understand how spatially localized deformation solutions emerge in…
Accurate and robust modelling of large deformation three dimensional contact interaction is an important area of engineering, but it is also challenging from a computational mechanics perspective. This is particularly the case when there is…
Despite the widespread use of Uniform Manifold Approximation and Projection (UMAP), the impact of its stochastic optimization process on the results remains underexplored. We observed that it often produces unstable results where the…
The material point method (MPM) is a hybrid particle-grid method widely used for simulating large deformation with history-dependent behavior. Standard MPM often relies on a dense background grid, which can be highly inefficient when…
This work proposes a model-reduction approach for the material point method on nonlinear manifolds. Our technique approximates the $\textit{kinematics}$ by approximating the deformation map using an implicit neural representation that…
We present a finite-difference scheme which solves the Stokes problem in the presence of curvilinear non-conforming interfaces and provides second-order accuracy on physical field (velocity, vorticity) and especially on pressure. The gist…