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In this paper, we propose a novel high order unfitted finite element method on Cartesian meshes for solving the acoustic wave equation with discontinuous coefficients having complex interface geometry. The unfitted finite element method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-06 Zhiming Chen , Yong Liu , Xueshuang Xiang

In this paper, we develop an efficient preconditioned unfitted finite element method for the elliptic interface problem, based on the reconstructed discontinuous approximation. The approximation method for interface problems is originally…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-28 Ruo Li , Qicheng Liu , Fanyi Yang , Shuhai Zhao

An $hp$ version of interface penalty finite element method ($hp$-IPFEM) is proposed for elliptic interface problems in two and three dimensions on unfitted meshes. Error estimates in broken $H^1$ norm, which are optimal with respect to $h$…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-07-20 Haijun Wu , Yuanming Xiao

We propose a method that morphs high-orger meshes such that their boundaries and interfaces coincide/align with implicitly defined geometries. Our focus is particularly on the case when the target surface is prescribed as the zero…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Jorge-Luis Barrera , Tzanio Kolev , Ketan Mittal , Vladimir Tomov

Second order accurate Cartesian grid methods have been well developed for interface problems in the literature. However, it is challenging to develop third or higher order accurate methods for problems with curved interfaces and internal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-14 Zhilin Li , Kejia Pan , Juan Ruiz

We summarise three applications of the obstacle problem to membrane contact, elastoplastic torsion and cavitation modelling, and show how the resulting models can be solved using mixed finite elements. It is challenging to construct fixed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-28 Tom Gustafsson

In this article, we study superconvergence properties of immersed finite element methods for the one dimensional elliptic interface problem. Due to low global regularity of the solution, classical superconvergence phenomenon for finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-02-16 Waixiang Cao , Xu Zhang , Zhimin Zhang

The surge of activity in the resolution of fine scale features in the field of earth sciences over the past decade necessitates the development of robust yet simple algorithms that can tackle the various drawbacks of in silico models…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-27 Saumik Dana

Computational analysis with the finite element method requires geometrically accurate meshes. It is well known that high-order meshes can accurately capture curved surfaces with fewer degrees of freedom in comparison to low-order meshes.…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Ketan Mittal , Veselin A. Dobrev , Patrick Knupp , Tzanio Kolev , Franck Ledoux , Claire Roche , Vladimir Z. Tomov

This paper presents a new parameter free partially penalized immersed finite element method and convergence analysis for solving second order elliptic interface problems. A lifting operator is introduced on interface edges to ensure the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-23 Haifeng Ji , Feng Wang , Jinru Chen , Zhilin Li

We propose an unfitted interface penalty Discontinuous Galerkin-Finite Element Method (UIPDG-FEM) for elliptic interface problems. This hybrid method combines the interior penalty discontinuous Galerkin (IPDG) terms near the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-27 Juan Han , Haijun Wu , Yuanming Xiao

The use of multigrid and related preconditioners with the finite element method is often limited by the difficulty of applying the algorithm effectively to a problem, especially when the domain has a complex shape or adaptive refinement. We…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Peter R. Brune , Matthew G. Knepley , L. Ridgway Scott

The Generalized Finite Element Method (GFEM) is an effective unfitted numerical method for handling interface problems. By augmenting the standard FEM space with an appropriate enrichment space, GFEM can accurately capture C^0 solutions…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Bingying Zhao , Yin Song , Quanling Deng , Xin Li

We present and analyze a new finite element method for solving interface problems on a triangular grid. The method locally modifies a given triangulation such that the interfaces are accurately resolved and the maximal angle condition…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-02 Peter Gangl , Ulrich Langer

We propose a general algorithm for non-conforming adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) of unstructured meshes in high-order finite element codes. Our focus is on h-refinement with a fixed polynomial order. The algorithm handles triangular,…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2019-05-13 Jakub Červený , Veselin Dobrev , Tzanio Kolev

In this paper, we propose an extended mixed finite element method for elliptic interface problems. By adding some stabilization terms, we present a mixed approximation form based on Brezzi-Douglas-Marini element space and the piecewise…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-14 Pei Cao , Jinru Chen , Feng Wang

When modelling discontinuities (interfaces) using the finite element method, the standard approach is to use a conforming finite-element mesh in which the mesh matches the interfaces. However, this approach can prove cumbersome if the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Jedrzej Dobrzanski , Kajetan Wojtacki , Stanislaw Stupkiewicz

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

We present a unified framework for developing and analysing immersed finite element (IFE) spaces for solving typical elliptic interface problems with interface independent meshes. This framework allows us to construct a group of new IFE…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-10 Ruchi Guo , Tao Lin

In this paper, we propose the unfitted spectral element method for solving elliptic interface and corresponding eigenvalue problems. The novelty of the proposed method lies in its combination of the spectral accuracy of the spectral element…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-27 Nicolas Gonzalez , Hailong Guo , Xu Yang