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This paper introduces a novel meshfree methodology based on Radial Basis Function-Finite Difference (RBF-FD) approximations for the numerical solution of partial differential equations (PDEs) on surfaces of codimension 1 embedded in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Víctor Bayona , Argyrios Petras , Cécile Piret , Steven J. Ruuth

The paper develops a finite element method for partial differential equations posed on hypersurfaces in $\mathbb{R}^N$, $N=2,3$. The method uses traces of bulk finite element functions on a surface embedded in a volumetric domain. The bulk…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-19 Alexey Y. Chernyshenko , Maxim A. Olshanskii

In this work, we extend the meshfree generalized multiscale exponential integration framework introduced in Nikiforov et al. (2025) to the simulation of three-dimensional advection--diffusion problems in heterogeneous and high-contrast…

While approaches to model the progression of fracture have received significant attention, methods to find the solution to the associated nonlinear equations have not. In general, nonlinear solution methods and optimization methods have a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-28 Alberto Cattaneo , Varun Shankar , M. Keith Ballard

We develop an Optimal Transportation Meshfree (OTM) particle method for advection-diffusion in which the concentration or density of the diffusive species is approximated by Dirac measures. We resort to an incremental variational principle…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-03-08 Livio Fedeli , Anna Pandolfi , Michael Ortiz

The piecewise quadratic polynomial collocation is used to approximate the nonlocal model, which generally obtain the {\em nonsymmetric indefinite system} [Chen et al., IMA J. Numer. Anal., (2021)]. In this case, the discrete maximum…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-27 Minghua Chen , Jiankang Shi , Xiaobo Yin

We suggest a method for simultaneously generating high order quadrature weights for integrals over Lipschitz domains and their boundaries that requires neither meshing nor moment computation. The weights are determined on pre-defined…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-26 Oleg Davydov , Bruno Degli Esposti

This paper considers flow problems in multiscale heterogeneous porous media. The multiscale nature of the modeled process significantly complicates numerical simulations due to the need to compute huge and ill-conditioned sparse matrices,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-16 Djulustan Nikiforov , Leonardo A. Poveda , Dmitry Ammosov , Yesy Sarmiento , Juan Galvis

We propose a multi-objective global pattern search algorithm for the task of locating and quantifying damage in flexible mechanical structures. This is achieved by identifying eigenfrequencies and eigenmodes from measurements and matching…

Solutions to optimal control problems can be discontinuous, even if all the functionals defining the problem are smooth. This can cause difficulties when numerically computing solutions to these problems. While conventional numerical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-21 Lucian Nita , Eric C. Kerrigan , Eduardo M. G. Vila , Yuanbo Nie

We systematically validate the static local mesh refinement capabilities of a recently proposed IMEX-DG scheme implemented in the framework of the deal.II library. Non-conforming meshes are employed in atmospheric flow simulations to…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2025-08-27 Giuseppe Orlando , Tommaso Benacchio , Luca Bonaventura

In this paper, we propose a novel mesh-free numerical method for solving the elliptic interface problems based on deep learning. We approximate the solution by the neural networks and, since the solution may change dramatically across the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-05-12 Cuiyu He , Xiaozhe Hu , Lin Mu

In this paper, a multiscale approach with partially explicit time discretization is proposed. The idea is to use a partially explicit time scheme, considering a filtration problem in a fractured medium, where the implicit scheme is used for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-06 Djulustan Nikiforov

This paper describes a class of shape optimization problems for optical metamaterials comprised of periodic microscale inclusions composed of a dielectric, low-dimensional material suspended in a non-magnetic bulk dielectric. The shape…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-08 Manaswinee Bezbaruah , Matthias Maier , Winnifried Wollner

We introduce a new local meshfree method for the approximation of the Laplace-Beltrami operator on a smooth surface of co-dimension one embedded in $\R^3$. A key element of this method is that it does not need an explicit expression of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-05 Diego Alvarez , Pedro Gonzalez-Rodriguez , Manuel Kindelan

In the discretization of differential problems on complex geometrical domains, discretization methods based on polygonal and polyhedral elements are powerful tools. Adaptive mesh refinement for such kind of problems is very useful as well…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-12 Stefano Berrone , Andrea Borio , Alessandro D'Auria

Deformable fractured porous media appear in many geoscience applications. While the extended finite element (XFEM) has been successfully developed within the computational mechanics community for accurate modeling of the deformation, its…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-04-07 Fanxiang Xu , Hadi Hajibeygi , Lambertus J. Sluys

This study presents a generalized multiscale multimesh finite element method ($\text{M}^2$-FEM) that addresses several long-standing challenges in the numerical simulation of integral structural theories, often used to model multiscale and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-27 Wei Ding , Sansit Patnaik , Fabio Semperlotti

The modeling of cracks has been an intensely researched topic for decades - both from the mechanical as well as from the mathematics point of view. As far as the modeling of sharp cracks/interfaces is concerned, the resulting free boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-11-24 Samira Boddin , Felix Rörentrop , Dorothee Knees , Jörn Mosler

This work develops a nonlinear multigrid method for diffusion problems discretized by cell-centered finite volume methods on general unstructured grids. The multigrid hierarchy is constructed algebraically using aggregation of degrees of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-29 Chak Shing Lee , François Hamon , Nicola Castelletto , Panayot S. Vassilevski , Joshua White