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We are interested in the homogenization of elastic-electric coupling equation, with rapidly oscillating coefficients, in periodically perforated piezoelectric body. We justify the two first terms in the usual asymptotic development of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-09-10 Mechkour Houari

We analyze the discontinuous Petrov-Galerkin (DPG) method with optimal test functions when applied to solve the Reissner-Mindlin model of plate bending. We prove that the hybrid variational formulation underlying the DPG method is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-01-28 Victor M. Calo , Nathaniel O. Collier , Antti H. Niemi

Existing convergence of distributed optimization methods in non-Euclidean geometries typically rely on kernel assumptions: (i) global Lipschitz smoothness and (ii) bi-convexity of the associated Bregman divergence function. Unfortunately,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-16 Junwen Qiu , Ziyang Zeng , Leilei Mei , Junyu Zhang

Coarse-grained descriptions of dislocation motion in crystalline metals inherently represent a loss of information regarding dislocation-dislocation interactions. In the present work, we consider a coarse-graining framework capable of…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-12-21 Joseph Anderson , Anter El-Azab

A self-consistent theory for two-particle fluctuations with renormalized irreducible vertices is proposed. Using the Parquet formalism, we construct the fully antisymmetric full vertex in terms of the two-particle fluctuations in the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-19 Hiroaki Kusunose

Dispersive waves in two-dimensional blocky materials with periodic microstructure made up of equal rigid units having polygonal centro-symmetric shape with mass and gyroscopic inertia, connected each other through homogeneous linear…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-04-05 Andrea Bacigalupo , Luigi Gambarotta

The purpose of continuum plasticity models is to efficiently predict the behavior of structures beyond their elastic limits. The purpose of multiscale materials science models, among them crystal plasticity models, is to understand the…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-12-18 Meijuan Zhang , K. Nguyen , Javier Segurado , Francisco J. Montans

We present a structure-preserving scheme based on a recently-proposed mixed formulation for incompressible hyperelasticity formulated in principal stretches. Although there exist Hamiltonians introduced for quasi-incompressible…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-28 Jiashen Guan , Hongyan Yuan , Ju Liu

We provide a geometric construction of a sequence of modular blowups of the Artin stack parameterizing pre-stable pairs consisting of a genus-two nodal curve and a smooth divisor. The resulting stack locally diagonalizes the tautological…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-08 Yi Hu , Jun Li , Jingchen Niu

This work introduces a reduced-order model for plate structures with periodic micro-structures by coupling self-consistent clustering analysis (SCA) with the Lippmann-Schwinger equation, enabling rapid multiscale homogenisation of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-08-29 Menglei Li , Haolin Li , Bing Wang , Bing Wang

Smoothness is crucial for attaining fast rates in first-order optimization. However, many optimization problems in modern machine learning involve non-smooth objectives. Recent studies relax the smoothness assumption by allowing the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-11 Dingzhi Yu , Wei Jiang , Hongyi Tao , Yuanyu Wan , Lijun Zhang

Many materials of interest are polycrystals, i.e. aggregates of single crystals. Randomly distributed orientations of single crystals lead to macroscopically isotropic properties. Here, we briefly review strategies of calculating effective…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-10-17 Daniel N. Blaschke

We design, fabricate and test heterogeneous architected polycrystals, composed of hard plastomers and soft elastomers, which thus show outstanding mechanical resilience and energy dissipation simultaneously. Grain boundaries that separate…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-04-15 Seunghwan Lee , Hansohl Cho

The dynamical mechanisms underlying the grain evolution and growth are of fundamental importance in controlling the structural properties of large-scale polycrystalline materials, but the effects of lattice ordering and distinct atomic…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-01-03 Brendon Waters , Zhi-Feng Huang

In this paper, we deduce a macroscopic strain gradient theory for plasticity from a model of discrete dislocations. We restrict our analysis to the case of a cylindrical symmetry for the crystal in exam, so that the mathematical formulation…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-08-19 Adriana Garroni , Giovanni Leoni , Marcello Ponsiglione

We consider a space-time variational formulation of the second-order wave equation, where integration by parts is also applied with respect to the time variable. Conforming tensor-product finite element discretisations with piecewise…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-16 Marco Zank

This paper introduces a subgradient extragradient algorithm with a conjugate gradient-type direction to solve pseudomonotone variational inequality problems in Hilbert spaces. The algorithm features a self-adaptive strategy that eliminates…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-07 Ibrahim Arzuka , Parin Chaipunya , Poom Kumam

In this paper, we study the stabilizer-free weak Galerkin methods on polytopal meshes for a class of second order elliptic boundary value problems of divergence form and with gradient nonlinearity in the principal coefficient. With certain…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-04 Xiu Ye , Shangyou Zhang , Yunrong Zhu

We study the problem of estimating parameters of the limiting equation of a multiscale diffusion in the case of averaging and homogenization, given data from the corresponding multiscale system. First, we review some recent results that…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2010-02-18 Anastasia Papavasiliou

Amorphous grain boundary complexions lack long-range crystalline order but are not featureless, as distinct gradients in structural short-range order have been reported through their thickness. In this work, we test the hypothesis that the…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-09-19 Pulkit Garg , Timothy J. Rupert