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Higher-order numerical methods are used to find accurate numerical solutions to hyperbolic partial differential equations and equations of transport type. Limiting is required to either converge to the correct type of solution or to adhere…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-10 James Woodfield

In this paper we will look at the connection of frames and finite dimensionality. A main focus is to present simple algorithms and make them available online. The main result is a way to 'switch' between different frames, giving an…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2009-02-12 Peter Balazs

In this paper, a recently developed Higher Order Microplane (HOM) model for softening and localization, is implemented within a isogeometric finite element framework. The HOM model was derived directly from a three dimensional discrete…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-11-23 Erol Lale , Xinwei Zhou , Gianluca Cusatis

In this chapter, we demonstrate a general formulation of the Finite Element Method allowing to calculate the diffraction efficiencies from the electromagnetic field diffracted by arbitrarily shaped gratings embedded in a multilayered stack…

Optics · Physics 2013-02-06 Guillaume Demésy , Frédéric Zolla , André Nicolet , Benjamin Vial

The scalar wave equation is solved using higher order immersed finite elements. We demonstrate that higher order convergence can be obtained. Small cuts with the background mesh are stabilized by adding penalty terms to the weak…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-02-20 Simon Sticko , Gunilla Kreiss

In contrast with the diffusion equation which smoothens the initial data to $C^\infty$ for $t>0$ (away from the corners/edges of the domain), the subdiffusion equation only exhibits limited spatial regularity. As a result, one generally…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-17 Buyang Li , Zongze Yang , Zhi Zhou

Immersed boundary methods are high-order accurate computational tools used to model geometrically complex problems in computational mechanics. While traditional finite element methods require the construction of high-quality boundary-fitted…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-27 Jennifer E. Fromm , Nils Wunsch , Kurt Maute , John A. Evans , Jiun-Shyan Chen

Problems of interest in hydrogeology and hydrocarbon resources involve complex heterogeneous geological formations. Such domains are most accurately represented in reservoir simulations by unstructured computational grids. Finite element…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-05-04 Joachim Moortgat , Abbas Firoozabadi

The paper studies an Allen-Cahn-type equation defined on a time-dependent surface as a model of phase separation with order-disorder transition in a thin material layer. By a formal inner-outer expansion, it is shown that the limiting…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-27 Maxim Olshanskii , Xianmin Xu , Vladimir Yushutin

This paper proposes a finite element method that couples mixed and Lagrange finite elements to efficiently capture stress concentrations in elasticity problems. The method employs conforming mixed finite elements in regions with stress…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Wei Chen , Jun Hu , Limin Ma , Mingyan Zhang

This paper develops a high-order selective discontinuous Galerkin (SDG) method for solving elliptic interface problems on interface-unfitted Cartesian meshes. This method applies the discontinuous Galerkin (DG) formulation on interface…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Fang Liu , Haroun Meghaichi , Xu Zhang

The Hodge decomposition provides a very powerful mathematical method for the analysis of 2D and 3D vector fields. It states roughly that any vector field can be $L^2$-orthogonally decomposed into a curl-free, divergence-free, and a harmonic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-17 Faniry H. Razafindrazaka , Konstantin Poelke , Konrad Polthier , Leonid Goubergrits

We present a high order, robust, and stable shock-capturing technique for finite element approximations of ideal MHD. The method uses continuous Lagrange polynomials in space and explicit Runge-Kutta schemes in time. The shock-capturing…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-17 Tuan Anh Dao , Murtazo Nazarov

We develop a cut finite element method (CutFEM) for the convection problem in a so called fractured domain which is a union of manifolds of different dimensions such that a $d$ dimensional component always resides on the boundary of a $d+1$…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-05 Erik Burman , Peter Hansbo , Mats G. Larson , Karl Larsson

Trimming is a ubiquitous operation in computer-aided-design whereby parts of a geometry are merged, intersected, or simply discarded. While it grants virtually unlimited flexibility in geometric design, it introduces a plethora of other…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-15 Yannis Voet , Matthias Möller , Pablo Antolin , Cornelis Vuik

Interfacial energy plays an important role in equilibrium morphologies of nanosized microstructures of solid materials due to the high interface-to-volume ratio, and can no longer be neglected as it does in conventional mechanics analysis.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-10-22 Xujun Zhao , Stéphane P. A. Bordas , Jianmin Qu

An arbitrary Lagrangian--Eulerian (ALE) finite element method for arbitrarily curved and deforming two-dimensional materials and interfaces is presented here. An ALE theory is developed by endowing the surface with a mesh whose in-plane…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-03-24 Amaresh Sahu , Yannick A. D. Omar , Roger A. Sauer , Kranthi K. Mandadapu

Meshing of geometric domains having curved boundaries by affine simplices produces a polytopial approximation of those domains. The resulting error in the representation of the domain limits the accuracy of finite element methods based on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-02-09 James Cheung , Mauro Perego , Pavel Bochev , Max Gunzburger

A simple MATLAB implementation of hierarchical shape functions on 2D rectangles is explained and available for download. Global shape functions are ordered for a given polynomial degree according to the indices of the nodes, edges, or…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Alexej Moskovka , Jan Valdman

We develop a discontinuous cut finite element method (CutFEM) for the Laplace-Beltrami operator on a hypersurface embedded in $\mathbb{R}^d$. The method is constructed by using a discontinuous piecewise linear finite element space defined…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-07-22 Erik Burman , Peter Hansbo , Mats G. Larson , Andre Massing