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Neural operators (NOs) struggle with high-contrast multiscale partial differential equations (PDEs), where fine-scale heterogeneities cause large errors. To address this, we use the Generalized Multiscale Finite Element Method (GMsFEM) that…

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We present numerical experiments for geophysics electromagnetic (EM) modeling based upon high-order edge elements and supervised $h+p$ refinement approaches on massively parallel computers. Our high-order $h+p$ refinement strategy is based…

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Suitable shaping (in particular, flattening and broadening) of the laser beam has recently been proposed as an effective device to reduce internal (mirror) thermal noise in advanced gravitational wave interferometric detectors. Based on…

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This work introduces an Adaptive Mesh Refinement (AMR) strategy for the topology optimization of structures made of discrete geometric components using the geometry projection method. Practical structures made of geometric shapes such as…

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The presented article contains a 3D mesh generation routine optimized with the Metropolis algorithm. The procedure enables to produce meshes of a prescribed volume V_0 of elements. The finite volume meshes are used with the Finite Element…

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The accuracy of finite element solutions is closely tied to the mesh quality. In particular, geometrically nonlinear problems involving large and strongly localized deformations often result in prohibitively large element distortions. In…

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We present a novel framework for PDE-constrained $r$-adaptivity of high-order meshes. The proposed method formulates mesh movement as an optimization problem, with an objective function defined as a convex combination of a mesh quality…

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