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A nonlinear Helmholtz (NLH) equation with high frequencies and corner singularities is discretized by the linear finite element method (FEM). After deriving some wave-number-explicit stability estimates and the singularity decomposition for…

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The possibility to apply phase-space methods to many-body interacting systems might provide accurate descriptions of correlations with a reduced numerical cost. For instance, the so--called stochastic mean-field phase-space approach, where…

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A higher-order accurate finite element method is proposed which uses automatically generated meshes based on implicit level-set data for the description of boundaries and interfaces in two and three dimensions. The method is an alternative…

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A finite element method is introduced to track interface evolution governed by the level set equation. The method solves for the level set indicator function in a narrow band around the interface. An extension procedure, which is essential…

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Voids develop in crystalline materials under energetic particle irradiation, as in nuclear reactors. Understanding the underlying mechanisms of void nucleation and growth is of utmost importance as it leads to dimensional instability of the…

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In this paper, a direct finite element method is proposed for solving interface problems on unfitted meshes. This new method treats the two interface conditions as an $H^{\frac12}(\Gamma)\times H^{-\frac12}(\Gamma)$ pair for the mutual…

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Cellular morphodynamics requires solving systems of coupled partial differential equations on moving bulk and surface domains, where advection-dominant transport, structure preservation, and severe mesh distortions make robust simulation…

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Leveraging the powerful capabilities of diffusion models has yielded quite effective results in medical image segmentation tasks. However, existing methods typically transfer the original training process directly without specific…

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We review the main features of an unfitted finite element method for interface and fluid-structure interaction problems based on a distributed Lagrange multiplier in the spirit of the fictitious domain approach. We recall our theoretical…

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In this contribution we present a new computational method for coupled bulk-surface problems on time-dependent domains. The method is based on a space-time formulation using discontinuous piecewise linear elements in time and continuous…

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We explore a new way to handle flux boundary conditions imposed on level sets. The proposed approach is a diffuse interface version of the shifted boundary method (SBM) for continuous Galerkin discretizations of conservation laws in…

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Feature level sets (FLS) have shown significant potential in the analysis of multi-field data by using traits defined in attribute space to specify features in the domain. In this work, we address key challenges in the practical use of FLS:…

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The high-frequency Helmholtz equation on the entire space is truncated into a bounded domain using the perfectly matched layer (PML) technique and subsequently, discretized by the higher-order finite element method (FEM) and the continuous…

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In this paper, we develop an adaptive high-order surface finite element method (FEM) incorporating the spectral deferred correction method for chain contour discretization to solve polymeric self-consistent field equations on general curved…

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We extend the unstructured LEvel set / froNT tracking (LENT) method for handling two-phase flows with strongly different densities (high-density ratios) by providing the theoretical basis for the numerical consistency between the mass and…

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This article presents a new phase-field formulation for non-equilibrium interface conditions in rapid phase transformations. With a particular way of defining concentration fields, the classical sharp and diffuse (thick) interface theories…

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Cell blebs are protrusions of the cell membrane and can be instrumental for cell migration. We derive a continuum model for the mechanical and geometrical aspects of the onset of blebbing in terms of a force balance. It is abstract and…

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Phase field method has been widely used because of its excellent ability to simulate fracture problems. At present, the implementation process is mainly based on commercial software, and the operation process is relatively complex. In this…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-02-06 Yuanfeng Yu , Xiaoya Zheng

We propose a new fictitious domain finite element method, well suited for elliptic problems posed in a domain given by a level-set function without requiring a mesh fitting the boundary. To impose the Dirichlet boundary conditions, we…

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