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Rigorous computer simulations of propagating electromagnetic fields have become an important tool for optical metrology and optics design of nanostructured components. As has been shown in previous benchmarks some of the presently used…

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Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-10 Michael Eden , Adrian Muntean

We develop a cut finite element method (CutFEM) for convection-diffusion problems posed on mixed-dimensional domains, i.e., unions of manifolds of different dimensions arranged in a hierarchical structure where lower-dimensional components…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-09 Erik Burman , Peter Hansbo , Mats G. Larson , Karl Larsson , Shantiram Mahata

We present a novel artificial diffusion method to circumvent the instabilities associated with the standard finite element approximation of convection-diffusion equations. Motivated by the micromorphic approach, we introduce an auxiliary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-19 Soheil Firooz , B. Daya Reddy , Paul Steinmann

In order to address the growth of crystals in veins, a multiphase-field model is used to capture the dynamics of crystals precipitating from a super-saturated solution. To gain a detailed understanding of the polycrystal growth phenomena in…

Geophysics · Physics 2013-10-21 Kumar Ankit , Britta Nestler , Michael Selzer , Mathias Reichardt

This paper studies a model of two-phase flow with an immersed material viscous interface and a finite element method for numerical solution of the resulting system of PDEs. The interaction between the bulk and surface media is characterized…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-08 Maxim Olshanskii , Annalisa Quaini , Qi Sun

We present a finite element approach for diffusion problems with thermal fluctuations based on a fluctuating hydrodynamics model. The governing transport equations are stochastic partial differential equations with a fluctuating forcing…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-21 P. Martínez-Lera , M. De Corato

A wide variety of real random composites can be studied by means of prototypes of multiphase microstructures with a controllable spatial inhomogeneity. To create them, we propose a versatile model of randomly overlapping super-spheres of a…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-09-26 D. Frączek , R. Piasecki , W. Olchawa , R. Wiśniowski

We present a dynamic model to study ordering of particles on arbitrary curved surfaces. Thereby the particles are represented as maxima in a density field and a surface partial differential equation for the density field is solved to the…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-03-02 Rainer Backofen , Axel Voigt , Thomas Witkowski

Directional solidification of water-based solutions has emerged as a versatile technique for templating hierarchical porous materials. However, the underlying mechanisms of pattern formation remain incompletely understood. In this work, we…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-20 Kaihua Ji , Alain Karma

In this paper, gradient-based optimization methods are combined with finite-element modeling for improving electric devices. Geometric design parameters are considered by affine decomposition of the geometry or by the design element…

Modeling the spontaneous evolution of morphology in natural systems and its preservation by proportionate growth remains a major scientific challenge. Yet, it is conceivable that if the basic mechanisms of growth and the coupled kinetic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-12-30 Virginia von Streng , Rami Abi-Akl , Bianca Giovanardi , Tal Cohen

We study the continuum limit in 2+1 dimensions of nanoscale anisotropic diffusion processes on crystal surfaces relaxing to become flat below roughening. Our main result is a continuum law for the surface flux in terms of a new…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 John Quah , Dionisios Margetis

This work presents a novel unfitted finite element framework to simulate coupled surface-bulk problems in time-dependent domains, focusing on fluid-fluid interactions in animal cells between the actomyosin cortex and the cytoplasm. The…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Eric Neiva , Hervé Turlier

We review our recent modeling of crystal nucleation and polycrystalline growth using a phase field theory. First, we consider the applicability of phase field theory for describing crystal nucleation in a model hard sphere fluid. It is…

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Since the 1960's the finite element method emerged as a powerful tool for the numerical simulation of countless physical phenomena or processes in applied sciences. One of the reasons for this undeniable success is the great versatility of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-12-05 Vitoriano Ruas

We develop a cut finite element method for the Darcy problem on surfaces. The cut finite element method is based on embedding the surface in a three dimensional finite element mesh and using finite element spaces defined on the three…

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A hybrid spectral/finite-element code is developed to numerically solve the resistive finite-pressure magnetohydrodynamic equilibria without the necessity of postulating nested magnetic flux surfaces in the non-axisymmetric toroidal…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-12-30 Jian Zhang , Ping Zhu , Chris C. Hegna

In this paper, we introduce and analyse a surface finite element discretization of advection-diffusion equations with uncertain coefficients on evolving hypersurfaces. After stating unique solvability of the resulting semi-discrete problem,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-09-26 Ana Djurdjevac , Charles M. Elliott , Ralf Kornhuber , Thomas Ranner

I formulate a general finite element method (FEM) for self-gravitating stellar systems. I split the configuration space to finite elements, and express the potential and density functions over each element in terms of their nodal values and…

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