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This study presents a phase field model for brittle fracture in fluid-infiltrating vuggy porous media. While the state-of-the-art in hydraulic phase field fracture considers Darcian fracture flow with enhanced permeability along the crack,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-08-28 Hyoung Suk Suh , WaiChing Sun

Brittle fracturing of materials is common in natural and industrial processes over a variety of length scales. Knowledge of individual particle dynamics is vital to obtain deeper insight into the atomistic processes governing crack…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-04-25 Max Huisman , Axel Huerre , Saikat Saha , John C. Crocker , Valeria Garbin

In this work, we address a foundational question in the theoretical analysis of the Deep Ritz Method (DRM) under the over-parameteriztion regime: Given a target precision level, how can one determine the appropriate number of training…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-15 Yuling Jiao , Ruoxuan Li , Peiying Wu , Jerry Zhijian Yang , Pingwen Zhang

Recent advances in scanning transmission electron and scanning probe microscopies have opened exciting opportunities in probing the materials structural parameters and various functional properties in real space with angstrom-level…

We introduce a phase-field method for continuous modeling of cracks with frictional contacts. Compared with standard discrete methods for frictional contacts, the phase-field method has two attractive features: (1) it can represent…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-29 Fan Fei , Jinhyun Choo

Recent work in scientific machine learning has developed so-called physics-informed neural network (PINN) models. The typical approach is to incorporate physical domain knowledge as soft constraints on an empirical loss function and use…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-12 Aditi S. Krishnapriyan , Amir Gholami , Shandian Zhe , Robert M. Kirby , Michael W. Mahoney

The variational approach to fracture is effective for simulating the nucleation and propagation of complex crack patterns, but is computationally demanding. The model is a strongly nonlinear non-convex variational inequality that demands…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-05-18 Patrick E. Farrell , Corrado Maurini

In this contribution, a variational diffuse modeling framework for cracks in heterogeneous media is presented. A static order parameter smoothly bridges the discontinuity at material interfaces, while an evolving phase-field captures the…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-04-07 Arne Claus Hansen-Dörr , Jörg Brummund , Markus Kästner

Many applications, especially in physics and other sciences, call for easily interpretable and robust machine learning techniques. We propose a fully gradient-based technique for training radial basis function networks with an efficient and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-30 Jussi Määttä , Viacheslav Bazaliy , Jyri Kimari , Flyura Djurabekova , Kai Nordlund , Teemu Roos

Phase field models have emerged as a powerful and flexible framework for simulating complex interface-driven phenomena across a wide range of scientific and engineering applications. In fracture mechanics, the phase field…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-23 Md Mamun Miah , Ryuhei Wakida , Masato Kimura

Variational methods are widely applied to ill-posed inverse problems for they have the ability to embed prior knowledge about the solution. However, the level of performance of these methods significantly depends on a set of parameters,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-23 Carla Bertocchi , Emilie Chouzenoux , Marie-Caroline Corbineau , Jean-Christophe Pesquet , Marco Prato

Recently, physics informed neural networks have successfully been applied to a broad variety of problems in applied mathematics and engineering. The principle idea is to use a neural network as a global ansatz function to partial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-28 Alexander Henkes , Henning Wessels , Rolf Mahnken

The rigorous convergence analysis of adaptive finite element methods for regularized variational models of quasi-static brittle fracture in strain-limiting elastic solids is presented. This work introduces two novel adaptive mesh refinement…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-19 Ram Manohar , S. M. Mallikarjunaiah

Capturing the dynamics of granular flows at intermediate length scales can often be difficult. We propose studying the dynamics of contact networks as a new tool to study fracture at intermediate scales. Using experimental three-dimensional…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-08-17 Mark Herrera , Shane McCarthy , Steven Slotterback , Emmanuel Cephas , Wolfgang Losert , Michelle Girvan

A field theory is presented for predicting damage and fracture in quasi brittle materials incorporating effects of irreversible (plastic) deformation as well as elastic moduli that soften with damage. The new observation made here is that…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-17 Hayden Bromley , Robert Lipton

Due to its computational robustness and versatility, the phase field fracture model has become the preferred tool for predicting a wide range of cracking phenomena. However, in its conventional form, its intrinsic tension-compression…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-08-23 Y. Navidtehrani , C. Betegón , E. Martínez-Pañeda

We present a method that employs physics-informed deep learning techniques for parametrically solving partial differential equations. The focus is on the steady-state heat equations within heterogeneous solids exhibiting significant phase…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Shahed Rezaei , Ahmad Moeineddin , Michael Kaliske , Markus Apel

We develop a novel physics informed deep learning approach for solving nonlinear drift-diffusion equations on metric graphs. These models represent an important model class with a large number of applications in areas ranging from transport…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Jan Blechschmidt , Tom-Christian Riemer , Max Winkler , Martin Stoll , Jan-F. Pietschmann

In context of the universal presence of defects in additively manufactured (AM) metals, efficient computational tools are required to rapidly screen AM microstructures for mechanical integrity. To this end, a deep learning approach is used…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-05-25 Brendan P. Croom , Michael Berkson , Robert K. Mueller , Michael Presley , Steven Storck

We present an application of Physics-Informed Neural Networks to handle MultiPhase-Field simulations of microstructure evolution. It has been showcased that a combination of optimization techniques extended and adapted from the PINNs…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-09-04 Seifallah Elfetni , Reza Darvishi Kamachali