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A new phase field model of microstructural evolution is presented that includes the effects of elastic strain energy. The model's thin interface behavior is investigated by mapping it onto a recent model developed by Echebarria et al (Phys…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-10-29 Michael Greenwood , Jeffrey J. Hoyt , Nikolas Provatas

This paper presents a structure-preserving spatial discretization method for distributed parameter port-Hamiltonian systems. The class of considered systems are hyperbolic systems of two conservation laws in arbitrary spatial dimension and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-08-11 Flávio Luiz Cardoso-Ribeiro , Denis Matignon , Laurent Lefèvre

We revisit the fundamental problem of liquid-liquid dewetting and perform a detailed comparison of theoretical predictions based on thin-film models with experimental measurements obtained by atomic force microscopy (AFM). Specifically, we…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-12-27 Dirk Peschka , Stefan Bommer , Sebastian Jachalski , Ralf Seemann , Barbara Wagner

Shallow water equations (SWE) are fundamental nonlinear hyperbolic PDE-based models in fluid dynamics that are essential for studying a wide range of geophysical and engineering phenomena. Therefore, stable and accurate numerical methods…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-24 Yekaterina Epshteyn , Akil Narayan , Yinqian Yu

Score-based generative modeling (SBGM) has achieved state-of-the-art performance in image generation, with the quality of generated images being highly dependent on the design of the forward (diffusion) process. Among these, models based on…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Sascha Holl , Jente Vandersanden , Gurprit Singh , Hans-Peter Seidel

This paper introduces a material-aware strength-of-connection measure for smoothed aggregation algebraic multigrid methods, aimed at improving robustness for scalar partial differential equations with heterogeneous and anisotropic material…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Max Firmbach , Malachi Phillips , Christian Glusa , Alexander Popp , Christopher M. Siefert , Matthias Mayr

We propose a parametric finite element method (PFEM) for efficiently solving the morphological evolution of solid-state dewetting of thin films on a flat rigid substrate in three dimensions (3D). The interface evolution of the dewetting…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-03-03 Quan Zhao , Wei Jiang , Weizhu Bao

Solid-liquid interfaces are at the heart of many modern-day technologies and provide a challenge to many materials simulation methods. A realistic first-principles computational study of such systems entails the inclusion of solvent…

Solid-state dewetting is the process by which thin solid films break up and retract on a substrate, forming nanostructures. While dewetting of single-crystalline films is understood as a surface-energy-driven process mediated by surface…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-25 Paul Hoffrogge , Nils Becker , Daniel Schneider , Britta Nestler , Axel Voigt , Marco Salvalaglio

We derived closed-form analytical expressions for the surface response functions (SRFs) for heterostructure. We investigate structures consisting of up to three layered, coated heterostructure of two-dimensional (2D) materials with a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-08 Teresa Lee , Godfrey Gumbs , Thi Nga Do , Andrii Iurov , Danhong Huang

We consider fully discrete numerical approximations for axisymmetric Willmore flow that are unconditionally stable and work reliably without remeshing. We restrict our attention to surfaces without boundary, but allow for spontaneous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-08 Harald Garcke , Robert Nürnberg , Quan Zhao

A novel finite element framework is proposed for the numerical simulation of two phase flows with surface tension. The Level-Set (LS) method with piece-wise quadratic (P2) interpolation for the liquid-gas interface is used in order to reach…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Modesar Shakoor , Chung Hae Park

We consider surface finite elements and a semi-implicit time stepping scheme to simulate fluid deformable surfaces. Such surfaces are modeled by incompressible surface Navier-Stokes equations with bending forces. Here, we consider closed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-03 Veit Krause , Axel Voigt

In this paper, the Combined Finite-Discrete Element Method (FDEM) has been applied to analyze the deformation of anisotropic geomaterials. In the most general case geomaterials are both non-homogeneous and non-isotropic. With the aim of…

Geophysics · Physics 2018-05-17 Zhou Lei , Esteban Rougier , Earl E. Knight , Antonio Munjiza , Hari Viswanathan

We introduce discontinuous spectral-element methods of arbitrary order that are well balanced, conservative of mass, and conservative or dissipative of total energy (i.e., a mathematical entropy function) for a covariant flux formulation of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Tristan Montoya , Andrés M. Rueda-Ramírez , Gregor J. Gassner

The main purpose of the present paper is to study from a numerical analysis point of view some robust methods designed to cope with stiff (highly anisotropic) elliptic problems. The so-called asymptotic-preserving schemes studied in this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-07-06 Alexei Lozinski , Jacek Narski , Claudia Negulescu

We investigate the stability of electrodeposition at solid-solid interfaces for materials exhibiting an anisotropic mechanical response. The stability of electrodeposition or resistance to the formation of dendrites is studied within a…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-11-07 Zeeshan Ahmad , Venkatasubramanian Viswanathan

A simplified, pseudoplastic rheology characterized by constant viscosity plateaus above and below a transition strain rate is applied to axisymmetric, gravitationally driven spreading of a thin fluid film with constant volume flux source in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-06-01 Chris Reese

We present a numerical method for approximating the solutions of degenerate parabolic equations with a formal gradient flow structure. The numerical method we propose preserves at the discrete level the formal gradient flow structure,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-02-11 Clément Cancès , Cindy Guichard

The linear dispersion relation for longwave surface perturbations, as derived by Levine et al. Phys. Rev. B 75, 205312 (2007) is extended to include a smooth surface energy anisotropy function with a variable anisotropy strength (from weak…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Mikhail Khenner , Wondimu T. Tekalign , Margo S. Levine