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A simple, yet efficient procedure to solve quasistatic problems of special linear visco-elastic solids at small strains with equal rheological response in all tensorial components, utilizing boundary element method (BEM), is introduced.…

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We present new rectangular mixed finite elements for linear elasticity. The approach is based on a modification of the Hellinger-Reissner functional in which the symmetry of the stress field is enforced weakly through the introduction of a…

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We present a theoretical analysis of frictional transitions along the Stribeck curve for rough elastic contacts lubricated by a Newtonian fluid. Building on the mean-field framework of Persson and Scaraggi (J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 21…

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In this work, we develop a cut-based unfitted finite element formulation for solving nonlinear, nonstationary fluid-structure interaction with contact in Eulerian coordinates. In the Eulerian description fluid flow modeled by the…

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We prove the existence of time-periodic weak solutions for a fluid-structure interaction system coupling the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations in a three-dimensional moving domain with a nonlinear Koiter plate equation on its upper…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Claudiu Mîndrilă

We investigate the dynamics of elastic microstructures within a fluid that are subjected to thermal fluctuations. We perform analysis to obtain systematically simplified descriptions of the mechanics in the limiting regimes when (i) the…

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We study preconditioning techniques for discontinuous Galerkin discretizations of isotropic linear elasticity problems in primal (displacement) formulation. We propose subspace correction methods based on a splitting of the vector valued…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-11-01 Blanca Ayuso de Dios , Ivan Georgiev , Johannes Kraus , Ludmil Zikatanov

We propose a boundary integral formulation for the dynamic problem of electromagnetic scattering and transmission by homogeneous dielectric obstacles. In the spirit of Costabel and Stephan, we use the transmission conditions to reduce the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-20 Tonatiuh Sánchez-Vizuet

The immersed boundary method is an approach to fluid-structure interaction that uses a Lagrangian description of the structural deformations, stresses, and forces along with an Eulerian description of the momentum, viscosity, and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-02-27 Boyce E. Griffith , Xiaoyu Luo

In this work, we design and analyze a Discrete de Rham (DDR) scheme for a contact mechanics problem involving fractures along which a model of Tresca friction is considered. Our approach is based on a mixed formulation involving a…

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This paper develops a comprehensive two-dimensional generalisation of the recently introduced Friction with Bristle Dynamics (FrBD) framework for rolling contact problems. The proposed formulation extends the one-dimensional FrBD model to…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Luigi Romano

In this article a theoretical framework for problems involving fractional equations of hyperbolic type arising in the theory of viscoelasticity is presented. Based on the Galerkin method, a variational problem of the fractionary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-08-20 Luis Fernando López Ríos , Julián Bravo-Castillero

An extension to the interface finite element with eMbedded Profile for Joint Roughness (MPJR interface finite element) is herein proposed for solving the frictional contact problem between a rigid indenter of any complex shape and an…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-04-03 Jacopo Bonari , Marco Paggi , José Reinoso

In this paper we consider the three dimensional exterior Stokes problem and study the solvability of the corresponding continuous and discrete formulations that arise from the coupling of a dual-mixed variational formulation with the…

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We study the interaction between incompressible viscous fluids and multilayered elastic structures in a 3D/2D/3D framework, where a 3D fluid interacts with a 2D thin elastic layer, coupled to a 3D thick elastic solid. The system is driven…

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The Poisson--Boltzmann equation is widely used to model electrostatics in molecular systems. Available software packages solve it using finite difference, finite element, and boundary element methods, where the latter is attractive due to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-12-24 Michal Bosy , Matthew W. Scroggs , Timo Betcke , Erik Burman , Christopher D. Cooper

We present a new formulation of the Boundary Element Method (BEM) for simulating the non-adhesive and adhesive contact between an indenter of arbitrary shape and an elastic half-space coated with an elastic layer of different material. We…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-07-06 Qiang Li , Roman Pohrt , Iakov A. Lyashenko , Valentin L. Popov

Based on the convex force-motion polynomial model for quasi-static sliding, we derive the kinematic contact model to determine the contact modes and instantaneous object motion on a supporting surface given a position controlled…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-05-31 Jiaji Zhou , J. Andrew Bagnell , Matthew T. Mason

In this paper we propose on continuous level a class of domain decomposition methods of Robin-Robin type to solve the problems of unilateral contact between elastic bodies with nonlinear Winkler covers. These methods are based on abstract…

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