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For the evolution of a closed surface under anisotropic surface diffusion with a general anisotropic surface energy $\gamma(\boldsymbol{n})$ in three dimensions (3D), where $\boldsymbol{n}$ is the unit outward normal vector, by introducing…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-01 Weizhu Bao , Yifei Li

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

We develop a sharp-interface model for solid-state dewetting of double-bubble thin films using an energy variational approach based on a newly proposed interfacial energy. This model characterizes the dynamic evolution of interfaces in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-06 Meng Li , Nan Wang , Ruofan Zhao , Chunjie Zhou

In this paper, we consider numerical approximation of an electrically conductive ferrofluid model, which consists of Navier-Stokes equations, magnetization equation, and magnetic induction equation. To solve this highly coupled, nonlinear,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-02 Jialin Xie , Xiaodi Zhang

Parametric finite element discretizations of constrained geometric flows must simultaneously address high-order geometric stiffness, mesh degeneration, and nonlinear global constraints. This paper develops a stabilized dual-SAV (scalar…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Koya Sakakibara

We propose a sharp-interface model for solid-state dewetting of thin films with wetting potential, where the wetting effect is incorporated through a thickness-dependent surface energy. The model is governed by surface diffusion together…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-29 Weijie Huang , Xinran Ruan

We develop a cut finite element method for a second order elliptic coupled bulk-surface model problem. We prove a priori estimates for the energy and $L^2$ norms of the error. Using stabilization terms we show that the resulting algebraic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-03-27 Erik Burman , Peter Hansbo , Mats G. Larson , Sara Zahedi

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

Fiber-reinforced soft biological tissues are typically modeled as hyperelastic, anisotropic, and nearly incompressible materials. To enforce incompressibility a multiplicative split of the deformation gradient into a volumetric and an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-13 Elias Karabelas , Matthias A. F. Gsell , Gundolf Haase , Gernot Plank , Christoph M. Augustin

An energy stable finite element scheme within arbitrary Lagrangian Eulerian (ALE) framework is derived for simulating the dynamics of millimetric droplets in contact with solid surfaces. Supporting surfaces considered may exhibit…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-11 Filip Ivančić , Maxim Solovchuk

This paper presents a stable finite element approximation for the acoustic wave equation on second-order form, with perfectly matched layers (PML) at the boundaries. Energy estimates are derived for varying PML damping for both the discrete…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-20 Gustav Ludvigsson , Kenneth Duru , Gunilla Kreiss

We propose and analyze volume-preserving parametric finite element methods for surface diffusion, conserved mean curvature flow and an intermediate evolution law in an axisymmetric setting. The weak formulations are presented in terms of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-08 Weizhu Bao , Harald Garcke , Robert Nurnberg , Quan Zhao

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

This work is devoted to design and study efficient and accurate numerical schemes to approximate a chemo-attraction model with consumption effects, which is a nonlinear parabolic system for two variables; the cell density and the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-31 F. Guillén-González , G. Tierra

This paper presents a general, nonlinear isogeometric finite element formulation for rotation-free shells with embedded fibers that captures anisotropy in stretching, shearing, twisting and bending -- both in-plane and out-of-plane. These…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Thang Xuan Duong , Mikhail Itskov , Roger Andrew Sauer

We propose a numerical strategy to generate the anisotropic meshes and select the appropriate stabilized parameters simultaneously for two dimensional convection-dominated convection-diffusion equations by stabilized continuous linear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-02-09 Yana Di , Hehu Xie , Xiaobo Yin

A proof of convergence is given for a novel evolving surface finite element semi-discretization of Willmore flow of closed two-dimensional surfaces, and also of surface diffusion flow. The numerical method proposed and studied here…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-31 Balázs Kovács , Buyang Li , Christian Lubich

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…

This letter aims at resolving the issues raised in the recent short communication [1] and answered by [2] by proposing a systematic approximation scheme based on non-mapped shape functions, which both allows to fully exploit the unique…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2011-07-20 Stephane PA Bordas , Sundararajan Natarajan

We describe and evaluate a numerical solution strategy for simulating surface acoustic waves through semiconductor devices with complex geometries. This multi-physics problem is of particular relevance to the design of quantum electronic…

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