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The finite element methods (FEM) are important techniques in engineering for solving partial differential equations, but they depend heavily on element shape quality for stability and good performance. In this paper, we introduce the…
In this paper, we propose an efficient parallelization strategy for boundary element method (BEM) solvers that perform the electromagnetic analysis of structures with lossy conductors. The proposed solver is accelerated with the adaptive…
This paper presents a new adaptive multiscale homogenization scheme for the simulation of damage and fracture in concrete structures. A two-scale homogenization method, coupling meso-scale discrete particle models to macro- scale finite…
In this work, we have developed a multiscale computational algorithm to couple finite element method with an open source molecular dynamics code --- the Large scale Atomic/Molecular Massively Parallel Simulator (LAMMPS) --- to perform…
A novel multi-scale finite element formulation for contact mechanics between nominally smooth but microscopically rough surfaces is herein proposed. The approach integrates the interface finite element method (FEM) for modelling interface…
This paper recalls the principles of the finite-element methods (FEM) theory and declines its application in the EN-MME group, for the numerical modelling and study of particle accelerator equipment. Implicit and explicit methods are…
We present a coupling of the Finite Element and the Boundary Element Method in an isogeometric framework to approximate either two-dimensional Laplace interface problems or boundary value problems consisting in two disjoint domains. We…
Hybrid quantum/molecular mechanics models (QM/MM methods) are widely used in material and molecular simulations when MM models do not provide sufficient accuracy but pure QM models are computationally prohibitive. Adaptive QM/MM coupling…
The Point Machine (PM) is a critical piece of railway equipment that switches train routes by diverting tracks through a switchblade. As with any critical safety equipment, a failure will halt operations leading to service disruptions;…
This work proposes a hybrid modeling framework based on recurrent neural networks (RNNs) and the finite element (FE) method to approximate model discrepancies in time dependent, multi-fidelity problems, and use the trained hybrid models to…
Mixed finite element methods are considered for a ferrofluid flow model with magnetization paralleled to the magnetic field. The ferrofluid model is a coupled system of the Maxwell equations and the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations.…
In this paper, we discuss the second-order finite element method (FEM) and finite difference method (FDM) for numerically solving elliptic cross-interface problems characterized by vertical and horizontal straight lines, piecewise constant…
The finite element method (FEM) has several computational steps to numerically solve a particular problem, to which many efforts have been directed to accelerate the solution stage of the linear system of equations. However, the finite…
It is important to accurately model materials' properties at lower length scales (micro-level) while translating the effects to the components and/or system level (macro-level) can significantly reduce the amount of experimentation required…
We propose a reduced space mixed finite element method (MFEM) built on a Skinning Eigenmode subspace and material-aware cubature scheme. Our solver is well-suited for simulating scenes with large material and geometric heterogeneities in…
This paper develops a new 2D/3D stochastic closed-loop geothermal system with a random hydraulic conductivity tensor. We use the finite element method (FEM) and the Monte Carlo method (MCM) to discrete physical and probability spaces,…
In many real-world applications, from robotics to pedestrian trajectory prediction, there is a need to predict multiple real-valued outputs to represent several potential scenarios. Current deep learning techniques to address…
This paper proposes a strategy to solve the problems of the conventional s-version of finite element method (SFEM) fundamentally. Because SFEM can reasonably model an analytical domain by superimposing meshes with different spatial…
Analyses in high energy physics aim to put the Standard Model---the commonly accepted theory---to test. For convincing conclusions, analysis methods are needed which offer an unambiguous comparison between data and theory while allowing…
The $hp$-adaptive finite element method (FEM) - where one independently chooses the mesh size ($h$) and polynomial degree ($p$) to be used on each cell - has long been known to have better theoretical convergence properties than either $h$-…