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This work presents a practical finite element modeling strategy, the Crack Element Method (CEM), for simulating the dynamic crack propagation in two-dimensional structures. The method employs an element-splitting algorithm based on the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Yuxi Xie , Ethan J. Wu , Lu Xu , Jimmy Perez , Shaofan Li

Cracking Elements Method (CEM) is a numerical tool to simulate quasi-brittle fractures, which does not need remeshing, nodal enrichment, or complicated crack tracking strategy. The cracking elements used in the CEM can be considered as a…

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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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-24 Mehdi Elasmi , Christoph Erath , Stefan Kurz

We consider within a finite element approach the usage of different adaptively refined meshes for different variables in systems of nonlinear, time-depended PDEs. To resolve different solution behaviours of these variables, the meshes can…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-05-27 Thomas Witkowski , Axel Voigt

The paper studies a method for solving elliptic partial differential equations posed on hypersurfaces in $\mathbb{R}^N$, $N=2,3$. The method allows a surface to be given implicitly as a zero level of a level set function. A surface equation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-01-16 Maxim A. Olshanskii , Danil Safin

New finite element methods are proposed for elliptic interface problems in one and two dimensions. The main motivation is not only to get an accurate solution but also an accurate first order derivative at the interface (from each side).…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-03-02 Fangfang Qin , Zhaohui Wang , Zhijie Ma , Zhilin Li

The finite element method (FEM) is a well-established numerical method for solving partial differential equations (PDEs). However, its mesh-based nature gives rise to substantial computational costs, especially for complex multiscale…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Weihang Ouyang , Yeonjong Shin , Si-Wei Liu , Lu Lu

Since the seminal work of Idelsohn, O\~nate and Del-Pin (2004), the Particle Finite Element Method (PFEM) has relied on a Delaunay triangulation and the Alpha--Shape (AS) algorithm in the remeshing process. This approach guarantees a good…

We explore a new way to handle flux boundary conditions imposed on level sets. The proposed approach is a diffuse interface version of the shifted boundary method (SBM) for continuous Galerkin discretizations of conservation laws in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-05-11 Dmitri Kuzmin , Jan-Phillip Bäcker

In this article we study adaptive finite element methods (AFEM) with inexact solvers for a class of semilinear elliptic interface problems. We are particularly interested in nonlinear problems with discontinuous diffusion coefficients, such…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-24 Michael Holst , Ryan Szypowski , Yunrong Zhu

We study an elliptic interface problem with discontinuous diffusion coefficients on unfitted meshes using the CutFEM method. Our main contribution is the reconstruction of conservative fluxes from the CutFEM solution and their use in a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-11 Daniela Capatina , Aimene Gouasmi , Cuiyu He

This paper introduces BFEMP, a new approach for monolithically coupling the Material Point Method (MPM) with the Finite Element Method (FEM) through barrier energy-based particle-mesh frictional contact using a variational time-stepping…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-02 Xuan Li , Yu Fang , Minchen Li , Chenfanfu Jiang

Inverse problems for Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) are crucial in numerous applications such as geophysics, biomedical imaging, and material science, where unknown physical properties must be inferred from indirect measurements. In…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-12 Dabin Park , Sanghyun Lee , Sunghwan Moon

This paper aims to study the convergence of adaptive finite element method for control constrained elliptic optimal control problems under $L^2$-norm. We prove the contraction property and quasi-optimal complexity for the $L^2$-norm errors…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-16 Wei Gong , Ningning Yan , Zhaojie Zhou

The implementation of finite element methods (FEMs) for nonlocal models with a finite range of interaction poses challenges not faced in the partial differential equations (PDEs) setting. For example, one has to deal with weak forms…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-05-22 Marta D'Elia , Max Gunzburger , Christian Vollmann

Partial differential equations posed on surfaces arise in a number of applications. In this survey we describe three popular finite element methods for approximating solutions to the Laplace-Beltrami problem posed on an $n$-dimensional…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-23 Andrea Bonito , Alan Demlow , Ricardo H. Nochetto

We present in this paper a rigorous theoretical framework to show stability, convergence and accuracy of improved edge-based and face-based smoothed finite element methods (bESFEM and bFS-FEM) for nearly-incompressible elasticity problems.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-26 Thanh Hai Ong , Claire E. Heaney , Chang-Kye Lee , G. R. Liu , H. Nguyen-Xuan

A Galerkin finite element method for the membrane elasticity problem on a meshed surface is constructed by using two-dimensional elements extended into three dimensions. The membrane finite element model is established using the intrinsic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-03-16 Peter Hansbo , Mats G. Larson

We introduce a novel hybrid methodology combining classical finite element methods (FEM) with neural networks to create a well-performing and generalizable surrogate model for forward and inverse problems. The residual from finite element…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Rishith Ellath Meethal , Birgit Obst , Mohamed Khalil , Aditya Ghantasala , Anoop Kodakkal , Kai-Uwe Bletzinger , Roland Wüchner

We propose a method to modify a polygonal mesh in order to fit the zero-isoline of a level set function by extending a standard body-fitted strategy to a tessellation with arbitrarily-shaped elements. The novel level set-fitted approach, in…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Nicola Ferro , Stefano Micheletti , Nicola Parolini , Simona Perotto , Marco Verani , Paola Francesca Antonietti