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The modeling of large deformation fracture mechanics has been a challenging problem regarding the accuracy of numerical methods and their ability to deal with considerable changes in deformations of meshes where having the presence of…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2019-03-21 Hai D. Huynh , Phuong Tran , Xiaoying Zhuang , H. Nguyen-Xuan

The presented paper concentrates on the boundary element method (BEM) for the heat equation in three spatial dimensions. In particular, we deal with tensor product space-time meshes allowing for quadrature schemes analytic in time and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-11-23 Jan Zapletal , Raphael Watschinger , Günther Of , Michal Merta

For most finite element simulations, boundary-conforming meshes have significant advantages in terms of accuracy or efficiency. This is particularly true for complex domains. However, with increased complexity of the domain, generating a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-07 Jan Helmig , Fabian Key , Marek Behr , Stefanie Elgeti

We propose an energy-stable parametric finite element method (ES-PFEM) to discretize the motion of a closed curve under surface diffusion with an anisotropic surface energy $\gamma(\theta)$ -- anisotropic surface diffusion -- in two…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-10-26 Yifei Li , Weizhu Bao

In recent years, a variety of meshless methods have been developed to solve partial differential equations in complex domains. Meshless methods discretize the partial differential equations over scattered points instead of grids. Radial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-17 Naman Bartwal , Shantanu Shahane , Somnath Roy , Surya Pratap Vanka

In this paper, we present a NURBS-enhanced finite element method that integrates the NURBS-based boundary representation of a geometric domain into a standard finite element framework for hexahedral meshes. We decompose an open, bounded,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-02 Duygu Sap

Computational modelling offers a cost-effective and time-efficient alternative to experimental studies in biomedical engineering. In cardiac electro-mechanics, finite element method (FEM)-based simulations provide valuable insights into…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Tan Tran , Denisa Martonova , Sigrid Leyendecker

We introduce an integrated meshing and finite element method pipeline enabling black-box solution of partial differential equations in the volume enclosed by a boundary representation. We construct a hybrid hexahedral-dominant mesh, which…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2022-02-04 Teseo Schneider , Jeremie Dumas , Xifeng Gao , Mario Botsch , Daniele Panozzo , Denis Zorin

We present a new framework for expressing finite element methods on multiple intersecting meshes: multimesh finite element methods. The framework enables the use of separate meshes to discretize parts of a computational domain that are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-28 August Johansson , Benjamin Kehlet , Mats G. Larson , Anders Logg

In this paper, we present a new immersed finite element scheme for solving elliptic interface problems on unfitted meshes by combining the skeletal finite element method (FEM) with the standard FEM. The skeletal FEM is used for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-17 Lin Yang , Qilong Zhai

We develop an efficient and reliable adaptive finite element method (AFEM) for the nonlinear Poisson-Boltzmann equation (PBE). We first examine the regularization technique of Chen, Holst, and Xu; this technique made possible the first a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-10-01 Michael Holst , James Andrew McCammon , Zeyun Yu , Yongcheng Zhou , Yunrong Zhu

The simulation of heat flow through heterogeneous material is important for the design of structural and electronic components. Classical analytical solutions to the heat equation PDE are not known for many such domains, even those having…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-05-21 Andrew Loeb , Christopher Earls

This work develops novel energy-stable parametric finite element methods (ES-PFEM) for the Willmore flow and curvature-dependent geometric gradient flows of surfaces in three dimensions. The key to achieving the energy stability lies in the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-06 Weizhu Bao , Yifei Li , Dongmin Wang

We study the use of polyhedral discretizations for the solution of heat diffusion and elastodynamic problems in computer graphics. Polyhedral meshes are more natural for certain applications than pure triangular or quadrilateral meshes,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Junyu Liu , Daniele Panozzo , Mario Botsch , Teseo Schneider

We apply a new calculation scheme of a finite element method (FEM) for solving an elliptic boundary-value problem describing a quadrupole vibration collective nuclear model with tetrahedral symmetry. We use of shape functions constructed…

We propose a structure-preserving parametric finite element method (SP-PFEM) for discretizing the surface diffusion of a closed curve in two dimensions (2D) or surface in three dimensions (3D). Here the "structure-preserving" refers to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-02 Weizhu Bao , Quan Zhao

The paper introduces an adaptive version of the stabilized Trace Finite Element Method (TraceFEM) designed to solve low-regularity elliptic problems on level-set surfaces using a shape-regular bulk mesh in the embedding space. Two…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-21 Timo Heister , Maxim A. Olshanskii , Vladimir Yushutin

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

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

In this paper, we construct a combined multiscale finite element method (MsFEM) using the Local Orthogonal Decomposition (LOD) technique to solve the multiscale problems which may have singularities in some special portions of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-14 Kuokuo Zhang , Weibing Deng , Haijun Wu