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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…

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Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) normally have fixed or moving structures with cross-sections of the order of microns ($\mu m$) and lengths of the order of tens or hundreds of microns. These structures are often plates or array of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 N. Majumdar , S. Mukhopadhyay

Electrical machines commonly consist of moving and stationary parts. The field simulation of such devices can be very demanding if the underlying numerical scheme is solely based on a domain discretization, such as in case of the Finite…

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The study performs large-eddy simulations of supersonic free jet flows using the Discontinuous Galerkin Spectral Element Method (DGSEM). The main objective of the present work is to assess the resolution requirements for adequate simulation…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-03-22 Diego F. Abreu , João Luiz F. Azevedo , Carlos Junqueira-Junior

The structure and function of biological molecules are strongly influenced by the water and dissolved ions that surround them. This aqueous solution (solvent) exerts significant electrostatic forces in response to the biomolecule's…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-12-29 Matthew G. Knepley , Jaydeep P. Bardhan

This paper presents an axisymmetric Galerkin boundary element method (BEM) for modeling eddy-current interactions between excitation coils and conductive objects. The formulation derives boundary integral equations from the Stratton-Chu…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-28 Yao Luo

The paper outlines some recent developments of the boundary element method (BEM) that makes it more user friendly and suitable for a realistic simulation in geomechanics, especially for underground excavations and tunnelling. The…

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We introduce and analyze a discontinuous Galerkin FEM/BEM method for a time-harmonic eddy current problem written in terms of the magnetic field. We use nonconforming N\'ed\'elec finite elements on a partition of the interior domain coupled…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-28 Ana Alonso Rodríguez , Salim Meddahi , Alberto Valli

The boundary element method (BEM) is an efficient numerical method for simulating harmonic wave propagation. It uses boundary integral formulations of the Helmholtz equation at the interfaces of piecewise homogeneous domains. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-01 Elwin van 't Wout , Seyyed R. Haqshenas , Pierre Gélat , Timo Betcke , Nader Saffari

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 the well-posedness and a priori error estimates of a 3d FEM-BEM coupling method for fluid-structure interaction in the time domain. For an elastic body immersed in a fluid, the exterior linear wave equation for the fluid is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-12 Heiko Gimperlein , Ceyhun Oezdemir , Ernst P. Stephan

We present a Virtual Element Method (VEM) for possibly nonlinear elastic and inelastic problems, mainly focusing on a small deformation regime. The numerical scheme is based on a low-order approximation of the displacement field, as well as…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-19 L. Beirão da Veiga , C. Lovadina , D. Mora

We consider the variational formulation of the electric field integral equation (EFIE) on bounded polyhedral open or closed surfaces. We employ a conforming Galerkin discretization based on div-conforming Raviart-Thomas boundary elements…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2009-07-31 Alexei Bespalov , Norbert Heuer , Ralf Hiptmair

The Boundary Element Method (BEM) is implemented using piecewise linear elements to solve the two-dimensional Dirichlet problem for Laplace's equation posed on a disk. A benefit of the BEM as opposed to many other numerical solution…

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In an electrostatic simulation, an equipotential condition with an undefined/floating potential value has to be enforced on the surface of an isolated conductor. If this conductor is charged, a nonzero charge condition is also required.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-28 Liang Chen , Ming Dong , Ping Li , Hakan Bagci

The virtual element method (VEM) is a stabilized Galerkin method that is robust and accurate on general polygonal meshes. This feature makes it an appealing candidate for simulations involving meshes with embedded interfaces and evolving…

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Isogeometric approach applied to Boundary Element Methods is an emerging research area. In this context, the aim of the present contribution is that of investigating, from a numerical point of view, the Symmetric Galerkin Boundary Element…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-07 A. Aimi , M. Diligenti , M. L. Sampoli , A. Sestini

We consider the variational formulation of the electric field integral equation on a Lipschitz polyhedral surface $\Gamma$. We study the Galerkin boundary element discretisations based on the lowest-order Raviart-Thomas surface elements on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-04-13 Alex Bespalov , Serge Nicaise

The Virtual Element Method (VEM) is a well-established framework for solving partial differential equations on polygonal and polyhedral meshes. In this paper, we introduce a novel hybrid VEM that integrates both conforming and nonconforming…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-28 L. Beirão da Veiga , F. Dassi , A. Russo , M. Trezzi

This work presents a Boundary Element Method (BEM) formulation for contactless electromagnetic field assessments. The new scheme is based on a regularized BEM approach that requires the use of electric measurements only. The regularization…

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