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Approximate full mass matrix methods for the material point method, known as FMPM(k) of order k, can improve the calculation of grid velocities from grid momentum. It can be implemented in any MPM code by inserting a new calculation task…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-04-09 John A. Nairn

The Finite element method (FEM) has long served as the computational backbone for topology optimization (TO). However, for designing structures undergoing large deformations, conventional FEM-based TO often exhibits numerical instabilities…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Rahul Kumar Padhy , Aaditya Chandrasekhar , Krishnan Suresh

Magnetic Soft Catheters (MSCs) are capable of miniaturization due to the use of an external magnetic field for actuation. Through careful design of the magnetic elements within the MSC and the external magnetic field, the shape along the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Joshua Davy , Peter Lloyd , James H. Chandler , Pietro Valdastri

We present a novel convex formulation that weakly couples the Material Point Method (MPM) with rigid body dynamics through frictional contact, optimized for efficient GPU parallelization. Our approach features an asynchronous time-splitting…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Chang Yu , Wenxin Du , Zeshun Zong , Alejandro Castro , Chenfanfu Jiang , Xuchen Han

In this paper, we introduce a novel convex formulation that seamlessly integrates the Material Point Method (MPM) with articulated rigid body dynamics in frictional contact scenarios. We extend the linear corotational hyperelastic model…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Zeshun Zong , Chenfanfu Jiang , Xuchen Han

The material point method (MPM) has been increasingly used for the simulation of large deformation processes in fluid-infiltrated porous materials. For undrained poromechanical problems, however, standard MPMs are numerically unstable…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-27 Yidong Zhao , Jinhyun Choo

We propose an efficient algorithm for the evaluation of the potential and its gradient of gravitational/electrostatic $N$-body systems, which we call particle mesh multipole method (PMMM or PM$^3$). PMMM can be understood both as an…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-20 Keigo Nitadori

The performance evaluation of a potentially unstable slope involves two key components: the initiation of the slope failure and the post-failure runout. The Finite Element Method (FEM) excels at modeling the initiation of instability but…

Geophysics · Physics 2022-06-16 Brent Sordo , Ellen Rathje , Krishna Kumar

Numerical modeling of slope failures seeks to predict two key phenomena: the initiation of failure and the post-failure runout. Currently, most modeling methods for slope failure analysis excel at one of these two but are deficient in the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-09 Brent Sordo , Ellen Rathje , Krishna Kumar

A monolithic coupling between the material point method (MPM) and the finite element method (FEM) is presented. The MPM formulation described is implicit, and the exchange of information between particles and background grid is minimized.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-04-28 Eugenio Aulisa , Giacomo Capodaglio

In this paper, a new method, named the Fragile Points Method (FPM), is developed for computer modeling in engineering and sciences. In the FPM, simple, local, polynomial, discontinuous and Point-based trial and test functions are proposed…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-12-10 Leiting Dong , Tian Yang , Kailei Wang , Satya N. Atluri

The Material Point Method (MPM) is a hybrid Eulerian-Lagrangian approach capable of simulating large deformation problems of history-dependent materials. While the MPM can represent complex and evolving material domains by using Lagrangian…

Geophysics · Physics 2019-10-01 Ezra Y. S. Tjung , Shyamini Kularathna , Krishna Kumar , Kenichi Soga

Controlling the deformation of flexible objects is challenging due to their non-linear dynamics and high-dimensional configuration space. This work presents a differentiable Material Point Method (MPM) simulator targeted at control…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Diego Bolliger , Gabriele Fadini , Markus Bambach , Alisa Rupenyan

In this paper, we introduce MPM Lite, a new hybrid Lagrangian/Eulerian method that eliminates the need for particle-based quadrature at solve time. Standard MPM practices suffer from a performance bottleneck where expensive implicit solves…

We develop a new meshfree geometric multilevel (MGM) method for solving linear systems that arise from discretizing elliptic PDEs on surfaces represented by point clouds. The method uses a Poisson disk sampling-type technique for coarsening…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-14 Grady B. Wright , Andrew M. Jones , Varun Shankar

The Fragile Points Method (FPM) is an elementarily simple Galerkin meshless method, employing Point-based discontinuous trial and test functions only, without using element-based trial and test functions. In this study, the algorithmic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-26 Tian Yang , Leiting Dong , Satya N. Atluri

In recent years, point cloud generation has gained significant attention in 3D generative modeling. Among existing approaches, point-based methods directly generate point clouds without relying on other representations such as latent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Petr Molodyk , Jaemoo Choi , David W. Romero , Ming-Yu Liu , Yongxin Chen

Finite element simulations of frictional multi-body contact problems via conformal meshes can be challenging and computationally demanding. To render geometrical features, unstructured meshes must be used and this unavoidably increases the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Chuanqi Liu , Waiching Sun

The Kernel Polynomial Method (KPM) is a well-established scheme in quantum physics and quantum chemistry to determine the eigenvalue density and spectral properties of large sparse matrices. In this work we demonstrate the high optimization…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2015-07-30 Moritz Kreutzer , Georg Hager , Gerhard Wellein , Andreas Pieper , Andreas Alvermann , Holger Fehske

Differentiable programming has emerged as a powerful paradigm in scientific computing, enabling automatic differentiation through simulation pipelines and naturally supporting both forward and inverse modeling. We present JAX-MPM, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Honghui Du , QiZhi He