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The use of composable abstractions allows the application of new and established algorithms to a wide range of problems while automatically inheriting the benefits of well-known performance optimisations. This work highlights the…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2016-11-01 Michael Lange , Lawrence Mitchell , Matthew G. Knepley , Gerard J. Gorman

In this paper, we introduce the Phantom Domain Finite Element Method (PDFEM), a novel computational approach tailored for the efficient analysis of heterogeneous and composite materials. Inspired by fictitious domain methods, this method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-06 Tianlong He , Philippe Karamian-Surville , Daniel Choï

Finite Element Analysis (FEA) serves as the cornerstone of modern engineering design. However, its workflow is inherently complex and relies heavily on domain expertise. Although recent efforts have integrated Large Language Models (LLMs)…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Jiachen Zhang , Junyi Lao , Chenghao Liu , Siyuan Liu , Shixin Wu , Linsen Zhang , Boyu Wang , Songfang Huang

In the analysis of composite materials with heterogeneous microstructures, full resolution of the heterogeneities using classical numerical approaches can be computationally prohibitive. This paper presents a micromechanics-enhanced finite…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-11-08 J. Novák , Ł. Kaczmarczyk , P. Grassl , J. Zeman , C. J. Pearce

Since the 1960's the finite element method emerged as a powerful tool for the numerical simulation of countless physical phenomena or processes in applied sciences. One of the reasons for this undeniable success is the great versatility of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-12-05 Vitoriano Ruas

Motivated by problems where the response is needed at select localized regions in a large computational domain, we devise a novel finite element discretization that results in exponential convergence at pre-selected points. The two key…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-03 Murthy N. Guddati , Vladimir Druskin , Ali Vaziri Astaneh

Real-time semantic segmentation is playing a more important role in computer vision, due to the growing demand for mobile devices and autonomous driving. Therefore, it is very important to achieve a good trade-off among performance, model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Ange Lou , Murray Loew

Enhancing interoperability and information exchange between domain-specific software products for BIM is an important aspect in the Architecture, Engineering, Construction and Operations industry. Recent research started investigating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Christoph Emunds , Nicolas Pauen , Veronika Richter , Jérôme Frisch , Christoph van Treeck

This document summarizes the main concepts of the finite element (FE) theory and constitutive relations as implemented in the open-source code phase-field multiphysics materials simulator PHIMATS https://github.com/ahcomat/PHIMATS. PHIMATS…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-15 Abdelrahman Hussein

Modern software typically performs more than one functionality. These functionalities or features are not always organized in a way for modules representing these features to be used individually. Many software engineering approaches like…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-08-23 Patrick Müller , Krishna Narasimhan , Mira Mezini

The implementation process of a $\texttt{RestrictedFunctionSpace}$ class in Firedrake, a Python library which numerically solves partial differential equations through the use of the finite element method, is documented. This includes an…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Emma Rothwell

The emergence of foundation models, such as the Segment Anything Model (SAM), has sparked interest in Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) methods that tailor these large models to application domains outside their training data. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Rajat Sahay , Andreas Savakis

Numerical simulations of brittle fracture using phase-field approaches often employ a discrete approximation framework that applies the same order of interpolation for the displacement and phase-field variables. Most common is to use linear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-04-30 Juan Michael Sargado , Eirik Keilegavlen , Inga Berre , Jan Martin Nordbotten

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 develop a family of finite element spaces of differential forms defined on cubical meshes in any number of dimensions. The family contains elements of all polynomial degrees and all form degrees. In two dimensions, these include the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-13 Douglas N. Arnold , Gerard Awanou

We describe here a library aimed at automating the solution of partial differential equations using the finite element method. By employing novel techniques for automated code generation, the library combines a high level of expressiveness…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2012-05-15 Anders Logg , Garth N. Wells

We introduce a new abstraction for the representation and solution of multi-domain problems using finite element methods. This is an advance over previous work in that it achieves a single higher-level abstraction that represents…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Koki Sagiyama , Lawrence Mitchell , David A. Ham

We present an implementation of the trimmed serendipity finite element family, using the open source finite element package Firedrake. The new elements can be used seamlessly within the software suite for problems requiring $H^1$, \hcurl,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-11 Justin Crum , Cyrus Cheng , David A. Ham , Lawrence Mitchell , Robert C. Kirby , Joshua A. Levine , Andrew Gillette

This work introduces an innovative parallel, fully-distributed finite element framework for growing geometries and its application to metal additive manufacturing. It is well-known that virtual part design and qualification in additive…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Eric Neiva , Santiago Badia , Alberto F. Martín , Michele Chiumenti

This article introduces a novel approach for broken-FEEC (Finite Element Exterior Calculus), extending its application to locally refined spline spaces with non-matching interfaces. Traditional broken-FEEC allows for discontinuous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-01 Martin Campos Pinto , Frederik Schnack