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Constitutive evaluations often dominate the computational cost of finite element (FE) simulations whenever material models are complex. Neural constitutive models (NCMs) offer a highly expressive and flexible framework for modeling complex…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Benjamin Alheit , Mathias Peirlinck , Siddhant Kumar

This is a survey on the theory of adaptive finite element methods (AFEMs), which are fundamental in modern computational science and engineering but whose mathematical assessment is a formidable challenge. We present a self-contained and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-20 Andrea Bonito , Claudio Canuto , Ricardo H. Nochetto , Andreas Veeser

This paper proposes the use of particle swarm optimization method (PSO) for finite element (FE) model updating. The PSO method is compared to the existing methods that use simulated annealing (SA) or genetic algorithms (GA) for FE model for…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Tshilidzi Marwala

Many engineering systems require accurate simulations of complex physical systems. Yet, analytical solutions are only available for simple problems, necessitating numerical approximations such as the Finite Element Method (FEM). The cost…

This year marks the eightieth anniversary of the invention of the finite element method (FEM). FEM has become the computational workhorse for engineering design analysis and scientific modeling of a wide range of physical processes,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-13 Wing Kam Liu , Shaofan Li , Harold Park

We propose an efficient and accurate parametric finite element method (PFEM) for solving sharp-interface continuum models for solid-state dewetting of thin films with anisotropic surface energies. The governing equations of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-01-10 Weizhu Bao , Wei Jiang , Yan Wang , Quan Zhao

Structural equation modeling (SEM) is a prevalent approach for studying constructs.Traditionally, these constructs are modeled as reflectively measured latent variables - common factors that account for the variance-covariance structure of…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-02 Tamara Schamberger , Florian Schuberth , Jörg Henseler , Yves Rosseel

This paper considers the problem of model selection within the context of finite element model updating. Given that a number of FEM updating models, with different updating parameters, can be designed, this paper proposes using the Bayesian…

Computation · Statistics 2008-10-16 Linda Mthembu , Tshilidzi Marwala , Michael I. Friswell , Sondipon Adhikari

A well-established approach for inferring full displacement and stress fields from possibly sparse data is to calibrate the parameter of a given constitutive model using a Bayesian update. After calibration, a (stochastic) forward…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Vahab B. Narouie , Henning Wessels , Ulrich Römer

The finite element method (FEM) is among the most commonly used numerical methods for solving engineering problems. Due to its computational cost, various ideas have been introduced to reduce computation times, such as domain decomposition,…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2019-11-07 Andrea Mendizabal , Pablo Márquez-Neila , Stéphane Cotin

The design and optimisation of aircraft wings are critical tasks in aerospace engineering, requiring a balance between structural integrity, aerostructural performance, and manufacturability. This multifaceted challenge involves the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Hauke Maathuis , Saullo G. P. Castro , Roeland De Breuker

In this work a novel method for the analysis with trimmed CAD surfaces is presented. The method involves an additional mapping step and the attraction stems from its sim- plicity and ease of implementation into existing Finite Element (FEM)…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2015-01-28 Gernot Beer , Benjamin Marussig , Jürgen Zechner

In this paper, the first large-scale application of multiscale-spectral generalized finite element methods (MS-GFEM) to composite aero-structures is presented. The crucial novelty lies in the introduction of A-harmonicity in the local…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-03 Jean Bénézech , Linus Seelinger , Peter Bastian , Richard Butler , Timothy Dodwell , Chupeng Ma , Robert Scheichl

In this work, we present an efficient numerical implementation of the finite element method for modal analysis that leverages various symmetry operations, including spatial symmetry in point groups and space-time symmetry in…

Optics · Physics 2024-09-12 Jingwei Wang , Lida Liu , Yuhao Jing , Zhongfei Xiong , Yuntian Chen

A folded type model is developed for analyzing compositional data. The proposed model involves an extension of the $\alpha$-transformation for compositional data and provides a new and flexible class of distributions for modeling data…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-02-27 Michail Tsagris , Connie Stewart

The Generalized Finite Element Method (GFEM) is a Partition of Unity Method (PUM), where the trial space of standard Finite Element Method (FEM) is augmented with non-polynomial shape functions with compact support. These shape functions,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-27 I. Babuska , U. Banerjee

The finite element method (FEM) is a cornerstone numerical technique for solving partial differential equations (PDEs). Here, we present $\textbf{Qu-FEM}$, a fault-tolerant era quantum algorithm for the finite element method. In contrast to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-22 Ahmad M. Alkadri , Tyler D. Kharazi , K. Birgitta Whaley , Kranthi K. Mandadapu

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…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2017-09-18 Lars Kielhorn , Thomas Rüberg , Jürgen Zechner

This research studies finite element (FE) model updating through sum of squares (SOS) optimization to minimize modal dynamic residuals. In the past few decades, many FE model updating algorithms have been studied to improve the similitude…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-05 Dan Li , Xinjun Dong , Yang Wang