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Solving partial differential equations (PDEs) with highly oscillatory solutions on complex domains remains a challenging and important problem. High-frequency oscillations and intricate geometries often result in prohibitively expensive…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Gareth Hardwick , Haizhao Yang

We describe different optimization techniques to perform the assembly of finite element matrices in Matlab and Octave, from the standard approach to recent vectorized ones, without any low level language used. We finally obtain a simple and…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2013-05-15 François Cuvelier , Caroline Japhet , Gilles Scarella

One of the major issues in the computational mechanics is to take into account the geometrical complexity. To overcome this difficulty and to avoid the expensive mesh generation, geometrically unfitted methods, i.e. the numerical methods…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-10-12 Stephane Cotin , Michel Duprez , Vanessa Lleras , Alexei Lozinski , Killian Vuillemot

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 Finite Element Method (FEM) is a well-established procedure for computing approximate solutions to deterministic engineering problems described by partial differential equations. FEM produces discrete approximations of the solution with…

Complex mechanic systems simulation is important in many real-world applications. The de-facto numeric solver using Finite Element Method (FEM) suffers from computationally intensive overhead. Though with many progress on the reduction of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Jiasheng Shi , Fu Lin , Weixiong Rao

In this paper, we propose a new approach -- the Tempered Finite Element Method (TFEM) -- that extends the Finite Element Method (FEM) to classes of meshes that include zero-measure or nearly degenerate elements for which standard FEM…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-27 Antoine Quiriny , Václav Kučera , Jonathan Lambrechts , Nicolas Moës , Jean-François Remacle

This work presents the Griffith-type phase-field formation at large deformation in the framework of adaptive edge-based smoothed finite element method (ES-FEM) for the first time. Therein the phase-field modeling of fractures has attracted…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-11-09 Fucheng Tian , Xiaoliang Tang , Tingyu Xu , Liangbin Li

Periodic micromagnetic finite element method (PM-FEM) is introduced to solve periodic unit cell problems using the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation. PM-FEM is applicable to general problems with 1D, 2D, and 3D periodicities. PM-FEM is based…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-24 Fangzhou Ai , Jiawei Duan , Vitaliy Lomakin

To obtain the highest confidence on the correction of numerical simulation programs for the resolution of Partial Differential Equations (PDEs), one has to formalize the mathematical notions and results that allow to establish the soundness…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-10-03 François Clément , Vincent Martin

Particle breakage due to collisional interactions plays a vital role in the development of several phenomena in science and engineering. The nonlinear collisional breakage equations (NCBEs) are a significant set of equations in this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Arushi Arushi , Naresh Kumar

The presented article contains a 3D mesh generation routine optimized with the Metropolis algorithm. The procedure enables to produce meshes of a prescribed volume V_0 of elements. The finite volume meshes are used with the Finite Element…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2011-03-31 Ilona D. Kosinska

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

In this paper, based on the combination of finite element mesh and neural network, a novel type of neural network element space and corresponding machine learning method are designed for solving partial differential equations. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-24 Yifan Wang , Zhongshuo Lin , Hehu Xie

We introduce a method that combines neural operators, physics-informed machine learning, and standard numerical methods for solving PDEs. The proposed approach extends each of the aforementioned methods and unifies them within a single…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Shahed Rezaei , Reza Najian Asl , Kianoosh Taghikhani , Ahmad Moeineddin , Michael Kaliske , Markus Apel

The Generalized Finite Element Method (GFEM) is an extension of the Finite Element Method (FEM), where the standard finite element space is augmented with a space of non-polynomial functions, called the enrichment space. The functions in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-03-30 Kenan Kergrene , Ivo Babuška , Uday Banerjee

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

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

Partial differential equations (PDEs) on surfaces are fundamental to scientific computing and geometry processing. A popular approach to solving PDEs on surfaces is the finite element method (FEM), where the surface is divided into discrete…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Pranav Jain , Navami Kairanda , Peter Yichen Chen , Oded Stein

A precise domain triangulation is recognized as indispensable for the accurate numerical approximation of differential operators within collocation methods, leading to a substantial reduction in discretization errors. An efficient finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-15 G. Shylaja , V. Kesavulu Naidu , B. Venkatesh , S. M. Mallikarjunaiah