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Finite element modeling (FEM) is a critical tool in the design and analysis of piezoelectric devices, offering detailed numerical simulations that guide various applications. While traditionally applied to eigenfrequency analysis and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Zhanyue Zhao , Yang Wang , Charles Bales , Yiwei Jiang , Gregory Fischer

In this work, we present a hybrid numerical method for solving evolution partial differential equations (PDEs) by merging the time finite element method with deep neural networks. In contrast to the conventional deep learning-based…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-05 Xiaodong Feng , Haojiong Shangguan , Tao Tang , Xiaoliang Wan , Tao Zhou

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

In this study, we derived a three-dimensional scaled boundary finite element formulation for heat conduction problems. By incorporating Wachspress shape functions, a polyhedral scaled boundary finite element method (PSBFEM) was proposed to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-01 Mingjiao Yan , Yang Yang , Chao Su , Zongliang Zhang , Qingsong Duan , Dengmiao Hao , Jian Zhou

This paper introduces a new weak Galerkin (WG) finite element method for second order elliptic equations on polytopal meshes. This method, called WG-FEM, is designed by using a discrete weak gradient operator applied to discontinuous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-08-20 Lin Mu , Junping Wang , Xiu Ye

We present an efficient B-spline finite element method (FEM) for cloth simulation. While higher-order FEM has long promised higher accuracy, its adoption in cloth simulators has been limited by its larger computational costs while…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Yuqi Meng , Yihao Shi , Kemeng Huang , Zixuan Lu , Ning Guo , Taku Komura , Yin Yang , Minchen Li

An exact arithmetic, memory efficient direct solution method for finite element method (FEM) computations is outlined. Unlike conventional black-box or low-rank direct solvers that are opaque to the underlying physical problem, the proposed…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-02-13 Javad Moshfegh , Marinos N. Vouvakis

We present and analyze a Virtual Element Method (VEM) of arbitrary polynomial order $k\in\mathbb{N}$ for the Laplace-Beltrami equation on a surface in $\mathbb{R}^3$. The method combines the Surface Finite Element Method (SFEM) [Dziuk,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-20 Massimo Frittelli , Ivonne Sgura

Finite element (FE) analysis guides the design and verification of nearly all manufactured objects. It is at the core of computational engineering, enabling simulation of complex physical systems, from fluids and solids to multiphysics…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Rushikesh Deotale , Adithya Srinivasan , Yuan Tian , Tianyi Zhang , Pavlos Vlachos , Hector Gomez

Rigorous computer simulations of propagating electromagnetic fields have become an important tool for optical metrology and design of nanostructured optical components. A vectorial finite element method (FEM) is a good choice for an…

Optics · Physics 2009-05-28 L. Zschiedrich , S. Burger , A. Schädle , F. Schmidt

In this paper we consider a class of unfitted finite element methods for discretization of partial differential equations on surfaces. In this class of methods known as the Trace Finite Element Method (TraceFEM), restrictions or traces of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-07-06 Maxim A. Olshanskii , Arnold Reusken

In this paper, we introduce a new finite expression method (FEX) to solve high-dimensional partial integro-differential equations (PIDEs). This approach builds upon the original FEX and its inherent advantages with new advances: 1) A novel…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-19 Gareth Hardwick , Senwei Liang , Haizhao Yang

In this work, we propose the application of the eXtended Finite Element Method (XFEM) in the context of the coupling between three-dimensional and one-dimensional elliptic problems. In particular, we consider the case in which the 3D-1D…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-20 Denise Grappein , Stefano Scialó , Fabio Vicini

The implementation of discontinuous Galerkin finite element methods (DGFEMs) represents a very challenging computational task, particularly for systems of coupled nonlinear PDEs, including multiphysics problems, whose parameters may consist…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2018-04-09 Paul Houston , Nathan Sime

This paper introduces a highly adaptive and automated approach for generating Finite Element (FE) discretization for a given realistic multi-compartment human head model obtained through magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) dataset. We aim at…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-17 Fernando Galaz Prieto , Joonas Lahtinen , Maryam Samavaki , Sampsa Pursiainen

A structure-preserving Finite Element Method (FEM) for the transport equation in one- and two-dimensional domains is presented. This Distributed Parameter System (DPS) has non-collocated boundary control and observation, and reveals a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-05 Jesus-Pablo Toledo-Zucco , Denis Matignon , Charles Poussot-Vassal

This paper is concerned with error estimates of the fully discrete generalized finite element method (GFEM) with optimal local approximation spaces for solving elliptic problems with heterogeneous coefficients. The local approximation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-10-01 Chupeng Ma , Robert Scheichl

This paper introduces the FEDM (Finite Element Discharge Modelling) code, which was developed using the open-source computing platform FEniCS (https://fenicsproject.org). Building on FEniCS, the FEDM code utilises the finite element method…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-03-27 Aleksandar P. Jovanović , Detlef Loffhagen , Markus M. Becker

We propose a finite-element local basis-based operator learning framework for solving partial differential equations (PDEs). Operator learning aims to approximate mappings from input functions to output functions, where the latter are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-03 Zecheng Zhang , Hao Liu , Guosheng Fu , Hayden Schaeffer , Guang Lin

This note describes an extended exercise on the finite-element (FE) simulation of an accelerator magnet. The students construct and simulate a magnet model using the FEMM freeware. They get the opportunity to exercise on the theory of FEs,…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2020-06-19 H. De Gersem , I. Kulchytska-Ruchka , S. Schöps