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Critical quantum metrology aims to harness critical properties near quantum phase transitions to enhance parameter estimation precision. However, critical slowing down inherently limits the achievable precision within a finite evolution…

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We present a fully discrete stability analysis of the domain-of-dependence stabilization for hyperbolic problems. The method aims to address issues caused by small cut cells by redistributing mass around the neighborhood of a small cut cell…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-07 Louis Petri , Gunnar Birke , Christian Engwer , Hendrik Ranocha

This paper describes the use of the corotational cut Finite Element Method (FEM) for real-time surgical simulation. Users only need to provide a background mesh which is not necessarily conforming to the boundaries/interfaces of the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Huu Phuoc Bui , Satyendra Tomar , Stéphane P. A. Bordas

We formulate a cut finite element method for linear elasticity based on higher order elements on a fixed background mesh. Key to the method is a stabilization term which provides control of the jumps in the derivatives of the finite element…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-05 Peter Hansbo , Mats G. Larson , Karl Larsson

In this article we consider a priori error and pointwise estimates for finite element approximations of solutions to semilinear elliptic boundary value problems in d>=2 space dimensions, with nonlinearities satisfying critical growth…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-12-22 Randolph E. Bank , Michael Holst , Ryan Szypowski , Yunrong Zhu

Scale-resolving simulations of high Reynolds number incompressible flows are often limited by the Courant-Friedrichs-Lewy (CFL) stability restriction imposed by explicit time-stepping schemes, resulting in small time step sizes and long…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-20 Henrik Wüstenberg , Alexandra Liosi , Spencer J. Sherwin , Joaquim Peiró , David Moxey

We introduce a new formulation for the finite element immersed boundary method which makes use of a distributed Lagrange multiplier. We prove that a full discretization of our model, based on a semi-implicit time advancing scheme, is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-05 Daniele Boffi , Nicola Cavallini , Lucia Gastaldi

The presence of corners in the computational domain, in general, reduces the regularity of solutions of parabolic problems and diminishes the convergence properties of the finite element approximation introducing a so-called "pollution…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-03-19 Piotr Swierczynski , Barbara Wohlmuth

Explicit time-marching schemes are popular for solving time-dependent partial differential equations; one of the biggest challenges these methods suffer is increasing the critical time-marching step size that guarantees numerical stability.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-24 Quanling Deng , Pouria Behnoudfar , Victor Calo

The finite cell method is a highly flexible discretization technique for numerical analysis on domains with complex geometries. By using a non-boundary conforming computational domain that can be easily meshed, automatized computations on a…

Unfitted finite element methods, e.g., extended finite element techniques or the so-called finite cell method, have a great potential for large scale simulations, since they avoid the generation of body-fitted meshes and the use of graph…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-29 Santiago Badia , Francesc Verdugo

The (Isogeometric) Finite Cell Method - in which a domain is immersed in a structured background mesh - suffers from conditioning problems when cells with small volume fractions occur. In this contribution, we establish a rigorous scaling…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-17 F. de Prenter , C. V. Verhoosel , G. J. van Zwieten , E. H. van Brummelen

Adaptivity and local mesh refinement are crucial for the efficient numerical simulation of wave phenomena in complex geometry. Local mesh refinement, however, can impose a tiny time-step across the entire computational domain when using…

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The deformation of an initially spherical capsule, freely suspended in simple shear flow, can be computed analytically in the limit of small deformations [D. Barthes-Biesel, J. M. Rallison, The Time-Dependent Deformation of a Capsule Freely…

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We study continuous finite element dicretizations for one dimensional hyperbolic partial differential equations. The main contribution of the paper is to provide a fully discrete spectral analysis, which is used to suggest optimal values of…

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The conditioning of the linear finite volume element discretization for general diffusion equations is studied on arbitrary simplicial meshes. The condition number is defined as the ratio of the maximal singular value of the stiffness…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-20 Xiang Wang , Weizhang Huang , Yonghai Li

Finite size scaling for the Schr\"{o}dinger equation is a systematic approach to calculate the quantum critical parameters for a given Hamiltonian. This approach has been shown to give very accurate results for critical parameters by using…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-03-16 Edwin Antillon , Birgit Wehefritz-Kaufmann , Sabre Kais

We consider a finite element method with symmetric stabilisation for the discretisation of the transient convection--diffusion equation. For the time-discretisation we consider either the second order backwards differentiation formula or…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-11 Erik Burman , Johnny Guzman

The difficulties in dealing with discontinuities related to a sharp crack are overcome in the phase-field approach for fracture by modeling the crack as a diffusive object being described by a continuous field having high gradients. The…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Sindhu Nagaraja , Mohamed Elhaddad , Marreddy Ambati , Stefan Kollmannsberger , Laura De Lorenzis , Ernst Rank

This paper aims to develop numerical approximations of the Keller--Segel equations that mimic at the discrete level the lower bounds and the energy law of the continuous problem. We solve these equations for two unknowns: the organism (or…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-25 Santiago Badia , Jesús Bonilla , Juan Vicente Gutiérrez-Santacreu