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Topology optimization is an important basis for the design of components. Here, the optimal structure is found within a design space subject to boundary conditions. Thereby, the specific material law has a strong impact on the final design.…
Weak gravitational lensing by the intervening large-scale structure of the Universe induces high-order correlations in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature and polarization fields. We construct minimum variance estimators of…
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A shape sensitive, variational approach for the matching of surfaces considered as thin elastic shells is investigated. The elasticity functional to be minimized takes into account two different types of nonlinear energies: a membrane…
Using a well defined soft model glass in the framework of Molecular Dynamics simulations, the inherent structures are probed by means of a recently developed deformation protocol that aims to capture the Dynamical Heterogeneities (DH), as…
We determine the effective behavior of a class of composites in finite-strain crystal plasticity, based on a variational model for materials made of fine parallel layers of two types. While one component is completely rigid in the sense…
Accurate interpolation of functions and derivatives is crucial in solving partial differential equations (PDEs). The Radial Basis Function (RBF) method has become an extremely popular and robust approach for interpolation on scattered data.…
Amorphous materials of homogeneous structures usually suffer from nonuniform deformation under shear, which can develop into shear localization and eventually destructive shear band. One approach to tackle this issue is to introduce an…
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In biological and synthetic materials, many important processes involve charges that are present in a medium with spatially varying dielectric permittivity. To accurately understand the role of electrostatic interactions in such systems, it…
The present work is a proof of concept of the capabilities of paralellization in the calculation of metamaterials in a non-linear regime. In this work we subdivided the bulk material into subregions where the mechanical properties are…
In this paper a second-order homogenization approach for periodic material is derived from an appropriate representation of the down-scaling that correlates the microdisplacement field to the macro-displacement field and the macro-strain…
We report on spin atomistic calculations used to model static and dynamic magnetic properties of inhomogeneous ultrathin iron films. Active magnetic layers in next-generation spintronic devices are becoming so thin that they exhibit some…
In this article we present a modification of classical Radial Basis Function (RBF) interpolation techniques aimed at reducing oscillations near discontinuities in one and two dimensions. Our approach introduces an adaptive mechanism by…
This article gives a ``fundamental solution'' based energy-norm harmonic interpolation approach for two half-space settings of interest: the upper-half $\mathbb{R}^n$ plane, where fundamental solutions satisfy Laplace's equation, and the…
A novel photonic thermal diode concept operating in the near field and capitalizing on the temperature-dependence of coupled surface polariton modes in nanostructures is proposed. The diode concept utilizes terminals made of the same…
In the present work, we consider multi-scale computation and convergence for nonlinear time-dependent thermo-mechanical equations of inhomogeneous shells possessing temperature-dependent material properties and orthogonal periodic…