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A finite element method for elliptic problems with discontinuous coefficients is presented. The discontinuity is assumed to take place along a closed smooth curve. The proposed method allows to deal with meshes that are not adapted to the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-07-12 Gunther H. Peichl , Rachid Touzani

Finite element methods are used to study non-adhesive, frictionless contact between elastic solids with self-affine surfaces. We find that the total contact area rises linearly with load at small loads. The mean pressure in the contact…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Hyun , L. Pei , J. -F. Molinari , M. O. Robbins

A numerical method is proposed for a class of stochastic control problems including singular behavior. This method solves an infinite-dimensional linear program equivalent to the stochastic control problem using a finite element type…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-06-11 Martin G. Vieten , Richard H. Stockbridge

A high order cut finite element method is formulated for solving the elastic wave equation. Both a single domain problem and an interface problem are treated. The boundary or interface are allowed to cut through the background mesh. To…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-03 Simon Sticko , Gustav Ludvigsson , Gunilla Kreiss

We consider the finite element method on locally damaged meshes allowing for some distorted cells which are isolated from one another. In the case of the Poisson equation and piecewise linear Lagrange finite elements, we show that the usual…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-21 Michel Duprez , Vanessa Lleras , Alexei Lozinski

We present a numerical approximation method for linear diffusion-reaction problems with possibly discontinuous Dirichlet boundary conditions. The solution of such problems can be represented as a linear combination of explicitly known…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-07-05 Ramona Baumann , Thomas P. Wihler

In this paper, we propose the unfitted spectral element method for solving elliptic interface and corresponding eigenvalue problems. The novelty of the proposed method lies in its combination of the spectral accuracy of the spectral element…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-27 Nicolas Gonzalez , Hailong Guo , Xu Yang

We discuss how slip conditions for the Stokes equation can be handled using Nitsche method, for a stabilized finite element discretization. Emphasis is made on the interplay between stabilization and Nitsche terms. Well-posedness of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-16 Rodolfo Araya , Alfonso Caiazzo , Franz Chouly

Fitted finite element methods are constructed for a singularly perturbed convection-diffusion problem in two space dimensions. Exponential splines as basis functions are combined with Shishkin meshes to obtain a stable parameter-uniform…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-03 Alan F. Hegarty , Eugene O'Riordan

We show the stability of a penalty-free asymmetric Nitsche's method using N\'ed\'elec edge elements for solving curl-curl-type problems with tangential Dirichlet boundary conditions imposed weakly. The main result is an inf-sup stability…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-21 Tianwei Yu

We derive optimal a priori and a posteriori error estimates for Nitsche's method applied to unilateral contact problems. Our analysis is based on the interpretation of Nitsche's method as a stabilised finite element method for the mixed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-14 Tom Gustafsson , Rolf Stenberg , Juha Videman

Nitsche's method is a numerical approach that weakly enforces boundary conditions for partial differential equations. In recent years, Nitsche's method has experienced a revival owing to its natural application in modern computational…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-13 Hiroki Ishizaka

We develop an efficient reduced basis method for the frictional contact problem formulated using Nitsche's method. We focus on the regime of small deformations and on Tresca friction. The key idea ensuring the computational efficiency of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-24 Idrissa Niakh , Guillaume Drouet , Virginie Ehrlacher , Alexandre Ern

We present a barrier method for treating frictional contact on interfaces embedded in finite elements. The barrier treatment has several attractive features, including: (i) it does not introduce any additional degrees of freedom or…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-17 Yidong Zhao , Jinhyun Choo , Yupeng Jiang , Minchen Li , Chenfanfu Jiang , Kenichi Soga

We introduce and analyze a robust nonconforming finite element method for a three dimensional singularly perturbed quad-curl model problem. For the solution of the model problem, we derive proper a priori bounds, based on which, we prove…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-27 Baiju Zhang , Zhimin Zhang

We introduce a stabilised finite element formulation for the Kirchhoff plate obstacle problem and derive both a priori and residual-based a posteriori error estimates using conforming $C^1$-continuous finite elements. We implement the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-09 Tom Gustafsson , Rolf Stenberg , Juha Videman

We consider a class of constrained optimization problems with a possibly nonconvex non-Lipschitz objective and a convex feasible set being the intersection of a polyhedron and a possibly degenerate ellipsoid. Such problems have a wide range…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-04-08 Xiaojun Chen , Zhaosong Lu , Ting Kei Pong

The paper introduces a finite element method for the incompressible Navier--Stokes equations posed on a closed surface $\Gamma\subset\R^3$. The method needs a shape regular tetrahedra mesh in $\mathbb{R}^3$ to discretize equations on the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-03-27 Maxim A. Olshanskii , Vladimir Yushutin

We propose two classes of mixed finite elements for linear elasticity of any order, with interior penalty for nonconforming symmetric stress approximation. One key point of our method is to introduce some appropriate nonconforming…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-05-22 Shuonan Wu , Shihua Gong , Jinchao Xu

We demonstrate the ability of a stabilized finite element method, inspired by the weighted Nitsche approach, to alleviate spurious traction oscillations at interlaminar interfaces in multi-ply multi-directional composite laminates. In…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-08-21 Gourab Ghosh , Ravindra Duddu , Chandrasekhar Annavarapu