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We show how the quasi-analytic method developed to solve linear elastic contacts to coated substrates (Perriot A. and Barthel E. {\em J. Mat. Res.}, {\bf 2004}, {\em 19}, 600) may be extended to adhesive contacts. Substrate inhomogeneity…
A finite element approach to the elastic flow of a curve coupled with a diffusion equation on the curve is analysed. Considering the graph case, the problem is weakly formulated and approximated with continuous linear finite elements, which…
This paper is devoted to the analysis of a numerical scheme based on the Finite Element Method for approximating the solution of Koiter's model for a linearly elastic elliptic membrane shell subjected to remaining confined in a prescribed…
A generalized finite element method for the displacement obstacle problem of clamped Kirchhoff plates is considered in this paper. We derive optimal error estimates and present numerical results that illustrate the performance of the…
We summarise three applications of the obstacle problem to membrane contact, elastoplastic torsion and cavitation modelling, and show how the resulting models can be solved using mixed finite elements. It is challenging to construct fixed…
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…
Penalty methods are a well known class of algorithms for constrained optimization. They transform a constrained problem into a sequence of unconstrained \emph{penalized} problems in the hope that approximate solutions of the latter converge…
We discuss several optimization procedures to solve finite element approximations of linear-quadratic Dirichlet optimal control problems governed by an elliptic partial differential equation posed on a 2D or 3D Lipschitz domain. The control…
The aim of this paper is to propose an efficient adaptive finite element method for eigenvalue problems based on the multilevel correction scheme and inverse power method. This method involves solving associated boundary value problems on…
A class of exact penalty-type local search methods for optimal control problems with nonsmooth cost functional, nonsmooth (but continuous) dynamics, and nonsmooth state and control constraints is presented, in which the the penalty…
We present a new framework for expressing finite element methods on multiple intersecting meshes: multimesh finite element methods. The framework enables the use of separate meshes to discretize parts of a computational domain that are…
We construct a finite element approximation of a strain-limiting elastic model on a bounded open domain in $\mathbb{R}^d$, $d \in \{2,3\}$. The sequence of finite element approximations is shown to exhibit strong convergence to the unique…
We derive a Nitsche-based formulation for fluid-structure interaction (FSI) problems with contact. The approach is based on the work of Chouly and Hild [SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis. 2013;51(2):1295--1307] for contact problems in…
A novel implementation of the traditional node-to-node Coulomb contact-friction problem is presented that utilizes run-time parameter updates on conventional elasto-plastic elements. The two-noded elements are defined by an independent…
This paper presents the development and analysis of an asymptotically compatible (AC) unfitted finite element method for one-dimensional nonlocal elliptic interface problems. The proposed method achieves optimal error estimates through…
We develop a high order cut finite element method for the Stokes problem based on general inf-sup stable finite element spaces. We focus in particular on composite meshes consisting of one mesh that overlaps another. The method is based on…
In many situations with finite element discretizations it is desirable or necessary to impose boundary or interface conditions not as essential conditions -- i.e. through the finite element space -- but through the variational formulation.…
We investigate the numerical approximation of an elliptic optimal control problem which involves a nonconvex local regularization of the $L^q$-quasinorm penalization (with $q\in(0,1)$) in the cost function. Our approach is based on the…
This article presents an error analysis of the symmetric linear/bilinear partially penalized immersed finite element (PPIFE) methods for interface problems of Helmholtz equations. Under the assumption that the exact solution possesses a…
We extend a distributed finite element method built upon model order reduction to arbitrary polynomial degree using a hybrid Nitsche scheme. The new method considerably simplifies the transformation of the finite element system to the…