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The Heterogeneous Multiscale Finite Element Method (FE-HMM) is a two-scale FEM based on asymptotic homogenization for solving multiscale partial differential equations. It was introduced in [W. E and B. Engquist, \emph{Commun. Math. Sci.},…
Only a few numerical methods can treat boundary value problems on polygonal and polyhedral meshes. The BEM-based Finite Element Method is one of the new discretization strategies, which make use of and benefits from the flexibility of these…
A new finite element method (FEM) using meshes that do not necessarily align with the interface is developed for two- and three-dimensional anisotropic elliptic interface problems with nonhomogeneous jump conditions. The degrees of freedom…
An overlapped continuous model framework, for the Helmholtz wave propagation problem in unbounded regions comprising bounded heterogeneous media, was recently introduced and analyzed by the authors ({\tt J. Comput. Phys., {\bf 403}, 109052,…
A cornerstone of numerical homogenization is the equivalence of the microscopic and the macroscopic energy densities, which is referred to as Hill-Mandel condition. Among these coupling conditions, the cases of periodic, linear displacement…
We consider the isoparametric finite element method (FEM) for the Poisson equation in a smooth domain with the homogeneous Dirichlet boundary condition. Because the boundary is curved, standard triangulated meshes do not exactly fit it.…
We propose a new fictitious domain finite element method, well suited for elliptic problems posed in a domain given by a level-set function without requiring a mesh fitting the boundary. To impose the Dirichlet boundary conditions, we…
We consider a randomised implementation of the finite element method (FEM) for elliptic partial differential equations on high-dimensional models. This is motivated by applications where model predictions are essential for real-time process…
Spectral element methods (SEM), which are extensions of finite element methods (FEM), are important emerging techniques for solving partial differential equations in physics and engineering. SEM can potentially deliver better accuracy due…
In this paper, we propose a new approach -- the Tempered Finite Element Method (TFEM) -- that extends the Finite Element Method (FEM) to classes of meshes that include zero-measure or nearly degenerate elements for which standard FEM…
Meshing complex engineering domains is a challenging task. Arbitrary polyhedral meshes can provide the much needed flexibility in automated discretization of such domains. The geometric property of the polyhedral meshes such as the…
Thanks to a finite element method, we solve numerically parabolic partial differential equations on complex domains by avoiding the mesh generation, using a regular background mesh, not fitting the domain and its real boundary exactly. Our…
We prove that for compactly perturbed elliptic problems, where the corresponding bilinear form satisfies a Garding inequality, adaptive mesh-refinement is capable of overcoming the preasymptotic behavior and eventually leads to convergence…
We present in this paper a rigorous theoretical framework to show stability, convergence and accuracy of improved edge-based and face-based smoothed finite element methods (bESFEM and bFS-FEM) for nearly-incompressible elasticity problems.…
The approximation properties of a quadratic iso-parametric finite element method for a typical cavitation problem in nonlinear elasticity are analyzed. More precisely, (1) the finite element interpolation errors are established in terms of…
This note constructs a local generalized finite element basis for elliptic problems with heterogeneous and highly varying coefficients. The basis functions are solutions of local problems on vertex patches. The error of the corresponding…
We investigate the parallel one-level overlapping Schwarz method for solving finite element discretization of high-frequency Helmholtz equations. The resulting linear systems are large, indefinite, ill-conditioned, and complex-valued. We…
The displacement field for three dimensional dynamic elasticity problems in the frequency domain can be decomposed into a sum of a longitudinal and a transversal part known as a Helmholtz decomposition. The Cartesian components of both the…
We present a novel probabilistic finite element method (FEM) for the solution and uncertainty quantification of elliptic partial differential equations based on random meshes, which we call random mesh FEM (RM-FEM). Our methodology allows…
In this article we prove that it is possible to construct, using newest-vertex bisection, meshes that equidistribute the error in $H^1$-norm, whenever the function to approximate can be decomposed as a sum of a regular part plus a singular…