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We present a novel parallelization strategy for evaluating Finite Element Method (FEM) variational forms on GPUs, focusing on those that are expressible through the Unified Form Language (UFL) on simplex meshes. We base our approach on code…

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The cost and accuracy of simulating complex physical systems using the Finite Element Method (FEM) scales with the resolution of the underlying mesh. Adaptive meshes improve computational efficiency by refining resolution in critical…

The recently proposed soft finite element method (SoftFEM) reduces the stiffness (condition numbers), consequently improving the overall approximation accuracy. The method subtracts a least-square term that penalizes the gradient jumps…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-27 Jipei Chen , Victor M. Calo , Quanling Deng

A robust and fast solver for the fractional differential equation (FDEs) involving the Riesz fractional derivative is developed using an adaptive finite element method on non-uniform meshes. It is based on the utilization of hierarchical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-10-11 Xuan Zhao , Xiaozhe Hu , Wei Cai , George Em Karniadakis

This work presents a practical finite element modeling strategy, the Crack Element Method (CEM), for simulating the dynamic crack propagation in two-dimensional structures. The method employs an element-splitting algorithm based on the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Yuxi Xie , Ethan J. Wu , Lu Xu , Jimmy Perez , Shaofan Li

We introduce an efficient finite-element approach for large-scale real-space pseudopotential density functional theory (DFT) calculations incorporating noncollinear magnetism and spin-orbit coupling. The approach, implemented within the…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-11 Nikhil Kodali , Phani Motamarri

This paper presents an immersed, isogeometric finite element framework to predict the response of multi-material, multi-physics problems with complex geometries using locally refined discretizations. To circumvent the need to generate…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-05 Mathias Schmidt , Lise Noel , Keenan Doble , John A. Evans , Kurt Maute

This paper deals with the asymptotic behavior and FEM error analysis of a class of strongly damped wave equations using a semidiscrete finite element method in spatial directions combined with a finite difference scheme in the time…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-03 Krishan Kumar , P. Danumjaya , Anil Kumar , Amiya K. Pani

In this article we develop a convergence theory for goal-oriented adaptive finite element algorithms designed for a class of second-order semilinear elliptic equations. We briefly discuss the target problem class, and introduce several…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-04-24 Michael Holst , Sara Pollock , Yunrong Zhu

In this article, we introduce a new partially penalized immersed finite element method (IFEM) for solving elliptic interface problems with multi-domains and triple-junction points. We construct new IFE functions on elements intersected with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-04 Yuan Chen , Songming Hou , Xu Zhang

We consider fourth order singularly perturbed eigenvalue problems in one-dimension and the approximation of their solution by the $h$ version of the Finite Element Method (FEM). In particular, we use piecewise Hermite polynomials of degree…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-15 Hans-Görg Roos , Despo Savvidou , Christos Xenophontos

The adaptive nonconforming Morley finite element method (FEM) approximates a regular solution to the von K\'{a}rm\'{a}n equations with optimal convergence rates for sufficiently fine triangulations and small bulk parameter in the D\"orfler…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-18 Carsten Carstensen , Neela Nataraj

The finite element methods (FEM) are important techniques in engineering for solving partial differential equations, but they depend heavily on element shape quality for stability and good performance. In this paper, we introduce the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-03-30 Rebecca Conley , Tristan J. Delaney , Xiangmin Jiao

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.},…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-11-22 Bernhard Eidel , Andreas Fischer

An important step in shape optimization with partial differential equation constraints is to adapt the geometry during each optimization iteration. Common strategies are to employ mesh-deformation or re-meshing, where one or the other…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-27 Jorgen S. Dokken , Simon W. Funke , August Johansson , Stephan Schmidt

We design an adaptive finite element method to approximate the solutions of quasi-linear elliptic problems. The algorithm is based on a Ka\v{c}anov iteration and a mesh adaptation step is performed after each linear solve. The method is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-06-18 Eduardo M. Garau , Pedro Morin , Carlos Zuppa

Multiscale modeling is an effective approach for investigating multiphysics systems with largely disparate size features, where models with different resolutions or heterogeneous descriptions are coupled together for predicting the system's…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Minglang Yin , Enrui Zhang , Yue Yu , George Em Karniadakis

This article presents an error analysis of the recently introduced Frenet immersed finite element (IFE) method. The Frenet IFE space employed in this method is constructed to be locally conforming to the function space of the associated…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-04 Slimane Adjerid , Tao Lin , Haroun Meghaichi

Fourier solvers have become efficient tools to establish structure-property relations in heterogeneous materials. Introduced as an alternative to the Finite Element (FE) method, they are based on fixed-point solutions of the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-09-01 Jan Zeman , Tom W. J. de Geus , Jaroslav Vondřejc , Ron H. J. Peerlings , Marc G. D. Geers

Atmospheric tomography, i.e. the reconstruction of the turbulence profile in the atmosphere, is a challenging task for adaptive optics (AO) systems of the next generation of extremely large telescopes. Within the community of AO the first…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-16 Ronny Ramlau , Bernadett Stadler