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Many problems in electrical engineering or fluid mechanics can be modeled by parabolic-elliptic interface problems, where the domain for the exterior elliptic problem might be unbounded. A possibility to solve this class of problems…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-15 Christoph Erath , Robert Schorr

We present and analyze a linearized finite element method (FEM) for the dynamical incompressible magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations. The finite element approximation is based on mixed conforming elements, where Taylor--Hood type elements…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Huadong Gao , Weifeng Qiu

This work proposes an $r$-adaptive finite element method (FEM) using neural networks (NNs). The method employs the Ritz energy functional as the loss function, currently limiting its applicability to symmetric and coercive problems, such as…

We analyze optimal complexity of adaptive finite element methods (AFEMs) for general second-order linear elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs) in the Lax-Milgram setting. To this end, we formulate an adaptive algorithm which steers…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Thomas Führer , Paula Hilbert , Ani Miraçi , Dirk Praetorius

Immersed finite element methods provide a convenient analysis framework for problems involving geometrically complex domains, such as those found in topology optimization and microstructures for engineered materials. However, their…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-30 Nils Wunsch , Keenan Doble , Mathias R. Schmidt , Lise Noël , John A. Evans , Kurt Maute

A so-called grid-overlay finite difference method (GoFD) was proposed recently for the numerical solution of homogeneous Dirichlet boundary value problems of the fractional Laplacian on arbitrary bounded domains. It was shown to have…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-05 Jinye Shen , Bowen Shi , Weizhang Huang

In this work we present a novel monolithic Finite Element Method (FEM) for the hydroelastic analysis of Very Large Floating Structures (VLFS) with arbitrary shapes that is stable, energy conserving and overcomes the need of an iterative…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Oriol Colomés , Francesc Verdugo , Ido Akkerman

We propose, analyze mathematically, and study numerically a novel approach for the finite element approximation of the spectrum of second-order elliptic operators. The main idea is to reduce the stiffness of the problem by subtracting a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-09 Quanling Deng , Alexandre Ern

In this paper we address three aspects of nonlinear computational homogenization of elastic solids by two-scale finite element methods. First, we present a nonlinear formulation of the finite element heterogeneous multiscale method FE-HMM…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-24 Bernhard Eidel , Andreas Fischer , Ajinkya Gote

In this paper, we study applications of the virtual element method (VEM) for simulating the deformation of multiphase composites. The VEM is a Galerkin approach that is applicable to meshes that consist of arbitrarily-shaped polygonal and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-29 N. Sukumar , John E. Bolander

In this paper, a two-sided variable-coefficient space-fractional diffusion equation with fractional Neumann boundary condition is considered. To conquer the weak singularity caused by nonlocal space-fractional differential operators, a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-07 Meijie Kong , Hongfei Fu

In this paper we present a new Eulerian finite element method for the discretization of scalar partial differential equations on evolving surfaces. In this method we use the restriction of standard space-time finite element spaces on a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-26 Hauke Sass , Arnold Reusken

The automated finite element analysis of complex CAD models using boundary-fitted meshes is rife with difficulties. Immersed finite element methods are intrinsically more robust but usually less accurate. In this work, we introduce an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-28 Eky Febrianto , Jakub Sistek , Pavel Kus , Matija Kecman , Fehmi Cirak

This paper presents a Finite Element Model Updating framework for identifying heterogeneous material distributions in planar Bernoulli-Euler beams based on a rotation-free isogeometric formulation. The procedure follows two steps: First,…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Bartłomiej Łazorczyk , Roger A. Sauer

We present a novel approach that integrates unfitted finite element methods and neural networks to approximate partial differential equations on complex geometries. Easy-to-generate background meshes (e.g., a simple Cartesian mesh) that cut…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-04 Wei Li , Alberto F. Martín , Santiago Badia

Accurately depicting multiphysics interactions in interfacial systems requires computational frameworks capable of reconciling geometric adaptability with strict conservation fidelity. However, traditional spatiotemporal discretisation…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Suhaib Ardah , Francisco J. Profito , Daniele Dini

Two non-overlapping domain decomposition methods are presented for the mixed finite element formulation of linear elasticity with weakly enforced stress symmetry. The methods utilize either displacement or normal stress Lagrange multiplier…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-11-28 Eldar Khattatov , Ivan Yotov

Here, we report a numerical implementation of the nonlocal homogenization approach recently proposed in [M. Silveirinha, Phys. Rev. B 75, 115104 (2007)], using the finite difference frequency-domain method to discretize the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 Joao T. Costa , Mario G. Silveirinha , Stanislav I. Maslovski

Triangulations are an ubiquitous input for the finite element community. However, most raw triangulations obtained by imaging techniques are unsuitable as-is for finite element analysis. In this paper, we give a robust pipeline for handling…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Pierre-Alexandre Beaufort , Christophe Geuzaine , Jean-François Remacle

This paper presents a new finite element (FE) formulation for liquid shells that is based on an explicit, 3D surface discretization using $C^1$-continuous finite elements constructed from NURBS interpolation. Both displacement-based and…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2017-01-04 Roger A. Sauer , Thang X. Duong , Kranthi K. Mandadapu , David J. Steigmann