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The simulation of fracture using continuum ductile damage models attains a pathological discretization dependence caused by strain localization, after loss of ellipticity of the problem, in regions whose size is connected to the spatial…

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We study a higher-order surface finite element (SFEM) penalty-based discretization of the tangential surface Stokes problem. Several discrete formulations are investigated which are equivalent in the continuous setting. The impact of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-11 Hanne Hardering , Simon Praetorius

In this paper, we study a numerical method for the solution of partial differential equations on evolving surfaces. The numerical method is built on the stabilized trace finite element method (TraceFEM) for the spatial discretization and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-03-23 Christoph Lehrenfeld , Maxim A. Olshanskii , Xianmin Xu

In fractured natural formations, the equations governing fluid flow and geomechanics are strongly coupled. Hydrodynamical properties depend on the mechanical configuration, and they are therefore difficult to accurately resolve using…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-07 Matteo Cusini , Joshua A. White , Nicola Castelletto , Randolph R. Settgast

We introduce a method that combines neural operators, physics-informed machine learning, and standard numerical methods for solving PDEs. The proposed approach extends each of the aforementioned methods and unifies them within a single…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Shahed Rezaei , Reza Najian Asl , Kianoosh Taghikhani , Ahmad Moeineddin , Michael Kaliske , Markus Apel

In this paper we analyze a space-time unfitted finite element method for the discretization of scalar surface partial differential equations on evolving surfaces. For higher order approximations of the evolving surface we use the technique…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-26 Arnold Reusken , Hauke Sass

Reduction of computational cost of solutions is a key issue to crack identification or crack propagation problems. One of the solution is to avoid re-meshing the domain when the crack position changes or when the crack extends. To avoid…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-02-12 Olivier Bodart , Valérie Cayol , Sébastien Court , Jonas Koko

This paper presents an adaptive strategy for phase-field simulations with transition to fracture. The phase-field equations are solved only in small subdomains around crack tips to determine propagation, while an XFEM discretization is used…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Alba Muixí , Onofre Marco , Antonio Rodríguez-Ferran , Sonia Fernández-Méndez

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

The eXtended Finite Element Method (XFEM) is used to solve interface problems with an unfitted mesh. We present an implementation of the XFEM in the FEM-library deal.II. The main parts of the implementation are (i) the appropriate…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-07-16 Thomas Carraro , Sven Wetterauer

We survey recent contributions to finite element exterior calculus on manifolds and surfaces within a comprehensive formalism for the error analysis of vector-valued partial differential equations on manifolds. Our primary focus is on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-02 Martin W. Licht

Finite element simulations have been used to solve various partial differential equations (PDEs) that model physical, chemical, and biological phenomena. The resulting discretized solutions to PDEs often do not satisfy requisite physical…

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In this work, merging ideas from compatible discretisations and polyhedral methods, we construct novel fully discrete polynomial de Rham sequences of arbitrary degree on polygons and polyhedra. The spaces and operators that appear in these…

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Recovered finite element methods (R-FEM) have been recently introduced for meshes consisting of simplicial and/or box-type meshes. Here, utilising the flexibility of R-FEM framework, we extend their definition on polygonal and polyhedral…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-24 Zhaonan Dong , Emmanuil H. Georgoulis , Tristan Pryer

Discrete element modelling (DEM) is one of the most efficient computational approaches to the fracture processes of heterogeneous materials on mesoscopic scales. From the dynamics of single crack propagation through the statistics of crack…

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We present a projection-based numerical integration technique to deal with embedded interface in finite element (FE) framework. The element cut by an embedded interface is denoted as a cut cell. We recognize elemental matrices of a cut cell…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-05-05 Bin Liu , Rajeev Kumar Jaiman , Danielle Sweimann Tan

We analyze adaptive mesh-refining algorithms for conforming finite element discretizations of certain non-linear second-order partial differential equations. We allow continuous polynomials of arbitrary, but fixed polynomial order. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-03-14 Michael Feischl , Thomas Führer , Dirk Praetorius

We present a new finite element method, called $\phi$-FEM, to solve numerically elliptic partial differential equations with natural (Neumann or Robin) boundary conditions using simple computational grids, not fitted to the boundary of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-08 Michel Duprez , Vanessa Lleras , Alexei Lozinski