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We propose an innovative isogeometric space-time method for the heat equation, with smooth splines approximation in both space and time. To enhance the stability of the method we add a stabilizing term, based on a linear combination of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-30 Gabriele Loli , Giancarlo Sangalli , Paolo Tesini

We present a space-time least squares finite element method for the heat equation. It is based on residual minimization in L2 norms in space-time of an equivalent first order system. This implies that (i) the resulting bilinear form is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-11-06 Thomas Führer , Michael Karkulik

We present a scalable 2D Galerkin spectral element method solution to the linearized potential flow radiation problem for wave induced forcing of a floating offshore structure. The pseudo-impulsive formulation of the problem is solved in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-22 Jens Visbech , Allan P. Engsig-Karup , Harry B. Bingham

We consider a system of equations that model the temperature, electric potential and deformation of a thermoviscoelastic body. A typical application is a thermistor; an electrical component that can be used e.g. as a surge protector,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-09 Axel Målqvist , Tony Stillfjord

We propose a space-time scheme that combines an unfitted finite element method in space with a discontinuous Galerkin time discretisation for the accurate numerical approximation of parabolic problems with moving domains or interfaces. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-23 Santiago Badia , Hridya Dilip , Francesc Verdugo

Efficiently enhancing heat conduction through optimized distribution of a limited quantity of high thermal conductivity material is paramount in cooling electronic devices and numerous other applications. This paper introduces a…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Bo Zhang , Chi Zhang , Xiangyu Hu

This paper investigates the numerical modeling of a time-dependent heat transmission problem by the convolution quadrature boundary element method. It introduces the latest theoretical development into the error analysis of the numerical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-11-08 Tianyu Qiu , Alexander Rieder , Francisco-Javier Sayas , Shougui Zhang

This paper studies a two-material optimal design problem for the time-averaged duality pairing between a (possibly time-dependent) heat source and the weak solution of an initial-boundary value problem for the heat equation with a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-16 Kei Matsushima , Tomoyuki Oka

In this paper, we propose and analyze a new semi-implicit stochastic multiscale method for the radiative heat transfer problem with additive noise fluctuation in composite materials. In the proposed method, the strong nonlinearity term…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Shan Zhang , Yajun Wang , Xiaofei Guan

We consider data assimilation for the heat equation using a finite element space semi-discretization. The approach is optimization based, but the design of regularization operators and parameters rely on techniques from the theory of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-09-19 Erik Burman , Lauri Oksanen

The high-order accurate continuous Galerkin finite element method offers attractive computational efficiency for computational fluid dynamics. A challenge is however spurious oscillations which result for convection dominated flows over…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-10 Arnaud G. Malan , Jan Nordstrom

In this paper, we present a new space-time Petrov-Galerkin-like method. This method utilizes a mixed formulation of Tensor Train (TT) and Quantized Tensor Train (QTT), designed for the spectral element discretization (Q1-SEM) of the…

A method for density-based topology optimization of heat exchangers with two fluids is proposed. The goal of the optimization process is to maximize the heat transfer from one fluid to the other, under maximum pressure drop constraints for…

We present a space-time finite element method for the heat equation that computes quasi-optimal approximations with respect to natural norms while incorporating local mesh refinements in space-time. The discretized problem is solved with a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-20 Lars Diening , Rob Stevenson , Johannes Storn

We present a higher order space-time unfitted finite element method for convection-diffusion problems on coupled (surface and bulk) domains. In that way, we combine a method suggested by Heimann, Lehrenfeld, Preu{\ss} (SIAM J. Sci. Comput.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-28 Fabian Heimann

With the increasing power density of electronics components, the heat dissipation capacity of heat sinks gradually becomes a bottleneck. Many structural optimization methods, including topology optimization, have been widely used for heat…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-10-07 Tao Zeng , Hu Wang , Mengzhu Yang , Joe Alexandersen

Spectral methods provide highly accurate numerical solutions for partial differential equations, exhibiting exponential convergence with the number of spectral nodes. Traditionally, in addressing time-dependent nonlinear problems, attention…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-06-05 Dibyendu Adak , M. Engin Danis , Duc P. Truong , Kim Ø. Rasmussen , Boian S. Alexandrov

We introduce discontinuous spectral-element methods of arbitrary order that are well balanced, conservative of mass, and conservative or dissipative of total energy (i.e., a mathematical entropy function) for a covariant flux formulation of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Tristan Montoya , Andrés M. Rueda-Ramírez , Gregor J. Gassner

We present a computationally efficient approach to solve the time-dependent Kohn-Sham equations in real-time using higher-order finite-element spatial discretization, applicable to both pseudopotential and all-electron calculations. To this…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-10-02 Bikash Kanungo , Vikram Gavini

This paper presents a topology optimization framework for structural problems subjected to transient loading. The mechanical model assumes a linear elastic isotropic material, infinitesimal strains, and a dynamic response. The optimization…

Classical Physics · Physics 2017-05-05 Reza Behrou , James K. Guest