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This work presents a polyhedral scaled boundary finite element method (PSBFEM) for three dimensional seepage analysis. We first derive the scaled boundary formulation for 3D seepage problems, and subsequently incorporate Wachspress shape…

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This work develops a polygonal finite element method (PFEM) for the analysis of steady-state and transient thermal stresses in two dimensional continua. The method employs Wachspress rational basis functions to construct conforming…

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Achieving accurate numerical results of hydrodynamic loads based on the potential-flow theory is very challenging for structures with sharp edges, due to the singular behavior of the local-flow velocities. In this paper, we introduce the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-23 Ying Wang , Yanlin Shao , Jikang Chen , Hui Liang

The scaled boundary finite element method (SBFEM) is a semi-analytical computational scheme, which is based on the characteristics of the finite element method (FEM) and combines the advantages of the boundary element method (BEM). This…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-22 Yang Yang , Zongliang Zhang , Yelin Feng

The Intrinsic Surface Finite Element Method (ISFEM) was recently proposed to solve Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) on surfaces. ISFEM proceeds by writing the PDE with respect to a local coordinate system anchored to the surface and…

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This work develops an elasto-plastic cell-based smoothed finite element method (CSFEM) for geotechnical analysis. The formulation incorporates a smoothed strain field into the standard elasto-plastic framework based on the Mohr-Coulomb…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-26 Yang Yang , Mingjiao Yan , Zongliang Zhang , Miao Zhang , Feidong Zheng , Dong Pan , Xiaozi Lin

We revisit the cell-based smoothed finite element method (SFEM) for quadrilateral elements and extend it to arbitrary polygons and polyhedrons in 2D and 3D, respectively. We highlight the similarity between the SFEM and the virtual element…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-10-08 Sundararajan Natarajan , Stéphane P. A. Bordas , Ean Tat Ooi

Chaotic free surface flows are challenging problems to simulate numerically, mainly due to the significant changes in geometry and frequent topological changes. Methods that track the evolution of the fluid in a Lagrangian formulation are a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-24 Thomas Leyssens , Jonathan Lambrechts , Jean-François Remacle

In this study, we derived a three-dimensional scaled boundary finite element formulation for heat conduction problems. By incorporating Wachspress shape functions, a polyhedral scaled boundary finite element method (PSBFEM) was proposed to…

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We introduce a new paradigm for immersed finite element and isogeometric methods based on interpolating function spaces from an unfitted background mesh into Lagrange finite element spaces defined on a foreground mesh that captures the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-25 Jennifer E. Fromm , Nils Wunsch , Ru Xiang , Han Zhao , Kurt Maute , John A. Evans , David Kamensky

We develop a sparse multiscale operator-adapted wavelet decomposition-based finite element method (FEM) on unstructured polygonal mesh hierarchies obtained via a coarsening procedure. Our approach decouples different resolution levels,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-12-19 Furkan Şık , F. L. Teixeira , B. Shanker

In this paper, we discuss the implementation of a cell based smoothed finite element method (CSFEM) within the commercial finite element software Abaqus. The salient feature of the CSFEM is that it does not require an explicit form of the…

This letter aims at resolving the issues raised in the recent short communication [1] and answered by [2] by proposing a systematic approximation scheme based on non-mapped shape functions, which both allows to fully exploit the unique…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2011-07-20 Stephane PA Bordas , Sundararajan Natarajan

This paper proposes two contributions to the calculation of free surface flows using the particle finite element method (PFEM). The PFEM is based on a Lagrangian approach: a set of particles defines the fluid. Then, unlike a pure Lagrangian…

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We present the first rigorous convergence analysis of the smoothed adaptive finite element method (S-AFEM) proposed in [Mulita, Giani, Heltai: SIAM J. Sci. Comput. 43, 2021]. S-AFEM modifies the classical adaptive finite element method…

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This paper introduces an accurate edge-based smoothed finite element method (ES-FEM) for electromagnetic analysis for both two dimensional cylindrical and three dimensional cartesian systems, which shows much better performance in terms of…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2019-10-30 Yangfan Zhang , Pengfei Wang , Wenping Li , Shunchuan Yang

This paper presents a technique for stress and fracture analysis by using the scaled boundary finite element method (SBFEM) with quadtree mesh of high-order elements. The cells of the quadtree mesh are modelled as scaled boundary polygons…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-19 Hou Man , Chongmin Song , Sundararajan Natarajan , Ean Tat Ooi , Carolin Birk

ESFEM is a method introduced in order to solve a linear advection-diffusion equation on an evolving two-dimensional surface with finite elements by using a moving grid with nodes sitting on and evolving with the surface. The evolution of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-04-18 Maryia Borukhava , Heiko Kröner

We propose an efficient and accurate parametric finite element method (PFEM) for solving sharp-interface continuum models for solid-state dewetting of thin films with anisotropic surface energies. The governing equations of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-01-10 Weizhu Bao , Wei Jiang , Yan Wang , Quan Zhao

A higher-order accurate finite element method is proposed which uses automatically generated meshes based on implicit level-set data for the description of boundaries and interfaces in two and three dimensions. The method is an alternative…

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