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This study focuses on solving the numerical challenges of imposing absorbing boundary conditions for dynamic simulations in the material point method (MPM). To attenuate elastic waves leaving the computational domain, the current work…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-01-24 Jun Kurima , Bodhinanda Chandra , Kenichi Soga

This paper discusses a general formulation of the material point method in the context of additive decomposition rate-independent plasticity. The process of generating the weak form shows that volume integration over deforming particles can…

Computational Physics · Physics 2012-01-16 Biswajit Banerjee

We present a novel convex formulation that weakly couples the Material Point Method (MPM) with rigid body dynamics through frictional contact, optimized for efficient GPU parallelization. Our approach features an asynchronous time-splitting…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Chang Yu , Wenxin Du , Zeshun Zong , Alejandro Castro , Chenfanfu Jiang , Xuchen Han

We present non-convex maximal dissipation principle (NMDP), a time integration scheme for articulated bodies with simultaneous contacts. Our scheme resolves contact forces via the maximal dissipation principle (MDP). Prior MDP solvers…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-10-29 Zherong Pan , Kris Hauser

We present a convex formulation of compliant frictional contact and a robust, performant method to solve it in practice. By analytically eliminating contact constraints, we obtain an unconstrained convex problem. Our solver has proven…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-06-24 Alejandro Castro , Frank Permenter , Xuchen Han

In this paper, we describe a new scalable and modular material point method (MPM) code developed for solving large-scale problems in continuum mechanics. The MPM is a hybrid Eulerian-Lagrangian approach, which uses both moving material…

We develop an efficient reduced basis method for the frictional contact problem formulated using Nitsche's method. We focus on the regime of small deformations and on Tresca friction. The key idea ensuring the computational efficiency of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-24 Idrissa Niakh , Guillaume Drouet , Virginie Ehrlacher , Alexandre Ern

The Finite element method (FEM) has long served as the computational backbone for topology optimization (TO). However, for designing structures undergoing large deformations, conventional FEM-based TO often exhibits numerical instabilities…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Rahul Kumar Padhy , Aaditya Chandrasekhar , Krishnan Suresh

Force modulation of robotic manipulators has been extensively studied for several decades. However, it is not yet commonly used in safety-critical applications due to a lack of accurate interaction contact modeling and weak performance…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Lasitha Wijayarathne , Ziyi Zhou , Ye Zhao , Frank L. Hammond

System identification involving the geometry, appearance, and physical properties from video observations is a challenging task with applications in robotics and graphics. Recent approaches have relied on fully differentiable Material Point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Federico Vasile , Ri-Zhao Qiu , Lorenzo Natale , Xiaolong Wang

Controlling the deformation of flexible objects is challenging due to their non-linear dynamics and high-dimensional configuration space. This work presents a differentiable Material Point Method (MPM) simulator targeted at control…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Diego Bolliger , Gabriele Fadini , Markus Bambach , Alisa Rupenyan

We present a novel, physically-based morphing technique for elastic shapes, leveraging the differentiable material point method (MPM) with space-time control through per-particle deformation gradients to accommodate complex topology…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Michael Xu , Chang-Yong Song , David I. W. Levin , David Hyde

We present a new multi-fluid, multi-temperature plasma solver with adaptive Cartesian mesh (ACM) based on a full-Newton (non-linear, implicit) scheme for collisional low-temperature plasma. The particle transport is described using the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-08-19 Robert Arslanbekov , Vladimir Kolobov

A method to treat frictional contact problems along embedded surfaces in the finite element framework is developed. Arbitrarily shaped embedded surfaces, cutting through finite element meshes, are handled by the X-FEM. The frictional…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Basava Raju Akula , Julien Vignollet , Vladislav A. Yastrebov

The Fast Multipole Method (FMM) offers an acceleration for pairwise interaction calculation, known as $N$-body problems, from $\mathcal{O}(N^2)$ to $\mathcal{O}(N)$ with $N$ particles. This has brought dramatic increase in the capability of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-09-21 Felipe A. Cruz , L. A. Barba

Modeling contact mechanics with high contrast coefficients presents significant mathematical and computational challenges, especially in achieving strongly symmetric stress approximations for mixed formulations. Due to the inherent…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Eric T. Chung , Hyea Hyun Kim , Xiang Zhong

In this study, a fast multipole method (FMM) is used to decrease the computational time of a fully-coupled poroelastic hydraulic fracture model with a controllable effect on its accuracy. The hydraulic fracture model is based on the…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Ali Rezaei , Fahd Siddiqui , Giorgio Bornia , Mohamed Y. Soliman

The material point method (MPM) has been increasingly used for the simulation of large deformation processes in fluid-infiltrated porous materials. For undrained poromechanical problems, however, standard MPMs are numerically unstable…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-27 Yidong Zhao , Jinhyun Choo

The Material Point Method (MPM) is a hybrid Eulerian Lagrangian simulation technique for solid mechanics with significant deformation. Structured background grids are commonly employed in the standard MPM, but they may give rise to several…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Yadi Cao , Yidong Zhao , Minchen Li , Yin Yang , Jinhyun Choo , Demetri Terzopoulos , Chenfanfu Jiang

We present a novel Material Point Method (MPM) discretization of surface tension forces that arise from spatially varying surface energies. These variations typically arise from surface energy dependence on temperature and/or concentration.…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Jingyu Chen , Victoria Kala , Alan Marquez-Razon , Elias Gueidon , David A. B. Hyde , Joseph Teran