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The recently developed level-set-DEM is able to seamlessly handle arbitrarily shaped grains and their contacts through a discrete level-set representation of grains' volume and a node-based discretization of their bounding surfaces.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-03 Shai Feldfogel , Konstantinos Karapiperis , Jose Andrade , David S. Kammer

Understanding the flow of deformable particles such as liquid drops, synthetic capsules and vesicles, and biological cells confined in a small channel is essential to a wide range of potential chemical and biomedical engineering…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-11-18 J. M. Lyu , Paul G. Chen , G. Boedec , M. Leonetti , M. Jaeger

This paper presents the Virtual Element Method (VEM) for the modeling of crack propagation in 2D within the context of linear elastic fracture mechanics (LEFM). By exploiting the advantage of mesh flexibility in the VEM, we establish an…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2018-08-02 Vien Minh Nguyen-Thanh , Xiaoying Zhuang , Hung Nguyen-Xuan , Timon Rabczuk , Peter Wriggers

We present a novel formulation for mesh-free, reduced-order simulation of deformable hyperelastic objects. Existing work in reduced-order elastodynamic simulation represents the input geometry by either meshes, which can be difficult to…

We investigate the structural, vibrational, and mechanical properties of jammed packings of deformable particles with shape degrees of freedom in three dimensions (3D). Each 3D deformable particle is modeled as a surface-triangulated…

For the linearized setting of the dynamics of complex bodies we construct variational integrators and prove their convergence by making use of BV estimates on the rate fields. We allow for peculiar substructural inertia and internal…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-03-12 Matteo Focardi , Paolo Maria Mariano

A simultaneous variational principle is introduced that offers a novel avenue to the description of the equilibrium configurations, and at the same time of the elementary excitations, or undulations, of fluid lipid membranes, described by a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-01-10 Riccardo Capovilla

The mechanics of cohesive or cemented granular materials is complex, combining the heterogeneous responses of granular media, like force chains, with clearly defined material properties. Here, we use a discrete element model (DEM)…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-11-17 Yuta Yamaguchi , Soumyajyoti Biswas , Takahiro Hatano , Lucas Goehring

The aim of the present work is to investigate the influence of the realistic model parameters for particle interactions, specifically the spring stiffness coefficient for the tangential force between particles on the energy equipartition in…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-18 Alok Tiwari , Manaswita Bose , V. Kumaran

Computational modeling is a key resource to gather insight into physical systems in modern scientific research and engineering. While access to large amount of data has fueled the use of Machine Learning (ML) to recover physical models from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Simone Manti , Alessandro Lucantonio

We present a Virtual Element Method (VEM) for possibly nonlinear elastic and inelastic problems, mainly focusing on a small deformation regime. The numerical scheme is based on a low-order approximation of the displacement field, as well as…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-19 L. Beirão da Veiga , C. Lovadina , D. Mora

Dissipaton-equation-of-motion (DEOM) theory [Y. J. Yan, J. Chem. Phys. 140, 054105 (2014)] is an exact and nonperturbative many-particle method for open quantum systems. The existing dissipaton algebra treats also the dynamics of hybrid…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-01-24 Yao Wang , Rui-Xue Xu , YiJing Yan

We present PDE-FM, a modular foundation model for physics-informed machine learning that unifies spatial, spectral, and temporal reasoning across heterogeneous partial differential equation (PDE) systems. PDE-FM combines spatial-spectral…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Eduardo Soares , Emilio Vital Brazil , Victor Shirasuna , Breno W. S. R. de Carvalho , Cristiano Malossi

Stable estimation of rigid body pose and velocities from noisy measurements, without any knowledge of the dynamics model, is treated using the Lagrange-d'Alembert principle from variational mechanics. With body-fixed optical and inertial…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-09-16 Maziar Izadi , Amit Kumar Sanyal

This work presents the Griffith-type phase-field formation at large deformation in the framework of adaptive edge-based smoothed finite element method (ES-FEM) for the first time. Therein the phase-field modeling of fractures has attracted…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-11-09 Fucheng Tian , Xiaoliang Tang , Tingyu Xu , Liangbin Li

Solute transport in fluid-particle systems is a fundamental process in numerous scientific and engineering disciplines. The simulation of it necessitates the consideration of solid particles with intricate shapes and sizes. To address this…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Yifeng Zhao , Pei Zhang , Stan Z. Li , S. A. Galindo-Torres

In this paper, we propose a novel and efficient differential quadrature element based on Lagrange interpolation to solve a sixth order partial differential equations encountered in non-classical beam theories. These non-classical theories…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2018-02-23 Md. Ishaquddin , S. Gopalakrishnan

The goal of the paper is to derive a revised condition of global equilibrium in complex chemical systems as variational principle in formalism of recently developed discrete thermodynamics (DTD) of chemical equilibria. In classical approach…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2010-11-13 B. Zilbergleyt

The Discrete Element Method (DEM) is frequently used to model complex granular systems and to augment the knowledge that we obtain through theory, experimentation, and real-world observations. Numerical simulations are a particularly…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-23 Cecily Sunday , Naomi Murdoch , Simon Tardivel , Stephen R. Schwartz , Patrick Michel

We focus on the spatial discretization produced by the Variational Particle-Mesh (VPM) method for a prototype fluid equation the known as the EPDiff equation}, which is short for Euler-Poincar\'e equation associated with the diffeomorphism…

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