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The proximal Galerkin (PG) method is a finite element method for solving variational problems with inequality constraints. It has several advantages, including constraint-preserving approximations and mesh independence. This paper presents…

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Modeling crack initiation and propagation in brittle materials is of great importance to be able to predict sudden loss of load-carrying capacity and prevent catastrophic failure under severe dynamic loading conditions. Second-order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-05-17 Lampros Svolos , Hashem M. Mourad , Gianmarco Manzini , Krishna Garikipati

We introduce the proximal Galerkin (PG) method for non-symmetric variational inequalities. The proposed approach is asymptotically mesh-independent and yields constraint-preserving approximations. We present both a conforming PG formulation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Guosheng Fu , Brendan Keith , Dohyun Kim , Rami Masri , Will Pazner

The proximal Galerkin finite element method is a high-order, low-iteration complexity, nonlinear numerical method that preserves the geometric and algebraic structure of point-wise bound constraints in infinite-dimensional function spaces.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-18 Brendan Keith , Thomas M. Surowiec

In this manuscript, the phase-field fracture irreversibility constraint is transformed into an equality-based constraint using the slack variable approach. The equality-based fracture irreversibility constraint is then introduced in the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-22 Ritukesh Bharali , Fredrik Larsson , Ralf Jänicke

Several variants of models of damage in viscoelastic continua under small strains in the Kelvin-Voigt rheology are presented and analyzed by using the Galerkin method. The particular case, known as a phase-field fracture approximation of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-09-23 Tomáš Roubíček

For the simulation of rectilinearly moving conductors across a magnetic field, the Galer-kin finite element method (GFEM) is generally employed. The inherent instability of GFEM is very often addressed by employing Streamline…

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We resolve a longstanding open problem in the computational modeling of nonlinear plates by introducing a numerical method that exactly enforces the isometry constraint, namely, that the first fundamental form of the mid-surface coincides…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-11 Brendan Keith , Frédéric Marazzato

Discrete fracture models with reduced-dimensional treatment of conductive and blocking fractures are widely used to simulate fluid flow in fractured porous media. Among these, numerical methods based on interface models are intensively…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-14 Yong Liu , Ziyao Xu

Complementarity problems and variational inequalities arise in a wide variety of areas, including machine learning, planning, game theory, and physical simulation. In all of these areas, to handle large-scale problem instances, we need fast…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-06-21 Geoffrey J. Gordon

We present a new numerical approach for wave induced dynamic fracture. The method is based on a discontinuous Galerkin approximation of the first-order hyperbolic system for elastic waves and a phase-field approximation of brittle fracture…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-02 Kerstin Weinberg , Christian Wieners

The purpose of this work is the development of space-time discretization schemes for phase-field optimal control problems. Specifically in the optimal control minimization problem, a tracking-type cost functional is minimized to steer the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-14 Denis Khimin , Marc C. Steinbach , Thomas Wick

Three kinds of Fragile Points Methods based on Petrov-Galerkin weak-forms (PG-FPMs) are proposed for analyzing heat conduction problems in nonhomogeneous anisotropic media. This is a follow-up of the previous study on the original FPM based…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-27 Yue Guan , Satya N. Atluri

Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods for hyperbolic partial differential equations (PDEs) with explicit time-stepping schemes, such as strong stability-preserving Runge-Kutta (SSP-RK), suffer from time-step restrictions that are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-03-11 Pierson T. Guthrey , James A. Rossmanith

The purpose of this work is the development of space-time discretization schemes for phase-field optimal control problems. First, a time discretization of the forward problem is derived using a discontinuous Galerkin formulation. Here, a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-24 Denis Khimin , Marc C. Steinbach , Thomas Wick

We propose a new method, the continuous Galerkin method with globally and locally supported basis functions (CG-GL), to address the parametric robustness issues of reduced-order models (ROMs) by incorporating solution-based adaptivity with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-10 Han Gao , Matthew J. Zahr

The discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method is an established method for computing approximate solutions of partial differential equations in many applications. Unlike continuous finite elements, in DG methods, numerical fluxes are used to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-02 Kenneth Duru , Leonhard Rannabauer , Alice-Agnes Gabriel , Heiner Igel

In this work, approximate solutions to the nonlinear Klein-Gordon equation are constructed by means of the Galerkin method. Specifically, it is shown how the dynamics of a real scalar field in $1+1$ dimensions subjected to Dirichlet…

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We study a numerical reconstruction strategy for the potential in the fractional Calder\'on problem from a single partial exterior measurement. The forward model is the fractional Schr\"odinger equation in a bounded domain, with prescribed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-30 Mukul Dwivedi , Jesse Railo , Andreas Rupp

The phase-field model for fracture, despite its popularity and ease of implementation comes with its set of computational challenges. They are the non-convex energy functional, variational inequality due to fracture irreversibility, the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-24 Ritukesh Bharali , Fredrik Larsson , Ralf Jänicke
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