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This paper addresses the modeling of fracture in quasi-brittle materials using a phase-field approach to the description of crack topology. Within the computational mechanics community, several studies have treated the issue of modeling…

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The discontinuous Petrov-Galerkin method is a minimal residual method with broken test spaces and is introduced for a nonlinear model problem in this paper. Its lowest-order version applies to a nonlinear uniformly convex model example and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-10-03 Carsten Carstensen , Philipp Bringmann , Friederike Hellwig , Peter Wriggers

The weak Galerkin (WG) finite element method is an effective and flexible general numerical technique for solving partial differential equations. It is a natural extension of the classic conforming finite element method for discontinuous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-29 Xiu Ye , Shangyou Zhang

Irreversible evolution is one of the central concepts as well as implementation challenges of both the variational approach to fracture by Francfort and Marigo (1998) and its regularized counterpart by Bourdin, Francfort and Marigo (2000,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-24 Tymofiy Gerasimov , Laura De Lorenzis

This paper presents an overview of the theories and computer implementation aspects of phase field models (PFM) of fracture. The advantage of PFM over discontinuous approaches to fracture is that PFM can elegantly simulate complicated…

Geophysics · Physics 2023-09-11 X. Zhuang , S. Zhou , G. D. Huynh , P. Areias , T. Rabczuk

This paper proposes and analyzes a class of new weak Galerkin (WG) finite element methods for 2- and 3-dimensional linear elasticity problems. The methods use discontinuous piecewise-polynomial approximations of degrees $k(\geq 0)$ for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-10-24 Gang Chen , Xiaoping Xie

A discontinuous Galerkin method has been developed for strain gradient-dependent damage. The strength of this method lies in the fact that it allows the use of $C^0$ interpolation functions for continuum theories involving higher-order…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-09-29 L. Molari , G. N. Wells , K. Garikipati , F. Ubertini

The purpose of this work is to provide a finite dimensional approximation of the solution to a mean field optimal control problem set on the $d$-dimensional torus. The approximation is obtained by means of a Fourier-Galerkin method, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-06 François Delarue , Mattia Martini

We leverage the proximal Galerkin algorithm (Keith and Surowiec, Foundations of Computational Mathematics, 2024, DOI: 10.1007/s10208-024-09681-8), a recently introduced mesh-independent algorithm, to obtain a high-order finite element…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-11 Ioannis P. A. Papadopoulos

Conductor moving in magnetic field is quite common in electrical equipment. The numerical simulation of such problem is vital in their design and analysis of electrical equipment. The Galerkin finite element method (GFEM) is a commonly…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-11-02 Sethupathy Subramanian , Udaya Kumar , Sujata Bhowmick

Spectral methods, thanks to the high accuracy and the possibility of using fast algorithms, represent an effective way to approximate collisional kinetic equations in kinetic theory. On the other hand, the loss of some local invariants can…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-28 Lorenzo Pareschi , Thomas Rey

Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods for the numerical solution of partial differential equations have enjoyed considerable success because they are both flexible and robust: They allow arbitrary unstructured geometries and easy control of…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2012-11-06 Andreas Klöckner , Timothy Warburton , Jan S. Hesthaven

We propose a discontinuous Galerkin(DG) method to approximate the elliptic interface problem on unfitted mesh using a new approximation space. The approximation space is constructed by patch reconstruction with one degree of freedom per…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-10 Ruo Li , Fanyi Yang

This paper presents a numerical approach to the stochastic obstacle problem using the stochastic Galerkin (SG) method. Due to the low regularity of the solution, linear finite elements are employed in both the physical and random variable…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-29 Chenhui Zhu , Fei Wang , Weimin Han

We introduce a family of proximal discontinuous Galerkin methods for variational inequalities, focusing on the obstacle problem as a didactic example. Each member of this family is born from applying a different well-known nonconforming…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-23 Alexandre Ern , Brendan Keith , Dohyun Kim , Rami Masri , Beatrice Riviere

The phase field fracture method has emerged as a promising computational tool for modelling a variety of problems including, since recently, hydrogen embrittlement and stress corrosion cracking. In this work, we demonstrate the potential of…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-11-17 P. K. Kristensen , C. F. Niordson , E. Martínez-Pañeda

Design of modern nanostructured semiconductor devices often calls for simulation tools capable of modeling arbitrarily-shaped multiscale geometries. In this work, to this end, a discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method-based framework is…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-02-03 Liang Chen , Hakan Bagci

Slender beams are often employed as constituents in engineering materials and structures. Prior experiments on lattices of slender beams have highlighted their complex failure response, where the interplay between buckling and fracture…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Sai Kubair Kota , Siddhant Kumar , Bianca Giovanardi

This study presents the Fourier-Gegenbauer Integral-Galerkin (FGIG) method, a novel and efficient numerical framework for solving the one-dimensional advection-diffusion equation with periodic boundary conditions. The FGIG method uniquely…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-07 Kareem T. Elgindy

Nishikawa (2007) proposed to reformulate the classical Poisson equation as a steady state problem for a linear hyperbolic system. This results in optimal error estimates for both the solution of the elliptic equation and its gradient.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-18 Hendrik Ranocha