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In this article, we present an invariance principle for the paths of the directed random polymer in space dimension two in the subcritical intermediate disorder regime. More precisely, the distribution of diffusively rescaled polymer paths…

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We present a method for computing locally varying nonlinear mechanical properties in particle simulations of amorphous solids. Plastic rearrangements outside a probed region are suppressed by introducing an external field that directly…

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This paper proposes new proximal Newton-type methods with a diagonal metric for solving composite optimization problems whose objective function is the sum of a twice continuously differentiable function and a proper closed directionally…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-11 Shotaro Yagishita , Shummin Nakayama

A theoretical framework is developed to describe the transformation that distributes probability density functions uniformly over space. In one dimension, the cumulative distribution can be used, but does not generalize to higher…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-09-08 Eric Kee

A variational model of pressure-dependent plasticity employing a time-incremental setting is introduced. A novel formulation of the dissipation potential allows one to construct the condensed energy in a variationally consistent manner. For…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-05-31 Florian Behr , Georg Dolzmann , Klaus Hackl , Ghina Jezdan

An approach to the mechanical behaviour of textile composites at the scale of their constituting fibres, using an implicit finite element simulation code, is proposed in this chapter. The approach is based on efficient methods and…

General Physics · Physics 2012-01-24 Damien Durville

A new energy functional for pure traction problems in elasticity has been deduced in [23] as the variational limit of nonlinear elastic energy functional for a material body subject to an equilibrated force field: a sort of Gamma limit with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-01 Francesco Maddalena , Danilo Percivale , Franco Tomarelli

This paper is devoted to variational problems on the set of probability measures which involve optimal transport between unequal dimensional spaces. In particular, we study the minimization of a functional consisting of the sum of a term…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-11-18 Luca Nenna , Brendan Pass

In this paper we study the asymptotic behaviour via Gamma-convergence of some integral functionals which model some multi-dimensional structures and depend explicitly on the linearized strain tensor. The functionals are defined in…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Nadia Ansini , Francois Bille Ebobisse

We present a novel numerical method for solving the elliptic partial differential equation problem for the electrostatic potential with piecewise constant conductivity. We employ an integral equation approach for which we derive a system of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-01 Kyle Bower , Kirill Serkh , Spyros Alexakis , Adam R Stinchcombe

This article considers a model problem of elastoplasticity with linearly kinematic hardening and presents hp-finite element discretizations of two equivalent weak formulations each having their respective advantages. A mixed variational…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Patrick Bammer , Lothar Banz , Miriam Schönauer , Andreas Schröder

To derive bounds on the strain and stress response of a two-component composite material with viscoelastic phases, we revisit the so-called analytic method (Bergman 1978), which allows one to approximate the complex effective tensor,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-02-11 Ornella Mattei , Graeme W. Milton

Interatomic potentials are essential to go beyond ab initio size limitations, but simulation results depend sensitively on potential parameters. Forward propagation of parameter variation is key for uncertainty quantification, whilst…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-07-16 Ivan Maliyov , Petr Grigorev , Thomas D Swinburne

The derivation of nonlocal strong forms for many physical problems remains cumbersome in traditional methods. In this paper, we apply the variational principle/weighted residual method based on nonlocal operator method for the derivation of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-17 Huilong Ren , Xiaoying Zhuang , Erkan Oterkus , HeHua Zhu , Timon Rabczuk

Composition methodologies in the current literature are mainly to promote estimation efficiency via direct composition, either, of initial estimators or of objective functions. In this paper, composite estimation is investigated for both…

Methodology · Statistics 2013-12-31 Lu Lin , Feng Li , Kangning Wang , Lixing Zhu

In the paper the generalisation of classical rate independent plasticity using fractional calculus is presented. This new formulation is non-local due to properties of applied fractional differential operator during definition of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-02-24 Wojciech Sumelka

Density functional theory offers a very accurate way of computing materials properties from first principles. However, it is too expensive for modelling large-scale molecular systems whose properties are, in contrast, computed using…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-12-12 Alexander V. Shapeev

We present a first-principles framework to extract deformation potentials in Silicon based on density-functional theory (DFT) and density-functional perturbation theory (DFPT). We compute the electronic band structures, phonon dispersion…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-11-05 Zhen Li , Patrizio Graziosi , Neophytos Neophytou

The universal functional of Hohenberg-Kohn is given as a coupling-constant integral over the density as a functional of the potential. Conditions are derived under which potential-functional approximations are variational. Construction via…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-06-13 Attila Cangi , Donghyung Lee , Peter Elliott , Kieron Burke , E. K. U. Gross

The elastic behavior of materials operating in the linear regime is constrained, by definition, to operations that are linear in the imposed deformation. Though the nonlinear regime holds promise for new functionality, the design in this…

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