Related papers: Discrete mechanics Based on Finite Element Methods
The Finite Elements with Switch Detection (FESD) method is a highly accurate direct transcription method for optimal control of several classes of nonsmooth dynamical systems. This paper extends the FESD method to Projected Dynamical…
We employ surface differential calculus to derive models for Kirchhoff plates including in-plane membrane deformations. We also extend our formulation to structures of plates. For solving the resulting set of partial differential equations,…
This work focuses on steady and unsteady Navier-Stokes equations in a reduced order modeling framework. The methodology proposed is based on a Proper Orthogonal Decomposition within a levelset geometry description and the problems of…
We present two simple finite element methods for the discretization of Reissner--Mindlin plate equations with {\em clamped} boundary condition. These finite element methods are based on discrete Lagrange multiplier spaces from mortar finite…
We consider the equilibrium equations for a linearized Cosserat material and provide two perspectives concerning well-posedness. First, the system can be viewed as the Hodge Laplace problem on a differential complex. On the other hand, we…
In this paper we study the stability of explicit finite difference discretizations of linear advection-diffusion equations (ADE) with arbitrary order of accuracy in the context of method of lines. The analysis first focuses on the stability…
In this paper we construct high order numerical methods for solving third and fourth orders nonlinear functional differential equations (FDE). They are based on the discretization of iterative methods on continuous level with the use of the…
This paper presents a novel approach for solving fourth-order phase-field models in brittle fracture mechanics using the Interior Penalty Finite Element Method (IP-FEM). The fourth-order model improves numerical stability and accuracy…
We present a discontinuous finite element method for the shallow water equations which exploits high-resolution realistic bathymetry data without any regularity assumption, also in the case of high-order discretizations. We prove a number…
We discretize the Lagrange multiplier formulation of the obstacle problem by mixed and stabilized finite element methods. A priori and a posteriori error estimates are derived and numerically verified.
This article introduces a new and general construction of discrete Hodge operator in the context of Discrete Exterior Calculus (DEC). This discrete Hodge operator enables to circumvent the well-centeredness limitation on the mesh with the…
We introduce a new class of unfitted finite element methods with high order accurate numerical integration over curved surfaces and volumes which are only implicitly defined by level set functions. An unfitted finite element method which is…
In this paper, we consider the numerical pricing of financial derivatives using Radial Basis Function generated Finite Differences in space. Such discretization methods have the advantage of not requiring Cartesian grids. Instead, the nodes…
This book is organized into eight chapters. The first three gently introduce the basic principles of hybrid high-order methods on a linear diffusion problem, the key ideas underlying the mathematical analysis, and some useful variants of…
This work discusses the finite element discretization of an optimal control problem for the linear wave equation with time-dependent controls of bounded variation. The main focus lies on the convergence analysis of the discretization…
Scientific visualization tools tend to be flexible in some ways (e.g., for exploring isovalues) while restricted in other ways, such as working only on regular grids, or only on unstructured meshes (as used in the finite element method,…
This paper presents a finite element method that preserves (at the degrees of freedom) the eigenvalue range of the solution of tensor-valued time-dependent convection--diffusion equations. Starting from a high-order spatial baseline…
We develop a conservative cut finite element method for an elliptic coupled bulk-interface problem. The method is based on a discontinuous Galerkin framework where stabilization is added in such a way that we retain conservation on macro…
For Laplace operator in one space dimension, we propose to formulate the heuristic finite volume method with the help of mixed Petrov-Galerkin finite elements. Weighting functions for gradient discretization are parameterized by some…
This research note documents new developments regarding finite-element discretizations of the relativistic Beliaev-Budker Coulomb collision operator and the nonrelativistic Landau operator. Where energy conservation in a finite-element…