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We present a finite element method (FEM) solver for computation of optical resonance modes in VCSELs. We perform a convergence study and demonstrate that high accuracies for 3D setups can be attained on standard computers. We also…

Optics · Physics 2012-03-02 M. Rozova , J. Pomplun , L. Zschiedrich , F. Schmidt , S. Burger

We present a generalization of standard Yee approach for Cauchy problem in electrodynamic simulations on unstructured triangulated mesh. In the paper the whole flow from mesh creation to actual simulation is presented. The proposed…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-12-05 Daniil Fadeev

We simulate numerically the full dynamics of Faraday waves in three dimensions for two incompressible and immiscible viscous fluids. The Navier-Stokes equations are solved using a finite-difference projection method coupled with a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-09-22 Nicolas Perinet , Damir Juric , Laurette S. Tuckerman

Rayleigh-B\'enard convection in rotating spherical shells can be considered as a simplified analogue of many astrophysical and geophysical fluid flows. Here, we use three-dimensional direct numerical simulations to study this physical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-11-23 T. Gastine , J. Wicht , J. Aubert

Magnetohydrostatic models of the solar atmosphere are often based on idealized analytic solutions because the underlying equations are too difficult to solve in full generality. Numerical approaches, too, are often limited in scope and have…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-28 S. A. Gilchrist , D. C. Braun , G. Barnes

Spherical (nonrotating) accretion flows with small-scale magnetic fields have been investigated using three-dimensional, time-dependent MHD simulations. These simulations have been designed to model high-resolution (quasi) steady accretion…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Igor V. Igumenshchev

Chaotic free surface flows are challenging problems to simulate numerically, mainly due to the significant changes in geometry and frequent topological changes. Methods that track the evolution of the fluid in a Lagrangian formulation are a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-24 Thomas Leyssens , Jonathan Lambrechts , Jean-François Remacle

We describe the implementation of a second-order accurate volume-of-fluid interface tracking algorithm in the open source finite element code ASPECT, which is designed to model convection in the Earth's mantle. This involves the solution of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-07-09 Jonathan M. Robey , Elbridge Gerry Puckett

We present a simple set of data structures, and a collection of methods for constructing and updating the structures, designed to support the use of cohesive elements in simulations of fracture and fragmentation. Initially all interior…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-08-31 Anna Pandolfi , Michael Ortiz

The computationally demanding nature of radiative-hydrodynamical simulations of stellar surface convection warrants an investigation of the sensitivity of the convective structure and spectral synthesis to the numerical resolution and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Asplund , H. -G. Ludwig , AA. Nordlund , R. F. Stein

We propose a finite element method for simulating one-dimensional solid models moving and experiencing large deformations while immersed in generalized Newtonian fluids. The method is oriented towards applications involving microscopic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-26 Roberto F. Ausas , Cristian G. Gebhardt , Gustavo C. Buscaglia

This paper presents novel methodologies for the numerical simulation of scattering of elastic waves by both closed and open surfaces in three-dimensional space. The proposed approach utilizes new integral formulations as well as an…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-04-22 Oscar P. Bruno , Tao Yin

A ubiquitous arrangement in nature is a free-flowing fluid coupled to a porous medium, for example a river or lake lying above a porous bed. Depending on the environmental conditions, thermal convection can occur and may be confined to the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-12-21 Matthew McCurdy , Nicholas J. Moore , Xiaoming Wang

In simulation sciences, it is desirable to capture the real-world problem features as accurately as possible. Methods popular for scientific simulations such as the finite element method (FEM) and finite volume method (FVM) use piecewise…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-18 Vidhi Zala , Akil Narayan , Robert M Kirby

We develop a stabilized cut finite element method for the convection problem on a surface based on continuous piecewise linear approximation and gradient jump stabilization terms. The discrete piecewise linear surface cuts through a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-11-10 Erik Burman , Peter Hansbo , Mats G. Larson , Sara Zahedi

Immersed boundary methods for computing confined fluid and plasma flows in complex geometries are reviewed. The mathematical principle of the volume penalization technique is described and simple examples for imposing Dirichlet and Neumann…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-10-07 Kai Schneider

In this study, we derived a three-dimensional scaled boundary finite element formulation for heat conduction problems. By incorporating Wachspress shape functions, a polyhedral scaled boundary finite element method (PSBFEM) was proposed to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-01 Mingjiao Yan , Yang Yang , Chao Su , Zongliang Zhang , Qingsong Duan , Dengmiao Hao , Jian Zhou

In this paper, we employed a transfer learning technique to predict the Nusselt number for natural convection flows in enclosures. Specifically, we considered the benchmark problem of a two-dimensional square enclosure with isolated…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-10-15 Majid Ashouri , Alireza Hashemi

Use of curvilinear coordinates is sometimes indicated by the inherent geometry of a fluid dynamics problem, but this introduces fictitious forces into the momentum equations that spoil strict conservative form. If one is willing to work in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-07-20 Christian Y. Cardall

Given five points in a three-dimensional euclidean space, one can consider five tetrahedra, using those points as vertices. We present a pentagon-like formula containing the product of three volumes of those tetrahedra in its l.h.s. and the…

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