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In this paper, we propose an extended mixed finite element method for elliptic interface problems. By adding some stabilization terms, we present a mixed approximation form based on Brezzi-Douglas-Marini element space and the piecewise…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-14 Pei Cao , Jinru Chen , Feng Wang

We combine theoretical results from polytope domain meshing, generalized barycentric coordinates, and finite element exterior calculus to construct scalar- and vector-valued basis functions for conforming finite element methods on generic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-04-27 Andrew Gillette , Alexander Rand , Chandrajit Bajaj

This paper highlights how unstructured space-time meshes can be used in production engineering applications with moving domains. Unstructured space-time elements can connect different spatial meshes at the bottom and top level of the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Violeta Karyofylli , Marek Behr

We consider an elliptic partial differential equation in non-divergence form with a random diffusion matrix and random forcing term. To address this, we propose a mixed-type continuous finite element discretization in the physical domain,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-04 Amireh Mousavi

We present a finite element variational integrator for compressible flows. The numerical scheme is derived by discretizing, in a structure preserving way, the Lie group formulation of fluid dynamics on diffeomorphism groups and the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-15 Evan S. Gawlik , François Gay-Balmaz

This paper presents a comprehensive computational framework for investigating thermo-elastic fracture in transversely isotropic materials, where classical linear elasticity fails to predict physically realistic behavior near stress…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-08 Saugata Ghosh , Dambaru Bhatta , S. M. Mallikarjunaiah

In this work, we study a primal hybrid finite element method for the approximation of linear elasticity problems, posed in terms of displacement, an auxiliary pressure field, and a Lagrange multiplier related to the traction. We develop a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-30 Giovanni Taraschi , Maicon Ribeiro Correa

We introduce a new cell-centered finite volume discretization for elasticity with weakly enforced symmetry of the stress tensor. The method is motivated by the need for robust discretization methods for deformation and flow in porous media,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-12-04 Eirik Keilegavlen , Jan Martin Nordbotten

We prove strong convergence for a large class of finite element methods for the time-dependent Joule heating problem in three spatial dimensions with mixed boundary conditions on Lipschitz domains. We consider conforming subspaces for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-01-31 Max Jensen , Axel Målqvist , Anna Persson

We present a family of high-order finite element approximation spaces on a pyramid, and associated unisolvent degrees of freedom. These spaces consist of rational basis functions. We establish conforming, exactness and polynomial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-10-29 Nilima Nigam , Joel Phillips

We introduce an efficient finite-element approach for large-scale real-space pseudopotential density functional theory (DFT) calculations incorporating noncollinear magnetism and spin-orbit coupling. The approach, implemented within the…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-11 Nikhil Kodali , Phani Motamarri

We consider the numerical approximation of a continuum model of antiferromagnetic and ferrimagnetic materials. The state of the material is described in terms of two unit-length vector fields, which can be interpreted as the magnetizations…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-11 Hywel Normington , Michele Ruggeri

Motivated by applications to numerical simulation of flows in highly heterogeneous porous media, we develop multiscale finite element methods for second order elliptic equations. We discuss a multiscale model reduction technique in the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-15 Y. Efendiev , J. Galvis , R. Lazarov , M. Moon , M. Sarkis

We present a cut finite element method for shape optimization in the case of linear elasticity. The elastic domain is defined by a level-set function, and the evolution of the domain is obtained by moving the level-set along a velocity…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-05 Erik Burman , Daniel Elfverson , Peter Hansbo , Mats G. Larson , Karl Larsson

In this work, semi-discrete and fully-discrete error estimates are derived for the Biot's consolidation model described using a three-field finite element formulation. The fields include displacements, total stress and pressure. The model…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-05 Wenya Qi , Padmanabhan Seshaiyer , Junping Wang

The Tangential-Displacement Normal-Normal-Stress (TDNNS) method is a finite element method for mixed elasticity. As the name suggests, the tangential component of the displacement vector as well as the normal-normal component of the stress…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-07-31 Astrid S. Pechstein , Joachim Schöberl

In this paper we analyze a mixed displacement-pseudostress formulation for the elasticity eigenvalue problem. We propose a finite element method to approximate the pseudostress tensor with Raviart-Thomas elements and the displacement with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-08-30 Daniel Inzunza , Felipe Lepe , Gonzalo Rivera

We present a Virtual Element Method for the 3D linear elasticity problems, based on Hellinger-Reissner variational principle. In the framework of the small strain theory, we propose a low-order scheme with a-priori symmetric stresses and…

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Using the language of finite element exterior calculus, we define two families of $H^1$-conforming finite element spaces over pyramids with a parallelogram base. The first family has matching polynomial traces with tensor product elements…

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