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A new modified Galerkin / Finite Element Method is proposed for the numerical solution of the fully nonlinear shallow water wave equations. The new numerical method allows the use of low-order Lagrange finite element spaces, despite the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-09-21 Dimitrios Mitsotakis , Costas Synolakis , Mark Mcguinness

The capacity to predict and control bioprocesses is perhaps one of the most important objectives of biotechnology. Computational simulation is an established methodology for the design and optimization of bioprocesses, where the finite…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2015-08-12 R. C. Martins , N. Fachada

We present a new methodology to analyze complicated multi-physics simulations by introducing a fictitious parameter. Using the method, we study quantum mechanical aspects of an organic molecule in water. The simulation is variationally…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Toshiya Takami , Jun Maki , Jun-ichi Ooba , Taizo Kobayashi , Rie Nogita , Mutsumi Aoyagi

In this paper, we study a generalized finite element method for solving second-order elliptic partial differential equations with rough coefficients. The method uses local approximation spaces computed by solving eigenvalue problems on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-17 Christian Alber , Peter Bastian , Moritz Hauck , Robert Scheichl

We present a novel "linear combination of atomic orbitals"-type of approximation, enabling accurate electronic structure calculations for systems of up to 20 or more electronically coupled quantum dots. Using realistic single quantum dot…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-10 Alexander Mittelstädt , Ludwig A. Th. Greif , Stefan T. Jagsch , Andrei Schliwa

We present an efficient computational approach to perform real-space electronic structure calculations using an adaptive higher-order finite-element discretization of Kohn-Sham density-functional theory (DFT). To this end, we develop an…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Phani Motamarri , Michael R Nowak , Kenneth Leiter , Jaroslaw Knap , Vikram Gavini

A new concept of the molecular structure optimization method based on quantum dynamics computations is presented. Nuclei are treated as quantum mechanical particles, as are electrons, and the many-body wave function of the system is…

The energy minimization involved in density functional calculations of electronic systems can be carried out using an exponential transformation that preserves the orthonormality of the orbitals. The energy of the system is then represented…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-11-09 Aleksei V. Ivanov , Elvar Ö. Jónsson , Tejs Vegge , Hannes Jónsson

Complex eigenvalues, resonances, play an important role in large variety of fields in physics and chemistry. For example, in cold molecular collision experiments and electron scattering experiments, autoionizing and pre-dissociative…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-28 Arie Landau , Idan Haritan , Petra Ruth Kaprálová-Žďánská , Nimrod Moiseyev

The finite element method can be viewed as a machine that automates the discretization of differential equations, taking as input a variational problem, a finite element and a mesh, and producing as output a system of discrete equations.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-12-05 Anders Logg

In this paper, we propose a linear and monolithic finite element method for the approximation of an incompressible viscous fluid interacting with an elastic and deforming plate. We use the arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE) approach that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-13 Sebastian Schwarzacher , Bangwei She , Karel Tuma

The Finite Element Method (FEM) is the gold standard for spatial discretization in numerical simulations for a wide spectrum of real-world engineering problems. Prototypical areas of interest include linear heat transfer and linear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-10 Marcelo Forets , Daniel Freire Caporale , Jorge M. Pérez Zerpa

The detailed investigation of electronic and magnetic properties of polymeric coordination materials with accurate ab initio quantum mechanical methods is often computationally extremely demanding because of the large number of atoms in the…

Efficient methods are proposed, for computing integrals appeaing in electronic structure calculations. The methods consist of two parts: the first part is to represent the integrals as contour integrals and the second one is to evaluate the…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-04-10 Hisashi Kohashi , Kosuke Sugita , Masaaki Sugihara , Takeo Hoshi

In this educational paper, we will discuss calculations on the hydrogen molecule both on classical and quantum computers. In the former case, we will discuss the calculation of molecular integrals that can then be used to calculate…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-07-25 Vincent Graves , Christoph Sünderhauf , Nick S. Blunt , Róbert Izsák , Milán Szőri

In this paper, we study adaptive finite element approximations in a perturbation framework, which makes use of the existing adaptive finite element analysis of a linear symmetric elliptic problem. We prove the convergence and complexity of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-02-05 Lianhua He , Aihui Zhou

An attempt is made to bypass spectral analysis and fit internal coordinates of radicals directly to experimental liquid- and solid-state electron spin resonance (ESR) spectra. We take advantage of the recently introduced large-scale spin…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2014-07-16 G. T. P. Charnock , M. Krzystyniak , Ilya Kuprov

This work describes models and numerical approximations that describe the mechanical behavior of deformable continua with embedded structural members, such as rigid bodies, beams, shells, etc. The continuum formulation extends an idea first…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-10 David Portillo , Ignacio Romero

In this paper, we analyze the embedding cell method, an algorithm which has been developed for the numerical homogenization of metal-ceramic composite materials. We show the convergence of the iteration scheme of this algorithm and the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-12-20 Wolf-Patrick Düll , Bastian Hilder , Guido Schneider

In this paper, we consider numerical approximation of an electrically conductive ferrofluid model, which consists of Navier-Stokes equations, magnetization equation, and magnetic induction equation. To solve this highly coupled, nonlinear,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-02 Jialin Xie , Xiaodi Zhang