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An interior penalty coupling strategy for isogeometric non-conformal Kirchhoff-Love shell patches

Annalisa Buffa, Pablo Antolin Sanchez, Giuliano Guarino

This work focuses on the coupling of trimmed shell patches using Isogeometric Analysis, based on higher continuity splines that seamlessly meet the

C^1

requirement of Kirchhoff-Love-based discretizations. Weak enforcement of coupling conditions is achiev ...

Springer2024

Lattice Green's function method for Atomistic/Continuum coupling

Ankit Gupta

Metal plasticity is an inherently multiscale phenomenon due to the complex long-range field of atomistic dislocations that are the primary mechanism for plastic deformation in metals. Atomistic/Continuum (A/C) coupling methods are computationally efficient ...

EPFL2023

Friction and fracture: richness and complexity in dynamic rupture

Thibault Didier Roch

Understanding how things break and slide is of paramount importance to describe the dynamics of a broad range of physical systems. This includes day-to-day problems such as the breaking of a glass of wine or the sliding of skis on snow, but also engineerin ...

EPFL2023

A Fast Hybrid Pressure-Correction Algorithm for Simulating Incompressible Flows by Projection Methods

Jiannong Fang

To enforce the conservation of mass principle, a pressure Poisson equation arises in the numerical solution of incompressible fluid flow using the pressure-based segregated algorithms such as projection methods. For unsteady flows, the pressure Poisson equ ...

2023

Mathematical Foundations of Adaptive Isogeometric Analysis

Annalisa Buffa, Rafael Vazquez Hernandez

This paper reviews the state of the art and discusses recent developments in the field of adaptive isogeometric analysis, with special focus on the mathematical theory. This includes an overview of available spline technologies for the local resolution of ...

SPRINGER2022

Warping-Inclusive Kinematic Coupling in Mixed-Dimension Macro Models for Steel Wide Flange Beam Columns

Albano António De Abreu E Presa De Castro E Sousa, Dimitrios Lignos, Alexander Riley Hartloper

A warping-inclusive kinematic coupling method to be used in finite-element analysis of members featuring wide-flange cross sections is proposed in this paper. This coupling method is used in mixed-dimension macromodels that combine continuum and beam-colum ...

2022

Analytic modelling of passive microfluidic mixers

Christophe Lallement, Jean-Michel Sallese

This paper deals with a new analytical model for microfluidic passive mixers. Two common approaches already exist for such a purpose. On the one hand, the resolution of the advection-diffusion-reaction equation (ADRE) is the first one and the closest to ph ...

AMER INST MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES-AIMS2022

On the Efficiency of OpenACC-aided GPU-Based FDTD Approach: Application to Lightning Electromagnetic Fields

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Mohammad Azadifar, Hamidreza Karami

An open accelerator (OpenACC)-aided graphics processing unit (GPU)-based finite difference time domain (FDTD) method is presented for the first time for the 3D evaluation of lightning radiated electromagnetic fields along a complex terrain with arbitrary t ...

MDPI2020

Compact high order finite volume method on unstructured grids IV: Explicit multi-step reconstruction schemes on compact stencil

Qian Wang

In the present paper, a multi-step reconstruction procedure is proposed for high order finite volume schemes on unstructured grids using compact stencil. The procedure is a recursive algorithm that can eventually provide sufficient relations for high order ...

2019

On the representation of thin wires inside lossy dielectric materials for FDTD‐based LEMP simulations

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein, Akiyoshi Tatematsu

The finite-difference time-domain method is one of the most widely used numerical electromagnetic computation techniques, and it has become an effective tool for analyzing electromagnetic transient phenomena in three-dimensional structures and grounding sy ...

2019

Dot pattern generation using thick sinusoidal phase grating under Gaussian beam illumination

Toralf Scharf, Maryam Yousefi

Far-field dot pattern generation is analyzed for a Gaussian beam source that illuminates a sinusoidal phase grating which is placed at a certain distance behind the beam waist. We obtain a bigger field of view with more numbers of points using a Gaussian b ...

SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING2019

Isogeometric Analysis of the electrophysiology in the human heart: Numerical simulation of the bidomain equations on the atria

Alfio Quarteroni, Luca Dede', Luca Pegolotti

We consider Isogeometric Analysis (IGA) for the numerical solution of the electrophysiology of the atria, which in this work is modeled by means of the bidomain equations on thin surfaces. First, we consider the bidomain equations coupled with the Roger-Mc ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2019

Efficient modelling techniques in nanophotonics

Juan Pablo Vasco Cano

We describe some recent developments in the efficient modelling of light-matter interactions in plasmonics and nanophotonics. In particular, we describe an efficient finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method to compute regularized quasinormal modes in re ...

SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING2018

Adaptive numerical method algorithms for nonlinear viscous and bilinear oil damper models subjected to dynamic loading

Dimitrios Lignos

Adaptive numerical method algorithms are presented for the numerical simulation of the hysteretic behaviour of nonlinear viscous and bilinear oil dampers within a finite element program for nonlinear dynamic analysis of frame structures under earthquake ex ...

2018

Numerical Modelling of Two-Phase Flow with Moving Boundary Fitted Meshes

Erik Gros

In this thesis, a computational approach is used to study two-phase flow including phase change by direct numerical simulation. This approach follows the interface with an adaptive moving mesh. The incompressible Navier-Stokes equations are solved, in tw ...

EPFL2018

On flexible Green function methods for atomistic/continuum coupling

Max Ludwig Hodapp

Atomistic/continuum (A/C) coupling schemes have been developed during the past twenty years to overcome the vast computational cost of fully atomistic models, but have not yet reached full maturity to address many problems of practical interest. This work ...

EPFL2018

Reduced Numerical Approximation of Reduced Fluid-Structure Interaction Problems With Applications in Hemodynamics

Simone Deparis, Claudia Maria Colciago

This paper deals with fast simulations of the hemodynamics in large arteries by considering a reduced model of the associated fluid-structure interaction problem, which in turn allows an additional reduction in terms of the numerical discretisation. The re ...

2018

Optimization based methods for highly heterogeneous multiscale problems and multiscale methods for elastic waves

Orane Pouchon

Multiscale or multiphysics partial differential equations are used to model a wide range of physical systems with various applications, e.g. from material and natural science to problems in biology or engineering. When the ratio between the smallest scale ...

EPFL2017

A Technique for Calculating Voltages Induced on Twisted-Wire Pairs Using the FDTD Method

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein, Akiyoshi Tatematsu

Disturbances in low-voltage control circuits in substations and power plants occur due to lightning or switching surges. Adequate protection of electronic devices in low-voltage control circuits requires the capacity to predict surge phenomena and to evalu ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2017

Exact finite volume particle method with spherical-support kernels

François Avellan, Christian Vessaz, Ebrahim Jahanbakhsh, Audrey Paulette Solange Maertens

The Finite Volume Particle Method (FVPM) is a meshless method for simulating fluid flows which includes many of the desirable features of mesh-based finite volume methods. In this paper, we develop a new 3-D FVPM formulation that features spherical kernel ...

Elsevier2017