Higher-order modeling of continua by finite-element, boundary-element, meshless, and wavelet methods

Meshless Finite Element Ideas

It is widely acknowledged that 3-D mesh generation remains one of the most man-hours consuming techniques within computational mechanics. The problem of mesh generation is that the time remains unbounded, even using the most sophisticated mesh-generator. For a given distribution of points, it is possible to obtain a mesh very quickly, but it may require several iterations, including manual inte...

Meshless Methods , Generalized Finite Element Methods , and Related Approaches

Recently the Meshless and Generalized FEM became to be in the center of interest, especially in the engineering community. I have identified more than 200 engineering papers and four books ([1],[2],[3],[4]). I found very few papers of mathematical character (assumptions, theorems, proofs). Hence there is a large experience and heuristics but not too much mathematical understanding of the method...

Boundary Concentrated Finite Element Methods

Higher order temporal finite element methods through mixed formalisms

The extended framework of Hamilton's principle and the mixed convolved action principle provide new rigorous weak variational formalism for a broad range of initial boundary value problems in mathematical physics and mechanics. In this paper, their potential when adopting temporally higher order approximations is investigated. The classical single-degree-of-freedom dynamical systems are primari...

Finite Element-Based Level Set Methods for Higher Order Flows

In this paper we shall discuss the numerical simulation of higher order geometric flows by level set methods. Main examples under considerations are surface diffusion and the Willmore flow as well as variants and of them with more complicated surface energies. Such problems find various applications, e.g. in materials science (crystal growth, thin film technology), biophysics (membrane shapes),...