This paper presents an overview of both T-Trefftz and F-Trefftz finite element methods (FEM) and its application in various engineering problems. Recent developments on the T-Trefftz finite element formulation of nonlinear problems of minimal surface, F-Trefftz methods for composite, skin tissue, and functionally graded materials are described. Formulations for all cases are derived by means of...

The Variational Theory of Complex Rays (VTCR) is an indirect Trefftz method designed to study systems governed by Helmholtz-like equations. It uses wave functions to represent the solution inside elements, which reduces the dispersion error compared to classical polynomial approaches but the resulting system is prone to be ill conditioned. This paper gives a simple and original presentation of ...

In both boundary element methods and Trefftz-type finite element methods a partial differential equation in some domain is treated by solving a discrete problem on the boundary of the domain and possibly the boundaries between subdomains. We consider a Trefftz element formulation which is based on the complementary energy functional, and we compare different regularizations of the interelement ...

In this paper, the Trefftz collocation method is applied to solve the inverse Cauchy problem of anisotropic elasticity, wherein both tractions as well as displacements are prescribed at a small part of the boundary of an arbitrary simply/multiply connected anisotropic elastic domain. The Stroh formalism is used to construct the Trefftz basis functions. Negative and positive power series are use...

1. Introduction. The main objective of DDM is, when a domain Ω and one of its partitions are given, to obtain the solution of a boundary value problem defined on it (the 'global problem'), by solving problems formulated on the subdomains of the partition (the 'local problems'), exclusively. This objective can be achieved if sufficient information about the global solution is known, on the inter...

Here we develop a general purpose pre/post conditioner T, to solve an ill-posed system of linear equations, Ax = b. The conditioner T is obtained in the course of the solution of the Laplace equation, through a boundary-collocation Trefftz method, leading to: Ty = x, where y is the vector of coefficients in the Trefftz expansion, and x is the boundary data at the discrete points on a unit circl...

In this paper, the two-dimensional Stokes problem is analyzed by the modified collocation Trefftz method (MCTM) and the Laplacian decomposition. The coupled Stokes equations are converted to three Laplace equations by utilizing the Laplacian decomposition and then the boundary-type meshless MCTM is adopted to solve the resultant Laplace equations. The MCTM, free from mesh and numerical quadratu...

The modeling and simulation of electromagnetic wave propagation is often accompanied by a restriction to bounded domains which requires the introduction of artificial boundaries. The corresponding boundary conditions should be chosen in order to minimize parasitic reflections. In this paper, we investigate a new type of transparent boundary condition for a discontinuous Galerkin Trefftz finite ...

The finite element method is applied in the time domain to establish formulations for the integration of first-order and parabolic (transient) problems. The modal decomposition concept is applied using two distinct approaches. The first is based on modal decomposition in the space domain to recover the well-established method for uncoupling the parabolic system of equations. To overcome the lim...