A new nite element method for elliptic problems with locally periodic microstructure of length " > 0 is developed and analyzed. It is shown that the method converges, as " ! 0, to the solution of the homogenized problem with optimal order in " and exponentially in the number of degrees of freedom independent of " > 0. The computational work of the method is bounded independently of ". Numerical...

The tra-2 gene of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans encodes a predicted membrane protein, TRA-2A, that promotes XX hermaphrodite development. Genetic analysis suggests that tra-2 is a negative regulator of three genes that are required for male development: fem-1, fem-2, and fem-3. We report that the carboxy-terminal region of TRA-2A interacts specifically with FEM-3 in the yeast two-hybrid s...

Abstract A Problem Solving Environment for the finite element method (FEM-PSE) is an application system to support users pursuing a career in the finite element analysis (FEA). There are two types of users associated with the FEA. One is analysis-user who uses application software of the FEM and the other is development-user who develops application software of the FEM. We used an abstraction t...

Thermo-hyperelastic problems at finite strains belong to a category of non-linear coupled problems that impose challenges on their numerical treatment. We present the weak-form for a 1-D coupled, stationary, thermo-hyperelastic system with constant or temperature-dependent material properties. The coupled system is discretized by a ‘monolithic’ high-order finite element method (p-FEM) based on ...

A selective smoothed finite element method (Selective S-FEM) is developed for dynamic 3D analysis of extremely large deformation of incompressible bio-tissues, using the simplest 4-node tetrahedron elements. In the present selective S-FEM, face-based Smoothed FEM (FS-FEM) and node-based Smoothed FEM (NS-FEM) are, respectively, used for the deviatoric and volumetric parts of the deformation of i...