Finite element methods (FEM) have become indispensable tools for simulating wave propagation phenomena across a range of applications, from acoustics and electromagnetics to earthquake modelling. At ...

SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, Vol. 53, No. 1 (2015), pp. 43-62 (20 pages) The first-order div least squares finite element methods (LSFEMs) allow for an ...

The finite element method (FEM) has evolved into a robust and flexible tool for solving partial differential equations (PDEs) defined on surfaces. Its versatility allows for the treatment of complex ...

In 2013, Boeing rolled out the first 787-9 Dreamliner, the newest member of the super-efficient 787 family. In order to power this massive aircraft, Rolls-Royce designed the state of the art Trent ...

Recent results of Schatz show that standard Galerkin finite element methods employing piecewise polynomial elements of degree two and higher to approximate solutions to elliptic boundary value ...

Methods for treating material and geometric nonlinearities by finite elements; transient analysis: explicit and implicit time integration, partitioned methods, and stability; hybrid and mixed elements ...

A new technical paper titled “Solving sparse finite element problems on neuromorphic hardware” was published by researchers ...

Finite Element Methods for solving problems with material and geometric nonlinearities; transient dynamics analysis with explicit and implicit time integration, partitioned methods, and stability; ...

What Are FEM, FDM and FVM? FEM, FDM and FVM differ from one another in important ways. Understanding these distinctions is key to selecting the method most appropriate for your purposes. The ...

Professor of Mechanics, Washington University, St. Louis, Mo. It's easy to construct finite-element models with errors. And it's just as easy to correct them, when you know how. The first step in a ...