An unstructured immersed finite element method for nonlinear solid mechanics

An unstructured immersed finite element method for nonlinear solid mechanics

We present an immersed finite element technique for boundary-value and interface problems from nonlinear solid mechanics. Its key features are the implicit representation of domain boundaries and interfaces, the use of Nitsche’s method for the incorporation of boundary conditions, accurate numerical integration based on marching tetrahedrons and cut-element stabilisation by means of extrapolati...

Edge-based Finite Element Techniques for Nonlinear Solid Mechanics Problems

Edge-based data structures are used to improve computational efficiency of Inexact Newton methods for solving finite element nonlinear solid mechanics problems on unstructured meshes. Edge-based data structures are employed to store the stiffness matrix coefficients and to compute sparse matrix-vector products needed in the inner iterative driver of the Inexact Newton method. Numerical experime...

A Multigrid Method for Nonlinear Unstructured Finite Element Elliptic Equations

This paper presents an application of the element agglomeration-based coarsening procedure (agglomeration AMGe) proposed in [10], to build the components of a multigrid method for solving nonlinear finite element elliptic equations on general unstructured meshes. The agglomeration-based AMGe offers the ability to define coarse elements and element matrices, provided access to elements and eleme...

An Immersed Finite Element Method for Elasticity Equations with Interfaces

Abstract. The immersed finite element method based on a uniform Cartesian mesh has been developed for the linear elasticity equations with discontinuous coefficients across an interface in this paper. The interface does not have to be aligned with the mesh. The main idea is to modify the basis function over those triangles in which the interface cuts through so that the natural interface condit...

Nonlinear Continuum Mechanics for Finite Element Analysis