Stability and conditioning of immersed finite element methods: analysis and remedies

F de Prenter, CV Verhoosel, EH van Brummelen… - … Methods in Engineering, 2023 - Springer
This review paper discusses the developments in immersed or unfitted finite element
methods over the past decade. The main focus is the analysis and the treatment of the …

Linking ghost penalty and aggregated unfitted methods

S Badia, E Neiva, F Verdugo - Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics …, 2022 - Elsevier
In this work, we analyse the links between ghost penalty stabilisation and aggregation-
based discrete extension operators for the numerical approximation of elliptic partial …

A multi-criteria h-adaptive finite-element framework for industrial part-scale thermal analysis in additive manufacturing processes

CA Moreira, MA Caicedo, M Cervera… - Engineering with …, 2022 - Springer
This work presents an h-adaptive finite-element (FE) strategy to address the numerical
simulation of additive manufacturing (AM) of large-scale parts. The wire-arc additive …

Robust high-order unfitted finite elements by interpolation-based discrete extension

S Badia, E Neiva, F Verdugo - Computers & Mathematics with Applications, 2022 - Elsevier
In this work, we propose a novel formulation for the solution of partial differential equations
using finite element methods on unfitted meshes. The proposed formulation relies on the …

Anisotropic variational mesh adaptation for embedded finite element methods

S Rahmani, J Baiges, J Principe - Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics …, 2025 - Elsevier
Embedded or immersed boundary methods (IBM) are powerful mesh-based techniques that
permit to solve partial differential equations (PDEs) in complex geometries circumventing the …

An accurate, adaptive and scalable parallel finite element framework for the part-scale thermo-mechanical analysis in metal additive manufacturing processes

CA Moreira, MA Caicedo, M Cervera… - Computational …, 2024 - Springer
This work introduces a distributed memory machine and octree-based Finite Element (FE)
framework for modeling metal Additive Manufacturing (AM) processes. In this sense, an …

High order unfitted finite element discretizations for explicit boundary representations

PA Martorell, S Badia - Journal of Computational Physics, 2024 - Elsevier
When modeling scientific and industrial problems, geometries are typically modeled by
explicit boundary representations obtained from computer-aided design software. Unfitted …

[HTML][HTML] An eigenvalue stabilization technique for immersed boundary finite element methods in explicit dynamics

S Eisenträger, L Radtke, W Garhuom, S Löhnert… - … & Mathematics with …, 2024 - Elsevier
The application of immersed boundary methods in static analyses is often impeded by
poorly cut elements (small cut elements problem), leading to ill-conditioned linear systems of …

Robust and scalable h-adaptive aggregated unfitted finite elements for interface elliptic problems

E Neiva, S Badia - Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and …, 2021 - Elsevier
This work introduces a novel, fully robust and highly-scalable, h-adaptive aggregated
unfitted finite element method for large-scale interface elliptic problems. The new method is …

Space-time unfitted finite element methods for time-dependent problems on moving domains

S Badia, H Dilip, F Verdugo - Computers & Mathematics with Applications, 2023 - Elsevier
We propose a space-time scheme that combines an unfitted finite element method in space
with a discontinuous Galerkin time discretisation for the accurate numerical approximation of …