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 …

The aggregated unfitted finite element method for elliptic problems

S Badia, F Verdugo, AF Martín - Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics …, 2018 - Elsevier
Unfitted finite element techniques are valuable tools in different applications where the
generation of body-fitted meshes is difficult. However, these techniques are prone to severe …

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 …

Robust and parallel scalable iterative solutions for large-scale finite cell analyses

JN Jomo, F de Prenter, M Elhaddad, D D'Angella… - Finite Elements in …, 2019 - Elsevier
The finite cell method is a flexible discretization technique for numerical analysis on
domains with complex geometries. By using a non-boundary conforming computational …

A scalable parallel finite element framework for growing geometries. Application to metal additive manufacturing

E Neiva, S Badia, AF Martín… - International Journal for …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
This work introduces an innovative parallel fully‐distributed finite element framework for
growing geometries and its application to metal additive manufacturing. It is well known that …

Multigrid solvers for immersed finite element methods and immersed isogeometric analysis

F de Prenter, CV Verhoosel, EH van Brummelen… - Computational …, 2020 - Springer
Ill-conditioning of the system matrix is a well-known complication in immersed finite element
methods and trimmed isogeometric analysis. Elements with small intersections with the …

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 …

A stabilized cut discontinuous Galerkin framework for elliptic boundary value and interface problems

C Gürkan, A Massing - Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and …, 2019 - Elsevier
We develop a stabilized cut discontinuous Galerkin framework for the numerical solution of
elliptic boundary value and interface problems on complicated domains. The domain of …

Preconditioning immersed isogeometric finite element methods with application to flow problems

F de Prenter, CV Verhoosel… - Computer Methods in …, 2019 - Elsevier
Immersed finite element methods generally suffer from conditioning problems when cut
elements intersect the physical domain only on a small fraction of their volume. We present a …

FEMPAR: An Object-Oriented Parallel Finite Element Framework

S Badia, AF Martín, J Principe - Archives of Computational Methods in …, 2018 - Springer
FEMPAR is an open source object oriented Fortran200X scientific software library for the
high-performance scalable simulation of complex multiphysics problems governed by partial …