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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Geometrical discretisations for unfitted finite elements on explicit boundary representations

S Badia, PA Martorell, F Verdugo - Journal of Computational Physics, 2022 - Elsevier
Unfitted (also known as embedded or immersed) finite element approximations of partial
differential equations are very attractive because they have much lower geometrical …

Simple, accurate, and efficient embedded finite element methods for fluid–solid interaction

CE Kees, JH Collins, A Zhang - Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics …, 2022 - Elsevier
This work presents a new approach to implementing a recently proposed optimal order Cut
Finite Element Method (CutFEM) for problems with moving embedded solid structures in …