Numerical Methods in Scientific Computing

This is a book about numerically solving partial differential equations occurring in technical and physical contexts and the authors have set themselves a more ambitious target than to just talk about the numerics. Their aim is to show the place of numerical solutions in the general modeling process and this must inevitably lead to...

Classical Numerical Methods in Scientific Computing

Partial differential equations are paramount in mathematical modelling with applications in engineering and science. The book starts with a crash course on partial differential equations in order to familiarize the reader with fundamental properties such as existence, uniqueness and possibly existing maximum principles. The main topic of the...

On an integration rule for products of barycentric coordinates over simplexes in Rⁿ

In finite-element computations, one often needs to calculate integrals of products of powers of monomials over simplexes. In this manuscript, we prove a generalisation of the exact integration formula that was reported and proved for two-dimensional simplexes by Holand & Bell in 1969. We extend the proof to n-dimensional simplexes and to...

A pilot study of a phenomenological model of adipogenesis in maturing adipocytes using Cahn–Hilliard theory

We consider the accumulation and formation of lipid droplets in an adipocyte cell. The process incorporates adipose nucleation (adipogenesis) and growth. At later stages, there will be merging of droplets and growth of larger droplets at the expense of the smaller droplets, which will essentially undergo lipolysis. The process is modeled by the...

Higher dimensional numerical simulations of precipitate dissolution in multi-component aluminium alloys

In thermal processing of alloys, homogenization of the as-cast microstructure by annealing at such a high temperature that unwanted precipitates are fully dissolved, is required to obtain a microstructure suited to undergo heavy plastic deformation. This process is governed by Fickian diffusion and can be modelled as a Stefan problem. In binary...

Higher dimensional numerical simulations of precipitate dissolution in multi-component aluminium alloys

In thermal processing of alloys, homogenization of the as-cast microstructure by annealing at such a high temperature that unwanted precipitates are fully dissolved, is required to obtain a microstructure suited to undergo heavy plastic deformation. This process is governed by Fickian diffusion and can be modelled as a Stefan problem. In binary...

A level set method for particle dissolution in a binary alloy

A mathematical model is proposed for the dissolution of stoichiometric particles in binary alloys occurring during the heat treatments of as-cast aluminium alloys prior to hot extrusion. The Level Set method is used to capture the interface location implicitly. The front velocity, only dened on the moving interface, should be advected to the...

Deflation in preconditioned conjugate gradient methods for Finite Element Problems

We investigate the influence of the value of deflation vectors at interfaces on the rate of convergence of preconditioned conjugate gradient methods applied to a Finite Element discretization for an elliptic equation. Our set-up is a Poisson problem in two dimensions with continuous or discontinuous coefficients that vary in several orders of...