Thomas Wick

Leibniz Universität Hannover · Institute of Applied Mathematics

In this work, we couple a high-accuracy phase-field fracture reconstruction approach iteratively to fluid-structure interaction. The key motivation is to utilize phase-field modelling to compute the fracture path. A mesh reconstruction allows a switch from interface-capturing to interface-tracking in which the coupling conditions can be realized in...

We formulate variational material modeling in a space-time context. The starting point is the description of the space-time cylinder and the definition of a thermodynamically consistent Hamilton functional which accounts for all boundary conditions on the cylinder surface. From the mechanical perspective, the Hamilton principle then yields thermo-m...

In this work, space-time formulations and Galerkin discretizations for phase-field fracture optimal control problems are considered. The fracture irreversibility constraint is formulated on the time-continuous level and is regularized by means of penalization. The optimization scheme is formulated in terms of the reduced approach and then solved wi...

In this work, we propose and computationally investigate a monolithic space-time multirate scheme for coupled problems. The novelty lies in the monolithic formulation of the multirate approach as this requires a careful design of the functional framework, corresponding discretization, and implementation. Our method of choice is a tensor-product Gal...

In the present work, we investigate a model of the invasion of healthy tissue by cancer cells which is described by a system of nonlinear PDEs consisting of a cross-diffusion-reaction equation and two additional nonlinear ordinary differential equations. We show that when the convective part of the system, the chemotactic term, is dominant, then st...

In-situ (tomography) experiments are generally based on scans reconstructed from a large number of projections acquired under constant deformation of samples. Standard digital volume correlation (DVC) methods are based on a limited number of scans due to acquisition duration. They thus prevent analyses of time-dependent phenomena. In this paper, a...

Within this chapter, we discuss control in the coefficients of an obstacle problem. Utilizing tools from H-convergence, we show existence of optimal solutions. First order necessary optimality conditions are obtained after deriving directional differentiability of the coefficient to solution mapping for the obstacle problem. Further, considering a...

In this work, we examine a numerical phase-field fracture framework in which the crack irreversibility constraint is treated with a primal-dual active set method and a linearization is used in the degradation function to enhance the numerical stability. The first goal is to carefully derive from a complementarity system our primal-dual active set f...

While working with N\'ed\'elec elements on adaptively refined meshes with hanging nodes, the orientation of the hanging edges and faces must be taken into account. Indeed, for non-orientable meshes, there was no solution and implementation available to date. The problem statement and corresponding algorithms are described in great detail. As a mode...

In this contribution, we apply adaptive finite elements to the Boussinesq model. Adaptivity is achived with goal‐oriented error control and local mesh refinement. The principle goal is motivated from laser material processing and laser waveguide writing in which material starts to flow due to laser‐induced heat generation. Flow of the material is d...

In this work, we apply reduced-order modeling to the parametrized, time-dependent, incompressible, laminar Navier-Stokes equations. The major goal is to reduce the computational costs by replacing the high-fidelity system by a low-rank approximation, which preserves the solution behavior. We utilize projection-based reduced basis methods and carry...

In this work, we consider the time-harmonic Maxwell's equations and their numerical solution with a domain decomposition method. As an innovative feature, we propose a feedforward neural network-enhanced approximation of the interface conditions between the subdomains. The advantage is that the interface condition can be updated without recomputing...

In this work, the dual-weighted residual method is applied to a space-time formulation of nonstationary Stokes and Navier–Stokes flow. Tensor-product space-time finite elements are being used to discretize the variational formulation with discontinuous Galerkin finite elements in time and inf-sup stable Taylor–Hood finite element pairs in space. To...

In this paper, we study a cancer invasion model both theoretically and numerically. The model is a nonstationary, nonlinear system of three coupled partial differential equations modeling the motion of cancer cells, degradation of the extracellular matrix, and certain enzymes. We first establish existence of global classical solutions in both two-...

In this work, Bayesian inversion with global-local forwards models is used to identify the parameters based on hydraulic fractures in porous media. It is well-known that using Bayesian inversion to identify material parameters is computationally expensive. Although each sampling may take more than one hour, thousands of samples are required to capt...

In this work, the dual-weighted residual (DWR) method is applied to obtain a certified incremental proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) based reduced order model. A novel approach called MORe DWR (Model Order Rduction with Dual-Weighted Residual error estimates) is being introduced. It marries tensor-product space-time reduced-order modeling with...

In this work, we undertake additional computational performance studies of a recently developed space‐time phase‐field fracture optimal control framework. Therein, the phase‐field forward problem is formulated in a monolithic fashion. The optimal control problem is formulated with the help of the reduced approach in which the state variable is repr...

However, the numerical solution is challenging. This is specifically true for high wave numbers. Various solvers and preconditioners have been proposed, while the most promising are based on domain decomposition methods (DDM) [16].

This work is devoted to the efficient solution of variational-monolithic fluid-structure interaction (FSI) initial-boundary value problems. Solvers for such monolithic systems were developed, e.g., in [2, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11–13, 15]. Due to the interface coupling conditions, the development of robust scalable parallel solvers remains a challenging task,...

In this work, we consider the time-harmonic Maxwell's equations and their numerical solution with a domain decomposition method. As an innovative feature, we propose a feedforward neural network-enhanced approximation of the interface conditions between the subdomains. The advantage is that the interface condition can be updated without recomputing...

In this paper, we consider a nonlinear PDE system governed by a parabolic heat equation coupled in a nonlinear way with a hyperbolic momentum equation describing the behavior of a displacement field coupled with a nonlinear elliptic equation based on an internal damage variable. We present a numerical scheme based on a Galerkin finite element metho...

A recently developed application of computer vision is pathfinding in self-driving cars. Semantic scene understanding and semantic segmentation, as subfields of computer vision, are widely used in autonomous driving. Semantic segmentation for pathfinding uses deep learning methods and various large sample datasets to train a proper model. Due to th...

This work considers a Stokes flow in a deformable fracture interacting with a linear elastic medium. To this end, we employ a phase-field model to approximate the crack dynamics. Phase-field methods belong to interface-capturing approaches in which the interface is only given by a smeared zone. For multi-domain problems, the accuracy of the couplin...

In this work, a space-time scheme for goal-oriented a posteriori error estimation is proposed. The error estimator is evaluated using a partition-of-unity dual-weighted residual method. As application, a low mach number combustion equation is considered. In some numerical tests, different interpolation variants are investigated, while observing con...

We hide grayscale secret images into a grayscale cover image, which is considered to be a challenging steganography problem. Our goal is to develop a steganography scheme with enhanced embedding capacity while preserving the visual quality of the stego-image as well as the extracted secret image, and ensuring that the stego-image is resistant to st...

The time-harmonic Maxwell equations are used to study the effect of electric and magnetic fields on each other. Although the linear systems resulting from solving this system using FEMs are sparse, direct solvers cannot reach the linear complexity. In fact, due to the indefinite system matrix, iterative solvers suffer from slow convergence. In this...

We numerically explore synthetic crystal diamond for realizing novel light sources in ranges which are up to now difficult to achieve with other materials, such as sub-10-fs pulse durations and challenging spectral ranges. We assess the performance of on-chip diamond waveguides for controlling light generation by means of nonlinear soliton dynamics...

In this work, the dual-weighted residual method is applied to a space-time formulation of nonstationary Stokes and Navier-Stokes flow. Tensor-product space-time finite elements are being used to discretize the variational formulation with discontinuous Galerkin finite elements in time and inf-sup stable Taylor-Hood finite element pairs in space. To...

In this work, we develop a posteriori error control for a generalized Boussinesq model in which thermal conductivity and viscosity are temperature-dependent. Therein, the stationary Navier-Stokes equations are coupled with a stationary heat equation. The coupled problem is modeled and solved in a monolithic fashion. The focus is on multigoal-orient...

In this work, a method for automatic hyper-parameter tuning of the stacked asymmetric auto-encoder is proposed. In previous work, the deep learning ability to extract personality perception from speech was shown, but hyper-parameter tuning was attained by trial-and-error, which is time-consuming and requires machine learning knowledge. Therefore, o...

The purpose of this work is the development of space-time discretization schemes for phase-field optimal control problems. Specifically in the optimal control minimization problem, a tracking-type cost functional is minimized to steer the crack via the phase-field variable into a desired pattern. To achieve such optimal solutions, Neumann type boun...

In this work, we consider space-time goal-oriented a posteriori error estimation for parabolic problems. Temporal and spatial discretizations are based on Galerkin finite elements of continuous and discontinuous type. The main objectives are the development and analysis of space-time estimators, in which the localization is based on a weak form emp...

In this paper, we consider Mandel's problem in the context of nonlinear single-phase poroelasticity, where it is assumed that the fluid is sightly compressible and porosity and permeability are given functions of the volume strain. In the first part of the paper we prove well-posedness of the time-discrete incremental problem by recasting the equat...

We consider the widely used continuous $\mathcal{Q}_{k}$-$\mathcal{Q}_{k-1}$ quadrilateral or hexahedral Taylor-Hood elements for the finite element discretization of the Stokes and generalized Stokes systems in two and three spatial dimensions. For the fast solution of the corresponding symmetric, but indefinite system of finite element equations,...

In this paper, we study a cancer invasion model both theoretically and numerically. The model is a nonstationary, nonlinear system of three coupled partial differential equations modeling the motion of cancer cells, degradation of the extracellular matrix, and certain enzymes. We first establish existence of global classical solutions in both two-...

The complexity of many problems in computational mechanics calls for reliable programming codes and accurate simulation systems. Typically, simulation responses strongly depend on material and model parameters, where one distinguishes between backward and forward models. Providing reliable information for the material/model parameters, enables us t...

In this work, we consider multigoal-oriented error estimation for stationary fluid–structure interaction. The problem is formulated within a variational-monolithic setting using arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian coordinates. Employing the dual-weighted residual method for goal-oriented a posteriori error estimation, adjoint sensitivities are required....

In this work, we consider pressurized phase-field fracture problems in nearly and fully incompressible materials. To this end, a mixed form for the solid equations is proposed. To enhance the accuracy of the spatial discretization, a residual-type error estimator is developed. Our algorithmic advancements are substantiated with several numerical te...

The purpose of this work are computational demonstations for a newly developed space-time phase-field fracture optimal control framework. The optimal control solution algorithm is a Newton algorithm, which is obtained with the reduced approach by eliminating the state constraint. Due to the crack irreversibility constraint, a rate-independent probl...

Computational modeling of the initiation and propagation of complex fracture is central to the discipline of engineering fracture mechanics. This review focuses on two promising approaches: phase-field (PF) and peridynamic (PD) models applied to this class of problems. The basic concepts consisting of constitutive models, failure criteria, discreti...

In this work, we consider fracture propagation in nearly incompressible and (fully) incompressible materials using a phase-field formulation. We use a mixed form of the elasticity equation to overcome volume locking effects and develop a robust, nonlinear and linear solver scheme and preconditioner for the resulting system. The coupled variational...

In this work, we are concerned with neural network guided goal-oriented a posteriori error estimation and adaptivity using the dual weighted residual method. The primal problem is solved using classical Galerkin finite elements. The adjoint problem is solved in strong form with a feedforward neural network using two or three hidden layers. The main...

These lecture notes are devoted to the numerical solution of partial differential equations (PDEs). PDEs arise in many fields and are extremely important in modeling of technical processes with applications in physics, biology, chemisty, economics, mechanical engineering, and so forth. In these notes, not only classical topics for linear PDEs such...

In this work, we present an algorithmic realization for computing optimal control problems with quasi-static phase-field fracture as a PDE constraint. The phase-field fracture problem is formulated in a quasi-monolithic approach resulting in a nonlinear forward problem. The optimization problem is formulated within a reduced approach, where the sta...

In this work, we are interested in parameter estimation in fractured media using Bayesian inversion. Therein, to reduce the computational costs of the forward model, a nonintrusive global–local approach is employed, rather than using fine-scale high-fidelity simulations. The crack propagates within the local region, and a linearized coarse model is...

In this work, a space-time scheme for goal-oriented a posteriori error estimation is proposed. The error estimator is evaluated using a partition-of-unity dual-weighted residual method. As application, a low mach number combustion equation is considered. In some numerical tests, different interpolation variants are investigated, while observing con...

Deep learning has shown successful application in visual recognition and certain artificial intelligence tasks. Deep learning is also considered as a powerful tool with high flexibility to approximate functions. In the present work, functions with desired properties are devised to approximate the solutions of PDEs. Our approach is based on a poster...

This paper outlines a rigorous variational-based multilevel Global–Local formulation for ductile fracture. Here, a phase-field formulation is used to resolve failure mechanisms by regularizing the sharp crack topology on the local state. The coupling of plasticity to the crack phase-field is realized by a constitutive work density function, which i...

In this work, we employ a Bayesian inversion framework to fluid-filled phase-field fracture. We develop a robust and efficient numerical algorithm for hydraulic phase-field fracture toward transversely isotropic and orthotropy anisotropic fracture. In the fluid-driven coupled problem, three primary fields for pressure, displacements, and the crack...

This paper focuses on presenting an asymptotic analysis and employing simulations of a model describing the growth of local prostate tumor (known as a moving interface problem) in two-dimensional spaces. We demonstrate that the proposed mathematical model produces the diffuse interfaces with the hyperbolic tangent profile using an asymptotic analys...

In this work, we apply goal oriented error estimation to a stationary Navier-Stokes benchmark problem coupled with the heat equation. Furthermore, we compare three different methods for the sensitivity weight recovery.

In the context of phase-field modeling of fractures in incompressible materials, a mixed form of the elasticity equation can overcome possible volume locking effects. The drawback is that a coupled variational inequality system with three unknowns (displacements, pressure and phase-field) has to be solved, which increases the overall workload. Effi...

In this work, space-time goal-oriented a posteriori error estimation using a partition-of-unity localization is applied to the linear heat equation. The algorithmic developments are substantiated with a numerical example.

In this work, local mesh adaptivity for the time harmonic Maxwell equations is studied. The main purpose is to apply a known a posteriori residual-based error estimator from the literature and to investigate its performance for a Y-beam splitter setting. This configuration is an important prototype for the design of optical systems within the excel...

In this work, we consider the design of a geometric multigrid method with multiplicative Schwarz smoothers for the eddy-current problem and the time-harmonic Maxwell equations. The main purpose is to show numerically that a straightforward application works for the former problem, but not for the latter. The well-known key is a special decompositio...

In this work, we discuss some pitfalls when solving differential equations with neural networks. Due to the highly nonlinear cost functional, local minima might be approximated by which functions may be obtained, that do not solve the problem. The main reason for these failures is a sensitivity on initial guesses for the nonlinear iteration. We app...

The purpose of this work is the development of space-time discretization schemes for phase-field optimal control problems. First, a time discretization of the forward problem is derived using a discontinuous Galerkin formulation. Here, a challenge is to include regularization terms and the crack irreversibility constraint. The optimal control setti...

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In this work, thermodynamically consistent phase-field fracture frameworks for transversely isotropic and orthotropic settings are proposed. We formulate an anisotropic crack phase-field via a penalization approach for each family of fibers. The resulting model is augmented with thermodynamical arguments and then carefully analyzed from a mechanica...

The prediction of crack initiation and propagation in ductile failure processes are challenging tasks for the design and fabrication of metallic materials and structures on a large scale. Numerical aspects of ductile failure dictate a sub-optimal calibration of plasticity- and fracture-related parameters for a large number of material properties. T...

In this work, we consider multigoal-oriented error estimation for stationary fluid-structure interaction. The problem is formulated within a variational-monolithic setting using arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian coordinates. Employing the dual-weighted residual method for goal-oriented a posteriori error estimation, adjoint sensitivities are required....

In this work, we present crack propagation experiments evaluated by digital image correlation (DIC) for a carbon black filled ethylene propylene diene monomer rubber (EPDM) and numerical modeling with the help of variational phase-field fracture. Our main focus is the evolution of cracks in one-sided notched EPDM strips containing a circular hole....

In this presentation, we focuson the adjoint equation in fluid-structure interaction. Derivations for both stationary and nonstationary settings are undertaken. In the latter, the adjoint is running backward-in-time and must access the primal solution due to the nonlinearities.This is a computational challenge, but it is shown that the overall impl...

In this work, we develop a mixed-mode phase-field fracture model employing a parallel-adaptive quasi-monolithic framework. In nature, failure of rocks and rock-like materials is usually accompanied by the propagation of mixed-mode fractures. To address this aspect, some recent studies have incorporated mixed-mode fracture propagation criteria to cl...

In this work, goal-oriented adjoint-based a posteriori error estimates are derived for a nonlinear phase-field discontinuity problem in which a scalar-valued displacement field interacts with a scalar-valued smoothed indicator function. The latter is subject to an irreversibility constraint, which is regularized using a simple penalization strategy...