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A theoretical analysis of mass scaling techniques

Annalisa Buffa, Espen Sande, Yannis Dirk Voet

Mass scaling is widely used in finite element models of structural dynamics for increasing the critical time step of explicit time integration methods. While the field has been flourishing over the years, it still lacks a strong theoretical basis and mostl ...

SPRINGER2025

MASS LUMPING AND OUTLIER REMOVAL STRATEGIES FOR COMPLEX GEOMETRIES IN ISOGEOMETRIC ANALYSIS

Annalisa Buffa, Espen Sande, Yannis Dirk Voet

Mass lumping techniques are commonly employed in explicit time integration schemes for problems in structural dynamics and both avoid solving costly linear systems with the consistent mass matrix and increase the critical time step. In isogeometric analysi ...

AMER MATHEMATICAL SOC2025

A mathematical theory for mass lumping and its generalization with applications to isogeometric analysis

Annalisa Buffa, Espen Sande, Yannis Dirk Voet

Explicit time integration schemes coupled with Galerkin discretizations of time-dependent partial differential equations require solving a linear system with the mass matrix at each time step. For applications in structural dynamics, the solution of the li ...

2023

Outlier-free spline spaces for isogeometric discretizations of biharmonic and polyharmonic eigenvalue problems

Espen Sande

We present outlier-free isogeometric Galerkin discretizations of eigenvalue problems related to the biharmonic and the polyharmonic operator in the univariate setting. These are Galerkin discretizations in certain spline subspaces that provide accurate app ...

Elsevier Science Sa2023

Application of optimal spline subspaces for the removal of spurious outliers in isogeometric discretizations

Espen Sande

We show that isogeometric Galerkin discretizations of eigenvalue problems related to the Laplace operator subject to any standard type of homogeneous boundary conditions have no outliers in certain optimal spline subspaces. Roughly speaking, these optimal ...

2022

Ritz-type projectors with boundary interpolation properties and explicit spline error estimates

Espen Sande

In this paper we construct Ritz-type projectors with boundary interpolation properties in finite dimensional subspaces of the usual Sobolev space and we provide a priori error estimates for them. The abstract analysis is exemplified by considering spline s ...

Springer2022