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Large scale simulation of pressure induced phase-field fracture propagation using Utopia

Zulian, Patrick ; Kopaničáková, Alena ; Nestola, Maria Giuseppina Chiara ; Fink, Andreas ; Fadel, Nur Aiman ; VandeVondele, Joost ; Krause, Rolf

In: CCF transactions on high performance computing, 2021, no. 3, p. 407–426

Non-linear phase field models are increasingly used for the simulation of fracture propagation problems. The numerical simulation of fracture networks of realistic size requires the efficient parallel solution of large coupled non-linear systems. Although in principle efficient iterative multi-level methods for these types of problems are available, they are not widely used in practice due to...

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Space-time multilevel Monte Carlo methods and their application to cardiac electrophysiology

Ben Bader, Seif ; Benedusi, Pietro ; Quaglino, Alessio ; Zulian, Patrick ; Krause, Rolf

In: Journal of computational physics, 2021, vol. 433, p. 17 p

We present a novel approach aimed at high-performance uncertainty quantification for time-dependent problems governed by partial differential equations. In particular, we consider input uncertainties described by a Karhunen-Loève expansion and compute statistics of high-dimensional quantities-of-interest, such as the cardiac activation potential. Our methodology relies on a close integration...

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Geometry–aware finite element framework for multi–physics simulations : an algorithmic and software-centric perspective

Zulian, Patrick ; Krause, Rolf (Dir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2017 ; 2017INFO006.

In finite element simulations, the handling of geometrical objects and their discrete representation is a critical aspect in both serial and parallel scientific software environments. The development of codes targeting such envinronments is subject to great development effort and man-hours invested. In this thesis we approach these issues from three fronts. First, stable and efficient ...