Seminar from Guglielmo Scovazzi: The Shifted Boundary / Shifted Fracture Method for Computational Mechanics

Embedded/immersed/unfitted boundary methods obviate the need for continual re-meshing in many applications involving rapid prototyping and design. Unfortunately, many finite element embedded boundary methods (cutFEM, Finite Cell Method, etc. ) are also difficult to implement due to: (a) the need to perform complex cell cutting operations at boundaries, (b) the…