Coupled material point and level set methods for simulating soils interacting with rigid objects with complex geometry

Y Zhao, J Choo, Y Jiang, L Li - Computers and Geotechnics, 2023 - Elsevier
The material point method (MPM) is often used to simulate soils that interact with (nearly)
rigid objects, such as structures, machines, or rocks. Yet MPM simulations of such problems …

Revealing the role of forests in the mobility of geophysical flows

Z Liang, CE Choi, Y Zhao, Y Jiang, J Choo - Computers and Geotechnics, 2023 - Elsevier
Forests cover 39% of low-altitude mountainous areas globally, and they are considered
natural barriers against geophysical flows. Owing to the complexity of flows, the protective …

An implicit locking‐free B‐spline Material Point Method for large strain geotechnical modelling

M **e, P Navas, S López‐Querol - International Journal for …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Material Point Method (MPM) has drawn great attention in the numerical
modelling of large deformation, geotechnical problems. The popularity of MPM is mainly …

A Dynamic Duo of Finite Elements and Material Points

X Li, M Li, X Han, H Wang, Y Yang… - ACM SIGGRAPH 2024 …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
This paper presents a novel method to couple Finite Element Methods (FEM), typically
employed for modeling Lagrangian solids such as flesh, cloth, hair, and rigid bodies, with …

A subdivision-stabilized B-spline mixed material point method

AA Madadi, B Dortdivanlioglu - Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics …, 2024 - Elsevier
Subjected to external loadings, polymeric materials, eg, biological tissues, hydrogels, and
elastomers, may undergo extreme, nearly incompressible,(self-) contact deformations. For …

Unstructured moving least squares material point methods: a stable kernel approach with continuous gradient reconstruction on general unstructured tessellations

Y Cao, Y Zhao, M Li, Y Yang, J Choo… - Computational …, 2024 - Springer
The material point method (MPM) is a hybrid Eulerian Lagrangian simulation technique for
solid mechanics with significant deformation. Structured background grids are commonly …

B-spline-based material point method with dynamic load balancing technique for large-scale simulation

S Hidano, S Pan, K Yoshida, R Nomura, Y Miki… - Engineering with …, 2025 - Springer
In this study, a dynamic load-balancing (DLB) technique based on the sampling method is
developed for MPMs using higher-order B-spline basis functions for parallel MPI …

An assessment of the total Lagrangian material point method: comparison to conventional MPM, higher order basis, and treatment of near-incompressibility

RM Telikicherla, G Moutsanidis - Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics …, 2023 - Elsevier
The total Lagrangian material point method (TLMPM) is a recent modification to the
conventional material point method (MPM). It poses the weak form in the undeformed …

GeoTaichi: A Taichi-powered high-performance numerical simulator for multiscale geophysical problems

YH Shi, N Guo, ZX Yang - Computer Physics Communications, 2024 - Elsevier
This study introduces GeoTaichi, an open-source high-performance numerical simulator
designed for addressing multiscale geophysical problems. By leveraging the power of the …

A displacement-based material point method for weakly compressible free-surface flows

RM Telikicherla, G Moutsanidis - Computational Mechanics, 2025 - Springer
We introduce a novel displacement-based material point method for simulating weakly
compressible free-surface flows and fluid–structure interaction. To address volumetric …