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Pith's one-line read In nonlinear two-scale homogenization, fully converged micro solutions inside each macro iteration are neither necessary nor efficient; alternating single micro and macro Newton iterations reproduces the same displacements with speedups…

desk verdict Solid numerical study of a nonlinear FE-HMM and a plausibly faster alternating two-scale Newton scheme; the speedup is real, but the 'safely replaced' claim outruns the evidence because final micro residuals are unreported. read the letter →

arxiv 1908.08292 v2 pith:AHT6GUQR submitted 2019-08-22 math.NA cs.NA

Bernhard Eidel , Andreas Fischer , Ajinkya Gote This is my paper · ORCID
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keywords FE-HMMheterogeneousmultiscalemethodcomputationalhomogenizationhyperelasticityfinitedeformationstwo-scaleelementsstaggeredNewtonschemeapriorierrorestimates
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The reading

This paper builds a nonlinear version of the finite element heterogeneous multiscale method (FE-HMM) for hyperelastic solids under finite deformations, and it asks whether the usual way of solving the two scales can be made cheaper. In the standard FE2/FE-HMM algorithm, every macroscopic Newton iteration is a nested loop that first drives all microscopic boundary-value problems to full convergence. The paper claims this is wasted work: alternating a single microscopic iteration with each macroscopic Newton step reaches the same macroscopic displacement field, because a final microscopic pass after the macroscopic loop converges restores micro equilibrium. On the tested problems the alternation runs 1.05 to 2.6 times faster in 2D and 1.7 to 2.0 times faster in 3D than the nested scheme. The paper also reports that the a priori error estimates proved for linear FE-HMM remain approximately valid in the hyperelastic regime.

What carries the argument

The load-bearing mechanism is the alternating staggered iteration. Instead of the standard embedded loop that solves each micro problem to a tight tolerance before a macro update, the algorithm performs one Newton step on the micro problems, transfers the current stress and tangent stiffness to the macro scale, takes one macro Newton step, and sends the updated deformation back; this cycle repeats until the macro residual is small, after which one final micro iteration polishes the micro equilibrium. The other piece of machinery is the nonlinear FE-HMM formulation itself: macro quadrature points carry microscopic sampling domains, and the micro-to-macro stiffness transfer is made through a transformation matrix built from micro displacement solutions induced by macro unit displacement states, with the averaged second Piola-Kirchhoff stress used for the macro residual.

What would settle it

Re-run one of the paper's examples, for instance the periodic two-phase microstructure under four load steps, with both algorithms and record the final micro equilibrium residual norm on every sampling domain; if the alternating scheme's micro residuals are orders of magnitude above those of the nested scheme, or if the macro displacements differ by more than the discretization error, the central claim fails. A sharper test would use a microstructure with a non-monotone or near-unstable constitutive response where a single micro iteration per macro step cannot track the micro path.

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Core claim

On the paper's own terms, the central discovery is that the fully converged solution of the micro problems inside each macro iteration is neither necessary for convergence nor favorable for efficiency in nonlinear FE-HMM homogenization. The nested two-level Newton scheme, in which each macro step embeds a complete micro solve, can be replaced by direct alternations: one micro Newton iteration, one macro Newton iteration, repeated until the macro residual drops, followed by a final single micro iteration as an accuracy polish. The numerical examples with periodic, Dirichlet, and image-based microstructures show identical maximum nodal displacements between the two schemes, with speedup factors from 1.05 to 2.6 in 2D and 1.7 to 2.0 in 3D. The same section of the paper assesses the linear a priori error estimates in the nonlinear regime and finds measured convergence orders close to the linear ones, attributing order reductions to micro-problem regularity rather than to material or geometric nonlinearity.

Load-bearing premise

The claim of equal endpoint accuracy rests on the assumption that the single final micro Newton iteration, performed after the macro loop has converged, leaves the microscopic residual effectively as small as fully converged inner loops would, so neither displacements nor stresses differ between the schemes; the paper reports maximum nodal displacements but not final micro residual norms.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • Existing FE2/FE-HMM codes can switch from nested to alternating Newton by reordering the loops, without changing discretizations, and obtain the same macro displacement endpoints.
  • Computational savings grow with the cost share of micro solves: measured speedups rise when the micro mesh is refined relative to the macro mesh.
  • The alternation tolerates large load steps; in the examples it converged in the same number of macro iterations, or one more, than the standard scheme.
  • Because the paper's FE-HMM and FE2 differ only in how stiffness is transferred, the alternating scheme transfers directly to FE2 implementations.
  • The assessed a priori estimates imply that optimal uniform micro-macro refinement strategies from linear FE-HMM remain usable for hyperelastic solids with sufficient regularity.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • If micro problems are strongly nonlinear, for example near instability or snap-through, the one-iteration exchange may lose the quadratic convergence the nested scheme buys; a test would be to run the alternation on a microstructure with a non-convex energy and watch for stall or divergence.
  • The speedup mechanism is essentially block coordinate descent on the coupled macro-micro system, so it should generalize to any staggered multiscale coupling, such as thermo-mechanical, electro-mechanical, or poromechanical, whenever the coupled iteration is contractive; that generalization is not shown in the paper.
  • For path-dependent inelastic microstructures the single-iteration alternation may need adjustment, because the micro load history must be integrated accurately at every step, not only at the end; the paper explicitly defers inelastic analysis.
  • A practical rule suggested by the data: monitor the macro residual and keep the final micro polish; if the macro loop needs extra iterations, the break-even point for switching back to nested solves can be computed on the fly.
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Summary. The paper develops a nonlinear finite element heterogeneous multiscale method (FE-HMM) in a Lagrangian setting for hyperelastic solids, assesses whether the existing linear-elasticity a priori error estimates still predict the observed convergence behavior, and proposes replacing the standard nested-loop micro-macro Newton iteration with an alternating scheme in which a single micro Newton iteration is performed after each macro iteration. The numerical study covers four microstructures (two 2D Escher-type tessellations, a pixel-based 2D micrograph, and a 3D nanoporous gold composite), compares the alternating scheme with the standard nested scheme, and reports speedup factors between 1.05 and 2.6 in 2D and 1.7 to 2.0 in 3D. The authors conclude in Section 7 that the fully converged solution of micro problems at each macro iteration is neither necessary nor favorable, and that the nested scheme can be safely and efficiently replaced by direct alternations.

Significance. If the central algorithmic claim is valid, the paper offers a practically useful simplification of FE2/FE-HMM for nonlinear hyperelastic homogenization, with potential savings in computing time and implementation effort. The numerical study is extensive, spans 2D and 3D problems with different microstructures, and reports convergence rates and speedups without fitting parameters to data. The proposed alternating scheme is simple and clearly described in pseudocode. However, the load-bearing evidence for the replacement claim is currently incomplete: the comparisons establish agreement in maximum nodal displacements and macro residuals, but not the equivalence of the two-scale equilibrium state, because final micro residual norms and stopping tolerances are not reported. The paper is significant as a numerical and algorithmic contribution, but the strength of the claims in Section 7 exceeds the current evidence.

major comments (3)
  1. [Section 7, item 3; Tables 3 and 6] The central claim that the nested scheme 'can safely and efficiently be replaced' by direct alternations is not fully supported by the reported data. The endpoint comparison is made through maximum nodal displacements and macro residual histories only; no final micro residual norms are reported, and the micro Newton stopping tolerance is not stated. Because the macro stress is computed from the terminal micro state via Eq. (20), the alternating scheme could in principle stop at a state where macro equilibrium holds but micro equilibrium does not. Agreement in max displacement is necessary but not sufficient to establish that the alternating scheme reaches the same two-scale solution as the nested scheme. Please report final micro residual norms for both schemes (for example, in Tables 3 and 6) and state the exact macro and micro stopping tolerances used in Algorithms 1 and 2.
  2. [Section 5.2 and Figure 4] The 'accuracy polish' performed by the final single micro Newton iteration is asserted to bring the micro state to the same level of convergence as the fully converged inner loops of the standard method, but no measurement supports this assertion. In Table 4 the alternating scheme is terminated with macro residuals around 1e-6 while the standard scheme reaches about 1e-8. Without a direct comparison of micro residuals at the end of each load step, the reader cannot verify that the alternating endpoint is comparably accurate in the two-scale sense. A quantitative comparison of the final micro residual under both schemes is needed for this load-bearing claim.
  3. [Section 7, item 3] The phrase 'can safely and efficiently be replaced' is an empirical generalization based on four examples, all of which use the same macro boundary value problem (a cantilever beam) and a single load path per example. The authors should either restrict the claim to the tested configurations or provide a supporting argument, such as a local analysis of the coupled fixed-point iteration showing that one micro Newton step per macro iteration does not degrade the attainable endpoint accuracy. As written, the broader generalization goes beyond the evidence presented.
minor comments (4)
  1. [Algorithms 1 and 2] The loop conditions read 'while macro residual < macro tolerance do', which is the opposite of the intended termination criterion; the condition should be 'while the macro residual exceeds the macro tolerance' (i.e., '>' rather than '<').
  2. [Section 4, Eq. (48)-(52)] The symbol C is used both for the generic constant in the a priori estimates and for the right Cauchy-Green tensor in Section 6; please disambiguate the notation.
  3. [Section 6.1.2 and Tables 5, 7, 8, 9] The speedup factors are reported only as aggregate numbers; stating the precise stopping tolerances used in each run would strengthen the reproducibility of the efficiency comparison.
  4. [Section 6.4] The nanoporous gold example uses the unified material parameters from Table 2 rather than true gold/polymer parameters; this limitation is stated in the text but should also be recalled when the speedup numbers are interpreted as representative of actual nanoporous gold simulations.

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No significant circularity: convergence rates and speedups are measured against independent reference solutions; self-citations are attributional and not load-bearing.

full rationale

The paper's three contributions are a nonlinear FE-HMM formulation, a numerical assessment of existing a priori estimates in the nonlinear regime, and a modified alternating Newton solution scheme. None of these reduces to its own inputs by construction. The convergence studies in Section 6 compute errors against fine-mesh reference solutions, so the measured rates are not fitted or renamed inputs. The speedup factors in Tables 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 are direct wall-clock comparisons between the nested and alternating algorithms; they are not derived from an assumed identity. The central claim in Section 7, item 3, that fully converged micro problems are neither necessary nor favorable, is explicitly introduced as a hypothesis in Section 5.2 and then tested on four independent microstructures. A genuine evidence gap exists: the paper reports maximum nodal displacements and macro residuals but not final micro residual norms, so the assertion that the alternating scheme reaches the same two-scale equilibrium as the nested scheme is only partially verified. That is a correctness and evidence limitation, not circularity. Self-citations to the authors' prior works, e.g. [2], [16], and [44], attribute the origin of FE-HMM variants, earlier error analyses, and the first introduction of the alternating scheme; they are not invoked as proof of the present numerical conclusions. Therefore no circular step is established.

Assumptions & free parameters 1 free parameters · 6 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The central claims rest on standard homogenization assumptions (scale separation, Hill-Mandel, first-order coupling) plus an unproved numerical hypothesis that a single micro iteration per macro iteration suffices. The only hand-chosen numerical parameter that materially affects the speedup claim is the stopping tolerance, which is not reported.

free parameters (1)
  • Newton stopping tolerances (macro and micro) = not stated
    Both algorithms stop when residuals fall below unspecified tolerances. Table 4 shows the alternating scheme ending at about 1e-6 while the standard reaches about 1e-9, so the tolerance choice affects the reported speedup and endpoint accuracy.
assumptions (6)
  • domain assumption Scale separation: L_macro >> L_micro, and the RVE is statistically representative.
    Required for homogenization; stated in Sec. 2.1, items 'Scale separation' and 'Sampling domains'.
  • domain assumption Hill-Mandel energy equivalence between macro and micro stress power (Eq. 9).
    Cornerstone of the coupling; used to justify the micro-macro stress and stiffness transfer in Sec. 3.2.
  • domain assumption First-order homogenization: the macro deformation imposed on each RVE is homogeneous (linearized displacement, Eq. (29)).
    Defines the kinematic coupling and the micro cell problem; stated in Sec. 2.1 and used in Eq. (29).
  • domain assumption The micro problem has sufficient regularity for the a priori estimates (48)-(50) to apply.
    The authors state the estimates hold 'given that the hypotheses hold, ... and that the micro solution is sufficiently smooth'; the numerical assessment relies on this.
  • ad hoc to paper One micro Newton iteration per macro iteration is sufficient for coupled convergence, with final micro balance achieved by a single accuracy-polish iteration.
    This is the empirical hypothesis in Sec. 5.2; it is not proved and is the load-bearing assumption of the speedup claim.
  • domain assumption Reference solutions computed on very fine meshes accurately represent the exact homogenized solution for error measurement.
    Used in all convergence studies in Sec. 6; standard practice but not separately justified.

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abstract

In this paper we address three aspects of nonlinear computational homogenization of elastic solids by two-scale finite element methods. First, we present a nonlinear formulation of the finite element heterogeneous multiscale method FE-HMM in a Lagrangean formulation that covers geometrical nonlinearity and, more general, hyperelasticity. Second, a-priori estimates of FE-HMM, which exist so far only for the fully linear elastic case in solid mechanics, are assessed in the regime of nonlinear elasticity. The measured convergence rates agree fairly well with those of the fully linear regime. Third, we revise the standard solution algorithm of FE$^2$ which is a staggered scheme in terms of a nested loop embedding the full solution of the micro problem into one macro solution iteration step. We demonstrate that suchlike staggered scheme, which is typically realized by a nested two-level Newton algorithm, can safely and efficiently be replaced by direct alternations between micro and macro iterations. The novel algorithmic structure is exemplarily detailed for the proposed nonlinear FE-HMM, its efficiency is substantiated by a considerable speedup in numerical tests.

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Figure 1. Homogenization: The general setting of micro-macro transition in material and spatial configurations. Sketch adapted from [42]. While balance laws are scale invariant and therefore are known and apply for the macro as well as the micro scale, the effective constitutive law along with its parameters is not known for the macro scale but exclusively for the micro scale, here in terms of the hyperelasticity relations P … view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Micro-macro transition of FE-HMM: The triangulation of the macro prob￾lem TH results in finite elements K of size H. Micro sampling domains of characteristic length δ in triangulation Th into elements T of size h are attached to the macro quadrature points xKδl of K, hence spanning the sampling domain Kδl = xKδl + δ [−1/2, +1/2]ndim , δ ≥ , centered at quadrature points (qp), l = 1, . . . , Nqp. The separation of l… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. The conventional staggered scheme based on nested, macro-micro solution loops for the nonlinear homogenization by a two-level FEM. Green (red) circles indicate stages (not) in equilibrium. macro; it is an initialization for the start of a simulation, or an update for the continuation of a simulation, in either case denoted by (0) in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p016_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: The novel staggered scheme with direct macro-micro alternations in the two-level Newton iterations for the nonlinear homogenization by a two-level FEM. Green (red) circles indicate stages (not) fully converged. We hypothesize that the continuation of the macro Newton d…
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Macro problem: Cantilever beam, geometry and boundary conditions. For notational convenience we use the Cartesian coordinates (x, y, z) replacing the previous (x1, x2, x3) coordinate system. The macro problem common to all micro problems is a bending-dominated cantilev…
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: Escher’s Pegasus: (left) Periodic tessellation with 2×2 unit cells and (right) a triangulation of a unit cell. 6.1.1 Micro convergence for linear elasticity and Neo-Hookean hyperelastic￾ity The reference solution for micro convergence analysis is calculated with ndof=2…
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Escher’s Pegasus: Micro convergence for (left:) fully linear setting, (center:) linear elasticity along with geometrical nonlinearity, (right:) Neo-Hookean hyperelasticity. The convergence diagrams in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p019_7.png]
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Figure 8. Figure 8: Escher’s Pegasus: contour plot of shear strain component Exy (left) at x = 3943.37mm, y = 211.32 mm and (right) at x = 1056.62 mm, y = 788.67 mm [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p021_8.png]
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Figure 9. Figure 9: Escher’s Swan: (left) Periodic tessellation, (right) discretization of a unit cell. In this example a two-phase microstructure is used that follows Escher’s ”Swan N◦96” tessellation as displayed in the left of [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p022_9.png]
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Figure 10. Figure 10: Escher’s Swan: Micro convergence for (left:) the fully linear case, (center:) for linear elasticity with geometrical nonlinearity, and (right:) for Neo-Hookean hyperelasticity. 6.2.1 Micro convergence for linear elasticity and neo-Hookean hyperelasticity The reference…
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Figure 11. Figure 11: Escher’s Swan: at x = 1056.62 mm, y = 788.67 mm the contour plot (left) of shear strain 2Exy and (right) of von-Mises stress Sxy [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p024_11.png]
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Figure 12. Figure 12: DFG-Heisenberg: (Left) two-phase distribution, (right) contour plot of shear strain 2Exy at position x = 666.67 mm, y = 333.34 mm [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p025_12.png]
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Figure 13. Figure 13: DFG-Heisenberg: Micro convergence for (left:) the fully linear case, (center:) for linear elasticity with geometrical nonlinearity, and (right:) for neo-Hookean hyperelas￾ticity [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p025_13.png]
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Figure 12. Figure 12: Due to almost identical results for the fully linear case with the nonlinear cases [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p026_12.png]
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Figure 14. Figure 14: Nanoporous gold composite: (Left) gold phase distribution, (right) dis￾cretization with ndof=1 807 389. Here we consider a gold-polymer nanocomposites with the nanoporous gold phase em￾bedded in a softer second phase. Linear Dirichlet boundary conditions are applied o…
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Figure 15. Figure 15: Nanoporous gold composite: Micro convergence for (left:) the fully linear case, (center:) linear elasticity with geometrical nonlinearity, and (right:) the case of Neo￾Hookean hyperelasticity. The convergence diagrams are displayed in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fi…
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Figure 16. Figure 16: Nanoporous gold composite: von-Mises stress distribution in (N/mm2 ) at x = y = z = 605.6624 mm. 7 Summary The main results of the present paper shall be summarized [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p028_16.png]

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