Matteo Negri

Associate Professor in Analysis
University of Pavia

Via Ferrata 1 - 27100 Pavia - Italy

office E21

email matteo {dot} negri [at] unipv {dot} it

Corsi a.a. 2025/26

Ricevimento studenti: su appuntamento.

Field: Calculus of Variations.
Subjects: Free Discontinuity Problems, Γ- convergence, BV and BD spaces, Rate-Independent Evolutions, Gradient Flows, Finite Element Methods.
Applications: Fracture Mechanics, Finite and Linearized Elasticity, Image Segmentation.

L. Greco, A. Patton, M. Negri, A. Marengo, U. Perego, A. Reali
Higher order phase-field modeling of brittle fracture via Isogeometric Analysis.
Eng. Comp. (2024) [journal]
M. Negri
Homogenization of Griffith's Criterion for brittle Laminates.
Archive Rational Mech. Anal. 248:85 (2024) [arXiv] [journal]
M. Negri
Modelling paintings on canvas and simulation of local crack patterns.
Mathematical Modeling in Cultural Heritage. Springer INdAM Series (2025) [volume]
B. Grossman-Ponemon, E. Maggiorelli, A.J. Lew, M. Negri
How do cracks in brittle materials evolve, and how do we compute them?
IACM Expressions #54 (2025) [journal]
L. Greco, E. Maggiorelli, M. Negri, A. Patton, A. Reali
AT1 fourth-order isogeometric phase-field modeling of brittle fracture.
Math. Models Methods Applied. Sci 35 (2025) 2741-2795 [arXiv] [journal]
E. Maggiorelli, M. Negri
Energy release and Griffith's criterion for phase-field fracture
Control Optim. Calc. Var. [arXiv]
L. Greco, J. Kiendl, M. Negri, A. Patton, A. Reali
Fourth-order isogeometric phase-field modeling of dynamic brittle fracture: numerical study and comparison with second-order models.
Comput. Methods Appl. Mech. Engrg.
E. Maggiorelli, M. Negri, F. Vicentini, L. De Lorenzis
Γ-convergence for a phase-field cohesive energy

Energy release and Griffith’s criterion for phase field fracture
Fracture as an emergent phenomenon (Oberwolfach, 2024)

Fracture Mechanics: from Analysis to Applications
Spring Workshop COMPMAT (Pavia, 2024)

Evolutionary Gamma-convergence and effective toughness in brittle periodic laminates
International Conference on Elliptic and Parabolic Problems (Gaeta, 2024)

Griffith's criterion for sharp crack and phase field fracture
Italian-Japanese Workshop on Variational Perspectives for PDEs (Pavia, 2024)

Rate-independent evolutions in phase-field fracture generated by equilibrium configurations
Nečas Seminar on Continuum Mechanics (Prague, Charles University, 2024)

Effective toughness for brittle periodic laminates
IUTAM - Symposium "Computational Fracture Mechanics in Multi-field Problems" (Bad Honnef, 2024)

From energy functionals to cracks: bridging analysis and computation in phase-ﬁeld fracture
METal Seminar (Pavia, 2025)