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In this article, we analyse a stabilised equal-order finite element approximation for the Stokes equations on anisotropic meshes. In particular, we allow arbitrary anisotropies in a sub-domain, for example along the boundary of the domain,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-12 Stefan Frei

Currently existing energy-stable parametric finite element methods for surface diffusion flow and other flows are usually limited to first-order accuracy in time. Designing a high-order algorithm for geometric flows that can also be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-15 Meng Li , Yihang Guo , Jingjiang Bi

We introduce a pressure robust Finite Element Method for the linearized Magnetohydrodynamics equations in three space dimensions, which is provably quasi-robust also in the presence of high fluid and magnetic Reynolds numbers. The proposed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-03 L. Beirão da Veiga , F. Dassi , G. Vacca

A finite element (FE) discretization for the steady, incompressible, fully inhomogeneous, generalized Navier-Stokes equations is proposed. By the method of divergence reconstruction operators, the formulation is valid for all shear stress…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-08 Alex Kaltenbach , Julius Jeßberger

This work presents a general finite element formulation based on a six--field variational principle that incorporates the consistent couple stress theory. A simple, efficient and local iteration free solving procedure that covers both…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-07 Theodore L. Chang , Chin-Long Lee

One of the key choices for numerical models of geophysical fluids is how parametrisations of physical processes interact with the numerical methods that handle the resolved flow, known in the atmospheric community as the dynamical core. As…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Nell Hartney , Thomas M. Bendall , Jemma Shipton

This work is a contribution to the understanding of the question of stability of Perfectly Matched Layers (PMLs) in corners, at continuous and discrete levels. First, stability results are presented for the Cartesian PMLs associated to a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-05-17 Eliane Bécache , Andres Prieto

This work develops a convergence theory for H(div)-conforming finite element methods applied to the steady Oseen problem, focusing on cases where the exact finite element complex holds while the commuting diagram property may fail. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-01 Jin Zhang , Xiaowei Liu

We introduce a hybrid method to couple continuous Galerkin finite element methods and high-order finite difference methods in a nonconforming multiblock fashion. The aim is to optimize computational efficiency when complex geometries are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-11-24 Tuan Anh Dao , Ken Mattsson , Murtazo Nazarov

In this paper, a symmetrized two-scale finite element method is proposed for a class of partial differential equations with symmetric solutions. With this method, the finite element approximation on a fine tensor product grid is reduced to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-01 Pengyu Hou , Fang Liu , Aihui Zhou

In this contribution, a finite element scheme to impose mixed boundary conditions without introducing Lagrange multipliers is presented for hyperbolic systems described as port-Hamiltonian systems. The strategy relies on finite element…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-23 S. D. M. de Jong , A. Brugnoli , R. Rashad , Y. Zhang , S. Stramigioli

Methods for discretizing port-Hamiltonian systems are of interest both for simulation and control purposes. Despite the large literature on mixed finite elements, no rigorous analysis of the connections between mixed elements and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-09 Andrea Brugnoli , Daniel Alazard , Valérie Pommier-Budinger , Denis Matignon

We provide an approach to implementing the shallow atmosphere approximation in three dimensional finite element discretisations for dynamical cores. The approach makes use of the fact that the shallow atmosphere approximation metric can be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-10-14 C. J. Cotter , D. A. Ham , A. T. T. McRae , L. Mitchell , A. Natale

Starting with a static, spherically symmetric spacetime incorporating critical (unstable) closed null geodesics, a family of models for equilibrium states of non-isolated compact objects is obtained by solving the Einstein equations for an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-01-31 Z. Pazameta

We present a stable finite element method for incompressible nonlinear elasticity based on a four-field mixed formulation involving the displacement, displacement gradient, first Piola--Kirchhoff stress and pressure. Unlike existing…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Santiago Badia , Wei Li , Ricardo Ruiz-Baier

We present a mechanism to explicitly couple the finite-difference discretizations of 2D acoustic and isotropic elastic wave systems that are separated by straight interfaces. Such coupled simulations allow the application of the elastic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-04-13 Longfei Gao , David Keyes

In the framework of a mixed finite element method, a structure-preserving formulation for incompressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations with general boundary conditions is proposed. A leapfrog-type temporal scheme fully decouples the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-20 Yi Zhang , Artur Palha , Andrea Brugnoli , Deepesh Toshniwal , Marc Gerritsma

An adaptive finite element method is presented for the elastic scattering of a time-harmonic plane wave by a periodic surface. First, the unbounded physical domain is truncated into a bounded computational domain by introducing the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-05-30 Xue Jiang , Peijun Li , Junliang Lv , Weiying Zheng

A well-designed numerical method for the shallow water equations (SWE) should ensure well-balancedness, nonnegativity of water heights, and entropy stability. For a continuous finite element discretization of a nonlinear hyperbolic system…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-18 Hennes Hajduk , Dmitri Kuzmin

A first-order system least squares formulation for the sea-ice dynamics is presented. In addition to the displacement field, the stress tensor is used as a variable. As finite element spaces, standard conforming piecewise polynomials for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-09-06 Fleurianne Bertrand