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For the Hodge--Laplace equation in finite element exterior calculus, we introduce several families of discontinuous Galerkin methods in the extended Galerkin framework. For contractible domains, this framework utilizes seven fields and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Qingguo Hong , Yuwen Li , Jinchao Xu

The Laplace-Beltrami problem on closed surfaces embedded in three dimensions arises in many areas of physics, including molecular dynamics (surface diffusion), electromagnetics (harmonic vector fields), and fluid dynamics (vesicle…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-21 Tristan Goodwill , Michael O'Neil

Partial differential equations posed on surfaces arise in a number of applications. In this survey we describe three popular finite element methods for approximating solutions to the Laplace-Beltrami problem posed on an $n$-dimensional…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-23 Andrea Bonito , Alan Demlow , Ricardo H. Nochetto

We hybridize the methods of finite element exterior calculus for the Hodge-Laplace problem on differential $k$-forms in $\mathbb{R}^n$. In the cases $k = 0$ and $k = n$, we recover well-known primal and mixed hybrid methods for the scalar…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-02 Gerard Awanou , Maurice Fabien , Johnny Guzmán , Ari Stern

A proof of convergence is given for a novel evolving surface finite element semi-discretization of Willmore flow of closed two-dimensional surfaces, and also of surface diffusion flow. The numerical method proposed and studied here…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-31 Balázs Kovács , Buyang Li , Christian Lubich

We describe discretisations of the shallow water equations on the sphere using the framework of finite element exterior calculus, which are extensions of the mimetic finite difference framework presented in Ringler, Thuburn, Klemp, and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-08-20 C. J. Cotter , J. Thuburn

The paper studies a method for solving elliptic partial differential equations posed on hypersurfaces in $\mathbb{R}^N$, $N=2,3$. The method builds upon the formulation introduced in Bertalmio et al., J. Comput. Phys., 174 (2001),…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-04-08 Alexey Y. Chernyshenko , Maxim A. Olshanskii

We present a domain decomposition formulation based on hybridization which is inspired by hybridized discontinuous Galerkin (HDG) methods, that enhance mixed domain decomposition methods by incorporating stabilization terms. Unlike…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-27 Kersten Schmidt , Timon Seibel , Sebastian Schöps

There are very few results on mixed finite element methods on surfaces. A theory for the study of such methods was given recently by Holst and Stern, using a variational crimes framework in the context of finite element exterior calculus.…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2011-03-28 Anil N. Hirani , Kaushik Kalyanaraman

We develop a family of finite element spaces of differential forms defined on cubical meshes in any number of dimensions. The family contains elements of all polynomial degrees and all form degrees. In two dimensions, these include the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-13 Douglas N. Arnold , Gerard Awanou

We suggest a finite element method for computing minimal surfaces based on computing a discrete Laplace-Beltrami operator operating on the coordinates of the surface. The surface is a discrete representation of the zero level set of a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-03-17 Mirza Cenanovic , Peter Hansbo , Mats G. Larson

We develop a finite element method for the vector Laplacian based on the covariant derivative of tangential vector fields on surfaces embedded in $\mathbb{R}^3$. Closely related operators arise in models of flow on surfaces as well as…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-05-01 Peter Hansbo , Mats G. Larson , Karl Larsson

We derive error estimates for the piecewise linear finite element approximation of the Laplace--Beltrami operator on a bounded, orientable, $C^3$, surface without boundary on general shape regular meshes. As an application, we consider a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-05-15 Johnny Guzman , Alexandre Madureira , Marcus Sarkis , Shawn Walker

We consider a vector-Laplace problem posed on a 2D surface embedded in a 3D domain, which results from the modeling of surface fluids based on exterior Cartesian differential operators. The main topic of this paper is the development and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-09-05 Sven Groß , Thomas Jankuhn , Maxim A. Olshanskii , Arnold Reusken

We introduce a surface finite element method for the numerical solution of Navier-Stokes equations on evolving surfaces with a prescribed deformation of the surface in normal direction. The method is based on approaches for the full surface…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-16 Veit Krause , Eric Kunze , Axel Voigt

Arnold, Falk, & Winther, in "Finite element exterior calculus, homological techniques, and applications" (2006), show how to geometrically decompose the full and trimmed polynomial spaces on simplicial elements into direct sums of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-17 Toby Isaac

We show how the high order finite element spaces of differential forms due to Raviart-Thomas-N\'edelec-Hiptmair fit into the framework of finite element systems, in an elaboration of the finite element exterior calculus of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-07-01 Snorre Harald Christiansen , Francesca Rapetti

In this paper, we define new unfitted finite element methods for numerically approximating the solution of surface partial differential equations using bulk finite elements. The key idea is that the $n$-dimensional hypersurface, $\Gamma…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-03-21 Klaus Deckelnick , Charles M. Elliott , Thomas Ranner

The scalar and vector Laplacians are basic operators in physics and engineering. In applications, they show up frequently perturbed by lower-order terms. The effect of such perturbations on mixed finite element methods in the scalar case is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-13 Douglas N. Arnold , Lizao Li

In this paper we study semi-discrete and fully discrete evolving surface finite element schemes for the Cahn-Hilliard equation with a logarithmic potential. Specifically we consider linear finite elements discretising space and backward…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-11 Charles M. Elliott , Thomas Sales