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In this paper we describe a computational model for the simulation of fluid-structure interaction problems based on a fictitious domain approach. We summarize the results presented over the last years when our research evolved from the…

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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,…

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A stabilized finite element method is introduced for the simulation of time-periodic creeping flows, such as those found in the cardiorespiratory systems. The new technique, which is formulated in the frequency rather than time domain,…

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We propose a mixed finite element method for Stokes flow with one degree of freedom per element and facet of simplicial grids. The method is derived by considering the vorticity-velocity-pressure formulation and eliminating the vorticity…

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We propose a mixed finite element method for the motion of a strongly viscous, ideal, and isentropic gas. At the boundary we impose a Navier-slip condition such that the velocity equation can be posed in mixed form with the vorticity as an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2009-11-11 Kenneth Karlsen , Trygve Karper

A finite element approximation of the Stokes equations under a certain nonlinear boundary condition, namely, the slip or leak boundary condition of friction type, is considered. We propose an approximate problem formulated by a variational…

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In this paper a time dependent Stokes problem that is motivated by a standard sharp interface model for the fluid dynamics of two-phase flows is studied. This Stokes interface problem has discontinuous density and viscosity coefficients and…

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We present a simple and efficient variational finite difference method for simulating time-dependent Stokes flow in the presence of irregular free surfaces and moving solid boundaries. The method uses an embedded boundary approach on…

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The aim of this note is to present a numerical method to solve the Stokes problem in a bounded domain with a Dirac source term, which preserves optimality for any approximation order by the finite-element method. It is based on the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-20 Loïc Lacouture

We propose a Nitsche-based fictitious domain method for the three field Stokes problem in which the boundary of the domain is allowed to cross through the elements of a fixed background mesh. The dependent variables of velocity, pressure…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-02-23 Erik Burman , Susanne Claus , André Massing

The paper develops and analyzes a higher-order unfitted finite element method for the incompressible Stokes equations, which yields a strongly divergence-free velocity field up to the physical boundary. The method combines an isoparametric…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Michael Neilan , Maxim Olshanskii , Henry von Wahl

We study a finite element computational model for solving the coupled problem arising in the interaction between a free fluid and a fluid in a poroelastic medium. The free fluid is governed by the Stokes equations, while the flow in the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-10-19 Ilona Ambartsumyan , Eldar Khattatov , Ivan Yotov , Paolo Zunino

We discuss how slip conditions for the Stokes equation can be handled using Nitsche method, for a stabilized finite element discretization. Emphasis is made on the interplay between stabilization and Nitsche terms. Well-posedness of the…

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We propose a new fictitious domain finite element method, well suited for elliptic problems posed in a domain given by a level-set function without requiring a mesh fitting the boundary. To impose the Dirichlet boundary conditions, we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-09 Michel Duprez , Alexei Lozinski

A mechanical model and finite element method for the simultaneous solution of Stokes and incompressible Navier-Stokes flows on multiple curved surfaces over a bulk domain are proposed. The two-dimensional surfaces are defined implicitly by…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Michael Wolfgang Kaiser , Thomas-Peter Fries

We investigate a mortar technique for mixed finite element approximations of Darcy flow on non-matching grids in which the normal flux is chosen as the coupling variable. It plays the role of a Lagrange multiplier to impose weakly…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-24 Wietse M. Boon , Dennis Gläser , Rainer Helmig , Ivan Yotov

In this work, we consider unfitted finite element methods for the numerical approximation of the Stokes problem. It is well-known that this kind of methods lead to arbitrarily ill-conditioned systems. In order to solve this issue, we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-30 Santiago Badia , Alberto F. Martín , Francesc Verdugo

We study a recent formulation for fluid-structure interaction problems based on the use of a distributed Lagrange multiplier in the spirit of the fictitious domain approach. In this paper, we focus our attention on a crucial computational…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-26 Daniele Boffi , Fabio Credali , Lucia Gastaldi

We present a novel formulation for parametric finite element methods to approximate two-phase Stokes flow. The new formulation is based on the classical Stokes equation in the bulk and a novel choice of interface conditions with additional…

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