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The potentially significant role of the surface of an elastic body in the overall response of the continuum can be described using the mature theory of surface elasticity. The objective of this contribution is to detail the finite element…
In this article we present a numerical framework based on continuum models for the fluid dynamics and the CO$_2$ gas distribution in the alveolar sacs of the human lung during expiration and inspiration, including the gas exchange to the…
To numerically solve the two-dimensional advection equation, we propose a family of fourth- and higher-order semi-Lagrangian finite volume (SLFV) methods that feature (1) fourth-, sixth-, and eighth-order convergence rates, (2)…
We study convergence of the evolving finite element semi-discretization of a parabolic partial differential equation on an evolving bulk domain. The boundary of the domain evolves with a given velocity, which is then extended to the bulk by…
We propose a finite element discretisation approach for the incompressible Euler equations which mimics their geometric structure and their variational derivation. In particular, we derive a finite element method that arises from a…
The numerical analysis of elastic wave propagation in unbounded media may be difficult to handle due to spurious waves reflected at the model artificial boundaries. Several sophisticated techniques such as nonreflecting boundary conditions,…
This article presents a high order conservative flux optimization (CFO) finite element method for the elliptic diffusion equations. The numerical scheme is based on the classical Galerkin finite element method enhanced by a flux…
We consider the numerical approximation of axisymmetric mean curvature flow with the help of linear finite elements. In the case of a closed genus-1 surface, we derive optimal error bounds with respect to the $L^2$-- and $H^1$--norms for a…
Finite element approximations of minimal surface are not always precise. They can even sometimes completely collapse. In this paper, we provide a simple and inexpensive method, in terms of computational cost, to improve finite element…
In this paper, we use Fourier analysis to study the superconvergence of the semi-discrete discontinuous Galerkin method for scalar linear advection equations in one spatial dimension. The error bounds and asymptotic errors are derived for…
This paper presents an innovative continuous linear finite element approach to effectively solve biharmonic problems on surfaces. The key idea behind this method lies in the strategic utilization of a surface gradient recovery operator to…
A hydrogeological model for the spread of pollution in an aquifer is considered. The model consists in a convection-diffusion-reaction equation involving the dispersion tensor which depends nonlinearly of the fluid velocity. We introduce an…
The explicit semi-Lagrangian method method for solution of Lagrangian transport equations as developed in [Natarajan and Jacobs, Computer and Fluids, 2020] is adopted for the solution of stochastic differential equations that is consistent…
In this paper, an error analysis of a three steps two level Galekin finite element method for the two dimensional transient Navier-Stokes equations is discussed. First of all, the problem is discretized in spatial direction by employing…
We present a multiscale finite element method for a diffusion problem with rough and high contrast coefficients. The construction of the multiscale finite element space is based on the localized orthogonal decomposition methodology and it…
Spurious numerical mixing is a frequent phenomenon in ocean models. In this paper, we present an efficient and robust methodology that defines the vertical grid motion so that this mixing is reduced. This motion is defined as the solution…
This paper considers the existence of local and global-in-time strong solutions to the advection-diffusion equation with variable coefficients on an evolving surface with a boundary. We apply both the maximal $L^p$-in-time regularity for…
We consider Galerkin finite element methods for semilinear stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs) with multiplicative noise and Lipschitz continuous nonlinearities. We analyze the strong error of convergence for spatially…
Numerical transport models based on the advection-dispersion equation (ADE) are built on the assumption that sub-grid cell transport is Fickian such that dispersive spreading around the average velocity is symmetric and without significant…
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…