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We propose and analyse a novel, fully discrete numerical algorithm for the approximation of the generalised Stokes system forced by transport noise -- a prototype model for non-Newtonian fluids including turbulence. Utilising the Gradient…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Jerome Droniou , Kim-Ngan Le , Jörn Wichmann

We propose and analyse an augmented mixed finite element method for the Oseen equations written in terms of velocity, vorticity, and pressure with non-constant viscosity and homogeneous Dirichlet boundary condition for the velocity. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-11-04 Veronica Anaya , Ruben Caraballo , Bryan Gomez-Vargas , David Mora , Ricardo Ruiz-Baier

We construct finite element subspaces of the space of symmetric tensors with square-integrable divergence on a three-dimensional domain. These spaces can be used to approximate the stress field in the classical Hellinger--Reissner mixed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-01-29 Douglas N. Arnold , Gerard Awanou , Ragnar Winther

This paper presents a nonconforming finite element scheme for the planar biharmonic equation which applis piecewise cubic polynomials ($P_3$) and possesses $\mathcal{O}(h^2)$ convergence rate in energy norm on general shape-regular…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-06 Shuo Zhang

We provide an error analysis for the solution of the nonstationary Stokes problem by a variational method in space and time. We use finite elements of higher order for the approximation in space and a Galerkin-Petrov method with first order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-13 Mathias Anselmann , Markus Bause , Gunar Matthies , Friedhelm Schieweck

We present a novel stabilized isogeometric formulation for the Stokes problem, where the geometry of interest is obtained via overlapping NURBS (non-uniform rational B-spline) patches, i.e., one patch on top of another in an arbitrary but…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-22 Xiaodong Wei , Riccardo Puppi , Pablo Antolin , Annalisa Buffa

In this paper, both semidiscrete and fully discrete finite element methods are analyzed for the penalized two-dimensional unsteady Navier-Stokes equations with nonsmooth initial data. First order backward Euler method is applied for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-16 Bikram Bir , Deepjyoti Goswami , Amiya K. Pani

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

This paper focuses on the quasi-optimality of an adaptive nonconforming finite element method for a distributed optimal control problem governed by the Stokes equation. The nonconforming lowest order Crouzeix-Raviart element and piecewise…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Tooba M. Shaikh , Asha K. Dond

We propose and analyse an augmented mixed finite element method for the Navier--Stokes equations written in terms of velocity, vorticity, and pressure with non-constant viscosity and no-slip boundary conditions. The weak formulation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-27 Veronica Anaya , Ruben Caraballo , Ricardo Ruiz-Baier , Hector Torres

The virtual element method (VEM) is a Galerkin approximation method that extends the finite element method to polytopal meshes. In this paper, we present two different conforming virtual element formulations for the numerical approximation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-30 Gianmarco Manzini , Annamaria Mazzia

In this paper, we construct two lower order mixed elements for the linear elasticity problem in the Hellinger-Reissner formulation, one for the 2D problem and one for the 3D problem, both on macro-element meshes. The discrete stress spaces…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-15 Jun Hu , Rui Ma , Yuanxun Sun

We consider a stabilized nonconforming finite element method for data assimilation in incompressible flow subject to the Stokes' equations. The method uses a primal dual structure that allows for the inclusion of nonstandard data. Error…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-09-21 Erik Burman , Peter Hansbo

By the standard theory, the stable $Q_{k+1,k}$-$Q_{k,k+1}/Q_{k}^{dc'}$ divergence-free element converges with the optimal order of approximation for the Stokes equations, but only order $k$ for the velocity in $H^1$-norm and the pressure in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-12-19 Yunqing Huang , Shangyou Zhang

In recent years, a new class of mixed finite elements -- compatible-strain mixed finite elements (CSMFEs) -- has emerged that uses the differential complex of nonlinear elasticity. Their excellent performance in benchmark problems, such as…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-29 Mohsen Jahanshahi , Damiano Pasini , Arash Yavari

In this paper we consider the numerical approximation of the incompressible surface Navier--Stokes equations on an evolving surface. For the discrete representation of the moving surface we use parametric finite elements of degree $\ell…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-09 Harald Garcke , Robert Nürnberg

We study a colocated cell centered finite volume method for the approximation of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations posed on a 2D or 3D finite domain. The discrete unknowns are the components of the velocity and the pressures, all…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2008-04-30 Robert Eymard , Raphaele Herbin , Jean-Claude Latché

We investigate several robust preconditioners for solving the saddle-point linear systems that arise from spatial discretization of unsteady and steady variable-coefficient Stokes equations on a uniform staggered grid. Building on the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-24 M. Cai , A. J. Nonaka , J. B. Bell , B. E. Griffith , A. Donev

We study cut finite element discretizations of a Darcy interface problem based on the mixed finite element pairs $\textbf{RT}_k\times Q_k$, $k\geq 0$. Here $Q_k$ is the space of discontinuous polynomial functions of degree less or equal to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-26 Thomas Frachon , Peter Hansbo , Erik Nilsson , Sara Zahedi

In this paper, we analyze the convergence and optimality of a standard adaptive nonconforming linear element method for the Stokes problem. After establishing a special quasi--orthogonality property for both the velocity and the pressure in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-09-17 Jun Hu , Jinchao Xu