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An efficient and accurate finite-element algorithm is described for the numerical solution of the incompressible Navier-Stokes (INS) equations. The new algorithm that solves the INS equations in a velocity-pressure reformulation is based on…
In this work, we propose and develop an arbitrary-order adaptive discontinuous Petrov-Galerkin (DPG) method for the nonlinear Grad-Shafranov equation. An ultraweak formulation of the DPG scheme for the equation is given based on a minimal…
We consider nodal-based Lagrangian interpolations for the finite element approximation of the Maxwell eigenvalue problem. The first approach introduced is a standard Galerkin method on Powell-Sabin meshes, which has recently been shown to…
In this work, we propose a novel formulation for the solution of partial differential equations using finite element methods on unfitted meshes. The proposed formulation relies on the discrete extension operator proposed in the aggregated…
We extend previous work [Y. E. Litvinenko, Phys. Plasmas 17, 074502 (2010)] on a direct method for finding similarity reductions of partial differential equations such as the Grad-Shafranov equation, to the case of the generalized…
We consider the finite element discretization and the iterative solution of singularly perturbed elliptic reaction-diffusion equations in three-dimensional computational domains. These equations arise from the optimality conditions for…
This paper introduces a new method for discretizing and solving integral equation formulations of Maxwell's equations which achieves spectral accuracy for smooth surfaces. The approach is based on a hybrid Nystr\"om-collocation method using…
Using recently developed adjoint methods for computing the shape derivatives of functions that depend on MHD equilibria (Antonsen et al. 2019; Paul et al. 2020), we present the first example of analytic gradient-based optimization of…
A finite element methodology for large classes of variational boundary value problems is defined which involves discretizing two linear operators: (1) the differential operator defining the spatial boundary value problem; and (2) a Riesz…
Recent results will be presented on steady states of magnetically confined plasmas obtained by conventional and Hamiltonian methods. The presentation consists of three parts. The first one concerns the derivation of a generalized…
There is a growing interest in the conservation of invariants when numerically solving a system of ordinary differential equations. Methods that exactly preserve these quantities in time are known as geometric integrators. In this paper we…
This paper considers the numerical solution of Timoshenko beam network models, comprised of Timoshenko beam equations on each edge of the network, which are coupled at the nodes of the network using rigid joint conditions. Through…
In this work, we extend the equal-order stabilized scheme discussed in [Franca et al., Comput. Methods Appl. Mech. Engrg. 99 (1992) 209-233] to accommodate slip (i.e., Navier) boundary conditions for the stationary Navier-Stokes equations.…
We propose a high-order finite element method for linear fourth-order elliptic problems that is both nodally bound-preserving and mass-conservative, based on a variational inequality formulation. The method admits an equivalent strictly…
We introduce a new class of mixed finite element methods for 2D and 3D compressible nonlinear elasticity. The independent unknowns of these conformal methods are displacement, displacement gradient, and the first Piola-Kirchhoff stress…
This paper develops and analyzes a fully discrete finite element method for a class of semilinear stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs) with multiplicative noise. The nonlinearity in the diffusion term of the SPDEs is assumed to…
In the present work, we investigate the computational efficiency afforded by higher-order finite-element discretization of the saddle-point formulation of orbital-free density functional theory. We first investigate the robustness of viable…
A numerical study of tetrahedral Raviart-Thomas mixed finite element methods is presented in the solution of model second order boundary value problems posed in a curved spatial domain. An emphasis is given to the case where normal fluxes…
In this paper, we employ a space-time finite element method to discretize the parabolic initial-boundary value problem and extend its error analysis with refined estimates on unstructured space-time meshes. We establish higher-order…
This paper introduces a discretization-accurate stopping criterion of symmetric iterative methods for solving systems of algebraic equations resulting from the finite element approximation. The stopping criterion consists of the evaluations…