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A diffusion interface two-phase magnetohydrodynamic model has been used for matched densities in our previous work [1,2], which may limit the applications of the model. In this work, we derive a thermodynamically consistent diffuse…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-13 Ke Zhang

We model incompressible flows with an adaptive stabilized finite element method Stokes flows, which solves a discretely stable saddle-point problem to approximate the velocity-pressure pair. Additionally, this saddle-point problem delivers…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-19 Felix Kyburg , Sergio Rojas , Victor M. Calo

This paper deals with the local recovery of conservative fluxes for an elliptic interface problem with discontinuous coefficients. The transmission conditions on the interface are imposed weakly and the discretisation is achieved by using…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-03 Daniela Capatina , Aimene Gouasmi

We consider an elliptic partial differential equation in non-divergence form with a random diffusion matrix and random forcing term. To address this, we propose a mixed-type continuous finite element discretization in the physical domain,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-04 Amireh Mousavi

In this paper, we propose a novel adaptive finite element method for an elliptic equation with line Dirac delta functions as a source term. We first study the well-posedness and global regularity of the solution in the whole domain. Instead…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-12 Huihui Cao , Hengguang Li , Nianyu Yi , Peimeng Yin

In this research note we provide a variational basis for the optimal artificial diffusion method, which has been a cornerstone in developing many stabilized methods. The optimal artificial diffusion method produces exact nodal solutions…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2015-03-13 K. B. Nakshatrala , A. J. Valocchi

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Susanne C. Brenner , José C. Garay , Li-yeng Sung

In this paper, we introduce and analyse a surface finite element discretization of advection-diffusion equations with uncertain coefficients on evolving hypersurfaces. After stating unique solvability of the resulting semi-discrete problem,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-09-26 Ana Djurdjevac , Charles M. Elliott , Ralf Kornhuber , Thomas Ranner

We present an a posteriori error estimate based on equilibrated stress reconstructions for the finite element approximation of a unilateral contact problem with weak enforcement of the contact conditions. We start by proving a guaranteed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-27 Daniele Antonio Di Pietro , Ilaria Fontana , Kyrylo Kazymyrenko

In this paper we investigate the approximation of a diffusion model problem with contrasted diffusivity and the error analysis of various nonconforming approximation methods. The essential difficulty is that the Sobolev smoothness index of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Alexandre Ern , Jean-Luc Guermond

We propose a high order unfitted finite element method for solving timeharmonic Maxwell interface problems. The unfitted finite element method is based on a mixed formulation in the discontinuous Galerkin framework on a Cartesian mesh with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-25 Zhiming Chen , Ke Li , Maohui Lyu , Xueshuang Xiang

Nitsche's method is a popular approach to implement Dirichlet-type boundary conditions in situations where a strong imposition is either inconvenient or simply not feasible. The method is widely applied in the context of unfitted finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-17 Frits de Prenter , Christoph Lehrenfeld , André Massing

We introduce a family of hybrid discretisations for the numerical approximation of optimal control problems governed by the equations of immiscible displacement in porous media. The proposed schemes are based on mixed and discontinuous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-05-02 S. Kumar , R. Ruiz Baier , R. Sandilya

In this paper, we investigate optimal control problems governed by the parabolic interface equation, in which the control acts on the interface. The solution to this problem exhibits low global regularity due to the jump of the coefficient…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-15 Xindan Zhang , Jianping Zhao , Yanren Hou

In the past decade, a combination of unfitted finite elements (or XFEM) with the Nitsche method has become a popular discretization method for elliptic interface problems. This development started with the introduction and analysis of this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-08-14 Christoph Lehrenfeld , Arnold Reusken

In this article we study adaptive finite element methods (AFEM) with inexact solvers for a class of semilinear elliptic interface problems. We are particularly interested in nonlinear problems with discontinuous diffusion coefficients, such…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-24 Michael Holst , Ryan Szypowski , Yunrong Zhu

A simple flux reconstruction for finite element solutions of reaction-diffusion problems is shown to yield fully computable upper bounds on the energy norm of error in an approximation of singularly perturbed reaction-diffusion problem. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-06-26 Mark Ainsworth , Tomas Vejchodsky

We develop a high order cut finite element method for the Stokes problem based on general inf-sup stable finite element spaces. We focus in particular on composite meshes consisting of one mesh that overlaps another. The method is based on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-05 August Johansson , Mats G. Larson , Anders Logg

We present a stabilized finite element method for the numerical solution of cavitation in lubrication, modeled as an inequality-constrained Reynolds equation. The cavitation model is written as a variable coefficient saddle-point problem…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-09 Tom Gustafsson , K. R. Rajagopal , Rolf Stenberg , Juha Videman

This work considers a nonlinear inverse source problem in a coupled diffusion equation from the terminal observation. Theoretically, under some conditions on problem data, we build the uniqueness theorem for this inverse problem and show…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-29 Chunlong Sun , Wenlong Zhang , Zhidong Zhang