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We consider two methods for treating elastic contact problems with the finite element method; the penalty method and Nitsche's method. For the penalty method we discuss how the penalty parameter should be chosen. Both the theoretical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-29 Tom Gustafsson , Rolf Stenberg

In this paper we propose a new finite element discretization for the two-field formulation of poroelasticity which uses the elastic displacement and the pore pressure as primary variables. The main goal is to develop a numerical method with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-08 Jeonghun J. Lee , Jacob Moore

Nitsche's method is a well-established approach for weak enforcement of boundary conditions for partial differential equations (PDEs). It has many desirable properties, including the preservation of variational consistency and the fact that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-08 Joseph Benzaken , John A. Evans , Rasmus Tamstorf

Motivated by many applications in complex domains with boundaries exposed to large topological changes or deformations, fictitious domain methods regard the actual domain of interest as being embedded in a fixed Cartesian background. This…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-17 Georgios Katsouleas , Efthymios N. Karatzas , Fotios Travlopanos

We derive a priori error estimates for Nitsche's method applied to elliptic problems on approximate domains. Such approximations arise, for example, in unfitted finite element methods, data-driven simulations, and evolving domain problems,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-02 Mats G. Larson , Karl Larsson , Shantiram Mahata

We present a new composite mesh finite element method for fluid--structure interaction problems. The method is based on surrounding the structure by a boundary-fitted fluid mesh which is embedded into a fixed background fluid mesh. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-01-20 Andre Massing , Mats G. Larson , Anders Logg , Marie E. Rognes

We show quasi-optimality and a posteriori error estimates for the frictionless contact problem between two elastic bodies with a zero-gap function. The analysis is based on interpreting Nitsche's method as a stabilised finite element method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-05 Tom Gustafsson , Rolf Stenberg , Juha Videman

In this paper we analyze Nitsche's method for the stationary Boussinesq system with Navier's slip and a nonlinear boundary condition. Our analysis of the formulation establishes the robustness of a finite elements scheme in arbitrarily…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-09 Aparna Bansal , Nicolás A. Barnafi , Gianmarco Sperone , Dwijendra N. Pandey

We develop a density based topology optimization method for linear elasticity based on the cut finite element method. More precisely, the design domain is discretized using cut finite elements which allow complicated geometry to be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-03-19 Erik Burman , Daniel Elfverson , Peter Hansbo , Mats G. Larson , Karl Larsson

Strutinsky's method is reviewed through a new understanding. This method depends on two free parameters: The smoothing parameter and the order of the curvature correction. It turns out that this method is nothing but a compromise between…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-09-24 B. Mohammed-Azizi

In the framework of virtual element discretizazions, we address the problem of imposing non homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions in a weak form, both on polygonal/polyhedral domains and on two/three dimensional domains with curved…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-04-05 Silvia Bertoluzza , Micol Pennacchio , Daniele Prada

In this paper, we study the stability of the non symmetric version of the Nitsche's method without penalty for domain decomposition. The Poisson problem is considered as a model problem. The computational domain is divided into two…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-09-03 Thomas Boiveau

The multimesh finite element method is a technique for solving partial differential equations on multiple non-matching meshes by enforcing interface conditions using Nitsche's method. Since the non-matching meshes can result in arbitrarily…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-15 Jørgen S. Dokken , August Johansson , André Massing , Simon W. Funke

The finite element method can be viewed as a machine that automates the discretization of differential equations, taking as input a variational problem, a finite element and a mesh, and producing as output a system of discrete equations.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-12-05 Anders Logg

The multimesh finite element method enables the solution of partial differential equations on a computational mesh composed by multiple arbitrarily overlapping meshes. The discretization is based on a continuous--discontinuous function…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-02 August Johansson , Mats G. Larson , Anders Logg

A simple skew-symmetric Nitsche's formulation is introduced into the framework of isogeometric analysis (IGA) to deal with various problems in small strain elasticity: essential boundary conditions, symmetry conditions for Kirchhoff plates,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-15 Qingyuan Hu , Franz Chouly , Ping Hu , Gengdong Cheng , Stéphane Pierre Alain Bordas

We present a new high order finite element method for the discretization of partial differential equations on stationary smooth surfaces which are implicitly described as the zero level of a level set function. The discretization is based…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-04-17 Jörg Grande , Christoph Lehrenfeld , Arnold Reusken

This article focuses on a nonlinear Neumann boundary feedback control formulation for the viscous Burgers' equation and develops a class of finite difference schemes to achieve global stabilization. The proposed procedure, known as the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-02 Shishu Pal Singh , Sudeep Kundu

Nitsche's method is a standard device for weakly imposing Dirichlet boundary conditions, but for the stabilized nonsymmetric formulation the available $L^2$-error analysis for Poisson's equation still predicts a half-order loss, whereas…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Gang Chen , Chaoran Liu , Yangwen Zhang

In recent years, a number of finite element methods have been formulated for the solution of partial differential equations on complex geometries based on non-matching or overlapping meshes. Examples of such methods include the fictitious…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-10-29 André Massing , Mats G. Larson , Anders Logg