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This work focuses on the development of efficient solvers for the pseudo-stress formulation of the unsteady Stokes problem, discretised by means of a discontinuous Galerkin method on polytopal grids (PolyDG). The introduction of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-04 Paola F. Antonietti , Alessandra Cancrini , Gabriele Ciaramella

The method of regularized stokeslets is extensively used in biological fluid dynamics due to its conceptual simplicity and meshlessness. This simplicity carries a degree of cost in computational expense and accuracy because the number of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-02-14 David J. Smith

We define the notion of effective stiffness and show that it can used to build sparsifiers, algorithms that sparsify linear systems arising from finite-element discretizations of PDEs. In particular, we show that sampling $O(n\log n)$…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Haim Avron , Sivan Toledo

In this article, we analyse a stabilised equal-order finite element approximation for the Stokes equations on anisotropic meshes. In particular, we allow arbitrary anisotropies in a sub-domain, for example along the boundary of the domain,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-12 Stefan Frei

Fine scale elastic structures are widespread in nature, for instances in plants or bones, whenever stiffness and low weight are required. These patterns frequently refine towards a Dirichlet boundary to ensure an effective load transfer.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-11-13 Nora Lüthen , Martin Rumpf , Sascha Tölkes , Orestis Vantzos

We consider a numerical approach for the incompressible surface Navier-Stokes equation. The approach is based on the covariant form and uses discrete exterior calculus (DEC) in space and a semi-implicit discretization in time. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-26 Ingo Nitschke , Sebastian Reuther , Axel Voigt

The goal of this work is to present a fast and viable approach for the numerical solution of the high-contrast state problems arising in topology optimization. The optimization process is iterative, and the gradients are obtained by an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-25 Miguel Zambrano , Sintya Serrano , Boyan S. Lazarov , Juan Galvis

In this paper, we present a hybrid neural-network and MAC (Marker-And-Cell) scheme for solving Stokes equations with singular forces on an embedded interface in regular domains. As known, the solution variables (the pressure and velocity)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-20 Che-Chia Chang , Chen-Yang Dai , Wei-Fan Hu , Te-Sheng Lin , Ming-Chih Lai

The method of regularised stokeslets is widely used in microscale biological fluid dynamics due to its ease of implementation, natural treatment of complex moving geometries, and removal of singular functions to integrate. The standard…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-10 Meurig Gallagher , David Smith

Time-discrete numerical minimization schemes for simple viscoelastic materials in the large strain Kelvin-Voigt rheology are not well-posed due to non-quasiconvexity of the dissipation functional. A possible solution is to resort into…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-10-27 Patrick Dondl , Martin Jesenko , Martin Kružík , Jan Valdman

We study a discrete variant of the Airy equation, formulated as an advance-delay equation, to reveal that discretization induces the higher-order Stokes phenomenon, which is not present in the continuous Airy function and is typically only…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-10-09 Aaron J. Moston-Duggan , Christopher J. Howls , Christopher J. Lustri

Finite element discretization of Stokes problems can result in singular, inconsistent saddle point linear algebraic systems. This inconsistency can cause many iterative methods to fail to converge. In this work, we consider the lowest-order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-16 Weizhang Huang , Zhuoran Wang

Discontinuities in spatial derivatives appear in a wide range of physical systems, from creased thin sheets to materials with sharp stiffness transitions. Accurately modeling these features is essential for simulation but remains…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Mengfei Liu , Yue Chang , Zhecheng Wang , Peter Yichen Chen , Eitan Grinspun

We study a higher-order surface finite element (SFEM) penalty-based discretization of the tangential surface Stokes problem. Several discrete formulations are investigated which are equivalent in the continuous setting. The impact of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-11 Hanne Hardering , Simon Praetorius

We develop a computational model to study the interaction of a fluid with a poroelastic material. The coupling of Stokes and Biot equations represents a prototype problem for these phenomena, which feature multiple facets. On one hand it…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-19 Martina Bukac , Ivan Yotov , Rana Zakerzadeh , Paolo Zunino

In this paper a class of higher order finite element methods for the discretization of surface Stokes equations is studied. These methods are based on an unfitted finite element approach in which standard Taylor-Hood spaces on an underlying…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-09-19 Thomas Jankuhn , Arnold Reusken

The paper addresses stability and finite element analysis of the stationary two-phase Stokes problem with a piecewise constant viscosity coefficient experiencing a jump across the interface between two fluid phases. We first prove a priori…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-23 Ernesto Cáceres , Johnny Guzmán , Maxim Olshanskii

We present a parametric finite element approximation of two-phase flow. This free boundary problem is given by the Stokes equations in the two phases, which are coupled via jump conditions across the interface. Using a novel variational…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-02 John W. Barrett , Harald Garcke , Robert Nürnberg

Motivated by the need for efficient and accurate simulation of the dynamics of the polar ice sheets, we design high-order finite element discretizations and scalable solvers for the solution of nonlinear incompressible Stokes equations. We…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2015-11-05 Tobin Isaac , Georg Stadler , Omar Ghattas

The Stokes equations play an important role in the incompressible flow simulation. In this paper, a novel divergence-free parametric mixed finite element method is proposed for solving three-dimensional Stokes equations on domains with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-19 Lingxiao Li , Haiyan Su , He Zhang , Weiying Zheng