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We propose a variational framework for the resolution of a non-hydrostatic Saint-Venant type model with bottom topography. This model is a shallow water type approximation of the incompressible Euler system with free surface and slightly…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-07-01 N. Aissiouene , M. -O. Bristeau , E. Godlewski , J. Sainte-Marie

The finite element simulation of dynamic wetting phenomena, requiring the computation of flow in a domain confined by intersecting a liquid-fluid free surface and a liquid-solid interface, with the three-phase contact line moving across the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2012-02-20 J. E. Sprittles , Y. D. Shikhmurzaev

This paper presents a family of spatial discretisations of the nonlinear rotating shallow-water equations that conserve both energy and potential enstrophy. These are based on two-dimensional mixed finite element methods and hence, unlike…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-16 Andrew T. T. McRae , Colin J. Cotter

Linear fluctuating hydrodynamics is a useful and versatile tool for describing fluids, as well as other systems with conserved fields, on a mesoscopic scale. In one spatial dimension, however, transport is anomalous, which requires to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-01-05 Herbert Spohn

We present a finite element framework for the numerical prediction of cavitating turbulent flows interacting with flexible structures. The vapor-fluid phases are captured through a homogeneous mixture model, with a scalar transport equation…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-01-01 Nihar B. Darbhamulla , Rajeev K. Jaiman

We develop a unified theory for continuous in time finite element discretisations of partial differential equations posed in evolving domains including the consideration of equations posed on evolving surfaces and bulk domains as well…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-21 Charles M. Elliott , Thomas Ranner

Quantum fluid (or hydrodynamic) models provide an attractive alternative for the modeling and simulation of the electron dynamics in nano-scale objects. Compared to more standard approaches, such as density functional theory or phase-space…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-12 Giovanni Manfredi , Paul-Antoine Hervieux , Jérôme Hurst

We show that for a large class of finite dimensional input-output positive systems that represent networks of transport and diffusion of solute in geological media, there exist equivalent multi-rate mass transfer and multiple interacting…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-01-23 Alain Rapaport , Alejandro Rojas-Palma , Jean-Raynald De Dreuzy , Hector Ramirez

We revisit the geodesic approach to ideal hydrodynamics and present a related geometric framework for Newton's equations on groups of diffeomorphisms and spaces of probability densities. The latter setting is sufficiently general to include…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-01-25 Boris Khesin , Gerard Misiolek , Klas Modin

Cut finite element method (CutFEM) based approaches towards challenging fluid-structure interaction (FSI) are proposed. The different considered methods combine the advantages of competing novel Eulerian (fixed-grid) and established…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Benedikt Schott , Christoph Ager , Wolfgang A. Wall

We present an energy conserving space discretisation of the rotating shallow water equations using compatible finite elements. It is based on an energy and enstrophy conserving Hamiltonian formulation as described in McRae and Cotter…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Golo Wimmer , Colin Cotter , Werner Bauer

We study mixed finite element methods for the rotating shallow water equations with linearized momentum terms but nonlinear drag. By means of an equivalent second-order formulation, we prove long-time stability of the system without energy…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-06-06 Colin J. Cotter , P. Jameson Graber , Robert C. Kirby

This paper presents a conforming finite element semi-discretization of the streamfunction form of the one-layer unsteady quasi-geostrophic equations, which are a commonly used model for large-scale wind-driven ocean circulation. We derive…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-06-02 Erich L Foster , Traian Iliescu , David R. Wells

We provide an approach to implementing the shallow atmosphere approximation in three dimensional finite element discretisations for dynamical cores. The approach makes use of the fact that the shallow atmosphere approximation metric can be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-10-14 C. J. Cotter , D. A. Ham , A. T. T. McRae , L. Mitchell , A. Natale

We introduce discontinuous spectral-element methods of arbitrary order that are well balanced, conservative of mass, and conservative or dissipative of total energy (i.e., a mathematical entropy function) for a covariant flux formulation of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Tristan Montoya , Andrés M. Rueda-Ramírez , Gregor J. Gassner

We are concerned with underlying connections between fluids, elasticity, isometric embedding of Riemannian manifolds, and the existence of wrinkled solutions of the associated nonlinear partial differential equations. In this paper, we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-08-29 Amit Acharya , Gui-Qiang Chen , Siran Li , Marshall Slemrod , Dehua Wang

We develop an effective field theory for dissipative fluids which governs the dynamics of long-lived gapless modes associated with conserved quantities. The resulting theory gives a path integral formulation of fluctuating hydrodynamics…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-01-30 Michael Crossley , Paolo Glorioso , Hong Liu

A model of the three-dimensional rotating compressible Euler equations on the cubed sphere is presented. The model uses a mixed mimetic spectral element discretization which allows for the exact exchanges of kinetic, internal and potential…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-01 D. Lee , A. Palha

This paper introduces a family of entropy-conserving finite-difference discretizations for the compressible flow equations. In addition to conserving the primary quantities of mass, momentum, and total energy, the methods also preserve…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-09-24 Carlo De Michele , Ayaboe K. Edoh , Gennaro Coppola

The problem of incompressible fluid mixing arises in numerous engineering applications and has been well-studied over the years, yet many open questions remain. This paper aims to address the question "what do efficient flow fields for…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-15 Max Emerick , Bassam Bamieh