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This paper focuses on the quasi-optimality of an adaptive nonconforming finite element method for a distributed optimal control problem governed by the Stokes equation. The nonconforming lowest order Crouzeix-Raviart element and piecewise…

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This work develops and analyzes a variational-monolithic unfitted finite element formulation of a linear fluid-structure interaction problem in Eulerian coordinates with a fixed interface. The overall discretization is based on a backward…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-27 Stefan Frei , Tobias Knoke , Marc C. Steinbach , Anne-Kathrin Wenske , Thomas Wick

We present an isoparametric unfitted finite element approach of the CutFEM or Nitsche-XFEM family for the simulation of two-phase Stokes problems with slip between phases. For the unfitted generalized Taylor--Hood finite element pair…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-26 Maxim Olshanskii , Annalisa Quaini , Qi Sun

In the context of unfitted finite element discretizations the realization of high order methods is challenging due to the fact that the geometry approximation has to be sufficiently accurate. We consider a new unfitted finite element method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-06-27 Christoph Lehrenfeld , Arnold Reusken

The paper shows an inf-sup stability property for several well-known 2D and 3D Stokes elements on triangulations which are not fitted to a given smooth or polygonal domain. The property implies stability and optimal error estimates for a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-04-24 Johnny Guzmán , Maxim Olshanskii

In this work, we develop an adaptive nonconforming finite element algorithm for the numerical approximation of phase-field parameterized topology optimization governed by the Stokes system. We employ the conforming linear finite element…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-20 Bangti Jin , Jing Li , Yifeng Xu , Shengfeng Zhu

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

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

This paper presents and analyzes an immersed finite element (IFE) method for solving Stokes interface problems with a piecewise constant viscosity coefficient that has a jump across the interface. In the method, the triangulation does not…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-24 Haifeng Ji , Feng Wang , Jinru Chen , Zhilin Li

This paper studies the stability of velocity-pressure mixed approximations of the Stokes problem when different finite element (FE) spaces for each component of the velocity field are considered. We consider some new combinations of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-12-01 F. Guillén González , J. R. Rodríguez Galván

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

We present a new fixed mesh algorithm for solving a class of interface inverse problems for the typical elliptic interface problems. These interface inverse problems are formulated as shape optimization prob- lems whose objective…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-18 Ruchi Guo , Tao Lin , Yanping Lin

In this paper, we develop a new weak Galerkin finite element scheme for the Stokes interface problem with curved interfaces. We take a unique vector-valued function at the interface and reflect the interface condition in the variational…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-08 Lin Yang , Qilong Zhai , Ran Zhang

We consider discrete Poisson interface problems resulting from linear unfitted finite elements, also called cut finite elements (CutFEM). Three of these unfitted finite element methods known from the literature are studied. All three…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-07-27 Thomas Ludescher , Sven Gross , Arnold Reusken

Unfitted finite element methods, like CutFEM, have traditionally been implemented in a matrix-based fashion, where a sparse matrix is assembled and later applied to vectors while solving the resulting linear system. With the goal of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-15 Maximilian Bergbauer , Peter Munch , Wolfgang A. Wall , Martin Kronbichler

We introduce an unfitted Nitsche finite element method with a new ghost-penalty stabilization based on local projection of the solution gradient. The proposed ghost-penalty operator is straightforward to implement, ensures algebraic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Maxim Olshanskii , Jan-Phillip Bäcker , Dmitri Kuzmin

We present higher-order piecewise continuous finite element methods for solving a class of interface problems in two dimensions. The method is based on correction terms added to the right-hand side in the standard variational formulation of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-19 Johnny Guzman , Manuel A. Sanchez , Marcus Sarkis

This paper develops and analyses numerical approximation for linear-quadratic optimal control problem governed by elliptic interface equations. We adopt variational discretization concept to discretize optimal control problem, and apply an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-04 Chao Chao Yang , Tao Wang , Xiaoping Xie

Finite element approximation of the velocity-pressure formulation of the surfaces Stokes equations is challenging because it is typically not possible to enforce both tangentiality and $H^1$ conformity of the velocity field. Most previous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-12 Alan Demlow , Michael Neilan