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The aim of this note is to present a numerical method to solve the Stokes problem in a bounded domain with a Dirac source term, which preserves optimality for any approximation order by the finite-element method. It is based on the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-20 Loïc Lacouture

In this paper, we examine a finite element approximation of the steady $p(\cdot)$-Navier-Stokes equations ($p(\cdot)$ is variable dependent) and prove orders of convergence by assuming natural fractional regularity assumptions on the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-15 Luigi C. Berselli , Alex Kaltenbach

This work introduces a stabilised finite element formulation for the Stokes flow problem with a nonlinear slip boundary condition of friction type. The boundary condition is enforced with the help of an additional Lagrange multiplier and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-21 Tom Gustafsson , Juha Videman

In this paper, we propose a finite element pair for incompressible Stokes problem. The pair uses a slightly enriched piecewise linear polynomial space for velocity and piecewise constant space for pressure, and is illustrated to be a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-08-25 Wenjia Liu , Shuo Zhang

We propose and analyze a finite element method for a semi-stationary Stokes system modeling compressible fluid flow subject to a Navier-slip boundary condition. The velocity (momentum) equation is approximated by a mixed finite element…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2009-04-07 Kenneth H. Karlsen , Trygve K. Karper

The paper develops a finite element method for the Navier-Stokes equations of incompressible viscous fluid in a time-dependent domain. The method builds on a quasi-Lagrangian formulation of the problem. The paper provides stability and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-15 Alexander Lozovskiy , Maxim A. Olshanskii , Yuri V. Vassilevski

In this paper, both semidiscrete and fully discrete finite element methods are analyzed for the penalized two-dimensional unsteady Navier-Stokes equations with nonsmooth initial data. First order backward Euler method is applied for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-16 Bikram Bir , Deepjyoti Goswami , Amiya K. Pani

We discuss how slip conditions for the Stokes equation can be handled using Nitsche method, for a stabilized finite element discretization. Emphasis is made on the interplay between stabilization and Nitsche terms. Well-posedness of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-16 Rodolfo Araya , Alfonso Caiazzo , Franz Chouly

In this paper we consider the numerical approximation of the incompressible surface Navier--Stokes equations on an evolving surface. For the discrete representation of the moving surface we use parametric finite elements of degree $\ell…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-09 Harald Garcke , Robert Nürnberg

This article focusses on the analysis of a conforming finite element method for the time-dependent incompressible Navier-Stokes equations. For divergence-free approximations, in a semi-discrete formulation, we prove error estimates for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-03-20 Philipp W. Schroeder , Gert Lube

In this work we propose, {analyze}, and validate a stabilized finite element method for a flow problem arising from the assessment of {4D Flow Magnetic Resonance Imaging quality}. Starting from the Navier-Stokes equation and splitting its…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Gabriel Barrenechea , Cristian Cárcamo , Abner Poza

The paper introduces a geometrically unfitted finite element method for the numerical solution of the tangential Navier--Stokes equations posed on a passively evolving smooth closed surface embedded in $\mathbb{R}^3$. The discrete…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-16 Maxim A. Olshanskii , Arnold Reusken , Paul Schwering

We introduce a new discretization of a mixed formulation of the incompressible Stokes equations that includes symmetric viscous stresses. The method is built upon a mass conserving mixed formulation that we recently studied. The improvement…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Jay Gopalakrishnan , Philip L. Lederer , Joachim Schöberl

In this article, we design and analyze an arbitrary-order stabilized finite element method to approximate the unique continuation problem for laminar steady flow described by the linearized incompressible Navier--Stokes equation. We derive…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-16 Erik Burman , Deepika Garg , Janosch Preuss

A finite element (FE) discretization for the steady, incompressible, fully inhomogeneous, generalized Navier-Stokes equations is proposed. By the method of divergence reconstruction operators, the formulation is valid for all shear stress…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-08 Alex Kaltenbach , Julius Jeßberger

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

Variable viscosity arises in many flow scenarios, often imposing numerical challenges. Yet, discretisation methods designed specifically for non-constant viscosity are few, and their analysis is even scarcer. In finite element methods for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-05 Felipe Galarce , Douglas R. Q. Pacheco

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

We derive low-order, inf-sup stable and divergence-free finite element approximations for the Stokes problem using Worsey-Farin splits in three dimensions and Powell-Sabin splits in two dimensions. The velocity space simply consists of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-02 Maurice Fabien , Johnny Guzman , Michael Neilan , Ahmed Zytoon

The paper develops and analyzes a higher-order unfitted finite element method for the incompressible Stokes equations, which yields a strongly divergence-free velocity field up to the physical boundary. The method combines an isoparametric…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Michael Neilan , Maxim Olshanskii , Henry von Wahl