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A discretisation scheme that preserves topological features of a physical problem is extended so that differential geometric structures can be approximated in a consistent way thus giving access to the study of physical systems which are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Vivien de Beauce , Siddhartha Sen

A recent paper [J. A. Evans, D. Kamensky, Y. Bazilevs, "Variational multiscale modeling with discretely divergence-free subscales", Computers & Mathematics with Applications, 80 (2020) 2517-2537] introduced a novel stabilized finite element…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-21 Sajje Lee Calfy , John A. Evans , David Kamensky

Discrete exterior calculus (DEC) offers a coordinate-free discretization of exterior calculus especially suited for computations on curved spaces. In this work, we present an extended version of DEC on surface meshes formed by general…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-30 Lenka Ptackova , Luiz Velho

Immersed methods discretize boundary conditions for complex geometries on background Cartesian grids. This makes such methods especially suitable for two-way coupled flow-body problems, where the body mechanics are partially driven by…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-04-01 Xinjie Ji , James Gabbard , Wim M. van Rees

The discrete exterior calculus (DEC) defines a family of discretized differential operators which preserve certain desirable properties from the exterior calculus. We formulate and solve the porous convection equations in the DEC via the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Luke Morris , George Rauta , Kevin Carlson , James Fairbanks

In this work we design and analyse a Discrete de Rham (DDR) method for the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations. Our focus is, more specifically, on the SDDR variant, where a reduction in the number of unknowns is obtained using…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-10 Daniele A. Di Pietro , Jerome Droniou , Jia Jia Qian

We present a strong form, meshless point collocation explicit solver for the numerical solution of the transient, incompressible, viscous Navier-Stokes (N-S) equations in two dimensions. We numerically solve the governing flow equations in…

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 addresses the numerical solution of the two-dimensional Navier--Stokes (NS) equations with nonsmooth initial data in the $L^2$ space, which is the critical space for the two-dimensional NS equations to be well-posed. In this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-02 Buyang Li , Qiqi Rao , Hui Zhang , Zhi Zhou

In this note, the importance of spectral properties of viscous flux discretization in solving compressible Navier-Stokes equations for turbulent flow simulations is discussed. We studied six different methods, divided into two different…

We develop a mesh-based semi-Lagrangian discretization of the time-dependent incompressible Navier-Stokes equations with free boundary conditions recast as a non-linear transport problem for a momentum 1-form. A linearly implicit fully…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-05 Wouter Tonnon , Ralf Hiptmair

The integral equation approach to partial differential equations (PDEs) provides significant advantages in the numerical solution of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations. In particular, the divergence-free condition and boundary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-26 Ludvig af Klinteberg , Travis Askham , Mary Catherine Kropinski

We revisit the theory of Discrete Exterior Calculus (DEC) in 2D for general triangulations, relying only on Vector Calculus and Matrix Algebra. We present DEC numerical solutions of the Poisson equation and compare them against those found…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-06-07 Humberto Esqueda , Rafael Herrera , Salvador Botello , Miguel Angel Moreles

In this paper we apply the recently developed mimetic discretization method to the mixed formulation of the Stokes problem in terms of vorticity, velocity and pressure. The mimetic discretization presented in this paper and in [50] is a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-03 Jasper Kreeft , Marc Gerritsma

High-order time-stepping schemes are crucial for simulating incompressible fluid flows due to their ability to capture complex turbulent behavior and unsteady motion. In this work, we propose a third-order accurate numerical scheme for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-22 Kelong Cheng , Jingwei Sun , Hong Zhang

This paper presents a robust, adaptive numerical scheme for simulating high density ratio and high shear multiphase flows on locally refined Cartesian grids that adapt to the evolving interfaces and track regions of high vorticity. The…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Nishant Nangia , Boyce E. Griffith , Neelesh A. Patankar , Amneet Pal Singh Bhalla

A formulation of elliptic boundary value problems is used to develop the first discrete exterior calculus (DEC) library for massively parallel computations with 3D domains. This can be used for steady-state analysis of any physical process…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Pieter D. Boom , Ashley Seepujak , Odysseas Kosmas , Lee Margetts , Andrey Jivkov

In this work, we study the gradient discretisation method (GDM) of the time-dependent Navier-Stokes equations coupled with the heat equation, where the viscosity depends on the temperature. We design the discrete method and prove its…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-25 Yahya Alnashri

The numerical implementation of finite element discretization method for the stream function formulation of a linearized Navier-Stokes equations is considered. Algorithm 1 is applied using Argyris element. Three global orderings of nodes…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 F. Fairag , N. Almulla

We present a sharp collocated projection method for solving the immiscible, two-phase Navier-Stokes equations in two- and three-dimensions. Our method is built using non-graded adaptive quadtree and octree grids, where all of the fluid…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-18 Adam L. Binswanger , Matthew Blomquist , Scott R. West , Shilpa Khatri , Maxime Theillard