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This paper is concerned with the optimal shape design of the newtonian viscous incompressible fluids driven by the stationary nonhomogeneous Navier-Stokes equations. We use three approaches to derive the structures of shape gradients for…

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In this paper we propose a novel approach to discretize linear port-Hamiltonian systems while preserving the underlying structure. We present a finite element exterior calculus formulation that is able to mimetically represent conservation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-19 Andrea Brugnoli , Ramy Rashad , Stefano Stramigioli

Inverse problems in fluid dynamics are ubiquitous in science and engineering, with applications ranging from electronic cooling system design to ocean modeling. We propose a general and robust approach for solving inverse problems in the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-20 Tiffany Fan , Kailai Xu , Jay Pathak , Eric Darve

We consider a stabilization method for divergence-conforming B-spline discretizations of the incompressible Navier--Stokes problem wherein jumps in high-order normal derivatives of the velocity field are penalized across interior mesh…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-28 Guoxiang Grayson Tong , David Kamensky , John A. Evans

We find new discrete $H^1$- and Poincar\'e-Friedrichs inequalities by studying the invertibility of the DG approximation of the flux for local spaces admitting M-decompositions. We then show how to use these inequalities to define and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-20 Bernardo Cockburn , Guosheng Fu , Weifeng Qiu

We consider a time discretization of incompressible Navier-Stokes equations with spatial periodic boundary conditions in the vorticity-velocity formulation. The approximation is based on freezing the velocity on time subintervals resulting…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-12 G. N. Milstein , M. V. Tretyakov

We derive an a priori error estimate for the numerical solution obtained by time and space discretization by the finite volume/finite element method of the barotropic Navier--Stokes equations. The numerical solution on a convenient…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-08-27 Eduard Feireisl , Radim Hošek , David Maltese , Antonín Novotný

This paper establishes strong convergence rates for the spatial finite element discretization of a two-dimensional stochastic Navier--Stokes system with transport noise and no-slip boundary conditions on a convex polygonal domain. The main…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-15 Binjie Li , Qin Zhou

We analyze a variational time discretization of geodesic calculus on finite- and certain classes of infinite-dimensional Riemannian manifolds. We investigate the fundamental properties of discrete geodesics, the associated discrete…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-03-25 Martin Rumpf , Benedikt Wirth

This paper considers the discretization of the time-dependent Navier-Stokes equations with the family of inf-sup stabilized Scott-Vogelius pairs recently introduced in [John/Li/Merdon/Rui, arXiv:2206.01242, 2022] for the Stokes problem.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-22 Naveed Ahmed , Volker John , Xu Li , Christian Merdon

We develop a high-fidelity numerical solver for the compressible Navier-Stokes equations, with the main aim of highlighting the predictive capabilities of low-diffusive numerics for flows in complex geometries. The space discretization of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-12-16 Davide Modesti , Sergio Pirozzoli

In this paper we consider a conservative discretization of the two-dimensional incompressible Navier--Stokes equations. We propose an extension of Arakawa's classical finite difference scheme for fluid flow in the vorticity-stream function…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-01-06 Lukas Einkemmer , Matthias Wiesenberger

Discrete mechanics is presented as an alternative to the equations of fluid mechanics, in particular to the Navier-Stokes equation. The derivation of the discrete equation of motion is built from the intuitions of Galileo, the principles of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-01-26 Jean-Paul Caltagirone

We prove convergence and stability of the discrete exterior calculus (DEC) solutions for the Hodge-Laplace problems in two dimensions for families of meshes that are non-degenerate Delaunay and shape regular. We do this by relating the DEC…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Chengbin Zhu , Snorre H. Christiansen , Kaibo Hu , Anil N. Hirani

An efficient and accurate finite-element algorithm is described for the numerical solution of the incompressible Navier-Stokes (INS) equations. The new algorithm that solves the INS equations in a velocity-pressure reformulation is based on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-19 Longfei Li

We consider the numerical investigation of surface bound orientational order using unit tangential vector fields by means of a gradient-flow equation of a weak surface Frank-Oseen energy. The energy is composed of intrinsic and extrinsic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-08-07 Michael Nestler , Ingo Nitschke , Simon Praetorius , Axel Voigt

We study the pointwise decay properties of solutions to the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations, both in the space and time variables. It is well known that generic global solutions on $\mathbb{R}^n$ do not decay faster at infinity than…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Lorenzo Brandolese , Matthieu Pageard

We carry out a stability and convergence analysis of a fully discrete scheme for the time-dependent Navier-Stokes equations resulting from combining an $H(\mathrm{div}, \Omega)$-conforming discontinuous Galerkin spatial discretization, and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-22 L. Beirão da Veiga , F. Dassi , S. Gómez

The paper introduces a finite element method for the incompressible Navier--Stokes equations posed on a closed surface $\Gamma\subset\R^3$. The method needs a shape regular tetrahedra mesh in $\mathbb{R}^3$ to discretize equations on the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-03-27 Maxim A. Olshanskii , Vladimir Yushutin

This paper presents a streamfunction-vorticity formulation for the Navier--Stokes and Euler equations on general surfaces. Notably, this includes non-simply connected surfaces, on which the harmonic components of the velocity field play a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-25 Tim Brüers , Christoph Lehrenfeld , Max Wardetzky