Related papers: Trace Finite Element Methods for PDEs on Surfaces
In this paper we analyze a class of trace finite element methods (TraceFEM) for the discretization of vector-Laplace equations. A key issue in the finite element discretization of such problems is the treatment of the constraint that the…
In this paper, we study a numerical method for the solution of partial differential equations on evolving surfaces. The numerical method is built on the stabilized trace finite element method (TraceFEM) for the spatial discretization and…
We consider a Stokes problem posed on a 2D surface embedded in a 3D domain. The equations describe an equilibrium, area-preserving tangential flow of a viscous surface fluid and serve as a model problem in the dynamics of material…
We present a new high order finite element method for the discretization of partial differential equations on stationary smooth surfaces which are implicitly described as the zero level of a level set function. The discretization is based…
In this paper we analyze a space-time unfitted finite element method for the discretization of scalar surface partial differential equations on evolving surfaces. For higher order approximations of the evolving surface we use the technique…
In this paper a class of higher order finite element methods for the discretization of surface Stokes equations is studied. These methods are based on an unfitted finite element approach in which standard Taylor-Hood spaces on an underlying…
The paper introduces an adaptive version of the stabilized Trace Finite Element Method (TraceFEM) designed to solve low-regularity elliptic problems on level-set surfaces using a shape-regular bulk mesh in the embedding space. Two…
In this paper, we propose an approach for solving PDEs on evolving surfaces using a combination of the trace finite element method and a fast marching method. The numerical approach is based on the Eulerian description of the surface…
We consider a vector-Laplace problem posed on a 2D surface embedded in a 3D domain, which results from the modeling of surface fluids based on exterior Cartesian differential operators. The main topic of this paper is the development and…
In this paper we study parametric TraceFEM and parametric SurfaceFEM (SFEM) discretizations of a surface Stokes problem. These methods are applied both to the Stokes problem in velocity-pressure formulation and in stream function…
The paper develops a finite element method for partial differential equations posed on hypersurfaces in $\mathbb{R}^N$, $N=2,3$. The method uses traces of bulk finite element functions on a surface embedded in a volumetric domain. The bulk…
The Intrinsic Surface Finite Element Method (ISFEM) was recently proposed to solve Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) on surfaces. ISFEM proceeds by writing the PDE with respect to a local coordinate system anchored to the surface and…
The paper studies a method for solving elliptic partial differential equations posed on hypersurfaces in $\mathbb{R}^N$, $N=2,3$. The method allows a surface to be given implicitly as a zero level of a level set function. A surface equation…
This paper addresses the analysis and numerical assessment of a computational method for solving the Cahn--Hilliard equation defined on a surface. The proposed approach combines the stabilized trace finite element method for spatial…
In this paper we study a system of advection-diffusion equations in a bulk domain coupled to an advection-diffusion equation on an embedded surface. Such systems of coupled partial differential equations arise in, for example, the modeling…
We consider Trace finite element methods for the linear membrane problem on second order tetrahedral elements. To accomplish this, zero-level set reconstruction methods for second order tetrahedra are considered. For the higher order…
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…
In this paper, we develop an adaptive high-order surface finite element method (FEM) incorporating the spectral deferred correction method for chain contour discretization to solve polymeric self-consistent field equations on general curved…
The paper studies an Allen-Cahn-type equation defined on a time-dependent surface as a model of phase separation with order-disorder transition in a thin material layer. By a formal inner-outer expansion, it is shown that the limiting…
In this paper we study finite element discretizations of a surface vector-Laplace eigenproblem. We consider two known classes of finite element methods, namely one based on a vector analogon of the Dziuk-Elliott surface finite element…