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A recently developed Eulerian finite element method is applied to solve advection-diffusion equations posed on hypersurfaces. When transport processes on a surface dominate over diffusion, finite element methods tend to be unstable unless…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-03-26 Maxim A. Olshanskii , Arnold Reusken , Xianmin Xu

Solving partial differential equations (PDEs) on complex domains can present significant computational challenges. The Diffuse Domain Method (DDM) is an alternative that reformulates the partial differential equations on a larger, simpler…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-24 Luke Benfield , Andreas Dedner

Chaotic free surface flows are challenging problems to simulate numerically, mainly due to the significant changes in geometry and frequent topological changes. Methods that track the evolution of the fluid in a Lagrangian formulation are a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-24 Thomas Leyssens , Jonathan Lambrechts , Jean-François Remacle

We develop all of the components needed to construct an adaptive finite element code that can be used to approximate fractional partial differential equations, on non-trivial domains in $d\geq 1$ dimensions. Our main approach consists of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-02-14 Mark Ainsworth , Christian Glusa

Boundary element methods (BEM) reduce a partial differential equation in a domain to an integral equation on the domain's boundary. They are particularly attractive for solving problems on unbounded domains, but handling the dense matrices…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-30 Steffen Börm

In this article we study adaptive finite element methods (AFEM) with inexact solvers for a class of semilinear elliptic interface problems. We are particularly interested in nonlinear problems with discontinuous diffusion coefficients, such…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-24 Michael Holst , Ryan Szypowski , Yunrong Zhu

The Fractional Diffusion Equation (FDE) is a mathematical model that describes anomalous transport phenomena characterized by non-local and long-range dependencies which deviate from the traditional behavior of diffusion. Solving this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-14 Mohammad Partohaghighi , Emmanuel Asante-Asamani , Olaniyi S. Iyiola

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

Although FFT-based methods are renowned for their numerical efficiency and stability, traditional discretizations fail to capture material interfaces that are not aligned with the grid, resulting in suboptimal accuracy. To address this…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Flavia Gehrig , Matti Schneider

This paper studies the characteristics and applicability of the CutFEM approach as the core of a robust topology optimization framework for 3D laminar incompressible flow and species transport problems at low Reynolds number (Re < 200).…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-02-09 Hernan Villanueva , Kurt Maute

We introduce a method that combines neural operators, physics-informed machine learning, and standard numerical methods for solving PDEs. The proposed approach extends each of the aforementioned methods and unifies them within a single…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Shahed Rezaei , Reza Najian Asl , Kianoosh Taghikhani , Ahmad Moeineddin , Michael Kaliske , Markus Apel

When modeling scientific and industrial problems, geometries are typically modeled by explicit boundary representations obtained from computer-aided design software. Unfitted (also known as embedded or immersed) finite element methods offer…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Pere A. Martorell , Santiago Badia

We consider a stabilized finite element method for the Darcy problem on a surface based on the Masud-Hughes formulation. A special feature of the method is that the tangential condition of the velocity field is weakly enforced through the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-11-13 Peter Hansbo , Mats G. Larson

We propose an energy-stable parametric finite element method (ES-PFEM) for simulating solid-state dewetting of thin films in two dimensions via a sharp-interface model, which is governed by surface diffusion and contact line (point)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-08 Quan Zhao , Wei Jiang , Weizhu Bao

We develop a finite element method for the Laplace-Beltrami operator on a surface with boundary and nonhomogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions. The method is based on a triangulation of the surface and the boundary conditions are enforced…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-05 E. Burman , P. Hansbo , M. G. Larson , K. Larsson , A. Massing

This article is a review on basic concepts and tools devoted to a posteriori error estimation for problems solved with the Finite Element Method. For the sake of simplicity and clarity, we mostly focus on linear elliptic diffusion problems,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-10-06 Ludovic Chamoin , Frederic Legoll

A hydrogeological model for the spread of pollution in an aquifer is considered. The model consists in a convection-diffusion-reaction equation involving the dispersion tensor which depends nonlinearly of the fluid velocity. We introduce an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-05 Éloïse Comte

In this contribution we present a new computational method for coupled bulk-surface problems on time-dependent domains. The method is based on a space-time formulation using discontinuous piecewise linear elements in time and continuous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-05-25 Peter Hansbo , Mats G. Larson , Sara Zahedi

This article introduces a novel approach for broken-FEEC (Finite Element Exterior Calculus), extending its application to locally refined spline spaces with non-matching interfaces. Traditional broken-FEEC allows for discontinuous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-01 Martin Campos Pinto , Frederik Schnack

High-order partial differential equations (PDEs) require derivative regularity that standard $C^0$ finite element infrastructures do not directly provide on unstructured meshes. We propose a mesh-intrinsic generalized finite element method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Rong Tian