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Ill-conditioning of the system matrix is a well-known complication in immersed finite element methods and trimmed isogeometric analysis. Elements with small intersections with the physical domain yield problematic eigenvalues in the system…
Trimming is a ubiquitous operation in computer-aided-design whereby parts of a geometry are merged, intersected, or simply discarded. While it grants virtually unlimited flexibility in geometric design, it introduces a plethora of other…
We consider iterative methods for solving the linearised Navier-Stokes equations arising from two-phase flow problems and the efficient preconditioning of such systems when using mixed finite element methods. Our target application is…
This review paper discusses the developments in immersed or unfitted finite element methods over the past decade. The main focus is the analysis and the treatment of the adverse effects of small cut elements. We distinguish between adverse…
This paper presents and studies an approach for constructing auxiliary space preconditioners for finite element problems using a constrained nonconforming reformulation, that is based on a proposed modified version of the mortar method. The…
In this paper, several projection method based preconditioners for various incompressible flow models are studied. In particular, we are interested in the theoretical analysis of a pressure-correction projection method based preconditioner…
We present and analyze a class of nonsymmetric preconditioners within a normal (weighted least-squares) matrix form for use in GMRES to solve nonsymmetric matrix problems that typically arise in finite element discretizations. An example of…
Immersed finite element methods provide a convenient analysis framework for problems involving geometrically complex domains, such as those found in topology optimization and microstructures for engineered materials. However, their…
Incompressible fluid flow problems appear frequently in different applications. The discretization of such problems may result in large and ill-conditioned systems of linear equations. We consider the case of the Stokes equations…
A fluid-structure interaction (FSI) problem is solved via a monolithic coupling of the fluid, structure, and geometry subproblems. The iterative GMRES solver is accelerated with the FaCSI block preconditioner. In the FaCSI factorization,…
This paper presents the formulation and analysis of a mixed finite element method for a hemivariational inequality arising from the stationary convective Brinkman-Forchheimer extended Darcy (CBFeD) equations. This model extends the…
Strain smoothing methods such as the smoothed finite element methods (S-FEMs) and the strain-smoothed element~(SSE) method have successfully improved the performance of finite elements, and there have been numerous applications of them in…
We consider the Stokes-Darcy coupled problem, which models the interaction between free-flow and porous medium flow. By enforcing the normal flux continuity interface condition directly within the finite-element spaces, we establish unified…
This paper describes an adaptive preconditioner for numerical continuation of incompressible Navier--Stokes flows. The preconditioner maps the identity (no preconditioner) to the Stokes preconditioner (preconditioning by Laplacian) through…
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…
Unfitted finite element methods, e.g., extended finite element techniques or the so-called finite cell method, have a great potential for large scale simulations, since they avoid the generation of body-fitted meshes and the use of graph…
We present a novel fully implicit hybrid finite volume/finite element method for incompressible flows. Following previous works on semi-implicit hybrid FV/FE schemes, the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations are split into a pressure and…
This paper deals with balanced domain decomposition by constraints (BDDC) method for solving large-scale linear systems of algebraic equations arising from the space-time finite element discretization of parabolic initial-boundary value…
This paper is concerned with the numerical solution of compressible fluid flow in a fractured porous medium. The fracture represents a fast pathway (i.e., with high permeability) and is modeled as a hypersurface embedded in the porous…
The eXtended Finite Element Method (XFEM) is an approach for solving problems with non-smooth solutions. In the XFEM, the approximate solution is locally enriched to capture discontinuities without requiring a mesh which conforms to the…