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In this paper we study semi-discrete and fully discrete evolving surface finite element schemes for the Cahn-Hilliard equation with a logarithmic potential. Specifically we consider linear finite elements discretising space and backward…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-11 Charles M. Elliott , Thomas Sales

We consider the finite element solution of the vector Laplace equation on a domain in two dimensions. For various choices of boundary conditions, it is known that a mixed finite element method, in which the rotation of the solution is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-01-29 Douglas N. Arnold , Richard S. Falk , Jay Gopalakrishnan

This work establishes the well-posedness and a priori error analysis for the mixed FEEC-type finite element approximation of the three-dimensional vector Laplace boundary value problem subject to the Dirichlet boundary condition. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-29 Ralf Hiptmair , Peiyang Yu , Tianwei Yu

We present a simple finite element method for the discretization of Reissner--Mindlin plate equations. The finite element method is based on using the nonconforming Crouzeix-Raviart finite element space for the transverse displacement, and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-01-30 Bishnu P Lamichhane

The scaled boundary finite element method (SBFEM) has recently been employed as an efficient means to model three-dimensional structures, in particular when the geometry is provided as a voxel-based image. To this end, an octree…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-31 Hauke Gravenkamp , Albert A. Saputra , Sascha Eisenträger

The thin plate spline is a popular tool for the interpolation and smoothing of scattered data. In this paper we propose a novel stabilized mixed finite element method for the discretization of thin plate splines. The mixed formulation is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-05-13 Bishnu P. Lamichhane , Markus Hegland

We develop a stabilized cut finite element method for the stationary convection diffusion problem on a surface embedded in ${\mathbb{R}}^d$. The cut finite element method is based on using an embedding of the surface into a three…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-07-24 Erik Burman , Peter Hansbo , Mats G. Larson , Andre Massing , Sara Zahedi

In this paper we introduce a new class of finite element discretizations of the quadratic optimal transport problem based on its dynamical formulation. These generalize to the finite element setting the finite difference scheme proposed by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-24 Andrea Natale , Gabriele Todeschi

We construct and analyze a TraceFEM discretization for the surface biharmonic problem. The method utilizes standard quadratic Lagrange finite element spaces defined on a three-dimensional background mesh and a symmetric $C^0$ interior…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-23 Michael Neilan , Hongzhi Wan

A higher-order fictitious domain method (FDM) for Reissner-Mindlin shells is proposed which uses a three-dimensional background mesh for the discretization. The midsurface of the shell is immersed into the higher-order background mesh and…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-09-21 D. Schöllhammer , T. P. Fries

We propose and analyse a novel surface finite element method that preserves the invariant regions of systems of semilinear parabolic equations on closed compact surfaces in $\mathbb{R}^3$ under discretisation. We also provide a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-20 Massimo Frittelli , Anotida Madzvamuse , Ivonne Sgura , Chandrasekhar Venkataraman

Surface Stokes and Navier-Stokes equations are used to model fluid flow on surfaces. They have attracted significant recent attention in the numerical analysis literature because approximation of their solutions poses significant challenges…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-29 Alan Demlow , Michael Neilan

We consider a saddle point formulation for a sixth order partial differential equation and its finite element approximation, for two sets of boundary conditions. We follow the Ciarlet-Raviart formulation for the biharmonic problem to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-11-17 Jérôme Droniou , Muhammad Ilyas , Bishnu Lamichhane , Glen E. Wheeler

We develop a finite element discretization for the weakly symmetric equations of linear elasticity on tetrahedral meshes. The finite element combines, for $r \geq 0$, discontinuous polynomials of $r$ for the displacement,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-02-09 Tobin Isaac

In this paper we discretize the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations in the framework of finite element exterior calculus. We make use of the Lamb identity to rewrite the equations into a vorticity-velocity-pressure form which fits into…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-05-11 M. Hanot

In this paper, we introduce and analyse a surface finite element discretization of advection-diffusion equations with uncertain coefficients on evolving hypersurfaces. After stating unique solvability of the resulting semi-discrete problem,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-09-26 Ana Djurdjevac , Charles M. Elliott , Ralf Kornhuber , Thomas Ranner

We consider a model convection-diffusion problem and present our recent numerical and analysis results regarding mixed finite element formulation and discretization in the singular perturbed case when the convection term dominates the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-07 Constantin Bacuta , Daniel Hayes , Tyler O'Grady

This work develops and analyzes a variational-monolithic unfitted finite element formulation of a linear fluid-structure interaction problem in Eulerian coordinates with a fixed interface. The overall discretization is based on a backward…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-27 Stefan Frei , Tobias Knoke , Marc C. Steinbach , Anne-Kathrin Wenske , Thomas Wick

We introduce a new formulation for the finite element immersed boundary method which makes use of a distributed Lagrange multiplier. We prove that a full discretization of our model, based on a semi-implicit time advancing scheme, is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-05 Daniele Boffi , Nicola Cavallini , Lucia Gastaldi

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-06 Philip Brandner , Thomas Jankuhn , Simon Praetorius , Arnold Reusken , Axel Voigt