English
Related papers

Related papers: Two low-order nonconforming finite element methods…

200 papers

We analyse a Eulerian Finite Element method, combining a Eulerian time-stepping scheme applied to the time-dependent Stokes equations using the CutFEM approach with inf-sup stable Taylor-Hood elements for the spatial discretisation. This is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-12 Henry von Wahl , Thomas Richter , Christoph Lehrenfeld

A cheapest stable nonconforming finite element method is presented for solving the incompressible flow in a square cavity without smoothing the corner singularities. The stable cheapest nonconforming finite element pair based on $P_1\times…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-03-07 Roktaek Lim , Dongwoo Sheen

We propose a nonconforming finite element method for isentropic viscous gas flow in situations where convective effects may be neglected. We approximate the continuity equation by a piecewise constant discontinuous Galerkin method. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2009-06-26 Kenneth H. Karlsen , Trygve K. Karper

We derive and analyze a broad class of finite element methods for numerically simulating the stationary, low Reynolds number flow of concentrated mixtures of several distinct chemical species in a common thermodynamic phase. The underlying…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-24 Aaron Baier-Reinio , Patrick E. Farrell

This paper studies the stability of velocity-pressure mixed approximations of the Stokes problem when different finite element (FE) spaces for each component of the velocity field are considered. We consider some new combinations of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-12-01 F. Guillén González , J. R. Rodríguez Galván

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-01-23 Maxim A. Olshanskii , Annalisa Quaini , Arnold Reusken , Vladimir Yushutin

The multimesh finite element method enables the solution of partial differential equations on a computational mesh composed by multiple arbitrarily overlapping meshes. The discretization is based on a continuous--discontinuous function…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-02 August Johansson , Mats G. Larson , Anders Logg

We present an isoparametric unfitted finite element approach of the CutFEM or Nitsche-XFEM family for the simulation of two-phase Stokes problems with slip between phases. For the unfitted generalized Taylor--Hood finite element pair…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-26 Maxim Olshanskii , Annalisa Quaini , Qi Sun

We develop a cut finite element method (CutFEM) for convection-diffusion problems posed on mixed-dimensional domains, i.e., unions of manifolds of different dimensions arranged in a hierarchical structure where lower-dimensional components…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-09 Erik Burman , Peter Hansbo , Mats G. Larson , Karl Larsson , Shantiram Mahata

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-11 Hanne Hardering , Simon Praetorius

The paper develops and analyzes a higher-order unfitted finite element method for the incompressible Stokes equations, which yields a strongly divergence-free velocity field up to the physical boundary. The method combines an isoparametric…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Michael Neilan , Maxim Olshanskii , Henry von Wahl

We present the first convergence proof for an iso-parametric finite element discretization of two-phase Stokes flow in $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^d$, $d=2,3$, with interface dynamics governed by mean curvature. The proof relies on a crucial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-25 Genming Bai , Harald Garcke , Shravan Veerapaneni

This work consists in two parts. The first part is a review of the finite element method (FEM) for one and two-dimensional problems. The second part, concerns the application of the FEM to find numerical solutions of the Stokes equation and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-01-30 Jonathan David Galeano Vargas

Finite element approximation of the velocity-pressure formulation of the surfaces Stokes equations is challenging because it is typically not possible to enforce both tangentiality and $H^1$ conformity of the velocity field. Most previous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-12 Alan Demlow , Michael Neilan

The state-of-the art proof of a global inf-sup condition on mixed finite element schemes does not allow for an analysis of truly indefinite, second-order linear elliptic PDEs. This paper, therefore, first analyses a nonconforming finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-01-21 Carsten Carstensen , Asha K. Dond , Neela Nataraj , Amiya K. Pani

In this paper, we consider the incompressible Stokes flow problem in a perforated domain and employ the constraint energy minimizing generalized multiscale finite element method (CEM-GMsFEM) to solve this problem. The proposed method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-08 Eric Chung , Jiuhua Hu , Sai-Mang Pun

Many problems in electrical engineering or fluid mechanics can be modeled by parabolic-elliptic interface problems, where the domain for the exterior elliptic problem might be unbounded. A possibility to solve this class of problems…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-15 Christoph Erath , Robert Schorr

Finite element discretization of Stokes problems can result in singular, inconsistent saddle point linear algebraic systems. This inconsistency can cause many iterative methods to fail to converge. In this work, we consider the lowest-order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-16 Weizhang Huang , Zhuoran Wang

We model incompressible flows with an adaptive stabilized finite element method Stokes flows, which solves a discretely stable saddle-point problem to approximate the velocity-pressure pair. Additionally, this saddle-point problem delivers…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-19 Felix Kyburg , Sergio Rojas , Victor M. Calo

We provide both a general framework for discretizing de Rham sequences of differential forms of high regularity, and some examples of finite element spaces that fit in the framework. The general framework is an extension of the previously…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-01-24 Snorre Harald Christiansen , Kaibo Hu