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Accurate simulations of ice sheet dynamics, mantle convection, lava flow, and other highly viscous free-surface flows involve solving the coupled Stokes/free-surface equations. In this paper, we theoretically analyze the stability and…

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Consistent splitting schemes are among the most accurate pressure segregation methods, incurring no splitting errors or spurious boundary conditions. Nevertheless, their theoretical properties are not yet fully understood, especially when…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-27 Douglas R. Q. Pacheco

In this paper we propose, analyze, and test numerically a pressure-robust stabilized finite element for a linearized problem in incompressible fluid mechanics, namely, the steady Oseen equation with low viscosity. Stabilization terms are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-10 Gabriel R. Barrenechea , Erik Burman , Ernesto Cáceres , Johnny Guzmán

The Scott-Vogelius element is a popular finite element for the discretization of the Stokes equations which enjoys inf-sup stability and gives divergence-free velocity approximation. However, it is well known that the convergence rates for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-08 Nis-Erik Bohne , Benedikt Gräßle , Stefan A. Sauter

We present a parametric finite element approximation of two-phase flow. This free boundary problem is given by the Navier--Stokes equations in the two phases, which are coupled via jump conditions across the interface. Using a novel…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-02 John W. Barrett , Harald Garcke , Robert Nürnberg

Incompressible flows are modeled by a coupled system of partial differential equations for velocity and pressure, Starting from a divergence-free mixed method proposed in [John, Li, Merdon and Rui, Math. Models Methods Appl. Sci.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-08 Volker John , Xu Li , Christian Merdon

We present a stability analysis of the Discontinuous Galerkin method on polygonal and polyhedral meshes (PolyDG) for the Stokes problem. In particular, we analyze the discrete inf-sup condition for different choices of the polynomial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-24 Paola F. Antonietti , Lorenzo Mascotto , Marco Verani , Stefano Zonca

We consider error estimates for the fully discretized instationary Navier-Stokes problem. For the spatial approximation we use conforming inf-sup stable finite element methods in conjunction with grad-div and local projection stabilization…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-09-06 Daniel Arndt , Helene Dallmann , Gert Lube

Within the last years pressure robust methods for the discretization of incompressible fluids have been developed. These methods allow the use of standard finite elements for the solution of the problem while simultaneously removing a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-20 Seshadri R. Basava , Winnifried Wollner

In this paper, we propose and analyze an abstract stabilized mixed finite element framework that can be applied to nonlinear incompressible elasticity problems. In the abstract stabilized framework, we prove that any mixed finite element…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-30 Qingguo Hong , Chunmei Liu , Jinchao Xu

A new discontinuous Galerkin finite element method for the Stokes equations is developed in the primary velocity-pressure formulation. This method employs discontinuous polynomials for both velocity and pressure on general…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-05 Xiu Ye , Shangyou Zhang

This paper studies pressure-robustness for the axisymmetric Stokes problem. The transformation to cylindrical coordinates requires that the radially weighted velocity is divergence-free in the classical sense. Consequently, traditional…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-16 Philip L. Lederer , Christoph Lehrenfeld , Christian Merdon , Tim van Beeck

Stability and error analysis of a hybridized discontinuous Galerkin finite element method for Stokes equations is presented. The method is locally conservative, and for particular choices of spaces the velocity field is point-wise…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-02-01 Sander Rhebergen , Garth N. Wells

Surface incompressibility, also called inextensibility, imposes a zero-surface-divergence constraint on the velocity of a closed deformable material surface. The well-posedness of the mechanical problem under such constraint depends on an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-07-28 Gustavo C. Buscaglia

Inf-sup stable FEM applied to time-dependent incompressible Navier-Stokes flows are considered. The focus lies on robust estimates for the kinetic and dissipation energies in a twofold sense. Firstly, pressure-robustness ensures the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-04-12 Philipp W. Schroeder , Christoph Lehrenfeld , Alexander Linke , Gert Lube

This paper is concerned with fully discrete mixed finite element approximations of the time-dependent stochastic Stokes equations with multiplicative noise. A prototypical method, which comprises of the Euler-Maruyama scheme for time…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-28 Xiaobing Feng , Hailong Qiu

In this paper a time dependent Stokes problem that is motivated by a standard sharp interface model for the fluid dynamics of two-phase flows is studied. This Stokes interface problem has discontinuous density and viscosity coefficients and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-07-12 Igor Voulis , Arnold Reusken

In this paper, we propose a ${ P_{1}^{c}}\oplus {RT0}-P0$ discretization of the Stokes equations on general simplicial meshes in two/three dimensions (2D/3D), which yields an exactly divergence-free and pressure-independent velocity…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-07 Xu Li , Hongxing Rui

In recent years a great deal of attention has been paid to discretizations of the incompressible Stokes equations that exactly preserve the incompressibility constraint. These are of substantial interest because these discretizations are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-18 Patrick E. Farrell , Lawrence Mitchell , L. Ridgway Scott

We examine the dimensions of various inf-sup stable mixed finite element spaces on tetrahedral meshes in 3D with exact divergence constraints. More precisely, we compare the standard Scott-Vogelius elements of higher polynomial degree and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-22 L. Ridgway Scott , Tabea Tscherpel