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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

Observer-invariance is regarded as a minimum requirement for an appropriate definition of time derivatives. We systematically discuss such time derivatives for surface tensor field and provide explicit formulations for material,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-04-17 Ingo Nitschke , Axel Voigt

This paper proposes a finite element method for solving the periodic steady-state problem for the scalar-valued and vector-valued Poisson equations, a simple reduction model of the Maxwell equations under the Coulomb gauge. Introducing a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-13 Masaru Miyashita , Norikazu Saito

In this paper we analyze a space-time unfitted finite element method for the discretization of scalar surface partial differential equations on evolving surfaces. For higher order approximations of the evolving surface we use the technique…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-26 Arnold Reusken , Hauke Sass

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

The biharmonic equation with Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions discretized using the mixed finite element method and piecewise linear (with the possible exception of boundary triangles) finite elements on triangular elements has…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-21 Oded Stein , Eitan Grinspun , Alec Jacobson , Max Wardetzky

Recently, a nonconforming surface finite element was developed to discretize 3d vector-valued compressible flow problems arising in climate modeling. In this contribution we derive an error analysis for this approach on a vector-valued…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-14 Carolin Mehlmann

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

Spherical Whittle--Mat\'ern Gaussian random fields are considered as solutions to fractional elliptic stochastic partial differential equations on the sphere. Approximation is done with surface finite elements. While the non-fractional part…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-06 Erik Jansson , Mihály Kovács , Annika Lang

Fourth-order differential equations play an important role in many applications in science and engineering. In this paper, we present a three-field mixed finite-element formulation for fourth-order problems, with a focus on the effective…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-13 Patrick E. Farrell , Abdalaziz Hamdan , Scott P. MacLachlan

The paper studies a higher order unfitted finite element method for the Stokes system posed on a surface in three-dimensional space. The method employs generalized Taylor-Hood finite element pairs on tetrahedral bulk mesh to discretize the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-17 Thomas Jankuhn , Maxim A. Olshanskii , Arnold Reusken , Alexander Zhiliakov

In this paper, we introduce a new look at Finsler surfaces. Landsberg surfaces are Finsler surfaces that are solutions of a system of non-linear partial differential equations. Considering the unicorn's Landsberg problem, we reduce this…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-08-09 Salah G. Elgendi

The cone of positive-semidefinite (PSD) matrices is fundamental in convex optimization, and we extend this notion to tensors, defining PSD tensors, which correspond to separable quantum states. We study the convex optimization problem over…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-10 Liding Xu , Ye-Chao Liu , Sebastian Pokutta

We employ surface differential calculus to derive models for Kirchhoff plates including in-plane membrane deformations. We also extend our formulation to structures of plates. For solving the resulting set of partial differential equations,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-02-15 Peter Hansbo , Mats G. Larson

A finite element approach for approximating the solution of a mathematical model for the response of a penetrable, bounded object (obstacle) to the excitation by an external electromagnetic field is presented and investigated. The model…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-16 Lutz Angermann

High-dimensional partial differential equations (PDEs) are ubiquitous in economics, science and engineering. However, their numerical treatment poses formidable challenges since traditional grid-based methods tend to be frustrated by the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-07-20 Lorenz Richter , Leon Sallandt , Nikolas Nüsken

We use the evolving surface finite element method to solve a Cahn- Hilliard equation on an evolving surface with prescribed velocity. We start by deriving the equation using a conservation law and appropriate transport for- mulae and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-05-28 Charles M. Elliott , Thomas Ranner

This study investigates high-order face and edge elements in finite element methods, with a focus on their geometric attributes, indexing management, and practical application. The exposition begins by a geometric decomposition of Lagrange…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-09 Chunyu Chen , Long Chen , Xuehai Huang , Huayi Wei

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

In this article we prove convergence of adaptive finite element methods for second order elliptic eigenvalue problems. We consider Lagrange finite elements of any degree and prove convergence for simple as well as multiple eigenvalues under…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2008-03-05 Eduardo M. Garau , Pedro Morin , Carlos Zuppa