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A Darcy-Cahn-Hilliard model coupled with damage is developed to describe multiphase-flow and fluid-driven fracturing in porous media. The model is motivated by recent experimental observations in Hele-Shaw cells of the fluid-driven…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-06-30 Alexandre Guével , Yue Meng , Christian Peco , Ruben Juanes , John E. Dolbow

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

The finite element simulation of dynamic wetting phenomena, requiring the computation of flow in a domain confined by intersecting a liquid-fluid free surface and a liquid-solid interface, with the three-phase contact line moving across the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2012-02-20 J. E. Sprittles , Y. D. Shikhmurzaev

This paper presents a comprehensive computational framework for investigating thermo-elastic fracture in transversely isotropic materials, where classical linear elasticity fails to predict physically realistic behavior near stress…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-08 Saugata Ghosh , Dambaru Bhatta , S. M. Mallikarjunaiah

We consider discrete Poisson interface problems resulting from linear unfitted finite elements, also called cut finite elements (CutFEM). Three of these unfitted finite element methods known from the literature are studied. All three…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-07-27 Thomas Ludescher , Sven Gross , Arnold Reusken

This work develops an epsilon-uniform finite element method for singularly perturbed boundary value problems. A surprising and remarkable observation is illustrated: By moving one node arbitrarily in between its adjacent nodes, the new…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Q. S. Song , G. Yin , Z. Zhang

We develop a new finite element method for solving planar elasticity problems involving of heterogeneous materials with a mesh not necessarily aligning with the interface of the materials. This method is based on the `broken'…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-23 Do Y. Kwak , Sangwon Jin , Dae H. Kyeong

A new finite element method (FEM) using meshes that do not necessarily align with the interface is developed for two- and three-dimensional anisotropic elliptic interface problems with nonhomogeneous jump conditions. The degrees of freedom…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-20 Haifeng Ji , Zhilin Li

Two non-overlapping domain decomposition methods are presented for the mixed finite element formulation of linear elasticity with weakly enforced stress symmetry. The methods utilize either displacement or normal stress Lagrange multiplier…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-11-28 Eldar Khattatov , Ivan Yotov

This work introduces a novel, fully robust and highly-scalable, $h$-adaptive aggregated unfitted finite element method for large-scale interface elliptic problems. The new method is based on a recent distributed-memory implementation of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-07 Eric Neiva , Santiago Badia

This work presents the Griffith-type phase-field formation at large deformation in the framework of adaptive edge-based smoothed finite element method (ES-FEM) for the first time. Therein the phase-field modeling of fractures has attracted…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-11-09 Fucheng Tian , Xiaoliang Tang , Tingyu Xu , Liangbin Li

The velocity, coupling term in the flow and transport problems, is important in the accurate numerical simulation or in the posteriori error analysis for adaptive mesh refinement. We consider Enhanced Velocity Mixed Finite Element Method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Yerlan Amanbek , Gurpreet Singh , Mary F. Wheeler

A stable finite element scheme that avoids pressure oscillations for a three-field Biot's model in poroelasticity is considered. The involved variables are the displacements, fluid flux (Darcy velocity), and the pore pressure, and they are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-05-03 Xiaozhe Hu , Carmen Rodrigo , Francisco J. Gaspar , Ludmil T. Zikatanov

We extend the divergence preserving cut finite element method presented in [T. Frachon, P. Hansbo, E. Nilsson, S. Zahedi, SIAM J. Sci. Comput., 46 (2024)] for the Darcy interface problem to unfitted outer boundaries. We impose essential…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-20 Thomas Frachon , Erik Nilsson , Sara Zahedi

We propose and analyze an unfitted finite element method for solving elliptic problems on domains with curved boundaries and interfaces. The approximation space on the whole domain is obtained by the direct extension of the finite element…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-28 Fanyi Yang , Xiaoping Xie

A finite element methodology for large classes of variational boundary value problems is defined which involves discretizing two linear operators: (1) the differential operator defining the spatial boundary value problem; and (2) a Riesz…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-08 Brendan Keith , Socratis Petrides , Federico Fuentes , Leszek Demkowicz

A new semi-discrete finite element scheme for the evolution of three parametrized curves by curvature flow that are connected by a triple junction is presented and analyzed. In this triple junction, conditions are imposed on the angles at…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-11-22 Paola Pozzi , Björn Stinner

We consider single-phase flow in a fractured porous medium governed by Darcy's law with spatially varying hydraulic conductivity matrices in both bulk and fractures. The width-to-length ratio of a fracture is of the order of a small…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-02-01 Maximilian Hörl , Christian Rohde

In this paper, new unfitted mixed finite elements are presented for elliptic interface problems with jump coefficients. Our model is based on a fictitious domain formulation with distributed Lagrange multiplier. The relevance of our…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-15 Najwa Alshehri , Daniele Boffi , Lucia Gastaldi

This paper proposes a parallel numerical algorithm to simulate the flow and the transport in a discrete fracture network taking into account the mass exchanges with the surrounding matrix. The discretization of the Darcy fluxes is based on…

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