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Motion by (weighted) mean curvature is a geometric evolution law for surfaces, representing steepest descent with respect to (an)isotropic surface energy. It has been proposed that this motion could be computed by solving the analogous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-07-23 Pedro M. Girão , Robert V. Kohn

Compatible finite elements provide a framework for preserving important structures in equations of geophysical fluid dynamics, and are becoming important in their use for building atmosphere and ocean models. We survey the application of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-10-17 Andrea Natale , Jemma Shipton , Colin J. Cotter

This article deals with flow of plane curves driven by the curvature and external force. We make use of such a geometric flow for the purpose of image segmentation. A parametric model for evolving curves with uniform and curvature adjusted…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-12-17 M. Benes , M. Kimura , P. Paus , D. Sevcovic , T. Tsujikawa , S. Yazaki

We present a new fixed mesh algorithm for solving a class of interface inverse problems for the typical elliptic interface problems. These interface inverse problems are formulated as shape optimization prob- lems whose objective…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-18 Ruchi Guo , Tao Lin , Yanping Lin

We systematically validate the static local mesh refinement capabilities of a recently proposed IMEX-DG scheme implemented in the framework of the deal.II library. Non-conforming meshes are employed in atmospheric flow simulations to…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2025-08-27 Giuseppe Orlando , Tommaso Benacchio , Luca Bonaventura

Convergence results are shown for full discretizations of quasilinear parabolic partial differential equations on evolving surfaces. As a semidiscretization in space the evolving surface finite element method is considered, using a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-04-01 Balázs Kovács , Christian Andreas Power Guerra

The traditional workflow in continuum mechanics simulations is that a geometry description -- for example obtained using Constructive Solid Geometry or Computer Aided Design tools -- forms the input for a mesh generator. The mesh is then…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-11-18 Luca Heltai , Wolfgang Bangerth , Martin Kronbichler , Andrea Mola

We consider convection-diffusion problems in time-dependent domains and present a space-time finite element method based on quadrature in time which is simple to implement and avoids remeshing procedures as the domain is moving. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-07-25 Sara Zahedi

We introduce a framework for the design of finite element methods for two-dimensional moving boundary problems with prescribed boundary evolution that have arbitrarily high order of accuracy, both in space and in time. At the core of our…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-19 Evan S. Gawlik , Adrian J. Lew

This paper develops and analyzes a semi-discrete and a fully discrete finite element method for a one-dimensional quasilinear parabolic stochastic partial differential equation (SPDE) which describes the stochastic mean curvature flow for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-03-26 Xiaobing Feng , Yukun Li , Andreas Prohl

We study an elliptic interface problem with discontinuous diffusion coefficients on unfitted meshes using the CutFEM method. Our main contribution is the reconstruction of conservative fluxes from the CutFEM solution and their use in a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-11 Daniela Capatina , Aimene Gouasmi , Cuiyu He

We define a new finite element method for a steady state elliptic problem with discontinuous diffusion coefficients where the meshes are not aligned with the interface. We prove optimal error estimates in the $L^2$ norm and $H^1$ weighted…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-10-18 Johnny Guzman , Manuel A. Sanchez , Marcus Sarkis

We consider fluid flow across a permeable interface within a deformable porous medium. We use mixture theory. The mixture's constituents are assumed to be incompressible in their pure form. We use Hamilton's principle to obtain the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-22 Francesco Costanzo , Mohammad Jannesari , Beatrice Ghitti

We present and analyze a semi-discrete finite element scheme for a system consisting of a geometric evolution equation for a curve and a parabolic equation on the evolving curve. More precisely, curve shortening flow with a forcing term…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-10-22 Paola Pozzi , Bjorn Stinner

We design and analyze a hybridized cut finite element method for elliptic interface problems. In this method very general meshes can be coupled over internal unfitted interfaces, through a skeletal variable, using a Nitsche type approach.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-30 Erik Burman , Daniel Elfverson , Peter Hansbo , Mats G. Larson , Karl Larsson

We study mixed finite element methods for the rotating shallow water equations with linearized momentum terms but nonlinear drag. By means of an equivalent second-order formulation, we prove long-time stability of the system without energy…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-06-06 Colin J. Cotter , P. Jameson Graber , Robert C. Kirby

This work presents a numerical formulation to model isotropic viscoelastic material behavior for membranes and thin shells. The surface and the shell theory are formulated within a curvilinear coordinate system, which allows the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Karsten Paul , Roger A. Sauer

A Lagrangian-type numerical scheme called the "comoving mesh method" or CMM is developed for numerically solving certain classes of moving boundary problems which include, for example, the classical Hele-Shaw flow problem and the well-known…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-02 Yosuke Sunayama , Masato Kimura , Julius Fergy Rabago

We develop a density based topology optimization method for linear elasticity based on the cut finite element method. More precisely, the design domain is discretized using cut finite elements which allow complicated geometry to be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-03-19 Erik Burman , Daniel Elfverson , Peter Hansbo , Mats G. Larson , Karl Larsson

We consider sharp interface asymptotics for a phase field model of two phase near spherical biomembranes involving a coupling between the local mean curvature and the local composition proposed by the first and second authors. The model is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-12-24 Charles M. Elliott , Luke Hatcher , Björn Stinner