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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

Classical inf-sup stable mixed finite elements for the incompressible (Navier-)Stokes equations are not pressure-robust, i.e., their velocity errors depend on the continuous pressure. However, a modification only in the right hand side of a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-09-14 Philip L. Lederer , Alexander Linke , Christian Merdon , Joachim Schöberl

In this paper, we investigate the use of compactly supported divergence-free wavelets for the representation of the Navier-Stokes solution. After reminding the theoretical construction of divergence-free wavelet vectors, we present in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Erwan Deriaz , Valérie Perrier

In this paper, we establish higher-order derivative estimates for the Stokes equations in a three-dimensional domain containing two closely spaced rigid inclusions. We construct a sequence of auxiliary functions via an inductive process to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-02 Hongjie Dong , Haigang Li , Huaijun Teng , Peihao Zhang

In this work, we present and analyze a novel stabilized virtual element formulation for the coupled Stokes-Temperature equation on polygonal meshes, employing equal-order element pairs where viscosity depends on temperature. The main…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-01 Sudheer Mishra , Natarajan E

The simulation of fluid flow problems, specifically incompressible flows governed by the Navier-Stokes equations (NSE), holds fundamental significance in a range of scientific and engineering applications. Traditional numerical methods…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-09-10 Abdullah Abukhwejah , Pankaj Jagad , Ravi Samtaney , Peter Schmid

For the 2D and 3D Virtual Element Methods (VEM), a new approach to improve the conditioning of local and global matrices in the presence of badly-shaped polytopes is proposed. It defines the local projectors and the local degrees of freedom…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-01 Stefano Berrone , Gioana Teora , Fabio Vicini

We prove the convergence of certain second-order numerical methods to weak solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations satisfying in addition the local energy inequality, and therefore suitable in the sense of Scheffer and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-02 Luigi C. Berselli , Stefano Spirito

We develop a variational multiscale proper orthogonal decomposition reduced-order model for turbulent incompressible Navier-Stokes equations. The error analysis of the full discretization of the model is presented. All error contributions…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-06-03 Traian Iliescu , Zhu Wang

We introduce and analyse the first order Enlarged Enhancement Virtual Element Method (E$^2$VEM) for the Poisson problem. The method allows the definition of bilinear forms that do not require a stabilization term, thanks to the exploitation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-08 Stefano Berrone , Andrea Borio , Francesca Marcon

The Scott-Vogelius finite element pair for the numerical discretization of the stationary Stokes equation in 2D is a popular element which is based on a continuous velocity approximation of polynomial order $k$ and a discontinuous pressure…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-09 Benedikt Gräßle , Nis-Erik Bohne , Stefan A. Sauter

Stabilizer-free $P_k$ virtual elements are constructed on polygonal and polyhedral meshes. Here the interpolating space is the space of continuous $P_k$ polynomials on a triangular-subdivision of each polygon, or a tetrahedral-subdivision…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-20 Yanping Lin , Mo Mu , Shangyou Zhang

The virtual element method (VEM) allows discretization of the problem domain with polygons in 2D. The polygons can have an arbitrary number of sides and can be concave or convex. These features, among others, are attractive for meshing…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-06 L. L. Yaw

The nonconforming Morley-type virtual element method for the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations formulated in terms of the stream-function on simply connected polygonal domains (not necessarily convex) is designed. A rigorous analysis…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-06 D. Adak , D. Mora , A. Silgado

This article presents a detailed analysis of the Arrow-Hurwicz iteration applied to the solution of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations, discretized by a divergence-free mixed virtual element method. Under a set of appropriate…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-17 Binbin Du , Shenxiang Cheng , Yue Yu , Chuanjun Chen

This paper presents a pressure-robust and element-wise divergence-free nonconforming finite element method for the Stokes problem on curved domains. The discrete element is constructed by mapping the Fortin-Soulie element from a reference…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-15 Wei Chen , Zhen Liu

In this work we introduce and analyse a new low-order method for the variable-density incompressible Navier-Stokes equations. The main novelty of the proposed method lies in the support of general meshes, possibly including polygonal or…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-22 Mathias Dauphin , Daniele A. Di Pietro , Jérôme Droniou , Alexandros Skouras

Navier-Stokes equations are investigated in a functional setting in 3D open sets, bounded or not, without assuming any regularity of the boundary. The main idea is to find a correct definition of the Stokes operator in a suitable Hilbert…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Sylvie Monniaux

The numerical simulation of incompressible flows is challenging due to the tight coupling of velocity and pressure. Projection methods offer an effective solution by decoupling these variables, making them suitable for large-scale…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-12 Mejdi Azaïez , Yayu Guo , Carlos Núñez Fernández , Samuele Rubino , Chuanju Xu

Let G be the (open) set of~$\dot H^{\frac 1 2}$ divergence free vector fields generating a global smooth solution to the three dimensional incompressible Navier-Stokes equations. We prove that any element of G can be perturbed by an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-10-04 Jean-Yves Chemin , Isabelle Gallagher , Ping Zhang