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This article introduces, and reviews recent work using, a simple optimisation technique for analysing the nonlinear stability of a state in a dynamical system. The technique can be used to identify the most efficient way to disturb a system…

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An enriched hybrid high-order method is designed for the Stokes equations of fluid flow and is fully applicable to generic curved meshes. Minimal regularity requirements of the enrichment spaces are given, and an abstract error analysis of…

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This paper is concerned with the problem of shape optimization of two-dimensional flows governed by the time-dependent Navier-Stokes equations. We derive the structures of shape gradients with respect to the shape of the variable domain for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Zhiming Gao , Yichen Ma , Hongwei Zhuang

In this article we propose a scalable shape optimization algorithm which is tailored for large scale problems and geometries represented by hierarchically refined meshes. Weak scalability and grid independent convergence is achieved via a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-09 Jose Pinzon , Martin Siebenborn

We study a fictitious domain approach with Lagrange multipliers to discretize Stokes equations on a mesh that does not fit the boundaries. A mixed finite element method is used for fluid flow. Several stabilization terms are added to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-10-24 Michel Fournié , Alexei Lozinski

We propose a partitioned method for the monolithic formulation of the Stokes-Biot system that incorporates Lagrange multipliers enforcing the interface conditions. The monolithic system is discretized using finite elements, and we establish…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Amy de Castro , Hyesuk Lee

This paper investigates a modification of the fictitious domain method with continuation in the lower-order coefficients for the unsteady Navier-Stokes equations governing the motion of an incompressible homogeneous fluid in a bounded 2D or…

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This paper addresses the challenge of proving the existence of solutions for nonlinear equations in Banach spaces, focusing on the Navier-Stokes equations and discretizations of thom. Traditional methods, such as monotonicity-based…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-23 Roland Becker , Malte Braack

We address the challenge of optimal incompressible stirring to mix an initially inhomogeneous distribution of passive tracers. As a quantitative measure of mixing we adopt the $H^{-1}$ norm of the scalar fluctuation field, equivalent to the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-05-28 Zhi Lin , Jean-Luc Thiffeault , Charles R. Doering

Stabilised mixed velocity-pressure formulations are one of the widely-used finite element schemes for computing the numerical solutions of laminar incompressible Navier-Stokes. In these formulations, the Newton-Raphson scheme is employed to…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Chennakesava Kadapa , Wulf G Dettmer , Djordje Peric

We explore the mechanisms and regimes of mixing in yield-stress fluids by simulating the stirring of an infinite, two-dimensional domain filled with a Bingham fluid. A cylindrical stirrer moves along a circular path at constant speed to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-10-30 Mohammad Reza Daneshvar Garmroodi , Ida Karimfazli

We consider a velocity tracking problem for the Navier-Stokes equations in a 2D-bounded domain. The control acts on the boundary through a injection-suction device and the flow is allowed to slip against the surface wall. We study the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-06-20 Nikolai V. Chemetov , Fernanda Cipriano

We propose a model for the coupling between free fluid and a linearized poro-hyperelastic body. In this model, the Brinkman equation is employed for fluid flow in the porous medium, incorporating inertial effects into the fluid dynamics. A…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-19 Aparna Bansal , Nicolás A. Barnafi , Dwijendra Narain Pandey , Ricardo Ruiz-Baier

We present a general numerical approach to shape optimization with state constraints for 2-dimensional geometries, without relaxing the constraints. To do this we reformulate the problem on a fixed reference domain using a conformal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-12-16 Christian Leithäuser , René Pinnau , Robert Feßler

We introduce and analyze a partially augmented fully-mixed formulation and a mixed finite element method for the coupled problem arising in the interaction between a free fluid and a poroelastic medium. The flows in the free fluid and…

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This work analyzes a fully discrete mixed finite element method in a Banach space framework for solving nonstationary coupled fluid flow problems modeled by the Brinkman-Forchheimer equations, with applications to reverse osmosis. The model…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Zeinab Gharibi , Mostafa Abbaszadeh , Mehdi Dehghan

The swimming of a sphere immersed in a viscous incompressible fluid with inertia is studied for surface modulations of small amplitude on the basis of the Navier-Stokes equations. The mean swimming velocity and the mean rate of dissipation…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-12-20 B. U. Felderhof , R. B. Jones

In this article we consider shape optimization problems as optimal control problems via the method of mappings. Instead of optimizing over a set of admissible shapes a reference domain is introduced and it is optimized over a set of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-09 Johannes Haubner , Martin Siebenborn , Michael Ulbrich

Efficient trajectory generation is crucial for autonomous systems; however, current numerical methods often struggle to handle periodic behaviors effectively, particularly when the onboard sensors require equidistant temporal sampling. This…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-16 Liraz Mudrik , Sean Kragelund , Isaac Kaminer

A posteriori estimates for mixed finite element discretizations of the Navier-Stokes equations are derived. We show that the task of estimating the error in the evolutionary Navier-Stokes equations can be reduced to the estimation of the…

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