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We describe a compatible finite element discretisation for the shallow water equations on the rotating sphere, concentrating on integrating consistent upwind stabilisation into the framework. Although the prognostic variables are velocity…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-17 J. Shipton , T. H. Gibson , C. J. Cotter

In this work, we consider fracture propagation in nearly incompressible and (fully) incompressible materials using a phase-field formulation. We use a mixed form of the elasticity equation to overcome volume locking effects and develop a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-10 Timo Heister , Katrin Mang , Thomas Wick

Advanced finite-element discretizations and preconditioners for models of poroelasticity have attracted significant attention in recent years. The equations of poroelasticity offer significant challenges in both areas, due to the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-10 James H. Adler , Yunhui He , Xiaozhe Hu , Scott MacLachlan , Peter Ohm

Common techniques for the spatial discretisation of PDEs on a macroscale grid include finite difference, finite elements and finite volume methods. Such methods typically impose assumed microscale structures on the subgrid fields, so…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-04-15 J. E. Bunder , A. J. Roberts

In recent years a great deal of attention has been paid to discretizations of the incompressible Stokes equations that exactly preserve the incompressibility constraint. These are of substantial interest because these discretizations are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-18 Patrick E. Farrell , Lawrence Mitchell , L. Ridgway Scott

Achieving strongly symmetric stress approximations for linear elasticity problems in high-contrast media poses a significant computational challenge. Conventional methods often struggle with prohibitively high computational costs due to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Eric T. Chung , Changqing Ye , Xiang Zhong

Many solid mechanics problems on complex geometries are conventionally solved using discrete boundary methods. However, such an approach can be cumbersome for problems involving evolving domain boundaries due to the need to track boundaries…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-06 Vinamra Agrawal , Brandon Runnels

Solving the linear elasticity and Stokes equations by an optimal domain decomposition method derived algebraically involves the use of non standard interface conditions. The one-level domain decomposition preconditioners are based on the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-23 Gabriel R. Barrenechea , Michał Bosy , Victorita Dolean

We investigate several robust preconditioners for solving the saddle-point linear systems that arise from spatial discretization of unsteady and steady variable-coefficient Stokes equations on a uniform staggered grid. Building on the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-24 M. Cai , A. J. Nonaka , J. B. Bell , B. E. Griffith , A. Donev

Efficient and suitably preconditioned iterative solvers for elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs) of the convection-diffusion type are used in all fields of science and engineering. To achieve optimal performance, solvers have to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-24 Peter Bastian , Eike Hermann Müller , Steffen Müthing , Marian Piatkowski

Multigrid methods are popular solution algorithms for many discretized PDEs, either as standalone iterative solvers or as preconditioners, due to their high efficiency. However, the choice and optimization of multigrid components such as…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-22 Patrick E. Farrell , Yunhui He , Scott P. MacLachlan

This paper presents a learnable solver tailored to iteratively solve sparse linear systems from discretized partial differential equations (PDEs). Unlike traditional approaches relying on specialized expertise, our solver streamlines the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-10 Yan Xie , Minrui Lv , Chensong Zhang

In this paper a local Fourier analysis for multigrid methods on tetrahedral grids is presented. Different smoothers for the discretization of the Laplace operator by linear finite elements on such grids are analyzed. A four-color smoother…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2014-10-28 B. Gmeiner , T. Gradl , F. Gaspar , U. Rüde

We consider the finite element discretization and the iterative solution of singularly perturbed elliptic reaction-diffusion equations in three-dimensional computational domains. These equations arise from the optimality conditions for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-09 Ulrich Langer , Olaf Steinbach , Huidong Yang

This work develops a nonlinear multigrid method for diffusion problems discretized by cell-centered finite volume methods on general unstructured grids. The multigrid hierarchy is constructed algebraically using aggregation of degrees of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-29 Chak Shing Lee , François Hamon , Nicola Castelletto , Panayot S. Vassilevski , Joshua White

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 paper develops and analyzes a class of semi-discrete and fully discrete weak Galerkin finite element methods for unsteady incompressible convective Brinkman-Forchheimer equations. For the spatial discretization, the methods adopt the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-30 Xiaojuan Wang , Jihong Xiao , Xiaoping Xie , Shiquan Zhang

The Reynolds equation, combined with the Elrod algorithm for including the effect of cavitation, resembles a nonlinear convection-diffusion-reaction (CDR) equation. Its solution by finite elements is prone to oscillations in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-12 Hauke Gravenkamp , Simon Pfeil , Ramon Codina

Vertex-patch smoothers are essential for the robust convergence of geometric multigrid methods in high-order finite element applications, yet their adoption is traditionally hindered by the prohibitive cost of solving local patch problems.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-03 Michał Wichrowski

This paper proposes a novel way to solve transient linear, and non-linear solid dynamics for compressible, nearly incompressible, and incompressible material in the updated Lagrangian framework for tetrahedral unstructured finite elements.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-07 R. Nemer , A. Larcher , T. Coupez , E. Hachem