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We study a finite element approximation of a coupled fluid-structure interaction consisting of a three-dimensional incompressible viscous fluid governed by the unsteady Stokes equations and a two-dimensional elastic plate. To avoid the use…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Lander Besabe , Hyesuk Lee

The paper studies a higher order unfitted finite element method for the Stokes system posed on a surface in three-dimensional space. The method employs generalized Taylor-Hood finite element pairs on tetrahedral bulk mesh to discretize the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-17 Thomas Jankuhn , Maxim A. Olshanskii , Arnold Reusken , Alexander Zhiliakov

This work proposes two nodal type nonconforming finite elements over convex quadrilaterals, which are parts of a finite element exact sequence. Both elements are of 12 degrees of freedom (DoFs) with polynomial shape function spaces…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-16 Xinchen Zhou , Zhaoliang Meng , Xin Fan , Zhongxuan Luo

A mechanical model and finite element method for the simultaneous solution of Stokes and incompressible Navier-Stokes flows on multiple curved surfaces over a bulk domain are proposed. The two-dimensional surfaces are defined implicitly by…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Michael Wolfgang Kaiser , Thomas-Peter Fries

A new nonconforming rectangle element with cubic convergence for the energy norm is introduced. The degrees of freedom (DOFs) are defined by the twelve values at the three Gauss points on each of the four edges. Due to the existence of one…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-04-25 Zhaoliang Meng , Zhongxuan Luo , Dongwoo Sheen

The Stokes equations play an important role in the incompressible flow simulation. In this paper, a novel divergence-free parametric mixed finite element method is proposed for solving three-dimensional Stokes equations on domains with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-19 Lingxiao Li , Haiyan Su , He Zhang , Weiying Zheng

We derive low-order, inf-sup stable and divergence-free finite element approximations for the Stokes problem using Worsey-Farin splits in three dimensions and Powell-Sabin splits in two dimensions. The velocity space simply consists of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-02 Maurice Fabien , Johnny Guzman , Michael Neilan , Ahmed Zytoon

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

We consider a mixed finite element method for approximating the solution of nearly incompressible elasticity and Stokes equations. The finite element method is based on quadrilateral and hexahedral triangulation using primal and dual…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-10-23 Bishnu P. Lamichhane

Several smooth finite element de Rham complexes are constructed in three-dimensional space, which yield three families of grad-div conforming finite elements. The simplest element has only 8 degrees of freedom (DOFs) for a tetrahedron and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-22 Qian Zhang , Zhimin Zhang

It is well-known that it is comparatively difficult to design nonconforming finite elements on quadrilateral meshes by using Gauss-Legendre points on each edge of triangulations. One reason lies in that these degrees of freedom associated…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-15 Jun Hu , Shangyou Zhang

We present a family of nonconforming vector finite elements of arbitrary order for problems posed on the space (curl) intersected with H(div) on a bidimensional domain. This result was first stated as a conjecture by Brenner and Sung. In…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-06-06 Jean-Marie Mirebeau

Super-convergence of order 1.5 in pressure and velocity has been experimentally investigated for the two-dimensional Stokes problem discretised with the MINI mixed finite element. Even though the classic mixed finite element theory for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-01-04 Andrea Cioncolini , Daniele Boffi

A finite element elasticity complex on tetrahedral meshes is devised. The $H^1$ conforming finite element is the smooth finite element developed by Neilan for the velocity field in a discrete Stokes complex. The symmetric div-conforming…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-25 Long Chen , Xuehai Huang

We introduce a new class of mixed finite element methods for 2D and 3D compressible nonlinear elasticity. The independent unknowns of these conformal methods are displacement, displacement gradient, and the first Piola-Kirchhoff stress…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-22 Arzhang Angoshtari , Ali Gerami Matin

A construction of prismatic Hardy space infinite elements to discretize wave equations on unbounded domains $\Omega$ in $H^1_{loc}(\Omega)$, $H_{loc}(curl;\Omega)$ and $H_{loc}(div;\Omega)$ is presented. As our motivation is to solve…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-04-01 Lothar Nannen , Thorsten Hohage , Achim Schädle , Joachim Schöberl

We construct conforming finite elements for the spaces $H(\text{sym}\,\text{Curl})$ and $H(\text{dev}\,\text{sym}\,\text{Curl})$. Those are spaces of matrix-valued functions with symmetric or deviatoric-symmetric $\text{Curl}$ in a Lebesgue…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-21 Oliver Sander

This work is devoted to the high accuracy analysis of a discrete Stokes complex over rectangular meshes with a simple structure. The 0-form in the complex is a non $C^0$ nonconforming element space for biharmonic problems. This plate…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-12-17 Xinchen Zhou , Zhaoliang Meng , Xin Fan , Zhongxuan Luo

This work introduces two 11-node triangular prism elements for 3D elliptic problems. The degrees of freedom (DoFs) of both elements are at the vertices and face centroids of a prism cell. The first element is $H^1$-nonconforming and works…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-20 Xinchen Zhou , Zhaoliang Meng , Xin Fan , Zhongxuan Luo

We develop two unfitted finite element methods for the Stokes equations using $H^{\text{div}}$-conforming finite elements. Both methods achieve optimal convergence for velocity, ensure pointwise divergence-free velocity fields, and produce…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-04 Thomas Frachon , Erik Nilsson , Sara Zahedi