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The rigorous convergence analysis of adaptive finite element methods for regularized variational models of quasi-static brittle fracture in strain-limiting elastic solids is presented. This work introduces two novel adaptive mesh refinement…

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In this paper, we propose a new formulation and a suitable finite element method for the steady coupling of viscous flow in deformable porous media using divergence-conforming filtration fluxes. The proposed method is based on the use of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-23 Ruben Caraballo , Chansophea Wathanak In , Alberto F. Martín , Ricardo Ruiz-Baier

We prove optimal error bounds for a second order in time finite element approximation of curve shortening flow in possibly higher codimension. In addition, we introduce a second order in time method for curve diffusion. Both schemes are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-29 Klaus Deckelnick , Robert Nürnberg

In this paper we consider the numerical approximation of the incompressible surface Navier--Stokes equations on an evolving surface. For the discrete representation of the moving surface we use parametric finite elements of degree $\ell…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-09 Harald Garcke , Robert Nürnberg

In this article we present a goal-oriented adaptive finite element method for a class of subsurface flow problems in porous media, which exhibit seepage faces. We focus on a representative case of the steady state flows governed by a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-12 Ben Ashby , Cassiano Bortolozo , Alex Lukyanov , Tristan Pryer

We present a finite element discretisation to model the interaction between a poroelastic structure and an elastic medium. The consolidation problem considers fully coupled deformations across an interface, ensuring continuity of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-21 S. Badia , M. Hornkjøl , A. Khan , K. -A. Mardal , A. F. Martín , R. Ruiz-Baier

Fourth order curvature driven interface evolution equations frequently appear in the natural sciences. Often axisymmetric geometries are of interest, and in this situation numerical computations are much more efficient. We will introduce…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-13 John W. Barrett , Harald Garcke , Robert Nürnberg

We present a hybrid method combining a minimizing movement scheme with neural operators for the simulation of phase field-based Willmore flow. The minimizing movement component is based on a standard optimization problem on a regular grid…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-12 Martin Rumpf , Josua Sassen , Christoph Smoch

A new numerical method is presented for solving the rotating shallow water equations on a rotating sphere using quasi-uniform polygonal meshes. The method uses special families of finite element function spaces to mimic key mathematical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-23 John Thuburn , Colin J. Cotter

A finite element method for elliptic problems with discontinuous coefficients is presented. The discontinuity is assumed to take place along a closed smooth curve. The proposed method allows to deal with meshes that are not adapted to the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-07-12 Gunther H. Peichl , Rachid Touzani

We consider an arbitrary-Lagrangian-Eulerian evolving surface finite element method for the numerical approximation of advection and diffusion of a conserved scalar quantity on a moving surface. We describe the method, prove optimal order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-09-02 Charles M. Elliott , Chandrasekhar Venkataraman

Based on a recent novel formulation of parametric anisotropic curve shortening flow, we analyse a fully discrete numerical method of this geometric evolution equation. The method uses piecewise linear finite elements in space and a backward…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-01 Klaus Deckelnick , Robert Nürnberg

For a hypersurface in ${\mathbb R}^3$, Willmore flow is defined as the $L^2$--gradient flow of the classical Willmore energy: the integral of the squared mean curvature. This geometric evolution law is of interest in differential geometry,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-06 John W. Barrett , Harald Garcke , Robert Nürnberg

We focus here on a class of fourth-order parabolic equations that can be written as a system of second-order equations by introducing an auxiliary variable. We design a novel second-order fully discrete mixed finite element method to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-28 Sana Keita , Abdelaziz Beljadid , Yves Bourgault

We study the weak finite element method solving convection-diffusion equations. A weak finite element scheme is presented based on a spacial variational form. We established a weak embedding inequality that is very useful in the weak finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-10 Tie Zhang , Yanli Chen

We consider a semi-discrete finite element approximation for a system consisting of the evolution of a planar curve evolving by forced curve shortening flow inside a given bounded domain $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^2$, such that the curve…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-17 Vanessa Styles , James Van Yperen

The thin plate spline smoother is a classical model for fnding a smooth function from the knowledge of its observation at scattered locations which may have random noises. We consider a nonconforming Morley finite element method to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-01-31 Zhiming Chen , Rui Tuo , Wenlong Zhang

We consider the numerical approximation of axisymmetric mean curvature flow with the help of linear finite elements. In the case of a closed genus-1 surface, we derive optimal error bounds with respect to the $L^2$-- and $H^1$--norms for a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-20 John W. Barrett , Klaus Deckelnick , Robert Nürnberg

A robust finite volume method for viscoelastic flow analysis on general unstructured meshes is developed. It is built upon a general-purpose stabilization framework for high Weissenberg number flows. The numerical framework provides full…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-12-08 Matthias Niethammer , Holger Marschall , Christian Kunkelmann , Dieter Bothe

We present and analyze three distinct semi-discrete schemes for solving nonlocal geometric flows incorporating perimeter terms. These schemes are based on the finite difference method, the finite element method, and the finite element…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-14 Jiang Wei , Su Chunmei , Zhang Ganghui