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We present a finite element method for the incompressible Navier--Stokes problem that is locally conservative, energy-stable and pressure-robust on time-dependent domains. To achieve this, the space--time formulation of the Navier--Stokes…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-06 Tamas L. Horvath , Sander Rhebergen

Two nonconforming finite element Stokes complexes starting from the conforming Lagrange element and ending with the nonconforming $P_1$-$P_0$ element for the Stokes equation in three dimensions are constructed. And commutative diagrams are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-01 Xuehai Huang

In this paper, we treat the corner singularity expansion and its convergence result regarding the penalized system obtained by eliminating the pressure variable in the Stokes problem of incompressible flow. The penalized problem is a kind…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-09-11 Hyung Jun Choi , Seonghak Kim , Youngwoo Koh

One of the reasons for the success of the finite element method is its versatility to deal with different types of geometries. This is particularly true of problems posed in curved domains of arbitrary shape. In the case of second order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-24 Vitoriano Ruas

We consider solutions of the Stokes system in a neighborhood of a point in which the velocity $u$ vanishes of order $d$. We prove that there exists a divergence-free polynomial $P$ in $x$ with $t$-dependent coefficients of degree $d$ which…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-12-04 Guher Camliyurt , Igor Kukavica

We study free boundary problems for incompressible inhomogeneous flows governed by the Navier--Stokes equations, focusing on the regularity and global-in-time well-posedness of solutions in critical functional frameworks for small initial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-11 Piotr B. Mucha , Tomasz Piasecki , Yoshihiro Shibata

A family of Virtual Element Methods for the 2D Navier-Stokes equations is proposed and analysed. The schemes provide a discrete velocity field which is point-wise divergence-free. A rigorous error analysis is developed, showing that the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-03-07 L. Beirão da Veiga , C. Lovadina , G. Vacca

Accurate simulations of ice sheet dynamics, mantle convection, lava flow, and other highly viscous free-surface flows involve solving the coupled Stokes/free-surface equations. In this paper, we theoretically analyze the stability and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-13 Igor Tominec , Lukas Lundgren , André Löfgren , Josefin Ahlkrona

A cheapest stable nonconforming finite element method is presented for solving the incompressible flow in a square cavity without smoothing the corner singularities. The stable cheapest nonconforming finite element pair based on $P_1\times…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-03-07 Roktaek Lim , Dongwoo Sheen

In this paper we study obstacles immerged in a Stokes flow with Navier boundary conditions. We prove the existence and regularity of an obstacle with minimal drag, among all shapes of prescribed volume and controlled surface area, taking…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-01-04 Dorin Bucur , Antonin Chambolle , Alessandro Giacomini , Mickaël Nahon

A recent paper [J. A. Evans, D. Kamensky, Y. Bazilevs, "Variational multiscale modeling with discretely divergence-free subscales", Computers & Mathematics with Applications, 80 (2020) 2517-2537] introduced a novel stabilized finite element…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-21 Sajje Lee Calfy , John A. Evans , David Kamensky

We construct smooth finite elements spaces on Powell-Sabin triangulations that form an exact sequence. The first space of the sequence coincides with the classical $C^1$ Powell-Sabin space, while the others form stable and divergence-free…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-04-12 J. Guzman , A. Lischke , M. Neilan

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

The velocity solution of the incompressible Stokes equations is not affected by changes of the right hand side data in form of gradient fields. Most mixed methods do not replicate this property in the discrete formulation due to a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-09 Thomas Apel , Volker Kempf

The focus of the present paper is on developing a Virtual Element Method for Darcy and Brinkman equations. In [15] we presented a family of Virtual Elements for Stokes equations and we defined a new Virtual Element space of velocities such…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-02-06 Giuseppe Vacca

We study the weak Galerkin finite element method for Stokes problem. A new weak Galerkin finite element velocity-pressure space pair is presented which satisfies the discrete inf-sup condition. Based on this space pair, we establish a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-01-30 Tie Zhang , Tao Lin

This article presents a higher-order spectral element method for the two-dimensional Stokes interface problem involving a piecewise constant viscosity coefficient. The proposed numerical formulation is based on least-squares formulation.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-14 Kishore Kumar Naraparaju , Shivangi Joshi , Subhashree Mohapatra

Incompressible flows are modeled by a coupled system of partial differential equations for velocity and pressure, Starting from a divergence-free mixed method proposed in [John, Li, Merdon and Rui, Math. Models Methods Appl. Sci.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-08 Volker John , Xu Li , Christian Merdon

In this study, the nonconforming finite elements of order two and order three are constructed and exploited for the Stokes problem. The moments of order up to $k-1$ ($k=2,3$) on all the facets of the tetrahedron are used for DoFs (degrees…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-23 Wei Chen , Jun Hu , Min Zhang

It is a commonly observed phenomenon that spherical particles with inertia in an incompressible fluid do not behave as ideal tracers. Due to the inertia of the particle, the dynamics are described in a four dimensional phase space and thus…

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