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In this paper, we propose a new trace finite element method for the {Laplace-Beltrami} eigenvalue problem. The method is proposed directly on a smooth manifold which is implicitly given by a level-set function and require high order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-17 Song Lu , Xianmin Xu

We suggest a finite element method for computing minimal surfaces based on computing a discrete Laplace-Beltrami operator operating on the coordinates of the surface. The surface is a discrete representation of the zero level set of a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-03-17 Mirza Cenanovic , Peter Hansbo , Mats G. Larson

We study the finite element approximation of problems involving the weighted $\Phi$-Laplacian, where $\Phi$ is an $N$-function and the weight belongs to the class $A_\Phi$. In particular, we consider a boundary value problem and an obstacle…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-15 Enrique Otarola , Abner J. Salgado

In this paper we analyze a space-time unfitted finite element method for the discretization of scalar surface partial differential equations on evolving surfaces. For higher order approximations of the evolving surface we use the technique…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-26 Arnold Reusken , Hauke Sass

A proof of convergence is given for semi- and full discretizations of mean curvature flow of closed two-dimensional surfaces. The numerical method proposed and studied here combines evolving finite elements, whose nodes determine the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-06-27 Balázs Kovács , Buyang Li , Christian Lubich

In this paper we consider the Virtual Element discretization of a minimal surface problem, a quasi-linear elliptic partial differential equation modeling the problem of minimizing the area of a surface subject to a prescribed boundary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-23 Paola Francesca Antonietti , Silvia Bertoluzza , Daniele Prada , Marco Verani

In this paper we present a new Eulerian finite element method for the discretization of scalar partial differential equations on evolving surfaces. In this method we use the restriction of standard space-time finite element spaces on a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-26 Hauke Sass , Arnold Reusken

We develop a finite element method for the Laplace-Beltrami operator on a surface with boundary and nonhomogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions. The method is based on a triangulation of the surface and the boundary conditions are enforced…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-05 E. Burman , P. Hansbo , M. G. Larson , K. Larsson , A. Massing

Finite element approximation of the velocity-pressure formulation of the surfaces Stokes equations is challenging because it is typically not possible to enforce both tangentiality and $H^1$ conformity of the velocity field. Most previous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-12 Alan Demlow , Michael Neilan

The finite element method can be viewed as a machine that automates the discretization of differential equations, taking as input a variational problem, a finite element and a mesh, and producing as output a system of discrete equations.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-12-05 Anders Logg

A local and parallel algorithm based on the multilevel discretization is proposed in this paper to solve the eigenvalue problem by the finite element method. With this new scheme, solving the eigenvalue problem in the finest grid is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-01-21 Yu Li , Xiaole Han , Hehu Xie , Chunguang You

In this paper, we propose an approach for solving PDEs on evolving surfaces using a combination of the trace finite element method and a fast marching method. The numerical approach is based on the Eulerian description of the surface…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-02-13 Maxim A. Olshanskii , Xianmin Xu

The Stokes equation posed on surfaces is important in some physical models, but its numerical solution poses several challenges not encountered in the corresponding Euclidean setting. These include the fact that the velocity vector should…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-16 Andrea Bonito , Alan Demlow , Martin Licht

In this paper, a new type of multi-level correction scheme is proposed for solving eigenvalue problems by finite element method. With this new scheme, the accuracy of eigenpair approximations can be improved after each correction step which…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-07-04 Qun Lin , Hehu Xie

We study a higher-order surface finite element (SFEM) penalty-based discretization of the tangential surface Stokes problem. Several discrete formulations are investigated which are equivalent in the continuous setting. The impact of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-11 Hanne Hardering , Simon Praetorius

In this paper, we study adaptive finite element approximations in a perturbation framework, which makes use of the existing adaptive finite element analysis of a linear symmetric elliptic problem. We prove the convergence and complexity of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-02-05 Lianhua He , Aihui Zhou

We consider a Stokes problem posed on a 2D surface embedded in a 3D domain. The equations describe an equilibrium, area-preserving tangential flow of a viscous surface fluid and serve as a model problem in the dynamics of material…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-01-23 Maxim A. Olshanskii , Annalisa Quaini , Arnold Reusken , Vladimir Yushutin

Convergence results for the immersed boundary method applied to a model Stokes problem with the homogeneous Dirichlet boundary condition are presented. As a discretization method, we deal with the finite element method. First, the immersed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-24 Norikazu Saito , Yoshiki Sugitani

The paper develops a finite element method for partial differential equations posed on hypersurfaces in $\mathbb{R}^N$, $N=2,3$. The method uses traces of bulk finite element functions on a surface embedded in a volumetric domain. The bulk…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-19 Alexey Y. Chernyshenko , Maxim A. Olshanskii

In this paper we propose a penalized Crouzeix-Raviart element method for eigenvalue problems of second order elliptic operators. The key idea is to add a penalty term to tune the local approximation property and the global continuity…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-16 Jun Hu , Limin Ma