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In this paper a time dependent Stokes problem that is motivated by a standard sharp interface model for the fluid dynamics of two-phase flows is studied. This Stokes interface problem has discontinuous density and viscosity coefficients and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-07-12 Igor Voulis , Arnold Reusken

We propose a new discretization method for the Stokes equations. The method is an improved version of the method recently presented in [C. Lehrenfeld, J. Sch\"oberl, Comp. Meth. Appl. Mech. Eng., 361 (2016)] which is based on an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-03-29 Philip L. Lederer , Christoph Lehrenfeld , Joachim Schöberl

We propose a mixed finite element method for Stokes flow with one degree of freedom per element and facet of simplicial grids. The method is derived by considering the vorticity-velocity-pressure formulation and eliminating the vorticity…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-30 Wietse M. Boon , Alessio Fumagalli

This paper constructs and analyzes a boundary correction finite element method for the Stokes problem based on the Scott-Vogelius pair on Clough-Tocher splits. The velocity space consists of continuous piecewise quadratic polynomials, and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-24 Haoran Liu , Michael Neilan , Baris Otus

Stokes flows are a type of fluid flow where convective forces are small in comparison with viscous forces, and momentum transport is entirely due to viscous diffusion. Besides being routinely used as benchmark test cases in numerical fluid…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-16 Andrea Cioncolini , Daniele Boffi

Piecewise divergence-free nonconforming virtual elements are designed for Stokes problem in any dimensions. After introducing a local energy projector based on the Stokes problem and the stabilization, a divergence-free nonconforming…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-22 Huayi Wei , Xuehai Huang , Ao Li

In the present paper we develop a new family of Virtual Elements for the Stokes problem on polygonal meshes. By a proper choice of the Virtual space of velocities and the associated degrees of freedom, we can guarantee that the final…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-10-07 L. Beirao da Veiga , C. Lovadina , G. Vacca

Numerical analysis for the stochastic Stokes equations is still challenging even though it has been well done for the corresponding deterministic equations. In particular, the pre-existing error estimates of finite element methods for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-13 Buyang Li , Shu Ma , Weiwei Sun

In this paper, we consider the Stokes problem with Dirichlet boundary conditions and the constant kinematic viscosity $\nu$ in an axis-aligned domain $\Omega$. We decouple the velocity $\bm u$ and pressure $p$ by deriving a novel biharmonic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-17 Qiwei Feng , Bin Han , Michael Neilan

Pressure-robust discretizations for incompressible flows have been in the focus of research for the past years. Many publications construct exactly divergence-free methods or use a reconstruction approach [13] for existing methods like the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-22 Volker Kempf

In this paper, we propose a discretization for the (nonlinearized) compressible Stokes problem with a linear equation of state $\rho=p$, based on Crouzeix-Raviart elements. The approximation of the momentum balance is obtained by usual…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2008-09-18 Thierry Gallouët , Raphaele Herbin , Jean-Claude Latché

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

We present the first convergence proof for an iso-parametric finite element discretization of two-phase Stokes flow in $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^d$, $d=2,3$, with interface dynamics governed by mean curvature. The proof relies on a crucial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-25 Genming Bai , Harald Garcke , Shravan Veerapaneni

We present first-order nonconforming Crouzeix-Raviart discretizations for the nonlinear generalized Stokes equations with $(r,\epsilon)$-structure. Thereby the velocity-errors are independent of the pressure-error; i.e., the method is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-28 Lars Diening , Adrian Hirn , Christian Kreuzer , Pietro Zanotti

Divergence-free discontinuous Galerkin (DG) finite element methods offer a suitable discretization for the pointwise divergence-free numerical solution of Borrvall and Petersson's model for the topology optimization of fluids in Stokes flow…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-22 Ioannis P. A. Papadopoulos

In this article, we analyse a stabilised equal-order finite element approximation for the Stokes equations on anisotropic meshes. In particular, we allow arbitrary anisotropies in a sub-domain, for example along the boundary of the domain,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-12 Stefan Frei

We construct and analyze an isoparametric finite element pair for the Stokes problem in two dimensions. The pair is defined by mapping the Scott-Vogelius finite element space via a Piola transform. The velocity space has the same degrees of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-17 Michael Neilan , M. Baris Otus

In this paper we discretize the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations in the framework of finite element exterior calculus. We make use of the Lamb identity to rewrite the equations into a vorticity-velocity-pressure form which fits into…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-05-11 M. Hanot

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

This paper will suggest a new finite element method to find a $P^4$-velocity and a $P^3$-pressure solving Stokes equations. The method solves first the decoupled equation for the $P^4$-velocity. Then, four kinds of local $P^3$-pressures and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-13 Chunjae Park