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The goal of this paper is to introduce a simple finite element method to solve the Stokes and the Navier-Stokes equations. This method is in primal velocity-pressure formulation and is so simple such that both velocity and pressure are…
Within the last years pressure robust methods for the discretization of incompressible fluids have been developed. These methods allow the use of standard finite elements for the solution of the problem while simultaneously removing a…
We derive and analyze a broad class of finite element methods for numerically simulating the stationary, low Reynolds number flow of concentrated mixtures of several distinct chemical species in a common thermodynamic phase. The underlying…
Classical inf-sup stable mixed finite elements for the incompressible (Navier-)Stokes equations are not pressure-robust, i.e., their velocity errors depend on the continuous pressure. However, a modification only in the right hand side of a…
We consider a surface Stokes problem in stream function formulation on a simply connected oriented surface $\Gamma \subset \mathbb{R}^3$ without boundary. This formulation leads to a coupled system of two second order scalar surface partial…
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…
This article focusses on the analysis of a conforming finite element method for the time-dependent incompressible Navier-Stokes equations. For divergence-free approximations, in a semi-discrete formulation, we prove error estimates for the…
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…
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…
Pointwise divergence free velocity field approximations of the Stokes system are gaining popularity due to their necessity in precise modelling of physical flow phenomena. Several methods have been designed to satisfy this requirement;…
We propose to analyse the discretization of the Stokes problem with nonconforming finite elements in light of the T-coercivity (cf. [1] for Helmholtz-like problems, see [2], [3] and [4] for the neutron diffusion equation). We propose…
Recent works showed that pressure-robust modifications of mixed finite element methods for the Stokes equations outperform their standard versions in many cases. This is achieved by divergence-free reconstruction operators and results in…
In this paper a class of higher order finite element methods for the discretization of surface Stokes equations is studied. These methods are based on an unfitted finite element approach in which standard Taylor-Hood spaces on an underlying…
This paper describes the recently developed mixed mimetic spectral element method for the Stokes problem in the vorticity-velocity-pressure formulation. This compatible discretization method relies on the construction of a conforming…
In this paper we study parametric TraceFEM and parametric SurfaceFEM (SFEM) discretizations of a surface Stokes problem. These methods are applied both to the Stokes problem in velocity-pressure formulation and in stream function…
We introduce new control-volume finite-element discretization schemes suitable for solving the Stokes problem. Within a common framework, we present different approaches for constructing such schemes. The first and most established strategy…
This paper presents a pressure-robust discretizations, specifically within the context of optimal control problems for the Stokes-Darcy system. The study meticulously revisits the formulation of the divergence constraint and the enforcement…
This paper aims to improve guaranteed error control for the Stokes problem with a focus on pressure-robustness, i.e. for discretisations that compute a discrete velocity that is independent of the exact pressure. A Prager--Synge type result…
The Scott-Vogelius element is a popular finite element for the discretization of the Stokes equations which enjoys inf-sup stability and gives divergence-free velocity approximation. However, it is well known that the convergence rates for…
In this paper we propose and analyze a new Finite Element method for the solution of the two- and three-dimensional incompressible Navier--Stokes equations based on a hybrid discretization of both the velocity and pressure variables. The…