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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 construct and analyze a CutFEM discretization for the Stokes problem based on the Scott-Vogelius pair. The discrete piecewise polynomial spaces are defined on macro-element triangulations which are not fitted to the smooth physical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-10 Haoran Liu , Michael Neilan , Maxim Olshanskii

We introduce conformal mixed finite element methods for $2$D and $3$D incompressible nonlinear elasticity in terms of displacement, displacement gradient, the first Piola-Kirchhoff stress tensor, and pressure, where finite elements for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-31 Arzhang Angoshtari

In this paper we discuss the adjoint stabilised finite element method introduced in, E. Burman, Stabilized finite element methods for nonsymmetric, noncoercive and ill-posed problems. Part I: elliptic equations, SIAM Journal on Scientific…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-12-10 Erik Burman

We present a new composite mesh finite element method for fluid--structure interaction problems. The method is based on surrounding the structure by a boundary-fitted fluid mesh which is embedded into a fixed background fluid mesh. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-01-20 Andre Massing , Mats G. Larson , Anders Logg , Marie E. Rognes

We present an immersed boundary method to simulate the creeping motion of a rigid particle in a fluid described by the Stokes equations discretized thanks to a finite element strategy on unfitted meshes, called Phi-FEM, that uses the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-30 Michel Duprez , Vanessa Lleras , Alexei Lozinski

This paper studies a model of two-phase flow with an immersed material viscous interface and a finite element method for numerical solution of the resulting system of PDEs. The interaction between the bulk and surface media is characterized…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-08 Maxim Olshanskii , Annalisa Quaini , Qi Sun

This paper is dedicated to the rigorous numerical analysis of a Multiscale Finite Element Method (MsFEM) for the Stokes system, when dealing with highly heterogeneous media, as proposed in [B.P.~Muljadi et al., arXiv:1404.2837]. The method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-02-14 Gaspard Jankowiak , Alexei Lozinski

Variable viscosity arises in many flow scenarios, often imposing numerical challenges. Yet, discretisation methods designed specifically for non-constant viscosity are few, and their analysis is even scarcer. In finite element methods for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-05 Felipe Galarce , Douglas R. Q. Pacheco

In this paper, we present a robust and efficient unfitted concurrent multiscale method for continuum-continuum coupling, based on the Cut Finite Element Method (CutFEM). The computational domain is defined using approximate signed distance…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Ehsan Mikaeili , Pierre Kerfriden , Susanne Claus

We study the fully mixed formulation of the Biot equations, which is characterized by a symmetric coupling between flow and deformation. This structure enables the use of stable mixed finite elements for each subproblem without a strong…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-20 Fleurianne Bertrand , Jakub Wiktor Both , Tugay Dağlı

We consider the numerical approximation of a sharp-interface model for two-phase flow, which is given by the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations in the bulk domain together with the classical interface conditions on the interface. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-21 Harald Garcke , Robert Nürnberg , Quan Zhao

In this work, we investigate a nonconforming finite element approximation of phase-field parameterized topology optimization governed by the Stokes flow. The phase field, the velocity field and the pressure field are approximated by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-09 Bangti Jin , Jing Li , Yifeng Xu , Shengfeng Zhu

We introduce a new class of mixed finite element methods for 2D and 3D compressible nonlinear elasticity. The independent unknowns of these conformal methods are displacement, displacement gradient, and the first Piola-Kirchhoff stress…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-22 Arzhang Angoshtari , Ali Gerami Matin

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

In this work, we present a parametric finite element approximation of two-phase Navier-Stokes flow with viscoelasticity. The free boundary problem is given by the viscoelastic Navier-Stokes equations in the two fluid phases, connected by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-11 Harald Garcke , Robert Nürnberg , Dennis Trautwein

We introduce two pairs of stable cheapest nonconforming finite element space pairs to approximate the Stokes equations. One pair has each component of its velocity field to be approximated by the $P_1$ nonconforming quadrilateral element…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-03-07 Sihwan Kim , Jaeryun Yim , Dongwoo Sheen

The main goal of the paper is to show new stability and localization results for the finite element solution of the Stokes system in $W^{1,\infty}$ and $L^{\infty}$ norms under standard assumptions on the finite element spaces on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-17 Niklas Behringer , Dmitriy Leykekhman , Boris Vexler

We consider a stabilized nonconforming finite element method for data assimilation in incompressible flow subject to the Stokes' equations. The method uses a primal dual structure that allows for the inclusion of nonstandard data. Error…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-09-21 Erik Burman , Peter Hansbo

We introduce a stabilised finite element formulation for the Kirchhoff plate obstacle problem and derive both a priori and residual-based a posteriori error estimates using conforming $C^1$-continuous finite elements. We implement the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-09 Tom Gustafsson , Rolf Stenberg , Juha Videman