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This paper develops divergence-free mixed finite element methods for the Stokes equation. Using H(div)-conforming velocities and discontinuous pressures ensures the inf-sup condition for the velocity--pressure pair and yields pointwise…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-17 Long Chen , Xuehai Huang , Chao Zhang , Xinyue Zhao

In this paper, the stabilized finite element method based on local projection is applied to discretize the Stokes eigenvalue problems and the corresponding convergence analysis is given. Furthermore, we also use a method to improve the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-12-30 Hehu Xie

A stable numerical solution of the steady Stokes problem requires compatibility between the choice of velocity and pressure approximation that has traditionally proven problematic for meshless methods. In this work, we present a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-15 Nathaniel Trask , Martin Maxey , Xiaozhe Hu

In this paper we consider a fully discrete numerical method for the unsteady Navier-Stokes equations on a smooth closed stationary surface in $\mathbb{R}^3$. We use the surface finite element method (SFEM) with a generalized Taylor-Hood…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-03 Charles M. Elliott , Achilleas Mavrakis

The paper introduces an adaptive version of the stabilized Trace Finite Element Method (TraceFEM) designed to solve low-regularity elliptic problems on level-set surfaces using a shape-regular bulk mesh in the embedding space. Two…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-21 Timo Heister , Maxim A. Olshanskii , Vladimir Yushutin

We propose a finite element discretization for the steady, generalized Navier-Stokes equations for fluids with shear-dependent viscosity, completed with inhomogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions and an inhomogeneous divergence constraint.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-09 Julius Jeßberger , Alex Kaltenbach

In this article we propose two finite element schemes for the Navier-Stokes equations, based on a reformulation that involves differential operators from the de Rham sequence and an advection operator with explicit skew-symmetry in weak…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-27 Valentin Carlier , Martin Campos Pinto , Francesco Fambri

This manuscript introduces an advanced numerical approach for the integration of incompressible Navier-Stokes (NS) equations using a Time Series Expansion (TSE) method within a Finite Element Method (FEM) framework. The technique is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-05 Ahmad Deeb , Denys Dutykh

We present a parametric finite element approximation of two-phase flow. This free boundary problem is given by the Navier--Stokes equations in the two phases, which are coupled via jump conditions across the interface. Using a novel…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-02 John W. Barrett , Harald Garcke , Robert Nürnberg

We consider Trace finite element methods for the linear membrane problem on second order tetrahedral elements. To accomplish this, zero-level set reconstruction methods for second order tetrahedra are considered. For the higher order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-03-21 Mirza Cenanovic

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

We consider a setting in which an evolving surface is implicitly characterized as the zero level of a level set function. Such an implicit surface does not encode any information about the path of a single point on the evolving surface. In…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-02 Tilman Aleman , Arnold Reusken

Strain smoothing methods such as the smoothed finite element methods (S-FEMs) and the strain-smoothed element~(SSE) method have successfully improved the performance of finite elements, and there have been numerous applications of them in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-01 Chaemin Lee , Jongho Park

We propose a new unfitted finite element method for simulation of two-phase flows in presence of insoluble surfactant. The key features of the method are 1) discrete conservation of surfactant mass; 2) the possibility of having meshes that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-30 Thomas Frachon , Sara Zahedi

In this paper we consider an ESFEM method for the advection and diffusion of a scalar quantity on a moving closed curve. The diffusion process is controlled by a forcing term that may include a rough term (specifically a stochastic noise)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-03 Paola Pozzi , Björn Stinner

We propose an efficient and accurate parametric finite element method (PFEM) for solving sharp-interface continuum models for solid-state dewetting of thin films with anisotropic surface energies. The governing equations of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-01-10 Weizhu Bao , Wei Jiang , Yan Wang , Quan Zhao

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-05 Martin Schneider , Timo Koch

The multimesh finite element method enables the solution of partial differential equations on a computational mesh composed by multiple arbitrarily overlapping meshes. The discretization is based on a continuous--discontinuous function…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-02 August Johansson , Mats G. Larson , Anders Logg

We consider a vector-Laplace problem posed on a 2D surface embedded in a 3D domain, which results from the modeling of surface fluids based on exterior Cartesian differential operators. The main topic of this paper is the development and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-09-05 Sven Groß , Thomas Jankuhn , Maxim A. Olshanskii , Arnold Reusken

In this paper, we construct a simple and robust two-point finite volume discretization applicable to isotropic linearized elasticity, valid in also in the incompressible Stokes' limit. The discretization is based only on co-located,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-22 Jan Martin Nordbotten , Eirik Keilegavlen