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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

Single-phase Stokes flow problems with prescribed boundary conditions can be formulated in terms of a boundary regularized integral equation that is completely free of singularities that exist in the traditional formulation. The usual…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-02-11 Q. Sun , E. Klaseboer , B. C. Khoo , D. Y. C. Chan

Meshless methods inherently do not require mesh topologies and are practically used for solving continuum equations. However, these methods generally tend to have a higher computational load than conventional mesh-based methods because…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-04-29 Takeharu Matsuda , Kohsuke Tsukui , Satoshi Ii

A new reformulation of a free boundary problem for the Stokes equations governing a viscous flow with overdetermined condition on the free boundary is proposed. The idea of the method is to transform the governing equations to a boundary…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-24 Julius Fergy T. Rabago , Hirofumi Notsu

In this work we study the stability, convergence, and pressure-robustness of discretization methods for incompressible flows with hybrid velocity and pressure. Specifically, focusing on the Stokes problem, we identify a set of assumptions…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-22 Lorenzo Botti , Michele Botti , Daniele Antonio Di Pietro , Francesco Carlo Massa

We introduce a novel quadrature strategy for Isogeometric Analysis (IgA) boundary element discretizations, specifically tailored to collocation methods. Thanks to the dimensionality reduction and the natural handling of unbounded domains,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Cesare Bracco , Francesco Patrizi , Alessandra Sestini

We present a methodology for simulating three-dimensional flow of incompressible viscoplastic fluids modelled by generalised Newtonian rheological equations. It is implemented in a highly efficient framework for massively parallelisable…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-09-17 Knut Sverdrup , Ann Almgren , Nikolaos Nikiforakis

We study the dynamics of an inextensible, closed interface subject to bending forces and immersed in a two-dimensional and incompressible Stokes fluid. We formulate the problem as a boundary integral equation in terms of the tangent angle…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-05-07 Eduardo García-Juárez , Po-Chun Kuo , Yoichiro Mori

The Stokes equations play an important role in the incompressible flow simulation. In this paper, a novel divergence-free parametric mixed finite element method is proposed for solving three-dimensional Stokes equations on domains with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-19 Lingxiao Li , Haiyan Su , He Zhang , Weiying Zheng

This article presents a new boundary integral approach for finding optimal shapes of peristaltic pumps that transport a viscous fluid. Formulas for computing the shape derivatives of the standard cost functionals and constraints are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-12 Marc Bonnet , Ruowen Liu , Shravan Veerapaneni

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

Stokes flows with near-touching rigid particles induce near-singular lubrication forces under relative motion, making their accurate numerical treatment challenging. With the aim of controlling the accuracy with a computationally cheap…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-26 Anna Broms , Alex H. Barnett , Anna-Karin Tornberg

A numerical framework for rigorous linear stability analysis of two-phase stratified flows of two immiscible fluids in horizontal circular pipes is presented. For the first time, three-dimensional disturbances, including those at the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-07-17 Ilya Barmak , Alexander Gelfgat , Neima Brauner

We show that an attempt to compute numerically a viscous flow in a domain with a piece-wise smooth boundary by straightforwardly applying well-tested numerical algorithms (and numerical codes based on their use, such as COMSOL Multiphysics)…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-04-06 J. E. Sprittles , Y. D. Shikhmurzaev

We present an efficient and accurate immersed boundary (IB) finite element (FE) solver for numerically solving incompressible Navier--Stokes equations. Particular emphasis is given to internal flows with complex geometries (blood flow in…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-07-07 G. C. Bourantas , D. L. Lampropoulos , B. F. Zwick , V. C. Loukopoulos , A. Wittek , K. Miller

This study proposes an algorithm for modeling compressible flows in spherical shells in nearly incompressible and weakly compressible regimes based on an implicit direction splitting approach. The method retains theoretically expected…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-21 Roman Frolov , Peter Minev , Aziz Takhirov

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

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

The interpolated bounce-back scheme and the immersed boundary method are the two most popular algorithms in treating a no-slip boundary on curved surfaces in the lattice Boltzmann method. While those algorithms are frequently implemented in…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-11-25 Cheng Peng , Orlando M. Ayala , Lian-Ping Wang

A non-local slender body approximation for slender flexible fibers in Stokes flow can be derived, yielding an integral equation along the center lines of the fibers that involves a slenderness parameter. The formulation contains a so-called…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-24 Anna-Karin Tornberg