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The paper develops and analyzes a higher-order unfitted finite element method for the incompressible Stokes equations, which yields a strongly divergence-free velocity field up to the physical boundary. The method combines an isoparametric…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Michael Neilan , Maxim Olshanskii , Henry von Wahl

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 construct and analyze divergence-free finite element methods for the Stokes problem on smooth domains. The discrete spaces are based on the Scott-Vogelius finite element pair of arbitrary polynomial degree greater than…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-23 Rebecca Durst , Michael Neilan

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-02 Maurice Fabien , Johnny Guzman , Michael Neilan , Ahmed Zytoon

We develop two unfitted finite element methods for the Stokes equations using $H^{\text{div}}$-conforming finite elements. Both methods achieve optimal convergence for velocity, ensure pointwise divergence-free velocity fields, and produce…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-04 Thomas Frachon , Erik Nilsson , Sara Zahedi

In this note we design a cut finite element method for a low order divergence free element applied to a boundary value problem subject to Stokes' equations. For the imposition of Dirichlet boundary conditions we consider either Nitsche's…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-14 Erik Burman , Peter Hansbo , Mats G. Larson

In this paper, we introduce a new finite element method for solving the Stokes equations in the primary velocity-pressure formulation. This method employs $H(div)$ finite elements to approximate velocity, which leads to two unique…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-23 Xiu Ye , Shangyou Zhang

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

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

We present quasi-optimal a priori error estimates for general mixed finite element methods to approximate solutions of the Stokes problem subject to inhomogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions. For the Scott-Vogelius element this yields…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-23 Franziska Eickmann , Ridgway L. Scott , Tabea Tscherpel

This paper presents a pressure-robust and element-wise divergence-free nonconforming finite element method for the Stokes problem on curved domains. The discrete element is constructed by mapping the Fortin-Soulie element from a reference…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-15 Wei Chen , Zhen Liu

Surface Stokes and Navier-Stokes equations are used to model fluid flow on surfaces. They have attracted significant recent attention in the numerical analysis literature because approximation of their solutions poses significant challenges…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-29 Alan Demlow , Michael Neilan

This work introduces a stabilised finite element formulation for the Stokes flow problem with a nonlinear slip boundary condition of friction type. The boundary condition is enforced with the help of an additional Lagrange multiplier and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-21 Tom Gustafsson , Juha Videman

We study a fictitious domain approach with Lagrange multipliers to discretize Stokes equations on a mesh that does not fit the boundaries. A mixed finite element method is used for fluid flow. Several stabilization terms are added to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-10-24 Michel Fournié , Alexei Lozinski

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

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-08 Nis-Erik Bohne , Benedikt Gräßle , Stefan A. Sauter

The Scott-Vogelius finite element pair for the numerical discretization of the stationary Stokes equation in 2D is a popular element which is based on a continuous velocity approximation of polynomial order $k$ and a discontinuous pressure…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-09 Benedikt Gräßle , Nis-Erik Bohne , Stefan A. Sauter

Recently, the $P_1$-nonconforming finite element space over square meshes has been proved stable to solve Stokes equations with the piecewise constant space for velocity and pressure, respectively. In this paper, we will introduce its…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-27 Chunjae Park

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

In the present work, we propose to extend to the Stokes problem a fictitious domain approach inspired by eXtended Finite Element Method and studied for Poisson problem in [Renard]. The method allows computations in domains whose boundaries…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-15 Sébastien Court , Michel Fournié , Alexei Lozinski
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