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In this paper, we develop a patch reconstruction finite element method for the Stokes problem. The weak formulation of the interior penalty discontinuous Galerkin is employed. The proposed method has a great flexibility in velocity-pressure…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-01 Ruo Li , Zhiyuan Sun , Fanyi Yang , Zhijian Yang

In this paper we analyze a pressure-robust method based on divergence-free mixed finite element methods with continuous interior penalty stabilization. The main goal is to prove an $O(h^{k+1/2})$ error estimate for the $L^2$ norm of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-23 Bosco García-Archilla , Julia Novo

This paper introduces a weak Galerkin (WG) finite element method for the Stokes equations in the primary velocity-pressure formulation. This WG method is equipped with stable finite elements consisting of usual polynomials of degree $k\ge…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-02-13 Junping Wang , Xiu Ye

We study free boundary problems for incompressible inhomogeneous flows governed by the Navier--Stokes equations, focusing on the regularity and global-in-time well-posedness of solutions in critical functional frameworks for small initial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-11 Piotr B. Mucha , Tomasz Piasecki , Yoshihiro Shibata

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…

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-06 P. L. Lederer , C. Merdon , J. Schöberl

This paper analyzes the Scott-Vogelius divergence-free element pair on anisotropic meshes. Weexplore the behavior of the inf-sup stability constant with respect to the aspect ratio on meshes generated with astandard barycenter mesh…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-10-01 Kiera Kean , Michael Neilan , Michael Schneier

In [ESAIM: M2AN, 54(2020), 2229-2264], we proposed an HDG method to approximate the solution of a tangential boundary control problem for the Stokes equations and obtained an optimal convergence rate for the optimal control {that reflects…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-02 Gang Chen , Wei Gong , Mariano Mateos , John R. Singler , Yangwen Zhang

This paper studies pressure-robustness for the axisymmetric Stokes problem. The transformation to cylindrical coordinates requires that the radially weighted velocity is divergence-free in the classical sense. Consequently, traditional…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-16 Philip L. Lederer , Christoph Lehrenfeld , Christian Merdon , Tim van Beeck

We present a novel formulation for parametric finite element methods to approximate two-phase Stokes flow. The new formulation is based on the classical Stokes equation in the bulk and a novel choice of interface conditions with additional…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-19 Harald Garcke , Dennis Trautwein , Ganghui Zhang

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-09 Thomas Apel , Volker Kempf

We study the Stokes--Poisson--Boltzmann equations with Dirichlet and Navier boundary conditions. The system consists of the incompressible Stokes equations coupled with a nonlinear Poisson--Boltzmann equation through electrostatic forcing…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-15 Ayush Agrawal , Aparna Bansal , D. N. Pandey

In this paper we present a finite element analysis for a Dirichlet boundary control problem governed by the Stokes equation. The Dirichlet control is considered in a convex closed subset of the energy space $\mathbf{H}^1(\Omega).$ Most of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-11-01 Thirupathi Gudi , Ramesh Ch. Sau

In this paper, we propose a new stabilizer free and pressure robust WG method for the Stokes equations with super-convergence on polytopal mesh in the primary velocity-pressure formulation. Convergence rates with one order higher than the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-04 Lin Mu , Xiu Ye , Shangyou Zhang

In this paper, we treat the corner singularity expansion and its convergence result regarding the penalized system obtained by eliminating the pressure variable in the Stokes problem of incompressible flow. The penalized problem is a kind…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-09-11 Hyung Jun Choi , Seonghak Kim , Youngwoo Koh

We derive a compatible discretization method that relies heavily on the underlying geometric structure, and obeys the topological sequences and commuting properties that are constructed. As a sample problem we consider the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-04-29 Jasper Kreeft , Marc Gerritsma

Recent analysis of the divergence constraint in the incompressible Stokes/Navier--Stokes problem has stressed the importance of equivalence classes of forces and how it plays a fundamental role for an accurate space discretization. Two…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-23 Alexander Linke , Christian Merdon , Michael Neilan

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-22 Philip L. Lederer , Christian Merdon

We discuss how slip conditions for the Stokes equation can be handled using Nitsche method, for a stabilized finite element discretization. Emphasis is made on the interplay between stabilization and Nitsche terms. Well-posedness of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-16 Rodolfo Araya , Alfonso Caiazzo , Franz Chouly

We propose a mixed finite element method for the motion of a strongly viscous, ideal, and isentropic gas. At the boundary we impose a Navier-slip condition such that the velocity equation can be posed in mixed form with the vorticity as an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2009-11-11 Kenneth Karlsen , Trygve Karper