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In this article we present a goal-oriented adaptive finite element method for a class of subsurface flow problems in porous media, which exhibit seepage faces. We focus on a representative case of the steady state flows governed by a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-12 Ben Ashby , Cassiano Bortolozo , Alex Lukyanov , Tristan Pryer

In this article, we analyze a two-level finite element method for the equations of motion arising in the flow of 2D Oldroyd model with non-smooth initial data. It involves solving the non-linear problem on a coarse grid of mesh-size $H$ and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-11-26 Deepjyoti Goswami

A new model for the numerical simulation of a rigid body moving in a viscous fluid flow using FEM is presented. One of the most interesting features of this approach is the small computational effort required to solve the motion of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-12-17 M. I. Herreros , S. Ligüérzana

Modeling flow in geosystems with natural fault is a challenging problem due to low permeability of fault compared to its surrounding porous media. One way to predict the behavior of the flow while taking the effects of fault into account is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-11 Youguang Chen , George Biros

A proof of convergence is given for semi- and full discretizations of mean curvature flow of closed two-dimensional surfaces. The numerical method proposed and studied here combines evolving finite elements, whose nodes determine the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-06-27 Balázs Kovács , Buyang Li , Christian Lubich

We present a strongly-coupled immersed-boundary method for flow-structure interaction problems involving thin deforming bodies. The method is stable for arbitrary choices of solid-to-fluid mass ratios and for large body motions. As with…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-10-05 Andres Goza , Tim Colonius

The paper addresses stability and finite element analysis of the stationary two-phase Stokes problem with a piecewise constant viscosity coefficient experiencing a jump across the interface between two fluid phases. We first prove a priori…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-23 Ernesto Cáceres , Johnny Guzmán , Maxim Olshanskii

Reservoir simulators utilize numerical techniques to solve the governing equations of fluid flow in porous media and they are essential tool for oil and gas fields development. In practical reservoir simulation, the finite difference method…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-11-14 Taofik H. Nassan , Mohd Amro

We review the main features of an unfitted finite element method for interface and fluid-structure interaction problems based on a distributed Lagrange multiplier in the spirit of the fictitious domain approach. We recall our theoretical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-03 Najwa Alshehri , Daniele Boffi , Fabio Credali , Lucia Gastaldi

Deformable elastic bodies in viscous and viscoelastic media constitute a large portion of synthetic and biological complex fluids. We present a parallelized 3D-simulation methodology which fully resolves the momentum balance in the solid…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-03-11 Amir Saadat , Chris J. Guido , Gianluca Iaccarino , Eric S. G. Shaqfeh

We propose a parametric finite element method (PFEM) for efficiently solving the morphological evolution of solid-state dewetting of thin films on a flat rigid substrate in three dimensions (3D). The interface evolution of the dewetting…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-03-03 Quan Zhao , Wei Jiang , Weizhu Bao

A comprehensive scheme for the spatial discretisation of continuity equation, momentum advection and normal and shear stresses at the fluid interfaces is presented for numerically simulating the incompressible two phase flows based on the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-08-11 Jun-De Li

The Finite Element Method (FEM) is the gold standard for spatial discretization in numerical simulations for a wide spectrum of real-world engineering problems. Prototypical areas of interest include linear heat transfer and linear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-10 Marcelo Forets , Daniel Freire Caporale , Jorge M. Pérez Zerpa

In ecological studies of pattern formation, models of the competitive-diffusion type are generally singularly perturbed, and the numerical approximation of such models is challenging. In this paper, we present finite element discretization…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-15 Xianping Li , Woinshet D. Mergia , Kailash C. Patidar

We propose and analyze unfitted finite element approximations for the two-phase incompressible Navier--Stokes flow in an axisymmetric setting. The discretized schemes are based on an Eulerian weak formulation for the Navier--Stokes equation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-12 Harald Garcke , Robert Nürnberg , Quan Zhao

The paper develops a finite element method for partial differential equations posed on hypersurfaces in $\mathbb{R}^N$, $N=2,3$. The method uses traces of bulk finite element functions on a surface embedded in a volumetric domain. The bulk…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-19 Alexey Y. Chernyshenko , Maxim A. Olshanskii

The modeling of multi-phase flow is very challenging, given the range of scales as well as the diversity of flow regimes that one encounters in this context. We revisit the discrete equation method (DEM) for two-phase flow in the absence of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-01 Marco Petrella , Remi Abgrall , Siddhartha Mishra

Knowledge of the underlying mechanisms of multiphase flow dynamics in porous media is crucial for optimizing subsurface engineering applications like geological carbon sequestration. However, studying the micro-mechanisms of multiphase…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-08-01 Quanwei Dai , Kang Duan , Chung-Yee Kwok

We investigate novel fitted finite element approximations for two-phase Navier--Stokes flow. In particular, we consider both Eulerian and Arbitrary Lagrangian--Eulerian (ALE) finite element formulations. The moving interface is approximated…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-07 Marco Agnese , Robert Nürnberg

A finite element model was developed to compute the fluid flow inside a sessile evaporating droplet on hydrophilic substrate in ambient conditions. The evaporation is assumed as quasi-steady and the flow is considered as axisymmetric with a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-09-08 Manish Kumar , Rajneesh Bhardwaj