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This work focuses on the development of efficient solvers for the pseudo-stress formulation of the unsteady Stokes problem, discretised by means of a discontinuous Galerkin method on polytopal grids (PolyDG). The introduction of the…

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We develop a new numerical technique for approximating solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations on moving domains. The method aims at simulating an incompressible fluid past an object whose motion is assigned a priori using a level-set…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-23 Hridya Dilip , Clarissa Astuto , Armando Coco , Giovanni Russo

We present a priori error analysis for a fully discrete, parallelizable, explicit loosely coupled scheme for the time-dependent Stokes-Biot problem. The method decouples the fluid and poroelastic subproblems in a fully explicit fashion,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Yifan Wang , Jeonghun Lee , Suncica Canic

In this paper we propose a novel approach to discretize linear port-Hamiltonian systems while preserving the underlying structure. We present a finite element exterior calculus formulation that is able to mimetically represent conservation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-19 Andrea Brugnoli , Ramy Rashad , Stefano Stramigioli

The method of regularized stokeslets is a powerful numerical method to solve the Stokes flow equations for problems in biological fluid mechanics. A recent variation of this method incorporates a nearest-neighbor discretization to improve…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-06-06 Meurig T. Gallagher , Debajyoti Choudhuri , David J. Smith

In this paper, we propose a discretization for the (nonlinearized) compressible Stokes problem with a linear equation of state $\rho=p$, based on Crouzeix-Raviart elements. The approximation of the momentum balance is obtained by usual…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2008-09-18 Thierry Gallouët , Raphaele Herbin , Jean-Claude Latché

This paper presents a space-time finite element method (FEM) based on an unfitted mesh for solving parabolic problems on moving domains. Unlike other unfitted space-time finite element approaches that commonly employ the discontinuous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-03 Ruizhi Wang , Weibing Deng

We consider the Navier-Stokes equations in a channel with a narrowing of varying height. The model is discretized with high-order spectral element ansatz functions, resulting in 6372 degrees of freedom. The steady-state snapshot solutions…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-04-29 Martin W. Hess , Annalisa Quaini , Gianluigi Rozza

A low-order nonconforming finite element discretization of a smooth de Rham complex starting from the $H^2$ space in three dimensions is proposed, involving an $H^2$-nonconforming finite element space, a new tangentially continuous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-05 Xuewei Cui , Xuehai Huang

In this paper, we propose a high-order extension of the multiscale method introduced by the authors in [SIAM J. Numer. Anal., 63(4) (2025), pp. 1617--1641] for heterogeneous Stokes problems, while also providing several other improvements,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-01 Moritz Hauck , Alexei Lozinski

In this paper, the stabilized finite element approximation of the Stokes eigenvalue problems is considered for both the two-field (displacement-pressure) and the three-field (stress-displacement-pressure) formulations. The method presented…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-09-21 Önder Türk , Daniele Boffi , Ramon Codina

In this paper we discretize the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations in the framework of finite element exterior calculus. We make use of the Lamb identity to rewrite the equations into a vorticity-velocity-pressure form which fits into…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-05-11 M. Hanot

We construct several stable finite element pairs for the Stokes problem on barycentric refinements in arbitrary dimensions. A key feature of the spaces is that the divergence maps the discrete velocity space onto the the discrete pressure…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-10-24 Johnny Guzman , Michael Neilan

Operator splitting methods combined with finite element spatial discretizations are studied for time-dependent nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations. In particular, the Schr\"odinger-Poisson equation under homogeneous Dirichlet boundary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-12-22 Winfried Auzinger , Thomas Kassebacher , Othmar Koch , Mechthild Thalhammer

We study cut finite element discretizations of a Darcy interface problem based on the mixed finite element pairs $\textbf{RT}_k\times Q_k$, $k\geq 0$. Here $Q_k$ is the space of discontinuous polynomial functions of degree less or equal to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-26 Thomas Frachon , Peter Hansbo , Erik Nilsson , Sara Zahedi

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

We present a space-time Cut Finite Element Method (CutFEM) for the time-dependent Navier-Stokes equations involving two immiscible incompressible fluids with different viscosities, densities, and with surface tension. The numerical method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-03-27 Thomas Frachon , Sara Zahedi

The accurate and efficient representation of atmospheric dynamics remains a central challenge in numerical weather prediction. A particular difficulty arises from the strong anisotropy of the atmosphere, in which horizontal and vertical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-18 Daniel Witt , Thomas Bendall , Jemma Shipton

In this work we consider a discontinuous Galerkin method for the discretization of the Stokes problem. We use $H(\textrm{div})$-conforming finite elements as they provide major benefits such as exact mass conservation and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-12-06 Philip L. Lederer , Joachim Schöberl

We consider the variational discretization of a linear-quadratic optimal control problem with pointwise control and state constraints. In order to allow for a Fr\'echet smooth norm, the problem is reformulated by means of a reflexive…

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