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The goal of this paper is to develop and analyze some fully discrete finite element methods for a displacement-pressure model modeling swelling dynamics of polymer gels under mechanical constraints. In the model, the swelling dynamics is…

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In this paper, we will use the interior functions of an hierarchical basis for high order $BDM_p$ elements to enforce the divergence-free condition of a magnetic field $B$ approximated by the H(div) $BDM_p$ basis. The resulting constrained…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-02-07 Wei Cai , Jun Hu , Shangyou Zhang

The relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (RMHD) set of equations has recently seen increased use in astrophysical computations. Even so, RMHD codes remain fragile. The reconstruction can sometimes yield superluminal velocities in certain parts…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-23 Dinshaw S. Balsara , Jinho Kim

Compressible vortex sheets are fundamental waves in entropy solutions to the multidimensional hyperbolic systems of conservation laws. For the Euler equations in 2-D gas dynamics, the classical linearized stability analysis on compressible…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Gui-Qiang Chen , Ya-Guang Wang

We consider a stabilized finite element method for the Darcy problem on a surface based on the Masud-Hughes formulation. A special feature of the method is that the tangential condition of the velocity field is weakly enforced through the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-11-13 Peter Hansbo , Mats G. Larson

We present scalable iterative solvers and preconditioning strategies for Hybridizable Discontinuous Galerkin (HDG) discretizations of partial differential equations (PDEs) on graphics processing units (GPUs). The HDG method is implemented…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Andrew Welter , Ngoc Cuong Nguyen

The nonhomogeneous incompressible Magnetohydrodynamic Equations with density-dependent viscosity is studied in three-dimensional (3D) exterior domains with slip boundary conditions. The key is the constraint of an additional initial value…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-19 Bing Yuan , Rong Zhang , Peng Zhou

We propose an arbitrarily high-order globally divergence-free entropy stable nodal discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method to directly solve the conservative form of the ideal MHD equations using appropriate quadrature rules. The method ensures…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-14 Yuchang Liu , Wei Guo , Yan Jiang , Mengping Zhang

We present a compatible finite element discretisation for the vertical slice compressible Euler equations, at next-to-lowest order (i.e., the pressure space is bilinear discontinuous functions). The equations are numerically integrated in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-26 C. J. Cotter , J. Shipton

We present a novel fully implicit hybrid finite volume/finite element method for incompressible flows. Following previous works on semi-implicit hybrid FV/FE schemes, the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations are split into a pressure and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-14 Alessia Lucca , Saray Busto , Michael Dumbser

This paper introduces a Variational Multiscale Stabilization (VMS) formulation of the incompressible Navier--Stokes equations that utilizes the Finite Element Exterior Calculus (FEEC) framework. The FEEC framework preserves the geometric…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-17 Kevin Dijkstra , Deepesh Toshniwal

We present a novel structure-preserving semi-implicit finite volume method on vertex-based staggered meshes for the compatible discretization of first order systems of time-dependent partial differential equations (PDEs). The method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-24 Elena Bernardelli , Elena Gaburro , Michael Dumbser

Magneto-hydrodynamics is one of the foremost models in plasma physics with applications in inertial confinement fusion, astrophysics and elsewhere. Advanced numerical methods are needed to get an insight into the complex physical phenomena.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-03-29 Jan Nikl , Milan Kuchařík , Stefan Weber

We analyze optimal complexity of adaptive finite element methods (AFEMs) for general second-order linear elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs) in the Lax-Milgram setting. To this end, we formulate an adaptive algorithm which steers…

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A kinetic model with flexible velocities is presented for solving the multi-component Euler equations. The model employs a two-velocity formulation in 1D and a three-velocity formulation in 2D. In 2D, the velocities are aligned with the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-02-17 Shashi Shekhar Roy , S. V. Raghurama Rao

We construct a finite element discretization and time-stepping scheme for the incompressible Euler equations with variable density that exactly preserves total mass, total squared density, total energy, and pointwise incompressibility. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-22 Evan S. Gawlik , François Gay-Balmaz

This paper develops an hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin (HDG) finite element method of arbitrary order for the steady thermally coupled incompressible Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) flow. The HDG scheme uses piecewise polynomials of degrees…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-03 Min Zhang , Zimo Zhu , Qijia Zhai , Xiaoping Xie

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

In this paper we propose two variants of the substructuring preconditioner for solving three-dimensional elliptic-type equations with strongly discontinuous coefficients. In the new preconditioners, we use the simplest coarse solver…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-29 Qiya Hu , Shaoliang Hu

We establish a new iterative method for solving a class of large and sparse linear systems of equations with three-by-three block coefficient matrices having saddle point structure. Convergence properties of the proposed method are studied…

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