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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

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

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

Two finite element approximations of the Oldroyd-B model for dilute polymeric fluids are considered, in bounded 2- and 3-dimensional domains, under no flow boundary conditions. The pressure and the symmetric conformation tensor are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-29 John W. Barrett , Sebastien Boyaval

Classical inf-sup stable mixed finite elements for the incompressible (Navier-)Stokes equations are not pressure-robust, i.e., their velocity errors depend on the continuous pressure. However, a modification only in the right hand side of a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-09-14 Philip L. Lederer , Alexander Linke , Christian Merdon , Joachim Schöberl

Electrokinetic phenomena in nanopore sensors and microfluidic devices require accurate simulation of coupled fluid-electrostatic interactions in geometrically complex domains with irregular boundaries and adaptive mesh refinement. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-19 Sudheer Mishra , Sundararajan Natarajan , E. Natarajan , Gianmarco Manzini

This paper presents a nonconforming finite element scheme for the planar biharmonic equation which applis piecewise cubic polynomials ($P_3$) and possesses $\mathcal{O}(h^2)$ convergence rate in energy norm on general shape-regular…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-06 Shuo Zhang

In this paper, we develop two fully nonconforming (both H(grad curl)-nonconforming and H(curl)-nonconforming) finite elements on cubical meshes which can fit into the Stokes complex. The newly proposed elements have 24 and 36 degrees of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-16 Lixiu Wang , Mingyan Zhang , Qian Zhang

The paper shows an inf-sup stability property for several well-known 2D and 3D Stokes elements on triangulations which are not fitted to a given smooth or polygonal domain. The property implies stability and optimal error estimates for a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-04-24 Johnny Guzmán , Maxim Olshanskii

We present a finite element method for Stokes equations using the Crouzeix-Raviart element for the velocity and the continuous linear element for the pressure. We show that the inf-sup condition is satisfied for this pair. Two numerical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-16 Bishnu P. Lamichhane

We study the regularity and finite element approximation of the axisymmetric Stokes problem on a polygonal domain $\Omega$. In particular, taking into account the singular coefficients in the equation and non-smoothness of the domain, we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-06-21 Young Ju Lee , Hengguang Li

We consider a quadrilateral 'mini' finite element for approximating the solution of Stokes equations using a quadrilateral mesh. We use the standard bilinear finite element space enriched with element-wise defined bubble functions for the…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2015-07-17 Bishnu P. Lamichhane

The goal of this paper is to introduce a simple finite element method to solve the Stokes and the Navier-Stokes equations. This method is in primal velocity-pressure formulation and is so simple such that both velocity and pressure are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-10-19 Lin Mu , Xiu Ye

We propose a nonconforming finite element method for isentropic viscous gas flow in situations where convective effects may be neglected. We approximate the continuity equation by a piecewise constant discontinuous Galerkin method. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2009-06-26 Kenneth H. Karlsen , Trygve K. Karper

This paper presents a novel stabilized nonconforming finite element method for solving the surface biharmonic problem. The method extends the New-Zienkiewicz-type (NZT) element to polyhedral (approximated) surfaces by employing the Piola…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-06 Shuonan Wu , Hao Zhou

In this work, we present and analyze a novel stabilized virtual element formulation for the coupled Stokes-Temperature equation on polygonal meshes, employing equal-order element pairs where viscosity depends on temperature. The main…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-01 Sudheer Mishra , Natarajan E

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

A stabilized finite element method is introduced for the simulation of time-periodic creeping flows, such as those found in the cardiorespiratory systems. The new technique, which is formulated in the frequency rather than time domain,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-30 Mahdi Esmaily

In several studies it has been observed that, when using stabilised $\mathbb{P}_k^{}\times\mathbb{P}_k^{}$ elements for both velocity and pressure, the error for the pressure is smaller, or even of a higher order in some cases, than the one…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-23 Gabriel R. Barrenechea , Michał Bosy , Victorita Dolean

We study the Stokes problem over convex polyhedral domains on weighted Sobolev spaces. The weight is assumed to belong to the Muckenhoupt class $A_q$ for $q \in (1,\infty)$. We show that the Stokes problem is well-posed for all $q$. In…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-02 Enrique Otarola , Abner Salgado