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In this paper, we introduce and analyse a surface finite element discretization of advection-diffusion equations with uncertain coefficients on evolving hypersurfaces. After stating unique solvability of the resulting semi-discrete problem,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-09-26 Ana Djurdjevac , Charles M. Elliott , Ralf Kornhuber , Thomas Ranner

We study a nonlocal diffusion equation of porous medium type featuring a generalised fractional pressure with spatial anisotropy. We construct a finite element method for the numerical solution of the equation on a bounded open Lipschitz…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-15 Stefano Fronzoni

This paper presents a general theory and isogeometric finite element implementation for studying mass conserving phase transitions on deforming surfaces. The mathematical problem is governed by two coupled fourth-order nonlinear partial…

We propose a finite volume method on general meshes for the discretization of a degenerate parabolic convection-reaction-diffusion equation. Equations of this type arise in many contexts, such as the modeling of contaminant transport in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-11-18 Ophélie Angelini , Konstantin Brenner , Danielle Hilhorst

Diffusion problems with anisotropic features arise in the various areas of science and engineering fields. As a Lagrangian mesh-less method, SPH has a special advantage in addressing the diffusion problems due to the the benefit of dealing…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Xiaojing Tang , Oskar Haidn , Xiangyu Hu

In this paper, we propose two low order nonconforming finite element methods (FEMs) for the three-dimensional Stokes flow that generalize the non-conforming FEM of Kouhia and Stenberg (1995, Comput. Methods Appl. Mech. Engrg.). The finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-03-19 Jun Hu , Mira Schedensack

The scaled boundary finite element method (SBFEM) has recently been employed as an efficient means to model three-dimensional structures, in particular when the geometry is provided as a voxel-based image. To this end, an octree…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-31 Hauke Gravenkamp , Albert A. Saputra , Sascha Eisenträger

This work develops a polygonal finite element method (PFEM) for the analysis of steady-state and transient thermal stresses in two dimensional continua. The method employs Wachspress rational basis functions to construct conforming…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-23 Yang Yang , Mingjiao Yan , Zongliang Zhang , Dengmiao Hao , Xuedong Chen , Weixiong Chen

We propose a new unfitted finite element method for simulation of two-phase flows in presence of insoluble surfactant. The key features of the method are 1) discrete conservation of surfactant mass; 2) the possibility of having meshes that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-30 Thomas Frachon , Sara Zahedi

This paper addresses the topological structure of steady, anisotropic, inhomogeneous diffusion problems. Two discrete formulations: a) mixed and b) direct formulations are discussed. Differential operators are represented by sparse…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-02-14 Marc Gerritsma , Artur Palha , Varun Jain , Yi Zhang

We present a diffuse-interface model for the solid-state dewetting problem with anisotropic surface energies in ${\mathbb R}^d$ for $d\in\{2,3\}$. The introduced model consists of the anisotropic Cahn--Hilliard equation, with either a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-02-15 Harald Garcke , Patrik Knopf , Robert Nürnberg , Quan Zhao

Discrete ordinate ($S_N$) and filtered spherical harmonics ($FP_N$) based schemes have been proven to be robust and accurate in solving the Boltzmann transport equation but they have their own strengths and weaknesses in different physical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-09 Maitraya K Bhattacharyya , David Radice

We revisit the cell-based smoothed finite element method (SFEM) for quadrilateral elements and extend it to arbitrary polygons and polyhedrons in 2D and 3D, respectively. We highlight the similarity between the SFEM and the virtual element…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-10-08 Sundararajan Natarajan , Stéphane P. A. Bordas , Ean Tat Ooi

Chaotic free surface flows are challenging problems to simulate numerically, mainly due to the significant changes in geometry and frequent topological changes. Methods that track the evolution of the fluid in a Lagrangian formulation are a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-24 Thomas Leyssens , Jonathan Lambrechts , Jean-François Remacle

We present a novel artificial diffusion method to circumvent the instabilities associated with the standard finite element approximation of convection-diffusion equations. Motivated by the micromorphic approach, we introduce an auxiliary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-19 Soheil Firooz , B. Daya Reddy , Paul Steinmann

We study the numerical approximation of advection-diffusion equations with highly oscillatory coefficients and possibly dominant advection terms by means of the Multiscale Finite Element Method. The latter method is a now classical, finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-12 Rutger A. Biezemans , Claude Le Bris , Frédéric Legoll , Alexei Lozinski

This paper introduces a family of entropy-conserving finite-difference discretizations for the compressible flow equations. In addition to conserving the primary quantities of mass, momentum, and total energy, the methods also preserve…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-09-24 Carlo De Michele , Ayaboe K. Edoh , Gennaro Coppola

We propose and analyze a semi-discrete parametric finite element scheme for solving the area-preserving curve shortening flow. The scheme is based on Dziuk's approach (SIAM J. Numer. Anal. 36(6): 1808-1830, 1999) for the anisotropic curve…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-12 Wei Jiang , Chunmei Su , Ganghui Zhang

In this manuscript, we present a mixed finite element discretization for a class of boundary-damped anisotropic port-Hamiltonian systems. Using a multiplier method, we demonstrate that the resulting approximation model uniformly preserves…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-21 Luis A. Mora , Kirsten Morris

In this paper we present a complete framework for the energy-stable simulation of stratified incompressible flow in channels, using the one-dimensional two-fluid model. Building on earlier energy-conserving work on the basic two-fluid…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-10-24 J. F. H. Buist , B. Sanderse , S. Dubinkina , C. W. Oosterlee , R. A. W. M. Henkes