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In this paper we consider a class of fictitious domain finite element methods known from the literature. These methods use standard finite element spaces on a fixed unfitted triangulation combined with the Nitsche technique and a ghost…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-05 Sven Gross , Arnold Reusken

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

A finite element methodology for large classes of variational boundary value problems is defined which involves discretizing two linear operators: (1) the differential operator defining the spatial boundary value problem; and (2) a Riesz…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-08 Brendan Keith , Socratis Petrides , Federico Fuentes , Leszek Demkowicz

We prove strong convergence for a large class of finite element methods for the time-dependent Joule heating problem in three spatial dimensions with mixed boundary conditions on Lipschitz domains. We consider conforming subspaces for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-01-31 Max Jensen , Axel Målqvist , Anna Persson

We propose a new discretization method for PDEs on moving domains in the setting of unfitted finite element methods, which is provably higher-order accurate in space and time. In the considered setting, the physical domain that evolves…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-18 Yimin Lou , Christoph Lehrenfeld

Model instability and poor prediction of long-term behavior are common problems when modeling dynamical systems using nonlinear "black-box" techniques. Direct optimization of the long-term predictions, often called simulation error…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-01-25 Mark M. Tobenkin , Ian R. Manchester , Alexandre Megretski

We analyse a Eulerian Finite Element method, combining a Eulerian time-stepping scheme applied to the time-dependent Stokes equations using the CutFEM approach with inf-sup stable Taylor-Hood elements for the spatial discretisation. This is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-12 Henry von Wahl , Thomas Richter , Christoph Lehrenfeld

We consider within a finite element approach the usage of different adaptively refined meshes for different variables in systems of nonlinear, time-depended PDEs. To resolve different solution behaviours of these variables, the meshes can…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-05-27 Thomas Witkowski , Axel Voigt

As a sequel to our previous work [C. Ma, Q. Zhang and W. Zheng, SIAM J. Numer. Anal., 60 (2022)], [C. Ma and W. Zheng, J. Comput. Phys. 469 (2022)], this paper presents a generic framework of arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian unfitted finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-25 Wenhao Lu , Chuwen Ma , Weiying Zheng

Stability and convergence analysis for the domain decomposition finite element/finite difference (FE/FD) method is presented. The analysis is designed for semi-discrete finite element scheme for the time-dependent Maxwell's equations. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-08 Mohammad Asadzadeh , Larisa Beilina

We consider a class of constrained optimization problems with a possibly nonconvex non-Lipschitz objective and a convex feasible set being the intersection of a polyhedron and a possibly degenerate ellipsoid. Such problems have a wide range…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-04-08 Xiaojun Chen , Zhaosong Lu , Ting Kei Pong

In this article, we present an Unfitted Space-Time Finite Element method for the scalar transport equation posed on moving domains. We consider the case of the domain boundary being transported by the same velocity field as the scalar…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Erik Burman , Fabian Heimann

In this work, we analyze a penalized variant of the {\phi}-FEM scheme for the Poisson equation with Dirichlet boundary conditions. The {\phi}-FEM is a recently introduced unfitted finite element method based on a level-set description of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-06 Raphaël Bulle , Michel Duprez , Vanessa Lleras , Killian Vuillemot

We develop a finite element method for the Laplace--Beltrami operator on a surface described by a set of patchwise parametrizations. The patches provide a partition of the surface and each patch is the image by a diffeomorphism of a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-08-02 Tobias Jonsson , Mats G. Larson , Karl Larsson

A cell-centered implicit-explicit updated Lagrangian finite volume scheme on unstructured grids is proposed for a unified first order hyperbolic formulation of continuum fluid and solid mechanics. The scheme provably respects the stiff…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-26 Walter Boscheri , Simone Chiocchetti , Ilya Peshkov

In this contribution, a finite element scheme to impose mixed boundary conditions without introducing Lagrange multipliers is presented for hyperbolic systems described as port-Hamiltonian systems. The strategy relies on finite element…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-23 S. D. M. de Jong , A. Brugnoli , R. Rashad , Y. Zhang , S. Stramigioli

We consider the surface Stokes equation with Lagrange multiplier and approach it numerically. Using a Taylor-Hood surface finite element method, along with an appropriate estimate for the additional Lagrange multiplier, we derive a new…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-03 Charles M. Elliott , Achilleas Mavrakis

The Reynolds equation, combined with the Elrod algorithm for including the effect of cavitation, resembles a nonlinear convection-diffusion-reaction (CDR) equation. Its solution by finite elements is prone to oscillations in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-12 Hauke Gravenkamp , Simon Pfeil , Ramon Codina

In this paper, we consider a nonconvex optimization problem with nonlinear equality constraints. We assume that both, the objective function and the functional constraints are locally smooth. For solving this problem, we propose a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-08 Lahcen El Bourkhissi , Ion Necoara

The multimesh finite element method enables the solution of partial differential equations on a computational mesh composed by multiple arbitrarily overlapping meshes. The discretization is based on a continuous--discontinuous function…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-02 August Johansson , Mats G. Larson , Anders Logg