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We present an entropy stable nodal discontinuous Galerkin spectral element method (DGSEM) for the two-layer shallow water equations on two dimensional curvilinear meshes. We mimic the continuous entropy analysis on the semi-discrete level…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-14 Patrick Ersing , Andrew R. Winters

Geometric flows, where an immersed manifold evolves in time according to its own geometry, exhibit important structural properties. For example, surface diffusion dissipates surface area while conserving volume; it is desirable to preserve…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-21 Ganghui Zhang , Boris D. Andrews , Patrick E. Farrell

We present in this paper a pressure correction scheme for the drift-flux model combining finite element and finite volume discretizations, which is shown to enjoy essential stability features of the continuous problem: the scheme is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2008-12-18 Laura Gastaldo , Raphaele Herbin , Jean-Claude Latché

We propose a new parametric finite element method, referred to as the BGN-MDR method, for simulating both mean curvature flow and surface diffusion for closed hypersurfaces, as well as open hypersurfaces with moving contact lines in three…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-19 Guangwei Gao , Harald Garcke , Buyang Li , Rong Tang

Developing high-order numerical schemes for two-phase flow in porous media that preserve key physical properties remains a significant challenge in numerical analysis. In this article, we propose a general framework to construct fully…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-29 Xiaoli Li , Cheng Wang , Yujing Yan , Nan Zheng

We consider an initial/boundary value problem for one-dimensional fractional-order parabolic equations with a space fractional derivative of Riemann-Liouville type and order $\alpha\in (1,2)$. We study a spatial semidiscrete scheme with the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-10-02 Bangti Jin , Raytcho Lazarov , Joseph Pasciak , Zhi Zhou

We introduce a coupled system of PDEs for the modeling of the fluid-fluid and fluid-solid interaction in a poroelastic material with a single static fracture. The fluid flow in the fracture is modeled by a lower-dimensional Darcy equation,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-15 Katja K. Hanowski , Oliver Sander

We provide the first general result for the asymptotics of the area preserving mean curvature flow in two dimensions showing that flat flow solutions, starting from any bounded set of finite perimeter, converge with exponential rate to a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-12-30 Vesa Julin , Massimiliano Morini , Marcello Ponsiglione , Emanuele Spadaro

We revisit the well-known Curve Shortening Flow for immersed curves in the $d$-dimensional Euclidean space. We exploit a fundamental structure of the problem to derive a new global construction of a solution, that is, a construction that is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-12-01 Patrick Guidotti

The Stokes equations play an important role in the incompressible flow simulation. In this paper, a novel divergence-free parametric mixed finite element method is proposed for solving three-dimensional Stokes equations on domains with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-19 Lingxiao Li , Haiyan Su , He Zhang , Weiying Zheng

In this paper, we propose a physics-preserving multiscale method to solve an immiscible two-phase flow problem, which is modeled as a coupling system consisting of Darcy's law and mass conservation equations. We use a new Physics-preserving…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-13 Yiran Wang , Eric Chung , Shuyu Sun

This paper is concerned with the analysis of a new stable space-time finite element method (FEM) for the numerical solution of parabolic evolution problems in moving spatial computational domains. The discrete bilinear form is elliptic on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-14 Stephen Edward Moore

Finite element method (FEM) suffers from a serious mesh distortion problem when used for high velocity impact analyses. The smooth particle hydrodynamics (SPH) method is appropriate for this class of problems involving severe damages but at…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2012-05-08 S. Swaddiwudhipong , M. J. Islam , Z. S. Liu

We consider the discretization of the $1d$-integral Dirichlet fractional Laplacian by $hp$-finite elements. We present quadrature schemes to set up the stiffness matrix and load vector that preserve the exponential convergence of $hp$-FEM…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-17 Björn Bahr , Markus Faustmann , Jens Markus Melenk

In this paper we consider the numerical approximation of the incompressible surface Navier--Stokes equations on an evolving surface. For the discrete representation of the moving surface we use parametric finite elements of degree $\ell…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-09 Harald Garcke , Robert Nürnberg

Accurate representation of interfaces and flux exchange is vital for coupled multiphysics simulations across a broad range of applications. Currently, coupling approaches are limited by the underlying discretization or to specific physical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-10 Ethan Huff , Savio J. Poovathingal

The paper is concerned with the error analysis of a numerical scheme for the approximation of parametric mean curvature flow. The scheme we study is based on a reparametrization using the DeTurck trick and was proposed by Elliott and Fritz…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-21 Klaus Deckelnick , Vanessa Styles

The present work introduces a simple, yet effective particle coalescing procedure for two-dimensional SPH simulations with spatially varying resolution. In addition to the regular conservation properties of former algorithms concerning the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-09-24 Balázs Havasi-Tóth

In this paper, we develop a new free-stream preserving (FP) method for high-order upwind conservative finite-difference (FD) schemes on the curvilinear grids. This FP method is constrcuted by subtracting a reference cell-face flow state…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-18 Hongmin Su , Jinsheng Cai , Shucheng Pan , Xiangyu Hu

We introduce a family of bi-grid schemes in finite elements for solving 2D incompressible Navier-Stokes equations in velocity and pressure $(u,p)$. The new schemes are based on projection methods and use two pairs of FEM spaces, a sparse…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-29 Hyam Abboud , Clara Al Kosseifi , Jean-Paul Chehab