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In this paper, we propose a new formulation and a suitable finite element method for the steady coupling of viscous flow in deformable porous media using divergence-conforming filtration fluxes. The proposed method is based on the use of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-23 Ruben Caraballo , Chansophea Wathanak In , Alberto F. Martín , Ricardo Ruiz-Baier

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

We propose a hybrid Finite Volume (FV) - Spectral Element Method (SEM) for modelling aeroacoustic phenomena based on the Lighthill's acoustic analogy. First the fluid solution is computed employing a FV method. Then, the sound source term…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-03 Alberto Artoni , Paola F. Antonietti , Ilario Mazzieri , Nicola Parolini , Daniele Rocchi

We present a finite element framework for the numerical prediction of cavitating turbulent flows interacting with flexible structures. The vapor-fluid phases are captured through a homogeneous mixture model, with a scalar transport equation…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-01-01 Nihar B. Darbhamulla , Rajeev K. Jaiman

In this work, we develop a cut-based unfitted finite element formulation for solving nonlinear, nonstationary fluid-structure interaction with contact in Eulerian coordinates. In the Eulerian description fluid flow modeled by the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-24 Stefan Frei , Tobias Knoke , Marc C. Steinbach , Anne-Kathrin Wenske , Thomas Wick

We introduce a new cell-centered finite volume discretization for elasticity with weakly enforced symmetry of the stress tensor. The method is motivated by the need for robust discretization methods for deformation and flow in porous media,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-12-04 Eirik Keilegavlen , Jan Martin Nordbotten

We propose and analyze volume-preserving parametric finite element methods for surface diffusion, conserved mean curvature flow and an intermediate evolution law in an axisymmetric setting. The weak formulations are presented in terms of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-08 Weizhu Bao , Harald Garcke , Robert Nurnberg , Quan Zhao

This paper proposes an approach combining the Volume Penalization (VP) and the the Lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) to compute fluid structure interaction involving rigid bodies. The method consists in adding a force term in the LBM…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-06-11 Erwan Liberge , Claudine Béghein

Real-time simulation of elastic structures is essential in many applications, from computer-guided surgical interventions to interactive design in mechanical engineering. The Finite Element Method is often used as the numerical method of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Alban Odot , Ryadh Haferssas , Stéphane Cotin

A new numerical method is presented for solving the rotating shallow water equations on a rotating sphere using quasi-uniform polygonal meshes. The method uses special families of finite element function spaces to mimic key mathematical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-23 John Thuburn , Colin J. Cotter

The Finite Element Method (FEM) is a powerful modeling tool for predicting soft robots' behavior, but its computation time can limit practical applications. In this paper, a learning-based approach based on condensation of the FEM model is…

Most approaches in Lagrangian fluid dynamics simulations proceed from the definition of particle volumes, from which discrete versions of the spatial differential operators are derived. Recently, Gallou\"et and M\'erigot [1] simultaneously…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-01-25 Daniel Duque

We consider the numerical approximation of a sharp-interface model for two-phase flow, which is given by the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations in the bulk domain together with the classical interface conditions on the interface. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-21 Harald Garcke , Robert Nürnberg , Quan Zhao

In this work, we propose an extension of the mixed Virtual Element Method (VEM) for bi-dimensional computational grids with curvilinear edge elements. The approximation by means of rectilinear edges of a domain with curvilinear geometrical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-01 Franco Dassi , Alessio Fumagalli , Davide Losapio , Stefano Scialò , Anna Scotti , Giuseppe Vacca

Numerical simulations of brittle fracture using phase-field approaches often employ a discrete approximation framework that applies the same order of interpolation for the displacement and phase-field variables. Most common is to use linear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-04-30 Juan Michael Sargado , Eirik Keilegavlen , Inga Berre , Jan Martin Nordbotten

In this work, we present a novel method for the mesh update in flow problems with moving boundaries, the phantom domain deformation mesh update method (PD-DMUM). The PD-DMUM is designed to avoid remeshing; even in the event of large,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-18 Daniel Hilger , Norbert Hosters , Fabian Key , Stefanie Elgeti , Marek Behr

In this paper we study the use of Virtual Element method for geomechanics. Our emphasis is on applications to reservoir simulations. The physical processes that form the reservoirs, such as sedimentation, erosion and faulting, lead to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-02-09 Odd Andersen , Halvor M. Nilsen , Xavier Raynaud

Fluid-particle systems are very common in many natural processes and engineering applications. However, accurately and efficiently modelling fluid-particle systems with complex particle shapes is still a challenging task. Here, we present a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-03-22 Pei Zhang , Ling Qiu , S. A. Galindo-Torres , Yilin Chen , A. Scheuermann , Ling Li

We propose a novel Particle Flow Map (PFM) method to enable accurate long-range advection for incompressible fluid simulation. The foundation of our method is the observation that a particle trajectory generated in a forward simulation…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Junwei Zhou , Duowen Chen , Molin Deng , Yitong Deng , Yuchen Sun , Sinan Wang , Shiying Xiong , Bo Zhu

Fitted finite element methods are constructed for a singularly perturbed convection-diffusion problem in two space dimensions. Exponential splines as basis functions are combined with Shishkin meshes to obtain a stable parameter-uniform…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-03 Alan F. Hegarty , Eugene O'Riordan