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This paper proposes and analyzes a full discretization of the exterior transient Stokes problem with Dirichlet boundary conditions. The method is based on a single layer boundary integral representation, using Galerkin semidiscretization in…
A new formulation of boundary value problems in gradient elasticity is presented in this work. The main outcome is the construction of partial differential systems of second order, which are typically equivalent with the well known fourth…
We address the classical inverse problem of recovering the position and shape of obstacles immersed in a planar Stokes flow using boundary measurements. We prove that this problem can be transformed into a shape-from-moments problem to…
We consider equations of the form $\Delta u +\lambda^2 V(x)e^{\,u}=\rho$ in various two dimensional settings. We assume that $V>0$ is a given function, $\lambda>0$ is a small parameter and $\rho=\mathcal O(1)$ or $\rho\to +\infty$ as…
This paper is concerned with the free boundary value problem for multi-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations with density-dependent viscosity where the flow density vanishes continuously across the free boundary. A local (in time) existence…
Free boundary problems appear naturally in numerous areas of mathematics, science and engineering. These problems present a great computational challenge because they necessitate numerical methods that can yield an accurate approximation of…
This paper is dedicated to a free boundary system arising in the study of a class of shape optimization problems. The problem involves three variables: two functions $u$ and $v$, and a domain $\Omega$; with $u$ and $v$ being both positive…
This paper explores the reconstruction of a space-dependent parameter in inverse diffusion problems, proposing a shape-optimization-based approach. We consider a Robin boundary condition, physically motivated in diffuse optical tomography…
In this paper, we first propose and analyze a novel mixed-type DG method for the coupled Stokes-Darcy problem on simplicial meshes. The proposed formulation is locally conservative. A mixed-type DG method in conjunction with the…
We study the initial-boundary value problem of the Navier-Stokes equations for incompressible fluids in a general domain in $\R^n$ with compact and smooth boundary, subject to the kinematic and vorticity boundary conditions on the non-flat…
We develop a new variational formulation of the inverse Stefan problem, where information on the heat flux on the fixed boundary is missing and must be found along with the temperature and free boundary. We employ optimal control framework,…
We develop two unfitted finite element methods for the Stokes equations using $H^{\text{div}}$-conforming finite elements. Both methods achieve optimal convergence for velocity, ensure pointwise divergence-free velocity fields, and produce…
We address the problem of numerically approximating the velocity and pressure governed by the Stokes system when the boundary conditions are only partially known and thus do not uniquely determine the velocity-pressure couple. We propose an…
This paper is concerned with the optimal shape design of the newtonian viscous incompressible fluids driven by the stationary nonhomogeneous Navier-Stokes equations. We use three approaches to derive the structures of shape gradients for…
In this paper a time dependent Stokes problem that is motivated by a standard sharp interface model for the fluid dynamics of two-phase flows is studied. This Stokes interface problem has discontinuous density and viscosity coefficients and…
A finite-element algorithm for computing free-surface flows driven by arbitrary body forces is presented. The algorithm is primarily designed for the microfluidic parameter range where (i) the Reynolds number is small and (ii) force-driven…
The probabilistic representation of weak solutions to a parabolic boundary value problem is established in the following framework. The boundary value problem consists of a second order parabolic equation defined on a time-varying Lipschitz…
A theoretical analysis of the finite element method for a generalized Robin boundary value problem, which involves a second-order differential operator on the boundary, is presented. If $\Omega$ is a general smooth domain with a curved…
Numerical issues arising in computations of viscous flows in corners formed by a liquid-fluid free surface and a solid boundary are considered. It is shown that on the solid a Dirichlet boundary condition, which removes multivaluedness of…
In this work it is shown how the immersed boundary method of (Peskin2002) for modeling flexible structures immersed in a fluid can be extended to include thermal fluctuations. A stochastic numerical method is proposed which deals with…