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We propose a new mixed finite element method for the three-dimensional steady magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) kinematics equations for which the velocity of the fluid is given. Although prescribing the velocity field leads to a simpler model than…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-29 Lingxiao Li

In this study, the nonconforming finite elements of order two and order three are constructed and exploited for the Stokes problem. The moments of order up to $k-1$ ($k=2,3$) on all the facets of the tetrahedron are used for DoFs (degrees…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-23 Wei Chen , Jun Hu , Min Zhang

We propose a new discretization method for the Stokes equations. The method is an improved version of the method recently presented in [C. Lehrenfeld, J. Sch\"oberl, Comp. Meth. Appl. Mech. Eng., 361 (2016)] which is based on an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-03-29 Philip L. Lederer , Christoph Lehrenfeld , Joachim Schöberl

In this paper we analyze a pressure-robust method based on divergence-free mixed finite element methods with continuous interior penalty stabilization. The main goal is to prove an $O(h^{k+1/2})$ error estimate for the $L^2$ norm of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-23 Bosco García-Archilla , Julia Novo

We present a finite-difference scheme which solves the Stokes problem in the presence of curvilinear non-conforming interfaces and provides second-order accuracy on physical field (velocity, vorticity) and especially on pressure. The gist…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2011-10-07 Abdelkader Hammouti , Anaël Lemaître

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

In this paper, both semidiscrete and fully discrete finite element methods are analyzed for the penalized two-dimensional unsteady Navier-Stokes equations with nonsmooth initial data. First order backward Euler method is applied for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-16 Bikram Bir , Deepjyoti Goswami , Amiya K. Pani

We study the discretisation of a uniaxial (rank-one) reduction of the Oldroyd-B model for dilute polymer solutions, in which the conformation tensor is represented as $\sig = \vec b \otimes \vec b$. Building on structural analogies with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-26 Ben S. Ashby , Gabriel R. Barrenechea , Alex Lukyanov , Tristan Pryer , Alex Trenam

A discontinuous Galerkin method by patch reconstruction is proposed for Stokes flows. A locally divergence-free reconstruction space is employed as the approximation space, and the interior penalty method is adopted which imposes the normal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-11-26 Ruo Li , Zhiyuan Sun , Zhijian Yang

We consider the finite element solution of the vector Laplace equation on a domain in two dimensions. For various choices of boundary conditions, it is known that a mixed finite element method, in which the rotation of the solution is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-01-29 Douglas N. Arnold , Richard S. Falk , Jay Gopalakrishnan

We propose a stabilized Nitsche-based cut finite element formulation for the Oseen problem in which the boundary of the domain is allowed to cut through the elements of an easy-to-generate background mesh. Our formulation is based on the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-03-30 Andre Massing , Benedikt Schott , Wolfgang A. Wall

We present a multigrid method for an unfitted finite element discretization of the Dirichlet boundary value problem. The discretization employs Nitsche's method to implement the boundary condition and additional face based ghost penalties…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-18 Cu Cui , Guido Kanschat

Stokes flows are a type of fluid flow where convective forces are small in comparison with viscous forces, and momentum transport is entirely due to viscous diffusion. Besides being routinely used as benchmark test cases in numerical fluid…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-16 Andrea Cioncolini , Daniele Boffi

We extend the divergence preserving cut finite element method presented in [T. Frachon, P. Hansbo, E. Nilsson, S. Zahedi, SIAM J. Sci. Comput., 46 (2024)] for the Darcy interface problem to unfitted outer boundaries. We impose essential…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-20 Thomas Frachon , Erik Nilsson , Sara Zahedi

This paper aims to improve guaranteed error control for the Stokes problem with a focus on pressure-robustness, i.e. for discretisations that compute a discrete velocity that is independent of the exact pressure. A Prager--Synge type result…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-22 Philip L. Lederer , Christian Merdon

An accelerated boundary integral method for Stokes flow of a suspension of deformable particles is presented for an arbitrary domain and implemented for the important case of a planar slit geometry. The computational complexity of the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-08-07 Amit Kumar , Michael D. Graham

In this article, we present a cut finite element method for two-phase Navier-Stokes flows. The main feature of the method is the formulation of a unified continuous interior penalty stabilisation approach for, on the one hand, stabilising…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2019-05-01 Susanne Claus , Pierre Kerfriden

In the present work, we examine and analyze an hp-version interior penalty discontinuous Galerkin finite element method for the numerical approximation of a steady fluid system on computational meshes consisting of polytopic elements on the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-26 Efthymios N. Karatzas

This article focusses on the analysis of a conforming finite element method for the time-dependent incompressible Navier-Stokes equations. For divergence-free approximations, in a semi-discrete formulation, we prove error estimates for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-03-20 Philipp W. Schroeder , Gert Lube

The paper studies a higher order unfitted finite element method for the Stokes system posed on a surface in three-dimensional space. The method employs generalized Taylor-Hood finite element pairs on tetrahedral bulk mesh to discretize the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-17 Thomas Jankuhn , Maxim A. Olshanskii , Arnold Reusken , Alexander Zhiliakov