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Finite difference method was extended to unstructured meshes to solve Euler equations. The spatial discretization is made of two steps. First, numerical fluxes are computed at the middle point of each edge with high order accuracy. In this…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-02-26 Meiyuan Zhen , Kun Qu , Jinsheng Cai

In this paper, we propose a novel high order unfitted finite element method on Cartesian meshes for solving the acoustic wave equation with discontinuous coefficients having complex interface geometry. The unfitted finite element method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-06 Zhiming Chen , Yong Liu , Xueshuang Xiang

This article presents a high order conservative flux optimization (CFO) finite element method for the elliptic diffusion equations. The numerical scheme is based on the classical Galerkin finite element method enhanced by a flux…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-11-13 Yujie Liu , Yue Feng , Ran Zhang

In this paper, we propose a simple numerical algorithm based on the weak Galerkin (WG) finite element method for a class of fourth-order problems in fluorescence tomography (FT), eliminating the need for stabilizer terms required in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-25 Chunmei Wang , Shangyou Zhang

We propose a new unfitted finite element method for simulation of two-phase flows in presence of insoluble surfactant. The key features of the method are 1) discrete conservation of surfactant mass; 2) the possibility of having meshes that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-30 Thomas Frachon , Sara Zahedi

We introduce a \textit{non-modal} analysis technique that characterizes the diffusion properties of spectral element methods for linear convection-diffusion systems. While strictly speaking only valid for linear problems, the analysis is…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-01-30 Pablo Fernandez , Rodrigo Moura , Gianmarco Mengaldo , Jaime Peraire

This paper makes the first attempt to apply newly developed upwind GFDM for the meshless solution of two-phase porous flow equations. In the presented method, node cloud is used to flexibly discretize the computational domain, instead of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-19 Xiang Rao , Yina Liu , Hui Zhao

In this work, we analyze an unfitted discontinuous Galerkin discretization for the numerical solution of the Stokes system based on equal higher-order discontinuous velocities and pressures. This approach combines the best from both worlds,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-06 Aikaterini Aretaki , Efthymios N. Karatzas , Georgios Katsouleas

We propose novel less diffusive schemes for conservative one- and two-dimensional hyperbolic systems of nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs). The main challenges in the development of accurate and robust numerical methods for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-09 Alina Chertock , Shaoshuai Chu , Michael Herty , Alexander Kurganov , Maria Lukacova-Medvidova

This work presents a novel stabilization strategy for the Galerkin formulation of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations, developed to achieve high accuracy while ensuring convergence and compatibility with high-order elements on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-05 Antonio Blanco-Casares , Vishal Kumar , Daniel Mira , Oriol Lehmkuhl

This paper introduces an accurate edge-based smoothed finite element method (ES-FEM) for electromagnetic analysis for both two dimensional cylindrical and three dimensional cartesian systems, which shows much better performance in terms of…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2019-10-30 Yangfan Zhang , Pengfei Wang , Wenping Li , Shunchuan Yang

We introduce a new family of high order accurate semi-implicit schemes for the solution of non-linear hyperbolic partial differential equations on unstructured polygonal meshes. The time discretization is based on a splitting between…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-11 Walter Boscheri , Andrea Chiozzi , Michele Giuliano Carlino , Giulia Bertaglia

We develop a cut finite element method (CutFEM) for convection-diffusion problems posed on mixed-dimensional domains, i.e., unions of manifolds of different dimensions arranged in a hierarchical structure where lower-dimensional components…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-09 Erik Burman , Peter Hansbo , Mats G. Larson , Karl Larsson , Shantiram Mahata

We present a new implicit higher-order finite element (FE) approach to efficiently model compressible multicomponent fluid flow on unstructured grids and in fractured porous subsurface formations. The scheme is sequential implicit:…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-08-25 Joachim Moortgat , Mohammad Amin Amooie , Mohamad Reza Soltanian

Finite differences, finite elements, and their generalizations are widely used for solving partial differential equations, and their high-order variants have respective advantages and disadvantages. Traditionally, these methods are treated…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-22 Rebecca Conley , Xiangmin Jiao , Tristan J. Delaney

High-order methods offer superior dispersion and dissipation properties compared to low-order schemes but require robust stabilization for discontinuities. To ensure stability, local artificial viscosity is common, but often degrades…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-01 Anna Schwarz , Jens Keim , Christian Rohde , Andrea Beck

We describe a compatible finite element discretisation for the shallow water equations on the rotating sphere, concentrating on integrating consistent upwind stabilisation into the framework. Although the prognostic variables are velocity…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-17 J. Shipton , T. H. Gibson , C. J. Cotter

We propose a method to address challenges in unconstrained face detection, such as arbitrary pose variations and occlusions. First, a new image feature called Normalized Pixel Difference (NPD) is proposed. NPD feature is computed as the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-09-08 Shengcai Liao , Anil K. Jain , Stan Z. Li

In this paper we propose two fully discrete Finite Elements (FE) schemes for a repulsive chemotaxis model with quadratic production term. The first one (called scheme UV) corresponds to the backward Euler in time with FE in space…

The paper studies a geometrically unfitted finite element method (FEM), known as trace FEM or cut FEM, for the numerical solution of the Stokes system posed on a closed smooth surface. A trace FEM based on standard Taylor-Hood (continuous…

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