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The paper introduces a geometrically unfitted finite element method for the numerical solution of the tangential Navier--Stokes equations posed on a passively evolving smooth closed surface embedded in $\mathbb{R}^3$. The discrete…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-16 Maxim A. Olshanskii , Arnold Reusken , Paul Schwering

We investigate the accuracy and robustness of one of the most common methods used in glaciology for the discretization of the $\mathfrak{p}$-Stokes equations: equal order finite elements with Galerkin Least-Squares (GLS) stabilization.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-07-30 Christian Helanow , Josefin Ahlkrona

We formulate a model describing the evolution of thickness in a shallow ice sheet lying over a lithosphere. The model is thus governed by a set of variational inequalities that involve nonlinearities in the time derivative and in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-09 Paolo Piersanti , Roger Temam

Governing equations of motion for a viscous incompressible material surface are derived from the balance laws of continuum mechanics. The surface is treated as a time-dependent smooth orientable manifold of codimension one in an ambient…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-10-10 Thomas Jankuhn , Maxim A. Olshanskii , Arnold Reusken

We analyze two fully time-discrete numerical schemes for the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations posed on evolving surfaces in $\mathbb{R}^3$ with prescribed normal velocity using the evolving surface finite element method (ESFEM). We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-15 Charles M. Elliott , Achilleas Mavrakis

In this paper, we examine a fully-discrete finite element approximation of the unsteady $p(\cdot,\cdot)$-Stokes equations ($i.e.$, $p(\cdot,\cdot)$ is time- and space-dependent), employing a backward Euler step in time and conforming,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-03 Luigi C. Berselli , Alex Kaltenbach , Seungchan Ko

We describe how surface interactions can affect the growth of ice crystal facets in contact with a substrate by lowering the normal nucleation barrier on the ice surface. We also describe how the resulting enhanced growth rates can produce…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-08-28 Kenneth G. Libbrecht

Stokes perturbative solution of the nonlinear (boundary value dependent) surface gravity wave problem is known to provide results of reasonable accuracy to engineers in estimating the phase speed and amplitudes of such nonlinear waves. The…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-02-10 Megan Davies , Amit K Chattopadhyay

Abyssal hills, arguably the most extensive coherent pattern in Earth's surface topography, record the spacing of normal faults formed at mid-ocean ridges. At fast-spreading ridges, high-resolution bathymetry shows a pronounced spectral peak…

Geophysics · Physics 2026-05-12 Richard F Katz , Peter Huybers

We consider the problem of a one dimensional elastic filament immersed in a two dimensional steady Stokes fluid. Immersed boundary problems in which a thin elastic structure interacts with a surrounding fluid are prevalent in science and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-02-02 Yoichiro Mori , Analise Rodenberg , Daniel Spirn

In this paper, a stabilized extended finite element method is proposed for Stokes interface problems on unfitted triangulation elements which do not require the interface align with the triangulation. The velocity solution and pressure…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-19 Xiaoxiao He , Fei Song , Weibing Deng

It is well-known that small, regular, spherically symmetric characteristic initial data to the Einstein-scalar-field system which are decaying towards (future null) infinity give rise to solutions which are foward-in-time global (in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-05-13 Jonathan Luk , Sung-Jin Oh , Shiwu Yang

We present a simple and efficient variational finite difference method for simulating time-dependent Stokes flow in the presence of irregular free surfaces and moving solid boundaries. The method uses an embedded boundary approach on…

Computational Physics · Physics 2011-05-25 Christopher Batty , Robert Bridson

This paper recalls a partial differential equations system, which is the linearization of a recognized fluid-elasticity interaction three-dimensional model. A collection of regularity results for the traces of the fluid variable on the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-09-11 Francesca Bucci

We consider the surface Stokes equation with Lagrange multiplier and approach it numerically. Using a Taylor-Hood surface finite element method, along with an appropriate estimate for the additional Lagrange multiplier, we derive a new…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-03 Charles M. Elliott , Achilleas Mavrakis

We present a new stability and error analysis of fully discrete approximation schemes for the transient Stokes equation. For the spatial discretization, we consider a wide class of Galerkin finite element methods which includes both inf-sup…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-12 Alessandro Contri , Balázs Kovács , André Massing

Level set-based immersed boundary techniques operate on nonconforming meshes while providing a crisp definition of interface and external boundaries. In such techniques, an isocontour of a level set field interpolated from nodal level set…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Jorge L. Barrera , Kurt Maute

In this paper we consider a slab of viscous incompressible fluid bounded above by a free boundary, bounded below by a flat rigid interface, and acted on by gravity. The unique equilibrium is a flat slab of quiescent fluid. It is well-known…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-06-12 Ian Tice , Samuel Zbarsky

In this work we consider the two dimensional instationary Navier-Stokes equations with homogeneous Dirichlet/no-slip boundary conditions. We show error estimates for the fully discrete problem, where a discontinuous Galerkin method in time…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Boris Vexler , Jakob Wagner

In this paper we present an error analysis of an Eulerian finite element method for solving parabolic partial differential equations posed on evolving hypersurfaces in $\mathbb{R}^d$, $d=2,3$. The method employs discontinuous piecewise…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-04-10 Maxim A. Olshanskii , Arnold Reusken