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This paper proposes a finite element scheme, based on the Scalar Auxiliary Variable (SAV) approach, for the Cahn-Hilliard equation--a model that possesses significant physical relevance and a rich mathematical structure. A convergence…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-26 Na Li , Yongchao Zhao

In this paper we devise and analyze an unconditionally stable, second-order-in-time numerical scheme for the Cahn-Hilliard equation in two and three space dimensions. We prove that our two-step scheme is unconditionally energy stable and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-11-20 Amanda E. Diegel , Cheng Wang , Steven M. Wise

We extend a distributed finite element method built upon model order reduction to arbitrary polynomial degree using a hybrid Nitsche scheme. The new method considerably simplifies the transformation of the finite element system to the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-13 Tom Gustafsson , Antti Hannukainen , Vili Kohonen , Juha Videman

In this paper, we construct new finite element methods for the approximation of the equations of linear elasticity in three space dimensions that produce direct approximations to both stresses and displacements. The methods are based on a…

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

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

Fourth-order differential equations play an important role in many applications in science and engineering. In this paper, we present a three-field mixed finite-element formulation for fourth-order problems, with a focus on the effective…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-13 Patrick E. Farrell , Abdalaziz Hamdan , Scott P. MacLachlan

We introduce a new measure of coarseness for characterizing phase separation processes such as those described by Cahn--Hilliard equations. An advantage of our measure is that it remains consistent throughout the evolution, including for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-22 Peter Howard , Adam Larios , Quyuan Lin

The mixed form of the Cahn-Hilliard equations is discretized by the hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin method. For any chemical energy density, existence and uniqueness of the numerical solution is obtained. The scheme is proved to be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-28 Keegan L. A. Kirk , Rami Masi , Beatrice Riviere

The paper focuses on a new error analysis of a class of mixed FEMs for stationary incompressible magnetohydrodynamics with the standard inf-sup stable velocity-pressure space pairs to Navier-Stokes equations and the N\'ed\'elec's edge…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-22 Yuchen Huang , Weifeng Qiu , Weiwei Sun

In this paper, we prove a discrete embedding inequality for the Raviart--Thomas mixed finite element methods for second order elliptic equations, which is analogous to the Sobolev embedding inequality in the continuous setting. Then, by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-07-11 Huadong Gao , Weifeng Qiu

In this paper, we propose a novel recovery based finite element method for the Cahn-Hilliard equation. One distinguishing feature of the method is that we discretize the fourth-order differential operator in a standard $C^0$ linear finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-30 Minqiang Xu , Hailong Guo , Qingsong Zou

In this paper, we discuss approximating the eigenvalue problem of biharmonic equation. We first present an equivalent mixed formulation which admits amiable nested discretization. Then, we construct multi-level finite element schemes by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-06-20 Shuo Zhang , Yingxia Xi , Xia Ji

As inelastic structures are ubiquitous in many engineering fields, a central task in computational mechanics is to develop accurate, robust and efficient tools for their analysis. Motivated by the poor performances exhibited by standard…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-09-21 Nicola A. Nodargi

A computationally efficient, low order finite element formulation is developed for modelling the Navier-Stokes-Cahn-Hilliard equations, which have been established as a promising phase field modelling approach for simulation of immiscible…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-11-18 Aleksander Lovrić , Wulf G. Dettmer , Djordje Perić

In this paper, we propose a robust solver for the finite element discrete problem of the stationary incompressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations in three dimensions. By the mixed finite element method, both the velocity and the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-10-23 Lingxiao Li , Weiying Zheng

In this article, mixed finite element methods are discussed for a class of hyperbolic integro-differential equations (HIDEs). Based on a modification of the nonstandard energy formulation of Baker, both semidiscrete and completely discrete…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-01-22 Samir Karaa , Amiya K. Pani

We discretize the Lagrange multiplier formulation of the obstacle problem by mixed and stabilized finite element methods. A priori and a posteriori error estimates are derived and numerically verified.

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-11-16 Tom Gustafsson , Rolf Stenberg , Juha Videman

This paper is concerned with fully discrete finite element methods for approximating variational solutions of nonlinear stochastic elastic wave equations with multiplicative noise. A detailed analysis of the properties of the weak solution…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-04 Xiaobing Feng , Yukun Li , Yujian Lin

We consider a mixed finite element method for approximating the solution of nearly incompressible elasticity and Stokes equations. The finite element method is based on quadrilateral and hexahedral triangulation using primal and dual…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-10-23 Bishnu P. Lamichhane

The biharmonic equation with Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions discretized using the mixed finite element method and piecewise linear (with the possible exception of boundary triangles) finite elements on triangular elements has…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-21 Oded Stein , Eitan Grinspun , Alec Jacobson , Max Wardetzky