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In this paper, we analyze vertex-centered finite volume method (FVM) of any order for elliptic equations on rectangular meshes. The novelty is a unified proof of the inf-sup condition, based on which, we show that the FVM approximation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-07-04 Zhimin Zhang , Qingsong Zou

Over the past 30 years, the cell-centred finite volume method has developed to become a viable alternative to the finite element method in the field of computational solid mechanics. The current article presents an open-source toolbox for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-09-05 P. Cardiff , A. Karač , P. De Jaeger , H. Jasak , J. Nagy , A. Ivanković , Ž. Tuković

This work focuses on the development of a new incompressible solver, incompressibleFoam, within OpenFOAM and integrating several numerical methods within the same framework. Two momentum interpolation (NCMI/CMI) methods are implemented, two…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-06-26 Paulin Ferro , Pierre-Etienne Meiller , Paul Landel , Carla Landrodie , Marc Pescheux

We devise a numerical method for passive advection of a surface, such as the interface between two incompressible fluids, across a computational mesh. The method is called isoAdvector, and is developed for general meshes consisting of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-11-29 Johan Roenby , Henrik Bredmose , Hrvoje Jasak

The stability of most surface-tension-driven interfacial flow simulations is governed by the capillary time-step constraint. This concerns particularly small-scale flows and, more generally, highly-resolved liquid-gas simulations with…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-10-24 Romain Janodet , Berend van Wachem , Fabian Denner

We consider in this work the numerical resolution of a 2D shallow water system with a Coriolis effect and bottom friction stresses on unstructured meshes by a new Finite Volume Characteristics (FVC) scheme, which has been introduced in the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-14 Moussa Ziggaf , Imad Kissami , Mohamed Boubekeur

This article focuses on the finite volume method (FVM) as an instrument tool to deal with the non-linear collisional-induced breakage equation (CBE) that arises in the particulate process. Notably, we consider the non-conservative…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-27 Sanjiv Kumar Bariwal , Rajesh Kumar

A second-order face-centred finite volume strategy on general meshes is proposed. The method uses a mixed formulation in which a constant approximation of the unknown is computed on the faces of the mesh. Such information is then used to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-01 Matteo Giacomini , Ruben Sevilla

To address the dual challenges of performance portability across heterogeneous hardware and the high usability barriers of conventional computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software, this paper introduces FEALPy.CFD, a high performance,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-26 Wang Pengxiang , Huang Xianbo , Peng Li , Wei Huayi

We develop a high-fidelity numerical solver for the compressible Navier-Stokes equations, with the main aim of highlighting the predictive capabilities of low-diffusive numerics for flows in complex geometries. The space discretization of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-12-16 Davide Modesti , Sergio Pirozzoli

In this article we present a novel staggered semi-implicit hybrid finite-volume/finite-element (FV/FE) method for the resolution of weakly compressible flows in two and three space dimensions. The pressure-based methodology introduced in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-16 A. Bermúdez , S. Busto , M. Dumbser , J. L. Ferrín , L. Saavedra , M. E. Vázquez-Cendón

This paper considers flow problems in multiscale heterogeneous porous media. The multiscale nature of the modeled process significantly complicates numerical simulations due to the need to compute huge and ill-conditioned sparse matrices,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-16 Djulustan Nikiforov , Leonardo A. Poveda , Dmitry Ammosov , Yesy Sarmiento , Juan Galvis

Parasitic currents still pose a significant challenge for the investigation of two-phase flow in Lab-on-Chip (LoC) applications with Volume-of-Fluid (VoF) simulations. To counter the impact of such spurious velocity fields in the vicinity…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-01-11 Luise Nagel , Anja Lippert , Tobias Tolle , Ronny Leonhardt , Huijie Zhang , Tomislav Maric

This paper describes the main features of a pioneering unsteady solver for simulating ideal two-fluid plasmas on unstructured grids, taking profit of GPGPU (General-purpose computing on graphics processing units). The code, which has been…

This paper sums up some recent validations of an immersed boundary method for compressible flow simulations. It has been already shown that this method is able to provide accurate results without meshing effort around more or less complex…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-02-19 Thomas Renaud , Christophe Benoit , Stephanie Péron , Ivan Mary , Nicolas Alferez

The fluid flow transport and hydrodynamic problems often take the form of hyperbolic systems of conservation laws. In this work we will present a new scheme of finite volume methods for solving these evolution equations. It is a family of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-25 Moussa Ziggaf , Mohamed Boubekeur , Imad kissami , Fayssal Benkhaldoun , Imad El Mahi

Accurately depicting multiphysics interactions in interfacial systems requires computational frameworks capable of reconciling geometric adaptability with strict conservation fidelity. However, traditional spatiotemporal discretisation…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Suhaib Ardah , Francisco J. Profito , Daniele Dini

This paper is devoted to analyze of nonconforming finite volume methods (FVMs), whose trial spaces are chosen as the nonconforming finite element (FE) spaces, for solving the second order elliptic boundary value problems. We formulate the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-10-31 Yuanyuan Zhang , Zhongying Chen

Meshless solution to differential equations using radial basis functions (RBF) is an alternative to grid based methods commonly used. Since the meshless method does not need an underlying connectivity in the form of control volumes or…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-15 Shantanu Shahane , Anand Radhakrishnan , Surya Pratap Vanka

The Volume-of-Fluid (VoF) method for simulating incompressible two-phase flows is widespread in academic and commercial simulation software because of its many advantages: a high degree of volume conservation, applicability to unstructured…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-12-07 Anja Lippert , Tobias Tolle , Aaron Dörr , Tomislav Maric