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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 propose a new fully-discretized finite difference scheme for a quantum diffusion equation, in both one and two dimensions. This is the first fully-discretized scheme with proven positivity-preserving and energy stable properties using…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-10 Xiaokai Huo , Hailiang Liu

The paper studies an Allen-Cahn-type equation defined on a time-dependent surface as a model of phase separation with order-disorder transition in a thin material layer. By a formal inner-outer expansion, it is shown that the limiting…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-27 Maxim Olshanskii , Xianmin Xu , Vladimir Yushutin

The scaled boundary finite element method (SBFEM) is a semi-analytical computational scheme, which is based on the characteristics of the finite element method (FEM) and combines the advantages of the boundary element method (BEM). This…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-22 Yang Yang , Zongliang Zhang , Yelin Feng

In this manuscript, we present a mixed finite element discretization for a class of boundary-damped anisotropic port-Hamiltonian systems. Using a multiplier method, we demonstrate that the resulting approximation model uniformly preserves…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-21 Luis A. Mora , Kirsten Morris

The Generalized Finite Element Method (GFEM) is a Partition of Unity Method (PUM), where the trial space of standard Finite Element Method (FEM) is augmented with non-polynomial shape functions with compact support. These shape functions,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-27 I. Babuska , U. Banerjee

We develop a parabolic inf-sup theory for a modified TraceFEM semi-discretization in space of the heat equation posed on a stationary surface embedded in $\mathbb{R}^n$. We consider the normal derivative volume stabilization and add an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-24 Lucas Bouck , Ricardo H. Nochetto , Mansur Shakipov , Vladimir Yushutin

A new finite element method (FEM) using meshes that do not necessarily align with the interface is developed for two- and three-dimensional anisotropic elliptic interface problems with nonhomogeneous jump conditions. The degrees of freedom…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-20 Haifeng Ji , Zhilin Li

In this paper, we study a numerical method for the solution of partial differential equations on evolving surfaces. The numerical method is built on the stabilized trace finite element method (TraceFEM) for the spatial discretization and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-03-23 Christoph Lehrenfeld , Maxim A. Olshanskii , Xianmin Xu

We use the general framework of summation-by-parts operators to construct conservative, energy-stable, and well-balanced semidiscretizations of two different nonlinear systems of dispersive shallow water equations with varying bathymetry:…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-12 Joshua Lampert , Hendrik Ranocha

We describe and evaluate a numerical solution strategy for simulating surface acoustic waves through semiconductor devices with complex geometries. This multi-physics problem is of particular relevance to the design of quantum electronic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Rahman , H. P. Langtangen , C. H. W. Barnes

We consider the design of structure-preserving discretization methods for the solution of systems of boundary controlled Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) thanks to the port-Hamiltonian formalism. We first provide a novel general…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-30 Andrea Brugnoli , Ghislain Haine , Anass Serhani , Xavier Vasseur

We propose a new pressure-based structure-preserving (SP) and quasi asymptotic preserving (AP) staggered semi-implicit finite volume scheme for the unified first order hyperbolic formulation of continuum mechanics. The unified model is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-11-05 Walter Boscheri , Michael Dumbser , Matteo Ioriatti , Ilya Peshkov , Evgeniy Romenski

In this paper, we propose a nonlinear positivity-preserving finite volume element(FVE) scheme for anisotropic diffusion problems on quadrilateral meshes. Based on an overlapping dual partition, the one-sided flux is approximated by the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-14 Yanni Gao , Guangwei Yuan , Shuai Wang , Xudeng Hang

We propose a new stabilised finite element method for the classical Kolmogorov equation. The latter serves as a basic model problem for large classes of kinetic-type equations and, crucially, is characterised by degenerate diffusion. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-31 Zhaonan Dong , Emmanuil H. Georgoulis , Philip J. Herbert

We consider the surface Stokes equation on a smooth closed hypersurface in three-dimensional space. For discretization of this problem a generalization of the surface finite element method (SFEM) of Dziuk-Elliott combined with a Hood-Taylor…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-09 Arnold Reusken

This paper addresses the analysis and numerical assessment of a computational method for solving the Cahn--Hilliard equation defined on a surface. The proposed approach combines the stabilized trace finite element method for spatial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-27 Deepika Garg , Maxim Olshanskii

Discrete ordinate ($S_N$) and filtered spherical harmonics ($FP_N$) based schemes have been proven to be robust and accurate in solving the Boltzmann transport equation but they have their own strengths and weaknesses in different physical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-09 Maitraya K Bhattacharyya , David Radice

In this paper we consider a model singularly perturbed convection diffusion problem which is solved by a streamline diffusion finite element method (SDFEM) on a Shishkin rectangular mesh. To put insight into the influences of stabilization…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-09 Jin Zhang , Xiaowei Liu

We propose a numerical strategy to generate the anisotropic meshes and select the appropriate stabilized parameters simultaneously for two dimensional convection-dominated convection-diffusion equations by stabilized continuous linear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-02-09 Yana Di , Hehu Xie , Xiaobo Yin