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We show the short-time existence and uniqueness of solutions for the motion of an evolving hypersurface in contact with a solid container driven by volume-preserving mean curvature flow (MCF) taking line tension effects on the boundary into…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-03-26 Helmut Abels , Harald Garcke , Lars Müller

We propose a novel formulation for parametric finite element methods to simulate surface diffusion of closed curves, which is also called as the curve diffusion. Several high-order temporal discretizations are proposed based on this new…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-27 Harald Garcke , Wei Jiang , Chunmei Su , Ganghui Zhang

We develop a new boundary condition for the weak inverse mean curvature flow, which gives canonical and non-trivial solutions in bounded domains. Roughly speaking, the boundary of the domain serves as an outer obstacle, and the evolving…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-02-10 Kai Xu

In this paper we introduce a finite element method for the Stokes equations with a massless immersed membrane. This membrane applies normal and tangential forces affecting the velocity and pressure of the fluid. Additionally, the points…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-05-01 Kyle Dunn , Roger Lui , Marcus Sarkis

This work introduces a stabilised finite element formulation for the Stokes flow problem with a nonlinear slip boundary condition of friction type. The boundary condition is enforced with the help of an additional Lagrange multiplier and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-21 Tom Gustafsson , Juha Videman

A stabilized finite element method is introduced for the simulation of time-periodic creeping flows, such as those found in the cardiorespiratory systems. The new technique, which is formulated in the frequency rather than time domain,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-30 Mahdi Esmaily

We prove an $\epsilon$-regularity result for the tracefree curvature of a Willmore surface with bounded second fundamental form. For such a surface, we obtain a pointwise control of the tracefree second fundamental form from a small control…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-02-20 Yann Bernard , Paul Laurain , Nicolas Marque

Kuwert and Sch\"atzle showed in 2001 that the Willmore flow converges to a standard round sphere, if the initial energy is small. In this situation, we prove stability estimates for the barycenter and the quadratic moment of the surface.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-09-28 Ernst Kuwert , Julian Scheuer

In this paper, we consider numerical approximation of an electrically conductive ferrofluid model, which consists of Navier-Stokes equations, magnetization equation, and magnetic induction equation. To solve this highly coupled, nonlinear,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-02 Jialin Xie , Xiaodi Zhang

The mean curvature flow describes the evolution of a surface (a curve) with normal velocity proportional to the local mean curvature. It has many applications in mathematics, science and engineering. In this paper, we develop a numerical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-03 Yihe Liu , Xianmin Xu

We present a novel asymptotic-preserving semi-implicit finite element method for weakly compressible and incompressible flows based on compatible finite element spaces. The momentum is sought in an $H(\mathrm{div})$-conforming space,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-16 Enrico Zampa , Michael Dumbser

In this paper, we investigate the effect of boundary surface roughness on numerical simulations of incompressible fluid flow past a cylinder in two and three spatial dimensions furnished with slip boundary conditions. The governing…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-05 Matthias Maier , Peter Munch , Murtazo Nazarov

Numerical methods for hyperbolic PDEs require stabilization. For linear acoustics, divergence-free vector fields should remain stationary, but classical Finite Difference methods add incompatible diffusion that dramatically restricts the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-14 Wasilij Barsukow , Mario Ricchiuto , Davide Torlo

The paper addresses the numerical approximation of two variants of hyperbolic mean curvature flow of surfaces in $\mathbb R^3$. For each evolution law we propose both a finite element method, as well as a finite difference scheme in the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-11 Klaus Deckelnick , Robert Nürnberg

We develop a stabilized cut finite element method for the convection problem on a surface based on continuous piecewise linear approximation and gradient jump stabilization terms. The discrete piecewise linear surface cuts through a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-11-10 Erik Burman , Peter Hansbo , Mats G. Larson , Sara Zahedi

In this paper we investigate the flow of surfaces by a class of symmetric functions of the principal curvatures with a mixed volume constraint. We consider compact surfaces without boundary that can be written as a graph over a sphere. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-01-20 David Hartley

We proposed a structure-preserving stabilized parametric finite element method (SPFEM) for the evolution of closed curves under anisotropic surface diffusion with an arbitrary surface energy $\hat{\gamma}(\theta)$. By introducing a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-03 Yulin Zhang , Yifei Li , Wenjun Ying

We consider a two-dimensional, two-layer, incompressible, steady flow, with vorticity which is constant in each layer, in an infinite channel with rigid walls. The velocity is continuous across the interface, there is no surface tension or…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-10-18 Karsten Matthies , Jonathan Sewell , Miles H. Wheeler

We model incompressible flows with an adaptive stabilized finite element method Stokes flows, which solves a discretely stable saddle-point problem to approximate the velocity-pressure pair. Additionally, this saddle-point problem delivers…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-19 Felix Kyburg , Sergio Rojas , Victor M. Calo

A finite element method for the evolution of a two-phase membrane in a sharp interface formulation is introduced. The evolution equations are given as an $L^2$--gradient flow of an energy involving an elastic bending energy and a line…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-11-01 John W. Barrett , Harald Garcke , Robert Nürnberg