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This work is motivated by the need to develop efficient tools for uncertainty quantification in subsurface flows associated with radioactive waste disposal studies. We consider single phase flow problems in random porous media described by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-12-23 Ivan G. Graham , Robert Scheichl , Elisabeth Ullmann

A Galerkin finite element method for the membrane elasticity problem on a meshed surface is constructed by using two-dimensional elements extended into three dimensions. The membrane finite element model is established using the intrinsic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-03-16 Peter Hansbo , Mats G. Larson

In this paper, authors shall introduce a finite element method by using a weakly defined gradient operator over discontinuous functions with heterogeneous properties. The use of weak gradients and their approximations results in a new…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-11-14 Junping Wang , Xiu Ye

In this paper we consider second order elliptic partial differential equations with highly varying (heterogeneous) coefficients on a two-dimensional region. The problems are discretized by a composite finite element (FE) and discontinuous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-05-15 Rui Du , Yunfei Ma , Talal Rahman , Xuejun Xu

The following work presents a generalized (extended) finite element formulation for the advection-diffusion equation. Using enrichment functions that represent the exponential nature of the exact solution, smooth numerical solutions are…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2008-06-25 D. Z. Turner , K. B. Nakshatrala , K. D. Hjelmstad

We develop a new multipoint stress mixed finite element method for linear elasticity with weakly enforced stress symmetry on simplicial grids. Motivated by the multipoint flux mixed finite element method for Darcy flow, the method utilizes…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-30 Ilona Ambartsumyan , Eldar Khattatov , Jan M. Nordbotten , Ivan Yotov

We extend the divergence preserving cut finite element method presented in [T. Frachon, P. Hansbo, E. Nilsson, S. Zahedi, SIAM J. Sci. Comput., 46 (2024)] for the Darcy interface problem to unfitted outer boundaries. We impose essential…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-20 Thomas Frachon , Erik Nilsson , Sara Zahedi

The embedded discontinuous Galerkin (EDG) method by Cockburn et al. [SIAM J. Numer. Anal., 2009, 47(4), 2686-2707] is obtained from the hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin method by changing the space of the Lagrangian multiplier from…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-11-16 Xiao Zhang , Xiaoping Xie , Shiquan Zhang

This work focuses on a class of elliptic boundary value problems with diffusive, advective and reactive terms, motivated by the study of three-dimensional heterogeneous physical systems composed of two or more media separated by a selective…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-20 Riccardo Sacco , Aurelio Giancarlo Mauri , Giovanna Guidoboni

This paper is devoted to a weak Galerkin (WG) finite element method for linear poroelasticity problems where weakly defined divergence and gradient operators over discontinuous functions are introduced. We establish both the continuous and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-10 Shanshan Gu , Shimin Chai , Chenguang Zhou

We present a dual weighted residual-based a posteriori error estimate for a discontinuous Galerkin (DG) approximation of a linear second-order elliptic problem on compact smooth connected and oriented surfaces in $\mathbb{R}^{3}$ which are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-02-11 Andreas Dedner , Pravin Madhavan

The moving discontinuous Galerkin finite element method with interface condition enforcement (MDG-ICE) is applied to the case of viscous flows. This method uses a weak formulation that separately enforces the conservation law, constitutive…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-17 Andrew D. Kercher , Andrew Corrigan , David A. Kessler

We develop a high-order hybridized discontinuous Galerkin (HDG) method for a linear degenerate elliptic equation arising from a two-phase mixture of mantle convection or glacier dynamics. We show that the proposed HDG method is well-posed…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2019-05-01 Shinhoo Kang , Tan Bui-Thanh , Todd Arbogast

We extend the discontinuous Galerkin (DG) framework to the analysis of first-order hyperbolic and advection-dominated problems posed on implicitly defined surfaces. The focus will be on the hyperbolic part, which is discretised using a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-27 Andreas Dedner , Pravin Madhavan

The flow of incompressible fluids through porous media plays a crucial role in many technological applications such as enhanced oil recovery and geological carbon-dioxide sequestration. The flow within numerous natural and synthetic porous…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2018-05-23 S. H. S. Joodat , K. B. Nakshatrala , R. Ballarini

Problems of interest in hydrogeology and hydrocarbon resources involve complex heterogeneous geological formations. Such domains are most accurately represented in reservoir simulations by unstructured computational grids. Finite element…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-05-04 Joachim Moortgat , Abbas Firoozabadi

We study cut finite element discretizations of a Darcy interface problem based on the mixed finite element pairs $\textbf{RT}_k\times Q_k$, $k\geq 0$. Here $Q_k$ is the space of discontinuous polynomial functions of degree less or equal to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-26 Thomas Frachon , Peter Hansbo , Erik Nilsson , Sara Zahedi

We consider the finite element solution of time-harmonic wave propagation problems in heterogeneous media with hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin (HDG) methods. In the case of homogeneous media, it has been observed that the iterative…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-28 Simone Pescuma , Gwénaël Gabard , Théophile Chaumont-Frelet , Axel Modave

This paper applies a discontinuous Galerkin finite element method to the Kelvin-Voigt viscoelastic fluid motion equations when the forcing function is in $L^\infty({\bf L}^2)$-space. Optimal a priori error estimates in $L^\infty({\bf…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-10 Saumya Bajpai , Deepjyoti Goswami , Kallol Ray

The discontinuous Galerkin finite element method (DGFEM) developed by Rhebergen et al. (2008) offers a robust method for solving systems of nonconservative hyperbolic partial differential equations but, as we show here, does not…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-06-08 Thomas Kent , Onno Bokhove