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We derive low-order, inf-sup stable and divergence-free finite element approximations for the Stokes problem using Worsey-Farin splits in three dimensions and Powell-Sabin splits in two dimensions. The velocity space simply consists of…

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We will present qualitative and numerical results on a partial differential equation (PDE) system which models a certain fluid-structure dynamics. The wellposedness of this PDE model is established by means of constructing for it a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-02-26 George Avalos , Thomas J. Clark

In this paper, we consider the Stokes problem with Dirichlet boundary conditions and the constant kinematic viscosity $\nu$ in an axis-aligned domain $\Omega$. We decouple the velocity $\bm u$ and pressure $p$ by deriving a novel biharmonic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-17 Qiwei Feng , Bin Han , Michael Neilan

We address the problem of numerically approximating the velocity and pressure governed by the Stokes system when the boundary conditions are only partially known and thus do not uniquely determine the velocity-pressure couple. We propose an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-01 Andrea Bonito , Diane Guignard

We analyze two fully time-discrete numerical schemes for the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations posed on evolving surfaces in $\mathbb{R}^3$ with prescribed normal velocity using the evolving surface finite element method (ESFEM). We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-15 Charles M. Elliott , Achilleas Mavrakis

A stable numerical solution of the steady Stokes problem requires compatibility between the choice of velocity and pressure approximation that has traditionally proven problematic for meshless methods. In this work, we present a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-15 Nathaniel Trask , Martin Maxey , Xiaozhe Hu

This paper analyses the classical mixed finite element method (FEM) and a pressure-robust variant with divergence-free reconstruction operators for the coupled Stokes-Darcy problem. Its main contribution is to provide viscosity-explicit a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-02 Jiachuan Zhang

We present analysis of two lowest-order hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin methods for the Stokes problem, while making only minimal regularity assumptions on the exact solution. The methods under consideration have previously been shown…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-07 Aaron Baier-Reinio , Sander Rhebergen , Garth N. Wells

In this paper we study parametric TraceFEM and parametric SurfaceFEM (SFEM) discretizations of a surface Stokes problem. These methods are applied both to the Stokes problem in velocity-pressure formulation and in stream function…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-06 Philip Brandner , Thomas Jankuhn , Simon Praetorius , Arnold Reusken , Axel Voigt

A new discontinuous Galerkin finite element method for the Stokes equations is developed in the primary velocity-pressure formulation. This method employs discontinuous polynomials for both velocity and pressure on general…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-05 Xiu Ye , Shangyou Zhang

We present an immersed boundary method to simulate the creeping motion of a rigid particle in a fluid described by the Stokes equations discretized thanks to a finite element strategy on unfitted meshes, called Phi-FEM, that uses the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-30 Michel Duprez , Vanessa Lleras , Alexei Lozinski

In this paper, we consider an incompressible viscous flow without surface tension in a finite-depth domain of three dimensions, with free top boundary and fixed bottom boundary. This system is governed by a Naiver-Stokes equation in above…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-12-11 Lei Wu

We present a novel stabilized isogeometric formulation for the Stokes problem, where the geometry of interest is obtained via overlapping NURBS (non-uniform rational B-spline) patches, i.e., one patch on top of another in an arbitrary but…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-22 Xiaodong Wei , Riccardo Puppi , Pablo Antolin , Annalisa Buffa

We present a finite-difference scheme which solves the Stokes problem in the presence of curvilinear non-conforming interfaces and provides second-order accuracy on physical field (velocity, vorticity) and especially on pressure. The gist…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2011-10-07 Abdelkader Hammouti , Anaël Lemaître

In this article, we propose a non-parametric Bayesian level-set method for simultaneous reconstruction of two different piecewise constant coefficients in an elliptic partial differential equation. We show that the Bayesian formulation of…

Applications · Statistics 2025-05-28 Anuj Abhishek , Thilo Strauss , Taufiquar Khan

We consider a Stokes problem posed on a 2D surface embedded in a 3D domain. The equations describe an equilibrium, area-preserving tangential flow of a viscous surface fluid and serve as a model problem in the dynamics of material…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-01-23 Maxim A. Olshanskii , Annalisa Quaini , Arnold Reusken , Vladimir Yushutin

Motivated by a question of Rubel, we consider the problem of characterizing which noncompact hypersurfaces in $\RR^n$ can be regular level sets of a harmonic function modulo a $C^\infty$ diffeomorphism, as well as certain generalizations to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-09-27 Alberto Enciso , Daniel Peralta-Salas

In this paper, we propose a new stabilizer free and pressure robust WG method for the Stokes equations with super-convergence on polytopal mesh in the primary velocity-pressure formulation. Convergence rates with one order higher than the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-04 Lin Mu , Xiu Ye , Shangyou Zhang

The Stepped Pressure Equilibrium Code (SPEC) [Hudson et al., Phys. Plasmas 19, 112502 (2012)] has been successful in the construction of equilibria in 3D configurations that contain a mixture of flux surfaces, islands and chaotic magnetic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-11-17 Z. S. Qu , S. R. Hudson , R. L. Dewar , J. Loizu , M. J. Hole

Interfacial Stokes flow can be efficiently computed using the Boundary Integral Equation method. In 3D, the fluid velocity at a target point is given by a 2D surface integral over all interfaces, thus reducing the dimension of the problem.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-03 Monika Nitsche , Bowei Wu , Ling Xu