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Droplet formation happens in finite time due to the surface tension force. The linear stability analysis is useful to estimate droplet size but fails to approximate droplet shape. This is due to a highly non-linear flow description near the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-07-04 Darsh Nathawani , Matthew Knepley

The study performs large-eddy simulations of supersonic free jet flows using the Discontinuous Galerkin Spectral Element Method (DGSEM). The main objective of the present work is to assess the resolution requirements for adequate simulation…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-03-22 Diego F. Abreu , João Luiz F. Azevedo , Carlos Junqueira-Junior

We explore a new way to handle flux boundary conditions imposed on level sets. The proposed approach is a diffuse interface version of the shifted boundary method (SBM) for continuous Galerkin discretizations of conservation laws in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-05-11 Dmitri Kuzmin , Jan-Phillip Bäcker

In this article, we present a three-dimensional anisotropic $hp$-mesh refinement strategy for ultraweak discontinuous Petrov--Galerkin (DPG) formulations with optimal test functions. The refinement strategy utilizes the built-in…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Ankit Chakraborty , Stefan Henneking , Leszek Demkowicz

We use the ideas of goal-oriented error estimation and adaptivity to design and implement an efficient adaptive algorithm for approximating linear quantities of interest derived from solutions to elliptic partial differential equations…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-03-21 Alex Bespalov , Dirk Praetorius , Leonardo Rocchi , Michele Ruggeri

The cost and accuracy of simulating complex physical systems using the Finite Element Method (FEM) scales with the resolution of the underlying mesh. Adaptive meshes improve computational efficiency by refining resolution in critical…

The immersed interface method (IIM) for models of fluid flow and fluid-structure interaction imposes jump conditions that capture stress discontinuities generated by forces that are concentrated along immersed boundaries. Most prior work…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-04 Michael J. Facci , Ebrahim M. Kolahdouz , Boyce E. Griffith

Critical points of energy functionals, which are of broad interest, for instance, in physics and chemistry, in solid and quantum mechanics, in material science, or in general diffusion-reaction models arise as solutions to the associated…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Pascal Heid , Thomas P. Wihler

In this work, we introduce the novel application of the adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) technique in the global stability analysis of incompressible flows. The design of an accurate mesh for transitional flows is crucial. Indeed, an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Daniele Massaro , Valerio Lupi , Adam Peplinski , Philipp Schlatter

This work introduces a novel adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) method that utilizes dominant balance analysis (DBA) for efficient and accurate grid adaptation in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations. The proposed method leverages a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-11-06 Gaurav Kumar , Aditya G. Nair

Chaotic free surface flows are challenging problems to simulate numerically, mainly due to the significant changes in geometry and frequent topological changes. Methods that track the evolution of the fluid in a Lagrangian formulation are a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-24 Thomas Leyssens , Jonathan Lambrechts , Jean-François Remacle

This paper introduces an explicit residual-based a posteriori error analysis for the symmetric mixed finite element method in linear elasticity after Arnold-Winther with pointwise symmetric and H(div)-conforming stress approximation.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-05-25 C. Carstensen , D. Gallistl , J. Gedicke

An interior penalty discontinuous Galerkin method is devised to approximate minimizers of a linear folding model by discontinuous isoparametric finite element functions that account for an approximation of a folding arc. The numerical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-05-13 Sören Bartels , Andrea Bonito , Philipp Tscherner

We consider problems related to initial meshing and adaptive mesh refinement for the electromagnetic simulation of various structures. The quality of the initial mesh and the performance of the adaptive refinement are of great importance…

Stochastic models of chemical systems are often analysed by solving the corresponding Fokker-Planck equation which is a drift-diffusion partial differential equation for the probability distribution function. Efficient numerical solution of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-11-10 Simon L. Cotter , Tomas Vejchodsky , Radek Erban

We present an accurate and efficient solver for atmospheric dynamics simulations that allows for non-conforming mesh refinement. The model equations are the conservative Euler equations for compressible flows. The numerical method is based…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-18 Giuseppe Orlando , Tommaso Benacchio , Luca Bonaventura

This article investigates residual a posteriori error estimates and adaptive mesh refinements for time-dependent boundary element methods for the wave equation. We obtain reliable estimates for Dirichlet and acoustic boundary conditions…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-01 Heiko Gimperlein , Ceyhun Oezdemir , David Stark , Ernst P. Stephan

In this paper, we propose a novel adaptive finite element method for an elliptic equation with line Dirac delta functions as a source term. We first study the well-posedness and global regularity of the solution in the whole domain. Instead…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-12 Huihui Cao , Hengguang Li , Nianyu Yi , Peimeng Yin

High-order solvers for compressible flows are vital in scientific applications. Adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) is a key technique for reducing computational cost by concentrating resolution in regions of interest. In this work, we develop…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Anjiang Wei , Hang Song , Mert Hidayetoglu , Elliott Slaughter , Sanjiva K. Lele , Alex Aiken

Numerical simulation of the complex plasma dynamics associated with high power, high frequency microwave breakdown at high pressures, leading to the formation of filamentary plasma structures such as self-organized plasma arrays, is a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-05-13 Pratik Ghosh , Bhaskar Chaudhury