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We introduce a finite volume scheme for the two-dimensional incompressible Navier-Stokes equations. We use a triangular mesh. The unknowns for the velocity and pressure are respectively piecewise constant and affine. We use a projection…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-11-20 Sebastien Zimmermann

A mixed finite element method for the Navier-Stokes equations is introduced in which the stress is a primary variable. The variational formulation retains the mathematical structure of the Navier-Stokes equations and the classical theory…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-03-31 Jason S. Howell , Noel J. Walkington

For a parabolic surface partial differential equation coupled to surface evolution, convergence of the spatial semidiscretization is studied in this paper. The velocity of the evolving surface is not given explicitly, but depends on the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-02-08 Balázs Kovács , Buyang Li , Christian Lubich , Christian Andreas Power Guerra

This article considers the NURBS-Enhanced Finite Element Method (NEFEM) applied to the compressible Navier-Stokes equations. NEFEM, in contrast to conventional finite element formulations, utilizes a NURBS-based computational domain…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-04-12 Michel Make , Norbert Hosters , Marek Behr , Stefanie Elgeti

A conforming finite element scheme with mixed explicit-implicit time discretization for quasi-incompressible Navier-Stokes-Maxwell-Stefan systems in a bounded domain with periodic boundary conditions is presented. The system consists of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-05 Aaron Brunk , Ansgar Jüngel , Maria Lukáčová-Medvid'ová

In this paper, we propose a unified numerical framework for the time-dependent incompressible Navier--Stokes equation which yields the $H^1$-, $H(\text{div})$-conforming, and discontinuous Galerkin methods with the use of different viscous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-16 Xi Chen , Yuwen Li , Corina Drapaca , John Cimbala

In this work, we introduce a mass, energy, enstrophy and vorticity conserving (MEEVC) mixed finite element discretization for two-dimensional incompressible Navier-Stokes equations as an alternative to the original MEEVC scheme proposed in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-18 Yi Zhang , Artur Palha , Marc Gerritsma , Qinghe Yao

In this paper we study semi-discrete and fully discrete evolving surface finite element schemes for the Cahn-Hilliard equation with a logarithmic potential. Specifically we consider linear finite elements discretising space and backward…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-11 Charles M. Elliott , Thomas Sales

Surface Stokes and Navier-Stokes equations are used to model fluid flow on surfaces. They have attracted significant recent attention in the numerical analysis literature because approximation of their solutions poses significant challenges…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-29 Alan Demlow , Michael Neilan

In this paper a class of higher order finite element methods for the discretization of surface Stokes equations is studied. These methods are based on an unfitted finite element approach in which standard Taylor-Hood spaces on an underlying…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-09-19 Thomas Jankuhn , Arnold Reusken

We consider two-phase Navier--Stokes flow with a Boussinesq--Scriven surface fluid. In such a fluid the rheological behaviour at the interface includes surface viscosity effects, in addition to the classical surface tension effects. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-11-11 John W. Barrett , Harald Garcke , Robert Nürnberg

The numerical solution of the Stokes equations on an evolving domain with a moving boundary is studied based on the arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian finite element method and a second-order projection method along the trajectories of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-13 Qiqi Rao , Jilu Wang , Yupei Xie

A recently developed Eulerian finite element method is applied to solve advection-diffusion equations posed on hypersurfaces. When transport processes on a surface dominate over diffusion, finite element methods tend to be unstable unless…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-03-26 Maxim A. Olshanskii , Arnold Reusken , Xianmin Xu

We construct a finite element discretization and time-stepping scheme for the incompressible Euler equations with variable density that exactly preserves total mass, total squared density, total energy, and pointwise incompressibility. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-22 Evan S. Gawlik , François Gay-Balmaz

This paper concerns the construction of traveling wave solutions to the free boundary incompressible Navier-Stokes system. We study a single layer of viscous fluid in a strip-like domain that is bounded below by a flat rigid surface and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-09-13 Junichi Koganemaru , Ian Tice

We propose a finite element discretization for the steady, generalized Navier-Stokes equations for fluids with shear-dependent viscosity, completed with inhomogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions and an inhomogeneous divergence constraint.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-09 Julius Jeßberger , Alex Kaltenbach

This work presents a stabilized finite element formulation of the arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE) surface theory for Navier-Stokes flow on self-evolving manifolds developed in Sauer (2025). The formulation is physically frame-invariant,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-10-08 Roger A. Sauer

We present a spectral element solver for the steady incompressible Navier-Stokes equations subject to a free surface. Utilizing the kinematic behaviour of the free surface boundary, an iterative pseudo-time procedure is proposed to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-30 Simone Minniti , Jens Visbech , Claes Eskilsson , Nicola Parolini , Allan Peter Engsig-Karup

A computationally efficient, low order finite element formulation is developed for modelling the Navier-Stokes-Cahn-Hilliard equations, which have been established as a promising phase field modelling approach for simulation of immiscible…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-11-18 Aleksander Lovrić , Wulf G. Dettmer , Djordje Perić

We study two fully discrete evolving surface finite element schemes for the Cahn-Hilliard equation on an evolving surface, given a smooth potential with polynomial growth. In particular we establish optimal order error bounds for a (fully…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-14 Charles M. Elliott , Thomas Sales