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This work is concerned with quasi-optimal a-priori finite element error estimates for the obstacle problem in the $L^2$-norm. The discrete approximations are introduced as solutions to a finite element discretization of an accordingly…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-26 Dominik Hafemeyer , Christian Kahle , Johannes Pfefferer

This paper focuses on identifying the cause and proposing a remedy for the problem of spurious pressure oscillations in a sharp-interface immersed boundary finite element method for incompressible flow problems in moving domains. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Maxim Olshanskii , Henry von Wahl

We present a finite element method for the Stokes equations involving two immiscible incompressible fluids with different viscosities and with surface tension. The interface separating the two fluids does not need to align with the mesh. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-20 Peter Hansbo , Mats G. Larson , Sara Zahedi

We construct a cut finite element method for the membrane elasticity problem on an embedded mesh using tangential differential calculus. Both free membranes and membranes coupled to 3D elasticity are considered. The discretization comes…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-24 Mirza Cenanovic , Peter Hansbo , Mats G. Larson

Cut finite element method (CutFEM) based approaches towards challenging fluid-structure interaction (FSI) are proposed. The different considered methods combine the advantages of competing novel Eulerian (fixed-grid) and established…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Benedikt Schott , Christoph Ager , Wolfgang A. Wall

We study continuous finite element dicretizations for one dimensional hyperbolic partial differential equations. The main contribution of the paper is to provide a fully discrete spectral analysis, which is used to suggest optimal values of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-17 Sixtine Michel , Davide Torlo , Mario Ricchiuto , Rémi Abgrall

The scalar wave equation is solved using higher order immersed finite elements. We demonstrate that higher order convergence can be obtained. Small cuts with the background mesh are stabilized by adding penalty terms to the weak…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-02-20 Simon Sticko , Gunilla Kreiss

This paper presents a novel multi-scale method for elliptic partial differential equations with arbitrarily rough coefficients. In the spirit of numerical homogenization, the method constructs problem-adapted ansatz spaces with uniform…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-05 Philip Freese , Moritz Hauck , Tim Keil , Daniel Peterseim

In this work, we develop and analyze a higher-order finite element method for the multidimensional fragmentation equation. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study to establish a rigorous, conforming finite element framework…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-10 Arushi , Naresh Kumar

We provide a framework for interpreting Discrete Exterior Calculus (DEC) numerical schemes in terms of Finite Element Exterior Calculus (FEEC). We demonstrate the equivalence of cochains on primal and dual meshes with Whitney and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-04 Johnny Guzmán , Pratyush Potu

This paper studies the characteristics and applicability of the CutFEM approach as the core of a robust topology optimization framework for 3D laminar incompressible flow and species transport problems at low Reynolds number (Re < 200).…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-02-09 Hernan Villanueva , Kurt Maute

We develop a Nitsche fictitious domain method for the Stokes problem starting from a stabilized Galerkin finite element method with low order elements for both the velocity and the pressure. By introducing additional penalty terms for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-06-12 Andre Massing , Mats G. Larson , Anders Logg , Marie E. Rognes

In this paper we consider stabilised finite element methods for hyperbolic transport equations without coercivity. Abstract conditions for the convergence of the methods are introduced and these conditions are shown to hold for three…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-05-05 Erik Burman

In this manuscript we present a novel and efficient numerical method for the compressible viscous and resistive MHD equations for all Mach number regimes. The time-integration strategy is a semi-implicit splitting, combined with a hybrid…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-22 Francesco Fambri , Eric Sonnendrücker

In the context of unfitted finite element discretizations the realization of high order methods is challenging due to the fact that the geometry approximation has to be sufficiently accurate. Recently a new unfitted finite element method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-09-01 Christoph Lehrenfeld , Arnold Reusken

We present an isoparametric unfitted finite element approach of the CutFEM or Nitsche-XFEM family for the simulation of two-phase Stokes problems with slip between phases. For the unfitted generalized Taylor--Hood finite element pair…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-26 Maxim Olshanskii , Annalisa Quaini , Qi Sun

A proof of convergence is given for a novel evolving surface finite element semi-discretization of Willmore flow of closed two-dimensional surfaces, and also of surface diffusion flow. The numerical method proposed and studied here…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-31 Balázs Kovács , Buyang Li , Christian Lubich

In this paper we present a new Eulerian finite element method for the discretization of scalar partial differential equations on evolving surfaces. In this method we use the restriction of standard space-time finite element spaces on a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-26 Hauke Sass , Arnold Reusken

Arnold, Falk, and Winther [Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 47 (2010), 281--354] showed that mixed variational problems, and their numerical approximation by mixed methods, could be most completely understood using the ideas and tools of Hilbert…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-10-14 Andrew Gillette , Michael Holst , Yunrong Zhu

This paper introduces a nonconforming virtual element method for general second-order elliptic problems with variable coefficients on domains with curved boundaries and curved internal interfaces. We prove arbitrary order optimal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-25 Yi Liu , Alessandro Russo