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Fractures are normally present in the underground and are, for some physical processes, of paramount importance. Their accurate description is fundamental to obtain reliable numerical outcomes useful, e.g., for energy management. Depending…

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Obtainable computational efficiency is evaluated when using an Adaptive Mesh Refinement (AMR) strategy in time accurate simulations governed by sets of conservation laws. For a variety of 1D, 2D, and 3D hydro- and magnetohydrodynamic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Keppens , M. Nool , G. Toth , J. P. Goedbloed

We present a novel parametric finite element approach for simulating the surface diffusion of curves and surfaces. Our core strategy incorporates a predictor-corrector time-stepping method, which enhances the classical first-order temporal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-17 Wei Jiang , Chunmei Su , Ganghui Zhang , Lian Zhang

Algorithms that promise to leverage resources of quantum computers efficiently to accelerate the finite element method have emerged. However, the finite element method is usually incorporated into a high-level numerical scheme which allows…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-03 Elise Fressart , Michel Nowak , Nicole Spillane

Reductions of the self-consistent mean field theory model of amphiphilic molecules in solvent can lead to a singular family of functionalized Cahn-Hilliard energies. We modify these energies, mollifying the singularities to stabilize the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-05-21 Andrew Christlieb , Keith Promislow , Zengqiang Tan , Sulin Wang , Brian Wetton , Steven M. Wise

We present a class of high order finite volume schemes for the solution of non-conservative hyperbolic systems that combines the one-step ADER-WENO finite volume approach with space-time adaptive mesh refinement (AMR). The resulting…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-15 Michael Dumbser , Arturo Hidalgo , Olindo Zanotti

In this article we present a goal-oriented adaptive finite element method for a class of subsurface flow problems in porous media, which exhibit seepage faces. We focus on a representative case of the steady state flows governed by a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-12 Ben Ashby , Cassiano Bortolozo , Alex Lukyanov , Tristan Pryer

We propose a high-order FDTD scheme based on the correction function method (CFM) to treat interfaces with complex geometry without increasing the complexity of the numerical approach for constant coefficients. Correction functions are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-18 Yann-Meing Law , Alexandre Noll Marques , Jean-Christophe Nave

Multiphase flows are an important class of fluid flow and their study facilitates the development of diverse applications in industrial, natural, and biomedical systems. We consider a model that uses a continuum description of both phases…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-08-04 Bindi M. Nagda , Aaron Barrett , Boyce E. Griffith , Aaron L. Fogelson , Jian Du

The paper proposes a physically consistent numerical discretization approach for simulating viscous compressible multicomponent flows. It has two main contributions. First, a contact discontinuity (and material interface) detector is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-07 Amareshwara Sainadh Chamarthi

We study an elliptic interface problem with discontinuous diffusion coefficients on unfitted meshes using the CutFEM method. Our main contribution is the reconstruction of conservative fluxes from the CutFEM solution and their use in a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-11 Daniela Capatina , Aimene Gouasmi , Cuiyu He

This paper presents a novel p-adaptive, high-order mesh-free framework for the accurate and efficient simulation of fluid flows in complex geometries. High-order differential operators are constructed locally for arbitrary node…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-27 Ruofeng Feng , Jack R. C. King , Steven J. Lind

The collocation method uses the Rhie-Chow scheme to find the cell interface velocity by pressure-weighted interpolation. The accuracy of this interpolation method in unsteady flows has not been fully clarified. This study constructs a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-10-13 Hideki Yanaoka

We propose a numerical method for fluid deformable surfaces governed by surface Stokes flow and Helfrich bending energy under active growth, aiming to model shape evolution of the epithelium in developmental processes. To prevent…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-02-17 Maik Porrmann , Sören Bartels , Axel Voigt

This paper interprets the stabilized finite element method via residual minimization as a variational multiscale method. We approximate the solution to the partial differential equations using two discrete spaces that we build on a…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Juan F. Giraldo , Victor M. Calo

In this paper, we propose offline and online adaptive enrichment algorithms for the generalized multiscale approximation of a mixed finite element method with velocity elimination to solve the subsurface flow problem in high-contrast and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-20 Zhengkang He , Eric T. Chung , Jie Chen , Zhangxin Chen

One of the main challenges in numerically solving partial differential equations is finding a discretisation for the computational domain that balances the accurate representation of the underlying field with computational efficiency.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-24 Miha Rot , Gregor Kosec

We propose an adaptive numerical solver for the study of viscoelastic 2D two-phase flows using the volume-of-fluid method. The scheme uses the robust log conformation tensor technique of Fattal & Kupferman (2004,2005} combined with the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-07-03 J. M. Lopez-Herrera , S. Popinet , A. A. Castrejon-Pita

We review a scalable two- and three-dimensional computer code for low-temperature plasma simulations in multi-material complex geometries. Our approach is based on embedded boundary (EB) finite volume discretizations of the minimal…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 Robert Marskar

A finite element method for the evolution of a two-phase membrane in a sharp interface formulation is introduced. The evolution equations are given as an $L^2$--gradient flow of an energy involving an elastic bending energy and a line…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-11-01 John W. Barrett , Harald Garcke , Robert Nürnberg