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The Stokes equations play an important role in the incompressible flow simulation. In this paper, a novel divergence-free parametric mixed finite element method is proposed for solving three-dimensional Stokes equations on domains with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-19 Lingxiao Li , Haiyan Su , He Zhang , Weiying Zheng

Accurate simulations of ice sheet dynamics, mantle convection, lava flow, and other highly viscous free-surface flows involve solving the coupled Stokes/free-surface equations. In this paper, we theoretically analyze the stability and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-13 Igor Tominec , Lukas Lundgren , André Löfgren , Josefin Ahlkrona

For the Stokes equation over 2D and 3D domains, explicit a posteriori and a priori error estimation are novelly developed for the finite element solution. The difficulty in handling the divergence-free condition of the Stokes equation is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-05 Xuefeng Liu , Mitsuhiro Nakao , Chun'guang You , Shin'ichi Oishi

A non-local slender body approximation for slender flexible fibers in Stokes flow can be derived, yielding an integral equation along the center lines of the fibers that involves a slenderness parameter. The formulation contains a so-called…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-24 Anna-Karin Tornberg

The Stokes system with constant viscosity can be cast into different formulations by exploiting the incompressibility constraint. For instance the strain in the weak formulation can be replaced by the gradient to decouple the velocity…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-04-28 Markus Huber , Ulrich Rüde , Christian Waluga , Barbara Wohlmuth

A numerical method using implicit surface representations is proposed to solve the linearized Poisson-Boltzmann equations that arise in mathematical models for the electrostatics of molecules in solvent. The proposed method used an implicit…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-04 Yimin Zhong , Kui Ren , Richard Tsai

We present an efficient, accurate, and robust method for simulation of dense suspensions of deformable and rigid particles immersed in Stokesian fluid in two dimensions. We use a well-established boundary integral formulation for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-08-23 Libin Lu , Abtin Rahimian , Denis Zorin

We investigate a new two-dimensional compressible Navier-Stokes hydrodynamic model design to explain and study large scale ice swirls formation at the surface of the ocean. The linearized model generates a basis of Bessel solutions from…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2019-07-24 Zhi Zong , Andrei Ludu

The dynamics of surface waves traveling along the boundary of a liquid medium are changed by the presence of floating plates and membranes, contributing to a number of important phenomena in a wide range of applications. Mathematically, if…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Travis Askham , Tristan Goodwill , Jeremy G Hoskins , Peter Nekrasov , Manas Rachh

Numerical solution of discrete PDEs corresponding to saddle point problems is highly relevant to physical systems such as Stokes flow. However, scaling up numerical solvers for such systems is often met with challenges in efficiency and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-23 Yutian Tao , Eftychios Sifakis

The multimesh finite element method enables the solution of partial differential equations on a computational mesh composed by multiple arbitrarily overlapping meshes. The discretization is based on a continuous--discontinuous function…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-02 August Johansson , Mats G. Larson , Anders Logg

In this paper we develop and analyse domain decomposition methods for linear systems of equations arising from conforming finite element discretisations of positive Maxwell-type equations. Convergence of domain decomposition methods rely…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-08 Niall Bootland , Victorita Dolean , Frédéric Nataf , Pierre-Henri Tournier

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

Motivated by the need for efficient and accurate simulation of the dynamics of the polar ice sheets, we design high-order finite element discretizations and scalable solvers for the solution of nonlinear incompressible Stokes equations. We…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2015-11-05 Tobin Isaac , Georg Stadler , Omar Ghattas

The discretization of certain integral equations, e.g., the first-kind Fredholm equation of Laplace's equation, leads to symmetric positive-definite linear systems, where the coefficient matrix is dense and often ill-conditioned. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-22 Chao Chen , George Biros

The paper studies a higher order unfitted finite element method for the Stokes system posed on a surface in three-dimensional space. The method employs generalized Taylor-Hood finite element pairs on tetrahedral bulk mesh to discretize the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-17 Thomas Jankuhn , Maxim A. Olshanskii , Arnold Reusken , Alexander Zhiliakov

We develop numerical methods to simulate the fluid-mechanical erosion of many bodies in two-dimensional Stokes flow. The broad aim is to simulate the erosion of a porous medium (e.g. groundwater flow) with grain-scale resolution. Our fluid…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-09-26 Bryan D. Quaife , M. Nicholas J. Moore

We study a discrete variant of the Airy equation, formulated as an advance-delay equation, to reveal that discretization induces the higher-order Stokes phenomenon, which is not present in the continuous Airy function and is typically only…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-10-09 Aaron J. Moston-Duggan , Christopher J. Howls , Christopher J. Lustri

We present a collection of integral equation methods for the solution to the two-dimensional, modified Helmholtz equation, $u(\x) - \alpha^2 \Delta u(\x) = 0$, in bounded or unbounded multiply-connected domains. We consider both Dirichlet…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-19 Mary-Catherine Kropinski , Bryan Quaife

The Stokes equation posed on surfaces is important in some physical models, but its numerical solution poses several challenges not encountered in the corresponding Euclidean setting. These include the fact that the velocity vector should…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-16 Andrea Bonito , Alan Demlow , Martin Licht