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We propose a new Nitsche-type approach for weak enforcement of normal velocity boundary conditions for a Lagrangian discretization of the compressible shock-hydrodynamics equations using high-order finite elements on curved boundaries.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-06 Nabil M. Atallah , Vladimir Z. Tomov , Guglielmo Scovazzi

We define a new finite element method for a steady state elliptic problem with discontinuous diffusion coefficients where the meshes are not aligned with the interface. We prove optimal error estimates in the $L^2$ norm and $H^1$ weighted…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-10-18 Johnny Guzman , Manuel A. Sanchez , Marcus Sarkis

Numerical methods for hyperbolic PDEs require stabilization. For linear acoustics, divergence-free vector fields should remain stationary, but classical Finite Difference methods add incompatible diffusion that dramatically restricts the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-14 Wasilij Barsukow , Mario Ricchiuto , Davide Torlo

This work presents the design of nonlinear stabilization techniques for the finite element discretization of Euler equations in both steady and transient form. Implicit time integration is used in the case of the transient form. A…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-26 Santiago Badia , Jesús Bonilla , Sibusiso Mabuza , John N. Shadid

Computations of incompressible flows with velocity boundary conditions require solution of a Poisson equation for pressure with all Neumann boundary conditions. Discretization of such a Poisson equation results in a rank-deficient matrix of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-08 Shantanu Shahane , Surya Pratap Vanka

In this paper, we describe a stable finite element formulation for advection-diffusion-reaction problems that allows for robust automatic adaptive strategies to be easily implemented. We consider locally vanishing, heterogeneous, and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-01 Roberto J. Cier , Sergio Rojas , Victor M. Calo

This paper develops and analyses numerical approximation for linear-quadratic optimal control problem governed by elliptic interface equations. We adopt variational discretization concept to discretize optimal control problem, and apply an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-04 Chao Chao Yang , Tao Wang , Xiaoping Xie

In this work, we illustrate the underlying mathematical structure of mixed-dimensional models arising from the composition of graphs and continuous domains. Such models are becoming popular in applications, in particular, to model the human…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-27 Erlend Hodneland , Xiaozhe Hu , Jan Martin Nordbotten

This paper presents the unsteady Darcy's equations coupled with two nonlinear reaction-diffusion equations, namely this system describes the mass concentration and heat transfer in porous media. The existence and uniqueness of the solution…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-05-29 Sarra Maarouf , Driss Yakoubi

To ensure the discrete maximum principle or solution positivity in finite volume schemes, diffusive flux is sometimes discretized as a conical combination of finite differences. Such a combination may be impossible to construct along…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 D. Vidović , M. Dotlić , M. Pušić , B. Pokorni

The biharmonic equation with Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions discretized using the mixed finite element method and piecewise linear (with the possible exception of boundary triangles) finite elements on triangular elements has…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-21 Oded Stein , Eitan Grinspun , Alec Jacobson , Max Wardetzky

A low-order nonconforming finite element discretization of a smooth de Rham complex starting from the $H^2$ space in three dimensions is proposed, involving an $H^2$-nonconforming finite element space, a new tangentially continuous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-05 Xuewei Cui , Xuehai Huang

We introduce a new discretization of a mixed formulation of the incompressible Stokes equations that includes symmetric viscous stresses. The method is built upon a mass conserving mixed formulation that we recently studied. The improvement…

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In this paper a time dependent Stokes problem that is motivated by a standard sharp interface model for the fluid dynamics of two-phase flows is studied. This Stokes interface problem has discontinuous density and viscosity coefficients and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-07-12 Igor Voulis , Arnold Reusken

We present a novel hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin (HDG) method on unfitted meshes for single-phase Darcy flow in a fractured porous media. In particular we apply the HDG methodology to the recently introduced reinterpreted discrete…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-01 Guosheng Fu , Yang Yang

We present a cut finite element method (CutFEM) for the Laplace--Beltrami equation on a smooth closed curve $\Gamma\subset\mathbb{R}^2$ coupled to a harmonic bulk problem in $\Omega$ that requires \emph{no explicit stabilization}: no ghost…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-08 Qing Xia

The equations of Lagrangian gas dynamics fall into the larger class of overdetermined hyperbolic and thermodynamically compatible (HTC) systems of partial differential equations. They satisfy an entropy inequality (second principle of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-21 Walter Boscheri , Michael Dumbser , Pierre-Henri Maire

We describe a compatible finite element discretisation for the shallow water equations on the rotating sphere, concentrating on integrating consistent upwind stabilisation into the framework. Although the prognostic variables are velocity…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-17 J. Shipton , T. H. Gibson , C. J. Cotter

In this paper, we propose and analyze the least squares finite element methods for the linear elasticity interface problem in the stress-displacement system on unfitted meshes. We consider the cases that the interface is $C^2$ or polygonal,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-16 Fanyi Yang

We prove strong convergence for a large class of finite element methods for the time-dependent Joule heating problem in three spatial dimensions with mixed boundary conditions on Lipschitz domains. We consider conforming subspaces for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-01-31 Max Jensen , Axel Målqvist , Anna Persson