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A stochastic gradient method for finite-sum minimization subject to deterministic linear constraints is proposed and analyzed. The procedure presented adapts the projected gradient method on convex set to the use of both a stochastic…

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Topology optimization methods face serious challenges when applied to structural design with fluid-structure interaction (FSI) loads, specially for high Reynolds fluid flow. This paper devises an explicit boundary method that employs…

In this paper, we discuss adaptive approximations of an elliptic eigenvalue optimization problem in a phase-field setting by a conforming finite element method. An adaptive algorithm is proposed and implemented in several two dimensional…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-10 Jing Li , Yifeng Xu , Shengfeng Zhu

In this paper, an important discovery has been found for nonconforming immersed finite element (IFE) methods using the integral values on edges as degrees of freedom for solving elliptic interface problems. We show that those IFE methods…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-17 Haifeng Ji , Feng Wang , Jinru Chen , Zhilin Li

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 propose and analyze an energy-stable fully discrete parametric approximation for Willmore flow of hypersurfaces in two and three space dimensions. We allow for the presence of spontaneous curvature effects and for open surfaces with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-11 Harald Garcke , Robert Nürnberg , Quan Zhao

This investigation is motivated by the problem of optimal design of cooling elements in modern battery systems. We consider a simple model of two-dimensional steady-state heat conduction described by elliptic partial differential equations…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-07-05 Xiaohui Peng , Katsiaryna Niakhai , Bartosz Protas

In this paper, we introduce a novel unfitted finite element method to solve the quad-curl interface problem. We adapt Nitsche's method for curlcurl-conforming elements and double the degrees of freedom on interface elements. To ensure…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-28 Hailong Guo , Mingyan Zhang , Qian Zhang , Zhimin Zhang

We present a new approach to discretizing shape optimization problems that generalizes standard moving mesh methods to higher-order mesh deformations and that is naturally compatible with higher-order finite element discretizations of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-06-13 A. Paganini , F. Wechsung , P. E. Farrell

An important step in shape optimization with partial differential equation constraints is to adapt the geometry during each optimization iteration. Common strategies are to employ mesh-deformation or re-meshing, where one or the other…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-27 Jorgen S. Dokken , Simon W. Funke , August Johansson , Stephan Schmidt

We present a one-dimensional high-order moving-mesh finite element method for moving boundary problems where the boundary velocity depends implicitly on the solution in the interior of the domain. The method employs a conservative arbitrary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-05 Matthew E Hubbard , Thomas J Radley

In this paper we present an error analysis of an Eulerian finite element method for solving parabolic partial differential equations posed on evolving hypersurfaces in $\mathbb{R}^d$, $d=2,3$. The method employs discontinuous piecewise…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-04-10 Maxim A. Olshanskii , Arnold Reusken

We combine the parameterization method for invariant manifolds with the finite element method for elliptic PDEs,to obtain a new computational framework for high order approximation of invariant manifolds attached to unstable equilibrium…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-03-08 Jorge Gonzalez , J. D Mireles-James , Necibe Tuncer

For convection dominated problems, the streamline upwind Petrov--Galerkin method (SUPG), also named streamline diffusion finite element method (SDFEM), ensures a stable finite element solution. Based on robust a posteriori error estimators,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-17 Christoph Erath , Dirk Praetorius

This paper presents a space-time finite element method (FEM) based on an unfitted mesh for solving parabolic problems on moving domains. Unlike other unfitted space-time finite element approaches that commonly employ the discontinuous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-03 Ruizhi Wang , Weibing Deng

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 new method to design adaptation algorithms that guarantee a certain prescribed level of performance and are applicable to systems with nonconvex parameterization. The main idea behind the method is, given the desired…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 I. Y. Tyukin , D. V. Prokhorov , Cees van Leeuwen

We consider a finite element approximation for a system consisting of the evolution of a curve evolving by forced curve shortening flow coupled to a reaction-diffusion equation on the evolving curve. The curve evolves inside a given domain…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-22 Vanessa Styles , James Van Yperen

This work develops and analyzes a variational-monolithic unfitted finite element formulation of a linear fluid-structure interaction problem in Eulerian coordinates with a fixed interface. The overall discretization is based on a backward…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-27 Stefan Frei , Tobias Knoke , Marc C. Steinbach , Anne-Kathrin Wenske , Thomas Wick

We develop two unfitted finite element methods for the Stokes equations using $H^{\text{div}}$-conforming finite elements. Both methods achieve optimal convergence for velocity, ensure pointwise divergence-free velocity fields, and produce…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-04 Thomas Frachon , Erik Nilsson , Sara Zahedi