Laplace transform – Finite element method for non Fickian flows

Gauge finite element method for incompressible flows

A finite element method for computing viscous incompressible flows based on the gauge formulation introduced in [Weinan E, Liu J-G. Gauge method for viscous incompressible flows. Journal of Computational Physics (submitted)] is presented. This formulation replaces the pressure by a gauge variable. This new gauge variable is a numerical tool and differs from the standard gauge variable that aris...

Sharp L-error Estimates and Superconvergence of Mixed Finite Element Methods for Non-fickian Flows in Porous Media∗

Abstract. A sharper L-error estimate is obtained for the non-Fickian flow of fluid in porous media by means of a mixed Ritz–Volterra projection instead of the mixed Ritz projection used in [R. E. Ewing, Y. Lin, and J. Wang, Acta Math. Univ. Comenian. (N.S.), 70 (2001), pp. 75–84]. Moreover, local L superconvergence for the velocity along the Gauss lines and for the pressure at the Gauss points ...

Sharp L2-Error Estimates and Superconvergence of Mixed Finite Element Methods for Non-Fickian Flows in Porous Media

Finite Element Approximation of a Non-local Problem in Non-fickian Polymer Diffusion

Abstract. The problem of non-local nonlinear non-Fickian polymer diffusion as modelled by a diffusion equation with a nonlinearly coupled boundary value problem for a viscoelastic ‘pseudostress’ is considered (see, for example, DA Edwards in Z. angew. Math. Phys., 52, 2001, pp. 254—288). We present two numerical schemes using the implicit Euler method and also the Crank-Nicolson method. Each sc...

Discontinuous Galerkin Finite Element Method for Inviscid Compressible Flows

This paper presents the development of an algorithm based on the discontinuous Galerkin finite element method (DGFEM) for the Euler equations of gas dynamics. The DGFEM is a mixture of a finite volume and finite element method. In the DGFEM the unknowns in each element are locally expanded in a polynomial series and thus the information about the flow state at the element faces can be directly ...