Finite element methods for surface PDEs

G Dziuk, CM Elliott - Acta Numerica, 2013 - cambridge.org
In this article we consider finite element methods for approximating the solution of partial
differential equations on surfaces. We focus on surface finite elements on triangulated …

A diffuse-interface method for two-phase flows with soluble surfactants

KE Teigen, P Song, J Lowengrub, A Voigt - Journal of computational …, 2011 - Elsevier
A method is presented to solve two-phase problems involving soluble surfactants. The
incompressible Navier–Stokes equations are solved along with equations for the bulk and …

[HTML][HTML] A diffuse-interface approach for modeling transport, diffusion and adsorption/desorption of material quantities on a deformable interface

KE Teigen, X Li, J Lowengrub, F Wang… - Communications in …, 2009 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
A method is presented to solve two-phase problems involving a material quantity on an
interface. The interface can be advected, stretched, and change topology, and material can …

A finite element approach to incompressible two-phase flow on manifolds

I Nitschke, A Voigt, J Wensch - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2012 - cambridge.org
A two-phase Newtonian surface fluid is modelled as a surface Cahn–Hilliard–Navier–Stokes
equation using a stream function formulation. This allows one to circumvent the subtleties in …

An abstract framework for parabolic PDEs on evolving spaces

A Alphonse, CM Elliott, B Stinner - Portugaliae Mathematica, 2015 - ems.press
We present an abstract framework for treating the theory of well-posedness of solutions to
abstract parabolic partial di¤ erential equations on evolving Hilbert spaces. This theory is …

𝐿²-estimates for the evolving surface finite element method

G Dziuk, C Elliott - Mathematics of Computation, 2013 - ams.org
In this paper we consider the evolving surface finite element meth-od for the advection and
diffusion of a conserved scalar quantity on a moving surface. In an earlier paper using a …

Numerical computation of advection and diffusion on evolving diffuse interfaces

CM Elliott, B Stinner, V Styles… - IMA Journal of Numerical …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
We propose a numerical method for computing transport and diffusion on a moving surface.
The approach is based on a diffuse interface model in which a bulk diffusion–advection …

An isogeometric finite element formulation for phase transitions on deforming surfaces

C Zimmermann, D Toshniwal, CM Landis… - Computer Methods in …, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper presents a general theory and isogeometric finite element implementation for
studying mass conserving phase transitions on deforming surfaces. The mathematical …

A grid based particle method for solving partial differential equations on evolving surfaces and modeling high order geometrical motion

S Leung, J Lowengrub, H Zhao - Journal of Computational Physics, 2011 - Elsevier
We develop numerical methods for solving partial differential equations (PDE) defined on an
evolving interface represented by the grid based particle method (GBPM) recently proposed …

An ALE ESFEM for solving PDEs on evolving surfaces

CM Elliott, V Styles - Milan Journal of Mathematics, 2012 - Springer
Numerical methods for approximating the solution of partial differential equations on
evolving hypersurfaces using surface finite elements on evolving triangulated surfaces are …