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most citedHigh order exactly divergence-free Hybrid Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for unsteady incompressible flows

211 citations · 712 across the 40 of their papers we have counts for

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47 papers

math.NA2026

Embedded Trefftz DG method for steady Navier-Stokes flow. Part I: Oseen linearization

Paul Stocker, Igor Voulis, Christoph Lehrenfeld +1

We develop an embedded Trefftz-DG method for the Oseen problem and prove a complete stability and quasi-optimality theory in standard DG norms. The key ingredient is a construction…

math.NA2026

Embedded Trefftz DG method for steady Navier-Stokes flow. Part II: Nonlinear problem

Paul Stocker, Igor Voulis, Christoph Lehrenfeld +1

We develop and analyze an embedded Trefftz-DG method for the steady incompressible Navier-Stokes equations, based on the reduced Oseen discretization from Part I. The main difficul…

math.NA2026

Releasing the pressure: High-order surface flow discretizations via discrete Helmholtz-Hodge decompositions

Tim Brüers, Christoph Lehrenfeld, Tim van Beeck +1

We present a discrete Helmholtz--Hodge decomposition for H(div)-conforming Brezzi--Douglas--Marini (BDM) finite elements on triangulated surfaces of arbitrary topology. The diverge…

math.NA2026

Pressure-robustness for the axisymmetric Stokes problem by velocity reconstruction

Philip L. Lederer, Christoph Lehrenfeld, Christian Merdon +1

This paper studies pressure-robustness for the axisymmetric Stokes problem. The transformation to cylindrical coordinates requires that the radially weighted velocity is divergence…

math.NA2025

Streamfunction-vorticity formulation for incompressible viscid and inviscid flows on general surfaces

Tim Brüers, Christoph Lehrenfeld, Max Wardetzky

This paper presents a streamfunction-vorticity formulation for the Navier--Stokes and Euler equations on general surfaces. Notably, this includes non-simply connected surfaces, on…

math.NA2025★ 1 cited

Hybrid discontinuous Galerkin discretizations for the damped time-harmonic Galbrun's equation

Martin Halla, Christoph Lehrenfeld, Tim van Beeck

In this article, we study the damped time-harmonic Galbrun's equation which models solar and stellar oscillations. We introduce and analyze hybrid discontinuous Galerkin discretiza…

math.NA2025

Discretization Error Analysis of a High Order Unfitted Space-Time Method for moving domain problems

Fabian Heimann, Christoph Lehrenfeld, Janosch Preuß

We present a numerical analysis of a higher order unfitted space-time Finite Element method applied to a convection-diffusion model problem posed on a moving bulk domain. The metho…

math.NA2024

Embedded Trefftz DG framework for the analysis of discretizations with local-global decompositions

Philip L. Lederer, Christoph Lehrenfeld, Paul Stocker +1

This paper presents a framework for the analysis of discretization methods based on the decomposition into local and global problems. We apply the framework to provide a comprehens…

math.NA2024★ 1 cited

Sparsity comparison of polytopal finite element methods

Christoph Lehrenfeld, Paul Stocker, Maximilian Zienecker

In this work we compare crucial parameters for efficiency of different finite element methods for solving partial differential equations (PDEs) on polytopal meshes. We consider the…

cs.HC2024

LiveDocs: Crafting Interactive Development Environments From Research Findings

Pedro Costa Klein, Christoph Lehrenfeld, Markus Osterhoff +1

Open Science is a recurrent topic in scientific discussion, and there is a current effort to make research more accessible to a broader audience. A focus on delivering research fin…

math.NA2023

Geometry Error Analysis of a parametric mapping for Higher Order Unfitted Space-Time Methods

Fabian Heimann, Christoph Lehrenfeld

In [Heimann, Lehrenfeld, Preuß, SIAM J. Sci. Comp. 45(2), 2023, B139 - B165] new geometrically unfitted space-time Finite Element methods for partial differential equations posed o…

math.NA2023

Trefftz Discontinuous Galerkin discretization for the Stokes problem

Philip L. Lederer, Christoph Lehrenfeld, Paul Stocker

We introduce a new discretization based on the Trefftz-DG method for solving the Stokes equations. Discrete solutions of a corresponding method fulfill the Stokes equation pointwis…

math.NA2023

Analysis of divergence-preserving unfitted finite element methods for the mixed Poisson problem

Christoph Lehrenfeld, Tim van Beeck, Igor Voulis

In this paper we present a new H(div)-conforming unfitted finite element method for the mixed Poisson problem which is robust in the cut configuration and preserves conservation pr…

math.NA2022★ 3 cited

Unfitted Trefftz discontinuous Galerkin methods for elliptic boundary value problems

Fabian Heimann, Christoph Lehrenfeld, Paul Stocker +1

We propose a new geometrically unfitted finite element method based on discontinuous Trefftz ansatz spaces. Trefftz methods allow for a reduction in the number of degrees of freedo…

math.HO2022★ 2 cited

Research-Data Management Planning in the German Mathematical Community

Tobias Boege, René Fritze, Christiane Görgen +13

In this paper we discuss the notion of research data for the field of mathematics and report on the status quo of research-data management and planning. A number of decentralized a…

math.NA2022

A new T-compatibility condition and its application to the discretization of the damped time-harmonic Galbrun's equation

Martin Halla, Christoph Lehrenfeld, Paul Stocker

We consider the approximation of weakly T-coercive operators. The main property to ensure the convergence thereof is the regularity of the approximation (in the vocabulary of discr…

math.NA2022

Robust finite element discretizations for a simplified Galbrun's equation

Tilman Alemán, Martin Halla, Christoph Lehrenfeld +1

Driven by the challenging task of finding robust discretization methods for Galbrun's equation, we investigate conditions for stability and different aspects of robustness for diff…

math.NA2022★ 14 cited

Geometrically Higher Order Unfitted Space-Time Methods for PDEs on Moving Domains

Fabian Heimann, Christoph Lehrenfeld, Janosch Preuß

In this paper, we propose new geometrically unfitted space-time Finite Element methods for partial differential equations posed on moving domains of higher order accuracy in space…

math.NA2022

Embedded Trefftz discontinuous Galerkin methods

Christoph Lehrenfeld, Paul Stocker

In Trefftz discontinuous Galerkin methods a partial differential equation is discretized using discontinuous shape functions that are chosen to be elementwise in the kernel of the…

math.NA2021★ 1 cited

Isoparametric unfitted BDF -- Finite element method for PDEs on evolving domains

Yimin Lou, Christoph Lehrenfeld

We propose a new discretization method for PDEs on moving domains in the setting of unfitted finite element methods, which is provably higher-order accurate in space and time. In t…

math.NA2020

Learned infinite elements

Thorsten Hohage, Christoph Lehrenfeld, Janosch Preuss

We study the numerical solution of scalar time-harmonic wave equations on unbounded domains which can be split into a bounded interior domain of primary interest and an exterior do…

math.NA2020★ 36 cited

An unfitted Eulerian finite element method for the time-dependent Stokes problem on moving domains

Henry von Wahl, Thomas Richter, Christoph Lehrenfeld

We analyse a Eulerian Finite Element method, combining a Eulerian time-stepping scheme applied to the time-dependent Stokes equations using the CutFEM approach with inf-sup stable…

math.NA2020

Sweeping preconditioners for stratified media in the presence of reflections

Janosch Preuß, Thorsten Hohage, Christoph Lehrenfeld

In this paper we consider sweeping preconditioners for time harmonic wave propagation in stratified media, especially in the presence of reflections. In the most famous class of sw…

math.NA2020★ 6 cited

Locking free and gradient robust H(div)-conforming HDG methods for linear elasticity

Guosheng Fu, Christoph Lehrenfeld, Alexander Linke +1

Robust discretization methods for (nearly-incompressible) linear elasticity are free of volume-locking and gradient-robust. While volume-locking is a well-known problem that can be…