Time‐continuous and time‐discontinuous space‐time finite elements for advection‐diffusion problems

M Von Danwitz, I Voulis, N Hosters… - International Journal for …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
We construct four variants of space‐time finite element discretizations based on linear tensor‐
product and simplex‐type finite elements. The resulting discretizations are continuous in …

Surface and hypersurface meshing techniques for space–time finite element methods

JT Anderson, DM Williams, A Corrigan - Computer-Aided Design, 2023 - Elsevier
A novel method is introduced for constructing two-dimensional (2D) surface meshes
embedded in three-dimensional (3D) space time and 3D hypersurface meshes embedded …

Error-controlled space-time finite elements, algorithms and implementations for nonstationary problems

JP Thiele - 2024 - repo.uni-hannover.de
Recently, many advances have been done in the field of space-time finite element
discretizations for nonstationary partial differential equations. The temporal dimension leads …

A fitted space-time finite element method for an advection-diffusion problem with moving interfaces

QH Nguyen, PC Hoang, TTM Ta - Applied Numerical Mathematics, 2025 - Elsevier
This paper presents a space-time interface-fitted finite element method for solving a
parabolic advection-diffusion problem with a nonstationary interface. The jum** diffusion …

Model order reduction for deforming domain problems in a time‐continuous space‐time setting

F Key, M von Danwitz, F Ballarin… - International Journal for …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
In the context of simulation‐based methods, multiple challenges arise, two of which are
considered in this work. As a first challenge, problems including time‐dependent …

The surface‐reconstruction virtual‐region mesh update method for problems with topology changes

FA González, S Elgeti, M Behr - International Journal for …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
In this work, we introduce a novel boundary‐conforming mesh‐update method that is
particularly designed for problems with large boundary displacements and topology …

Space-time hypervolume meshing part 1: Point insertion, geometric predicates, and bistellar flips

JT Anderson, DM Williams - arxiv preprint arxiv:2312.17414, 2023 - arxiv.org
Part 1 of this paper provides a comprehensive guide to generating unconstrained, simplicial,
four-dimensional (4D), hypervolume meshes. While a general procedure for constructing …

Tessellation and interactive visualization of four-dimensional spacetime geometries

PC Caplan - Computer-Aided Design, 2025 - Elsevier
This paper addresses two problems needed to support four-dimensional (3 d+ t) spacetime
numerical simulations. The first contribution is a general algorithm for producing conforming …

Conforming finite element function spaces in four dimensions, part II: The pentatope and tetrahedral prism

DM Williams, N Nigam - Computers & Mathematics with Applications, 2024 - Elsevier
In this paper, we present explicit expressions for conforming finite element function spaces,
basis functions, and degrees of freedom on the pentatope (the 4-simplex) and tetrahedral …

Simplex space-time meshes in engineering applications with moving domains

V Karyofylli, M Behr - arxiv preprint arxiv:2210.09831, 2022 - arxiv.org
This paper highlights how unstructured space-time meshes can be used in production
engineering applications with moving domains. Unstructured space-time elements can …