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High-order energy diminishing ALE-SAV finite element methods for two-phase Navier--Stokes flow

Sep 2026 · 0 citations · 31 references
Mathematics Computer Science

Abstract

We develop a high-order fully discrete ALE-SAV finite element method for sharp-interface two-phase Navier--Stokes flow that satisfies a discrete energy dissipation law. We introduce an SAV reformulation to ensure the stable treatment of the surface and gravitational potential energies, together with an energy-stable ALE transfer operator that controls the density-weighted kinetic energy across moving meshes. The resulting scheme is linear and satisfies a modified energy-dissipation inequality. Numerical experiments, including rising-bubble benchmarks, demonstrate the robustness of the method and confirm second-order convergence in time and arbitrarily high-order convergence in space.

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