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I formulate a general finite element method (FEM) for self-gravitating stellar systems. I split the configuration space to finite elements, and express the potential and density functions over each element in terms of their nodal values and…
The finite element method (FEM) is applied to obtain numerical solutions to a recently derived nonlinear equation for the shallow water wave problem. A weak formulation and the Petrov-Galerkin method are used. It is shown that the FEM gives…
The distant dipolar field (DDF) is a long-range, nonlocal contribution to liquid-state spin dynamics that arises from intermolecular dipolar couplings and can generate multiple-quantum coherences and novel MRI contrast. Its sign-changing…
We formulate, analyse, and implement a discontinuous Galerkin finite element method (DG-FEM) for the approximation of the solution of an elliptic boundary value problem in a domain with fractal boundary. We consider the case of the Poisson…
Three different displacement based finite element formulations over arbitrary polygons are studied in this paper. The formulations considered are: the conventional polygonal finite element method (FEM) with Laplace interpolants, the…
We propose a method to integrate dissipative PDEs rigorously forward in time with the use of Finite Element Method (FEM). The technique is based on the Galerkin projection on the FEM space and estimates on the residual terms. The proposed…
This paper introduces a new weak Galerkin (WG) finite element method for second order elliptic equations on polytopal meshes. This method, called WG-FEM, is designed by using a discrete weak gradient operator applied to discontinuous…
Boundary element methods (BEM) are used for forward computation of bioelectromagnetic fields in multi-compartment volume conductor models. Most BEM approaches assume that each compartment is in contact with at most one external compartment.…
A semidiscrete Galerkin finite element method applied to time-fractional diffusion equations with time-space dependent diffusivity on bounded convex spatial domains will be studied. The main focus is on achieving optimal error results with…
The Finite Element Method (FEM) is a powerful computational tool for solving partial differential equations (PDEs). Although commercial and open-source FEM software packages are widely available, an independent implementation of FEM…
A handy technique for the Finite Element Method (FEM) is presented that uses the null space for the implementation of Dirichlet and constraint boundary conditions. The focus of this method is to present an illustrative approach to modeling…
In this paper, we study the existence, regularity, and approximation of the solution for a class of nonlinear fractional differential equations. {In order to do this}, suitable variational formulations are defined for a nonlinear boundary…
We establish a simple, rigorous, and easy to implement connection between the classical continuous finite element method (FEM) and the discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method for Poisson's problem. The key idea is to insert a vanishing-thickness…
Functional error estimates are well-established tools for a posteriori error estimation and related adaptive mesh-refinement for the finite element method (FEM). The present work proposes a first functional error estimate for the boundary…
A novel boundary element method (BEM) removes the classical dependence on explicit fundamental solutions and extends quasi-optimal BEM discretisations to strongly elliptic operators with variable coefficients. The approach constructs a…
In this paper we consider the finite element approximation of Maxwell's problem and analyse the prescription of essential boundary conditions in a weak sense using Nitsche's method. To avoid indefiniteness of the problem, the original…
Boundary element methods (BEM) reduce a partial differential equation in a domain to an integral equation on the domain's boundary. They are particularly attractive for solving problems on unbounded domains, but handling the dense matrices…
Finite difference method and pseudo-spectral method have been widely used in the numerical relativity to solve the Einstein equations. As the third major category method to solve partial differential equations, finite element method is much…
A new field of numerical astrophysics is introduced which addresses the solution of large, multidimensional structural or slowly-evolving problems (rotating stars, interacting binaries, thick advective accretion disks, four dimensional…
In this article a simplified weak Galerkin finite element method is developed for the Dirichlet boundary value problem of convection-diffusion-reaction equations. The simplified weak Galerkin method utilizes only the degrees of freedom on…