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We shall establish the convergence of an adaptive conforming finite element method for the reconstruction of the distributed flux in a diffusion system. The adaptive method is based on a posteriori error estimators for the distributed flux,…
In this paper, we discuss adaptive approximations of an elliptic eigenvalue optimization problem in a phase-field setting by a conforming finite element method. An adaptive algorithm is proposed and implemented in several two dimensional…
In this article we develop a convergence theory for goal-oriented adaptive finite element algorithms designed for a class of second-order semilinear elliptic equations. We briefly discuss the target problem class, and introduce several…
The paper develops a finite element method for partial differential equations posed on hypersurfaces in $\mathbb{R}^N$, $N=2,3$. The method uses traces of bulk finite element functions on a surface embedded in a volumetric domain. The bulk…
In this paper, gradient-based optimization methods are combined with finite-element modeling for improving electric devices. Geometric design parameters are considered by affine decomposition of the geometry or by the design element…
We report on the investigation of an approach for modelling light transmission through systems consisting of several jointed optical fibres, in which the analytical modelling of the waveguides was replaced by Finite Element Modelling (FEM)…
We consider within a finite element approach the usage of different adaptively refined meshes for different variables in systems of nonlinear, time-depended PDEs. To resolve different solution behaviours of these variables, the meshes can…
This article takes the form of a tutorial on the use of a particular class of mixed finite element methods, which can be thought of as the finite element extension of the C-grid staggered finite difference method. The class is often…
We study dendritic microstructure evolution using an adaptive grid, finite element method applied to a phase-field model. The computational complexity of our algorithm, per unit time, scales linearly with system size, rather than the…
In this paper, we first discuss the optimal convergence of the adaptive finite element methods for non-self-adjoint eigenvalue problems. We present new theoretical error estimators and computable error estimators for multiple and clustered…
We consider the reliable implementation of high-order unfitted finite element methods on Cartesian meshes with hanging nodes for elliptic interface problems. We construct a reliable algorithm to merge small interface elements with their…
We design an adaptive finite element method to approximate the solutions of quasi-linear elliptic problems. The algorithm is based on a Ka\v{c}anov iteration and a mesh adaptation step is performed after each linear solve. The method is…
In this paper we develop a simple finite element method for simulation of embedded layers of high permeability in a matrix of lower permeability using a basic model of Darcy flow in embedded cracks. The cracks are allowed to cut through the…
Numerical computation of harmonic forms (typically called harmonic fields in three space dimensions) arises in various areas, including computer graphics and computational electromagnetics. The finite element exterior calculus framework…
Mesh adaptation for finite element approximation is a procedure used in numerous applications. The use of thin and long anisotropic triangles improves the efficiency of the procedure. When piecewise linear finite elements are used, the…
We analyze optimal complexity of adaptive finite element methods (AFEMs) for general second-order linear elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs) in the Lax-Milgram setting. To this end, we formulate an adaptive algorithm which steers…
An adaptive finite element method is presented for the elastic scattering of a time-harmonic plane wave by a periodic surface. First, the unbounded physical domain is truncated into a bounded computational domain by introducing the…
This contribution introduces the idea of refinement patterns for the generation of optimal meshes in the context of the Finite Element Method. The main idea is to generate a library of possible patterns on which elements can be refined and…
In this paper we prove the optimal convergence of a standard adaptive scheme based on edge finite elements for the approximation of the solutions of the eigenvalue problem associated with Maxwell's equations. The proof uses the known…
We design an adaptive unfitted finite element method on the Cartesian mesh with hanging nodes. We derive an hp-reliable and efficient residual type a posteriori error estimate on K-meshes. A key ingredient is a novel hp-domain inverse…