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Monotone finite difference methods provide stable convergent discretizations of a class of degenerate elliptic and parabolic Partial Differential Equations (PDEs). These methods are best suited to regular rectangular grids, which leads to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-11-19 Adam M. Oberman , Ian Zwiers

This paper presents a new parameter free partially penalized immersed finite element method and convergence analysis for solving second order elliptic interface problems. A lifting operator is introduced on interface edges to ensure the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-23 Haifeng Ji , Feng Wang , Jinru Chen , Zhilin Li

We study iterative finite element approximations for the numerical approximation of semilinear elliptic boundary value problems with monotone nonlinear reactions of subcritical growth. The focus of our contribution is on an optimal a priori…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-18 Florian Spicher , Thomas P. Wihler

In this paper, we develop a nonlinear reduction framework based on our recently introduced extended group finite element method. By interpolating nonlinearities onto approximation spaces defined with the help of finite elements, the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-07 Kevin Tolle , Nicole Marheineke

When solving elliptic partial differential equations in a region containing immersed interfaces (possibly evolving in time), it is often desirable to approximate the problem using an independent background discretisation, not aligned with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-29 Luca Heltai , Nella Rotundo

In this paper we propose a new method to stabilise non-symmetric indefinite problems. The idea is to solve a forward and an adjoint problem simultaneously using a suitable stabilised finite element method. Both stabilisation of the element…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-08-05 Erik Burman

We consider an adaptive algorithm for finite element methods for the isogeometric analysis (IGAFEM) of elliptic (possibly non-symmetric) second-order partial differential equations in arbitrary space dimension $d\ge2$. We employ…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-11-20 Gregor Gantner , Daniel Haberlik , Dirk Praetorius

A simple and efficient interface-fitted mesh generation algorithm is developed in this paper. This algorithm can produce a local anisotropic fitting mixed mesh which consists of both triangles and quadrilaterals near the interface. A new…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-05-13 Jun Hu , Hua Wang

In this paper we develop an adaptive procedure for the numerical solution of general, semilinear elliptic problems with possible singular perturbations. Our approach combines both a prediction-type adaptive Newton method and an adaptive…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-08-27 Mario Amrein , Thomas P. Wihler

We consider an elliptic partial differential equation in non-divergence form with a random diffusion matrix and random forcing term. To address this, we propose a mixed-type continuous finite element discretization in the physical domain,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-04 Amireh Mousavi

We formulate and analyze a goal-oriented adaptive finite element method (GOAFEM) for a semilinear elliptic PDE and a linear goal functional. The strategy involves the finite element solution of a linearized dual problem, where the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-27 Roland Becker , Maximilian Brunner , Michael Innerberger , Jens Markus Melenk , Dirk Praetorius

We study approximation classes for adaptive time-stepping finite element methods for time-dependent Partial Differential Equations (PDE). We measure the approximation error in $L_2([0,T)\times\Omega)$ and consider the approximation with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-11 Marcelo Actis , Pedro Morin , Cornelia Schneider

In this paper, we construct an adaptive multiscale method for solving H(curl)-elliptic problems in highly heterogeneous media. Our method is based on the generalized multiscale finite element method. We will first construct a suitable…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-02-09 Eric T. Chung , Yanbo Li

We define a new finite element method for a steady state elliptic problem with discontinuous diffusion coefficients where the meshes are not aligned with the interface. We prove optimal error estimates in the $L^2$ norm and $H^1$ weighted…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-10-18 Johnny Guzman , Manuel A. Sanchez , Marcus Sarkis

We consider linear systems arising from the use of the finite element method for solving scalar linear elliptic problems. Our main result is that these linear systems, which are symmetric and positive semidefinite, are well approximated by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Erik Boman , Bruce Hendrickson , Stephen Vavasis

Adaptive multilevel finite element methods are developed and analyzed for certain elliptic systems arising in geometric analysis and general relativity. This class of nonlinear elliptic systems of tensor equations on manifolds is first…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-01-12 Michael Holst

We present a locally adapted parametric finite element method for interface problems. For this adapted finite element method we show optimal convergence for elliptic interface problems with a discontinuous diffusion parameter. The method is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-16 Johan Hoffman , Bärbel Holm , Thomas Richter

We present a fully iterative adaptive algorithm for the numerical minimization of strongly convex energy functionals in Hilbert spaces. The proposed approach, which we first present in abstract form, generates a hierarchical sequence of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-26 Raphael Leu , Thomas P. Wihler

Proofs of convergence of adaptive finite element methods for the approximation of eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of linear elliptic problems have been given in a several recent papers. A key step in establishing such results for multiple…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-05-27 Andrea Bonito , Alan Demlow

In this paper we address the numerical approximation of linear fourth-order elliptic problems on polygonal meshes. In particular, we present a novel nonconforming virtual element discretization of arbitrary order of accuracy for biharmonic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-29 P. F. Antonietti , G. Manzini , M. Verani