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This work establishes the well-posedness and a priori error analysis for the mixed FEEC-type finite element approximation of the three-dimensional vector Laplace boundary value problem subject to the Dirichlet boundary condition. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-29 Ralf Hiptmair , Peiyang Yu , Tianwei Yu

In this work is considered a spectral problem, involving a second order term on the domain boundary: the Laplace-Beltrami operator. A variational formulation is presented, leading to a finite element discretization. For the Laplace-Beltrami…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-23 Fabien Caubet , Joyce Ghantous , Charles Pierre

We construct finite element de~Rham complexes of higher and possibly non-uniform polynomial order in finite element exterior calculus (FEEC). Starting from the finite element differential complex of lowest-order, known as the complex of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-17 Martin Werner Licht

We develop a finite element method for the Laplace--Beltrami operator on a surface described by a set of patchwise parametrizations. The patches provide a partition of the surface and each patch is the image by a diffeomorphism of a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-08-02 Tobias Jonsson , Mats G. Larson , Karl Larsson

Recently, a nonconforming surface finite element was developed to discretize 3d vector-valued compressible flow problems arising in climate modeling. In this contribution we derive an error analysis for this approach on a vector-valued…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-14 Carolin Mehlmann

We present and analyze a Virtual Element Method (VEM) of arbitrary polynomial order $k\in\mathbb{N}$ for the Laplace-Beltrami equation on a surface in $\mathbb{R}^3$. The method combines the Surface Finite Element Method (SFEM) [Dziuk,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-20 Massimo Frittelli , Ivonne Sgura

This paper is concerned with the nonconforming finite element discretization of geometric partial differential equations. In specific, we construct a surface Crouzeix-Raviart element on the linear approximated surface, analogous to a flat…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-12 Hailong Guo

We introduce a general, analytical framework to express and to approximate partial differential equations (PDEs) numerically on graphs and networks of surfaces---generalized by the term hypergraphs. To this end, we consider PDEs on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-04 Andreas Rupp , Markus Gahn , Guido Kanschat

We introduce and explain key relations between a posteriori error estimates and subspace correction methods viewed as preconditioners for problems in infinite dimensional Hilbert spaces. We set the stage using the Finite Element Exterior…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-16 Yuwen Li , Ludmil T. Zikatanov

Robust mixed finite element methods are developed for a quad-curl singular perturbation problem. Lower order H(grad curl)-nonconforming but H(curl)-conforming finite elements are constructed, which are extended to nonconforming finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-24 Xuehai Huang , Chao Zhang

This work presents a numerical study of the Dirichlet problem for the fractional Laplacian $(-\Delta)^s$ with $s\in(0,1)$ using Finite Element methods with non-standard bases. Classical approaches based on piece-wise linear basis yield…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-19 Félix del Teso , Stefano Fronzoni , David Gómez-Castro

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-19 Alexey Y. Chernyshenko , Maxim A. Olshanskii

We study the discretization of an elliptic partial differential equation, posed on a two- or three-dimensional domain with smooth boundary, endowed with a generalized Robin boundary condition which involves the Laplace-Beltrami operator on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-24 Dominik Edelmann

Fourth-order differential equations play an important role in many applications in science and engineering. In this paper, we present a three-field mixed finite-element formulation for fourth-order problems, with a focus on the effective…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-13 Patrick E. Farrell , Abdalaziz Hamdan , Scott P. MacLachlan

In this paper, we propose simple numerical algorithms for partial differential equations (PDEs) defined on closed, smooth surfaces (or curves). In particular, we consider PDEs that originate from variational principles defined on the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-27 Jay Chu , Richard Tsai

The dispersion process in particulate porous media at low saturation levels takes place over the surface elements of constituent particles and, as we have found previously by comparison with experiments, can be accurately described by…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-06-10 Penpark Sirimark , Alex V. Lukyanov , Tristan Pryer

A spectral approach to building the exterior calculus in manifold learning problems is developed. The spectral approach is shown to converge to the true exterior calculus in the limit of large data. Simultaneously, the spectral approach…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-02-24 Tyrus Berry , Dimitrios Giannakis

We provide a framework for interpreting Discrete Exterior Calculus (DEC) numerical schemes in terms of Finite Element Exterior Calculus (FEEC). We demonstrate the equivalence of cochains on primal and dual meshes with Whitney and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-04 Johnny Guzmán , Pratyush Potu

We employ surface differential calculus to derive models for Kirchhoff plates including in-plane membrane deformations. We also extend our formulation to structures of plates. For solving the resulting set of partial differential equations,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-02-15 Peter Hansbo , Mats G. Larson

A low-order nonconforming finite element discretization of a smooth de Rham complex starting from the $H^2$ space in three dimensions is proposed, involving an $H^2$-nonconforming finite element space, a new tangentially continuous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-05 Xuewei Cui , Xuehai Huang