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Motivated by the power of subregion/subregion duality for constraining the bulk geometry in gauge/gravity duality, we pursue a comprehensive and systematic approach to the behavior of extremal surfaces under perturbations. Specifically, we…

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We present new finite elements for solving the Riesz maps of the de Rham complex on triangular and tetrahedral meshes at high order. The finite elements discretize the same spaces as usual, but with different basis functions, so that the…

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We study two fully discrete evolving surface finite element schemes for the Cahn-Hilliard equation on an evolving surface, given a smooth potential with polynomial growth. In particular we establish optimal order error bounds for a (fully…

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We study a bulk-surface coupled Laplace system involving an embedded open boundary. The problem is reformulated as an integro-differential equation using boundary integral representations, for which we establish existence and uniqueness of…

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In this paper, we propose a numerical method for the solution of time-dependent flow problems in mixed form. Such problems can be efficiently approximated on hierarchical grids, obtained from an unstructured coarse triangulation by using a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-02-10 Andrés Arrarás , Laura Portero

This work develops a convergence theory for H(div)-conforming finite element methods applied to the steady Oseen problem, focusing on cases where the exact finite element complex holds while the commuting diagram property may fail. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-01 Jin Zhang , Xiaowei Liu

We present higher-order piecewise continuous finite element methods for solving a class of interface problems in two dimensions. The method is based on correction terms added to the right-hand side in the standard variational formulation of…

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We consider a saddle point formulation for a sixth order partial differential equation and its finite element approximation, for two sets of boundary conditions. We follow the Ciarlet-Raviart formulation for the biharmonic problem to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-11-17 Jérôme Droniou , Muhammad Ilyas , Bishnu Lamichhane , Glen E. Wheeler

We consider a numerical approach for the incompressible surface Navier-Stokes equation on surfaces with arbitrary genus $g(\mathcal{S})$. The approach is based on a reformulation of the equation in Cartesian coordinates of the embedding…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-02-14 Sebastian Reuther , Axel Voigt

We analyze and test using Fourier extensions that minimize a Hilbert space norm for the purpose of solving partial differential equations (PDEs) on surfaces. In particular, we prove that the approach is arbitrarily high-order and also show…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-30 Daniel R. Venn , Steven J. Ruuth

The singularities that arise in elliptic boundary value problems are treated locally by a singular function boundary integral method. This method extracts the leading singular coefficients from a series expansion that describes the local…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-06-21 George Pashos , Athanasios G. Papathanasiou , Andreas G. Boudouvis

Numerical homogenization tries to approximate the solutions of elliptic partial differential equations with strongly oscillating coefficients by functions from modified finite element spaces. We present in this paper a class of such methods…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-01-23 Ralf Kornhuber , Daniel Peterseim , Harry Yserentant

In this paper, we discuss the second-order finite element method (FEM) and finite difference method (FDM) for numerically solving elliptic cross-interface problems characterized by vertical and horizontal straight lines, piecewise constant…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-04 Qiwei Feng

We give a systematic and self-contained account of the construction of geometrically decomposed bases and degrees of freedom in finite element exterior calculus. In particular, we elaborate upon a previously overlooked basis for one of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-24 Martin W. Licht

We present a discrete Helmholtz--Hodge decomposition for H(div)-conforming Brezzi--Douglas--Marini (BDM) finite elements on triangulated surfaces of arbitrary topology. The divergence-free BDM subspace is split L2-orthogonally into rotated…

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In this paper, we introduce and analyse a surface finite element discretization of advection-diffusion equations with uncertain coefficients on evolving hypersurfaces. After stating unique solvability of the resulting semi-discrete problem,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-09-26 Ana Djurdjevac , Charles M. Elliott , Ralf Kornhuber , Thomas Ranner

We define a discrete Laplace-Beltrami operator for simplicial surfaces. It depends only on the intrinsic geometry of the surface and its edge weights are positive. Our Laplace operator is similar to the well known finite-elements Laplacian…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-09-17 Alexander I. Bobenko , Boris A. Springborn

We construct 2D and 3D finite element de Rham sequences of arbitrary polynomial degrees with extra smoothness. Some of these elements have nodal degrees of freedom (DoFs) and can be considered as generalisations of scalar Hermite and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-19 Snorre H. Christiansen , Jun Hu , Kaibo Hu

Based on the work of Xu and Zhou [Math.Comput., 69(2000), pp.881-909], we establish new three-level and multilevel finite element discretizations by local defect-correction technique. Theoretical analysis and numerical experiments show that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-19 Yidu Yang , Jiayu Han

In this paper, we construct and analyze a multiscale (finite element) method for parabolic problems with heterogeneous dynamic boundary conditions. As origin, we consider a reformulation of the system in order to decouple the discretization…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-16 Robert Altmann , Barbara Verfürth