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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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-09 Daniele Boffi , Lucia Gastaldi

This paper presents a nonconforming finite element approximation of the space of symmetric tensors with square integrable divergence, on tetrahedral meshes. Used for stress approximation together with the full space of piecewise linear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-01-29 Douglas N. Arnold , Gerard Awanou , Ragnar Winther

This paper reviews the state of the art and discusses very recent mathematical developments in the field of adaptive boundary element methods. This includes an overview of available a posteriori error estimates as well as a state-of-the-art…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-07-03 Michael Feischl , Thomas Führer , Norbert Heuer , Michael Karkulik , Dirk Praetorius

This work investigates finite element approximations for a general class of elliptic hemivariational inequalities arising in semipermeable media. The proposed model incorporates non-isotropic and heterogeneous diffusion coefficients,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Ban Li , Bangmin Wu

We present a novel shape-approximating anisotropic re-meshing algorithm as a geometric generalization of the adaptive moving mesh method. Conventional moving mesh methods reduce the interpolation error of a mesh that discretizes a given…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Nicolas Nebel , Albert Chern

This work introduces an Adaptive Mesh Refinement (AMR) strategy for the topology optimization of structures made of discrete geometric components using the geometry projection method. Practical structures made of geometric shapes such as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-22 Shanglong Zhang , Arun L. Gain , Julian A. Norato

This study presents constructions of the space-time Conservation Element and Solution Element (CESE) methods to accommodate adaptive unstructured quadrilateral meshes. Subsequently, a novel algorithm is devised to effectively manage the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-03-10 Lisong Shi , Chaoxiong Zhang , Chih-Yung Wen

This paper aims to develop an efficient adaptive finite element method for the second-order elliptic problem. Although the theory for adaptive finite element methods based on residual-type a posteriori error estimator and bisection…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-24 Jingjing Xiao , Ying Liu , Nianyu Yi

Consider the Poisson equation with the Dirichlet boundary condition on a three-dimensional polyhedral domain. For singular solutions from the non-smoothness of the domain boundary, we propose new anisotropic tetrahedral mesh refinement…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-12-21 Hengguang Li

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-05-27 Thomas Witkowski , Axel Voigt

We propose a randomized algorithm with quadratic convergence rate for convex optimization problems with a self-concordant, composite, strongly convex objective function. Our method is based on performing an approximate Newton step using a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-18 Jonathan Lacotte , Yifei Wang , Mert Pilanci

We propose a numerical strategy to generate the anisotropic meshes and select the appropriate stabilized parameters simultaneously for two dimensional convection-dominated convection-diffusion equations by stabilized continuous linear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-02-09 Yana Di , Hehu Xie , Xiaobo Yin

The Kohn-Sham equation is a powerful, widely used approach for computation of ground state electronic energies and densities in chemistry, materials science, biology, and nanosciences. In this paper, we study the adaptive finite element…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-11-22 Huajie Chen , Xiaoying Dai , Xingao Gong , Lianhua He , Aihui Zhou

We consider the vertex-centered finite volume method with first-order conforming ansatz functions. The adaptive mesh-refinement is driven by the local contributions of the weighted-residual error estimator. We prove that the adaptive…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-24 Christoph Erath , Dirk Praetorius

Multi-element wings are popular in the aerospace community due to their high lift performance. Turbulent flow simulations of these configurations require very fine mesh spacings especially near the walls, thereby making use of a boundary…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-02-28 Kedar C. Chitale , Michel Rasquin , Onkar Sahni , Mark S. Shephard , Kenneth E. Jansen

While multilevel Monte Carlo (MLMC) methods for the numerical approximation of partial differential equations with random coefficients enjoy great popularity, combinations with spatial adaptivity seem to be rare. We present an adaptive MLMC…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-20 Ralf Kornhuber , Evgenia Youett

Fully computable a posteriori error estimates in the energy norm are given for singularly perturbed semilinear reaction-diffusion equations posed in polygonal domains. Linear finite elements are considered on anisotropic triangulations. To…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-07-20 Natalia Kopteva

A new anisotropic mesh adaptation strategy for finite element solution of elliptic differential equations is presented. It generates anisotropic adaptive meshes as quasi-uniform ones in some metric space, with the metric tensor being…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-17 Weizhang Huang , Lennard Kamenski , Jens Lang

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…

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