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This work comprises a detailed theoretical and computational study of the boundary value problem for transversely isotropic linear elastic bodies. General conditions for well-posedness are derived in terms of the material parameters. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-01 Faraniaina Rasolofoson , Beverley Grieshaber , B. Daya Reddy

We present a new framework for expressing finite element methods on multiple intersecting meshes: multimesh finite element methods. The framework enables the use of separate meshes to discretize parts of a computational domain that are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-28 August Johansson , Benjamin Kehlet , Mats G. Larson , Anders Logg

This is the second lecture note on the error analysis of interpolation on simplicial elements without the shape regularity assumption (the previous one is arXiv:1908.03894). In this manuscript, we explain the error analysis of Lagrange…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-04 Kenta Kobayashi , Takuya Tsuchiya

We develop an interpolation-based modeling framework for parameter-dependent partial differential equations arising in control, inverse problems, and uncertainty quantification. The solution is discretized in the physical domain using…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-20 Erik Burman , Mats G. Larson , Karl Larsson , Jonatan Vallin

The approximation properties of a quadratic iso-parametric finite element method for a typical cavitation problem in nonlinear elasticity are analyzed. More precisely, (1) the finite element interpolation errors are established in terms of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-01-06 Chunmei Su , Zhiping Li

A refined a priori error analysis of the lowest order (linear) Virtual Element Method (VEM) is developed for approximating a model two dimensional Poisson problem. A set of new geometric assumptions is proposed on shape regularity of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-25 Shuhao Cao , Long Chen

It is well-known that it is comparatively difficult to design nonconforming finite elements on quadrilateral meshes by using Gauss-Legendre points on each edge of triangulations. One reason lies in that these degrees of freedom associated…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-15 Jun Hu , Shangyou Zhang

We propose two classes of mixed finite elements for linear elasticity of any order, with interior penalty for nonconforming symmetric stress approximation. One key point of our method is to introduce some appropriate nonconforming…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-05-22 Shuonan Wu , Shihua Gong , Jinchao Xu

We consider the finite element method on locally damaged meshes allowing for some distorted cells which are isolated from one another. In the case of the Poisson equation and piecewise linear Lagrange finite elements, we show that the usual…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-21 Michel Duprez , Vanessa Lleras , Alexei Lozinski

The accuracy of finite element solutions is closely tied to the mesh quality. In particular, geometrically nonlinear problems involving large and strongly localized deformations often result in prohibitively large element distortions. In…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Abhiroop Satheesh , Christoph P. Schmidt , Wolfgang A. Wall , Christoph Meier

Interpolation error estimates needed in common finite element applications using simplicial meshes typically impose restrictions on the both the smoothness of the interpolated functions and the shape of the simplices. While the simplest…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-06-19 Alexander Rand

We develop all of the components needed to construct an adaptive finite element code that can be used to approximate fractional partial differential equations, on non-trivial domains in $d\geq 1$ dimensions. Our main approach consists of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-02-14 Mark Ainsworth , Christian Glusa

New low-order $H(\textrm{div})$-conforming finite elements for symmetric tensors are constructed in arbitrary dimension. The space of shape functions is defined by enriching the symmetric quadratic polynomial space with the $(d+1)$-order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-22 Xuehai Huang , Chao Zhang , Yaqian Zhou , Yangxing Zhu

We prove convergence with optimal algebraic rates for an adaptive finite element method for nonlinear equations with strongly monotone operator. Unlike prior works, our analysis also includes the iterative and inexact solution of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-27 Gregor Gantner , Alexander Haberl , Dirk Praetorius , Bernhard Stiftner

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

We prove that for compactly perturbed elliptic problems, where the corresponding bilinear form satisfies a Garding inequality, adaptive mesh-refinement is capable of overcoming the preasymptotic behavior and eventually leads to convergence…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-01-30 Alex Bespalov , Alexander Haberl , Dirk Praetorius

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 new concept for the higher-order accurate approximation of partial differential equations on manifolds is proposed where a surface mesh composed by higher-order elements is automatically generated based on level-set data. Thereby, it…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2017-10-11 T. P. Fries , D. Schöllhammer

We prove the optimal convergence estimate for first order interpolants used in finite element methods based on three major approaches for generalizing barycentric interpolation functions to convex planar polygonal domains. The Wachspress…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-06-19 Andrew Gillette , Alexander Rand , Chandrajit Bajaj

For nonlinear reduced-order models, especially for those with non-polynomial nonlinearities, the computational complexity still depends on the dimension of the original dynamical system. As a result, the reduced-order model loses its…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-04-30 Zhu Wang