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We propose a numerical method to approximate the solution of second order elliptic problems in nonvariational form. The method is of Galerkin type using conforming finite elements and applied directly to the nonvariational (nondivergence)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-05-19 Omar Lakkis , Tristan Pryer

This paper is concerned with finite element approximations of $W^{2,p}$ strong solutions of second-order linear elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs) in non-divergence form with continuous coefficients. A nonstandard (primal)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-13 Xiaobing Feng , Lauren Hennings , Michael Neilan

Nonlinear elliptic problems arise in many fields, including plasma physics, astrophysics, and optimal transport. In this article, we propose a novel operator-splitting/finite element method for solving such problems. We begin by introducing…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-12 Jingyu Yang , Shingyu Leung , Jianliang Qian , Hao Liu

We introduce a generalized finite difference method for solving a large range of fully nonlinear elliptic partial differential equations in three dimensions. Methods are based on Cartesian grids, augmented by additional points carefully…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-19 Brittany Froese Hamfeldt , Jacob Lesniewski

In this paper we develop numerical analysis for finite element discretization of semilinear elliptic equations with potentially non-Lipschitz nonlinearites. The nonlinearity is essecially assumed to be continuous and monotonically…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-12 Boris Vexler

We propose one finite element method for both second order linear uniformly elliptic PDE in non-divergence form and the uniformly elliptic Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation. For both linear elliptic PDE in non-divergence form and the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Weifeng Qiu

We extend the finite element method introduced by Lakkis and Pryer [2011] to approximate the solution of second order elliptic problems in nonvariational form to incorporate the discontinuous Galerkin (DG) framework. This is done by viewing…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-04-09 Andreas Dedner , Tristan Pryer

In this paper, we propose a unified framework, the Hessian discretisation method (HDM), which is based on four discrete elements (called altogether a Hessian discretisation) and a few intrinsic indicators of accuracy, independent of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-28 Jérôme Droniou , Bishnu P. Lamichhane , Devika Shylaja

This work introduces finite element methods for a class of elliptic fully nonlinear partial differential equations. They are based on a minimal residual principle that builds upon the Alexandrov--Bakelman--Pucci estimate. Under rather…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-03 Dietmar Gallistl , Ngoc Tien Tran

The paper studies a method for solving elliptic partial differential equations posed on hypersurfaces in $\mathbb{R}^N$, $N=2,3$. The method builds upon the formulation introduced in Bertalmio et al., J. Comput. Phys., 174 (2001),…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-04-08 Alexey Y. Chernyshenko , Maxim A. Olshanskii

This paper is concerned with fully discrete finite element methods for approximating variational solutions of nonlinear stochastic elastic wave equations with multiplicative noise. A detailed analysis of the properties of the weak solution…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-04 Xiaobing Feng , Yukun Li , Yujian Lin

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 present a weak finite element method for elliptic problems in one space dimension. Our analysis shows that this method has more advantages than the known weak Galerkin method proposed for multi-dimensional problems, for example, it has…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-06-29 Tie Zhang , Yanli Chen

The paper studies a method for solving elliptic partial differential equations posed on hypersurfaces in $\mathbb{R}^N$, $N=2,3$. The method allows a surface to be given implicitly as a zero level of a level set function. A surface equation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-01-16 Maxim A. Olshanskii , Danil Safin

A finite element method for elliptic problems with discontinuous coefficients is presented. The discontinuity is assumed to take place along a closed smooth curve. The proposed method allows to deal with meshes that are not adapted to the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-07-12 Gunther H. Peichl , Rachid Touzani

In this paper we propose a finite element method for solving elliptic equations with the observational Dirichlet boundary data which may subject to random noises. The method is based on the weak formulation of Lagrangian multiplier. We show…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-02-20 Zhiming Chen , Rui Tuo , Wenlong Zhang

In this note we study the convergence of monotone P1 finite element methods on unstructured meshes for fully non-linear Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations arising from stochastic optimal control problems with possibly degenerate, isotropic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-02-25 Max Jensen , Iain Smears

We consider the mathematical analysis and numerical approximation of a system of nonlinear partial differential equations that arises in models that have relevance to steady isochoric flows of colloidal suspensions. The symmetric velocity…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-08-09 Andrea Bonito , Vivette Girault , Diane Guignard , Kumbakonam R. Rajagopal , Endre Süli

The state-of-the art proof of a global inf-sup condition on mixed finite element schemes does not allow for an analysis of truly indefinite, second-order linear elliptic PDEs. This paper, therefore, first analyses a nonconforming finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-01-21 Carsten Carstensen , Asha K. Dond , Neela Nataraj , Amiya K. Pani

In this paper, we study adaptive finite element approximations in a perturbation framework, which makes use of the existing adaptive finite element analysis of a linear symmetric elliptic problem. We prove the convergence and complexity of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-02-05 Lianhua He , Aihui Zhou
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