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Elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs) arise in many areas of computational sciences such as computational fluid dynamics, biophysics, engineering, geophysics and more. They are difficult to solve due to their global nature and…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Damyn M Chipman

This work proposes a nonlinear finite element method whose nodal values preserve bounds known for the exact solution. The discrete problem involves a nonlinear projection operator mapping arbitrary nodal values into bound-preserving ones…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-04-04 Gabriel Barrenechea , Emmanuil Georgoulis , Tristan Pryer , Andreas Veeser

We combine the parameterization method for invariant manifolds with the finite element method for elliptic PDEs,to obtain a new computational framework for high order approximation of invariant manifolds attached to unstable equilibrium…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-03-08 Jorge Gonzalez , J. D Mireles-James , Necibe Tuncer

A general analysis framework is presented in this paper for many different types of finite element methods (including various discontinuous Galerkin methods). For second order elliptic equation, this framework employs $4$ different…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-03 Qingguo Hong , Shuonan Wu , Jinchao Xu

We consider an elliptic partial differential equation in non-divergence form with a random diffusion matrix and random forcing term. To address this, we propose a mixed-type continuous finite element discretization in the physical domain,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-04 Amireh Mousavi

We introduce generalised finite difference methods for solving fully nonlinear elliptic partial differential equations. Methods are based on piecewise Cartesian meshes augmented by additional points along the boundary. This allows for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-06-26 Brittany D. Froese , Tiago Salvador

The elliptic 2-Hessian equation is a fully nonlinear partial differential equation (PDE) that is related to intrinsic curvature for three dimensional manifolds. We introduce two numerical methods for this PDE: the first is provably…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-02-11 Brittany D. Froese , Adam M. Oberman , Tiago Salvador

This paper is concerned with continuous and discrete approximations of $W^{2,p}$ strong solutions of second-order linear elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs) in non-divergence form. The continuous approximation of these equations…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-28 Xiaobing Feng , Thomas Lewis , Stefan Schnake

We analyze the spatially semidiscrete piecewise linear finite element method for a nonlocal parabolic equation resulting from thermistor problem. Our approach is based on the properties of the elliptic projection defined by the bilinear…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-02-23 Moulay Rchid Sidi Ammi , Delfim F. M. Torres

This article proposes a new numerical algorithm for second order elliptic equations in non-divergence form. The new method is based on a discrete weak Hessian operator locally constructed by following the weak Galerkin strategy. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-10-14 Chunmei Wang , Junping Wang

We develop a fully discrete, semi-implicit mixed finite element method for approximating solutions to a class of fourth-order stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs) with non-globally Lipschitz and non-monotone nonlinearities,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Beniamin Goldys , Agus L. Soenjaya , Thanh Tran

We address the numerical solution via Galerkin type methods of the Monge-Amp\`ere equation with transport boundary conditions arising in optimal mass transport, geometric optics and computational mesh or grid movement techniques. This fully…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-27 Ellya Kawecki , Omar Lakkis , Tristan Pryer

This paper develops and analyzes a fully discrete finite element method for a class of semilinear stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs) with multiplicative noise. The nonlinearity in the diffusion term of the SPDEs is assumed to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-22 Xiaobing Feng , Yukun Li , Yi Zhang

In this paper, we propose a novel recovery based finite element method for the Cahn-Hilliard equation. One distinguishing feature of the method is that we discretize the fourth-order differential operator in a standard $C^0$ linear finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-30 Minqiang Xu , Hailong Guo , Qingsong Zou

A finite element discretization using a method of lines approached is proposed for approximately solving the Poisson-Nernst-Planck (PNP) equations. This discretization scheme enforces positivity of the computed solutions, corresponding to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-17 Chun Liu , Maximilian Metti , Jinchao Xu

We review the construction and analysis of numerical methods for strongly nonlinear PDEs, with an emphasis on convex and nonconvex fully nonlinear equations and the convergence to viscosity solutions. We begin by describing a fundamental…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-10-26 Michael Neilan , Abner J. Salgado , Wujun Zhang

In this paper we study semi-discrete and fully discrete evolving surface finite element schemes for the Cahn-Hilliard equation with a logarithmic potential. Specifically we consider linear finite elements discretising space and backward…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-11 Charles M. Elliott , Thomas Sales

We propose a high-order finite element method for linear fourth-order elliptic problems that is both nodally bound-preserving and mass-conservative, based on a variational inequality formulation. The method admits an equivalent strictly…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-25 Jie Shen , Zuodong Wang

A full multigrid finite element method is proposed for semilinear elliptic equations. The main idea is to transform the solution of the semilinear problem into a series of solutions of the corresponding linear boundary value problems on the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-03-29 Hehu Xie , Fei Xu

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-19 Johnny Guzman , Manuel A. Sanchez , Marcus Sarkis