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These lecture notes introduce the Galerkin method to approximate solutions to partial differential and integral equations. We begin with some analysis background to introduce this method in a Hilbert Space setting, and subsequently…

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This paper presents a numerical approach to the stochastic obstacle problem using the stochastic Galerkin (SG) method. Due to the low regularity of the solution, linear finite elements are employed in both the physical and random variable…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-29 Chenhui Zhu , Fei Wang , Weimin Han

In this work, we establish that discontinuous Galerkin methods are capable of producing reliable approximations for a broad class of nonlinear variational problems. In particular, we demonstrate that these schemes provide essential…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-22 Georgios Grekas , Konstantinos Koumatos , Charalambos Makridakis , Andreas Vikelis

A linearized numerical scheme is proposed to solve the nonlinear time fractional parabolic problems with time delay. The scheme is based on the standard Galerkin finite element method in the spatial direction, the fractional Crank-Nicolson…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-10 Lili Li , Mianfu She , Yuanling Niu

We introduce a family of proximal discontinuous Galerkin methods for variational inequalities, focusing on the obstacle problem as a didactic example. Each member of this family is born from applying a different well-known nonconforming…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-23 Alexandre Ern , Brendan Keith , Dohyun Kim , Rami Masri , Beatrice Riviere

A novel boundary element method (BEM) removes the classical dependence on explicit fundamental solutions and extends quasi-optimal BEM discretisations to strongly elliptic operators with variable coefficients. The approach constructs a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-22 Benedikt Gräßle , Stefan A. Sauter

A new modified Galerkin / Finite Element Method is proposed for the numerical solution of the fully nonlinear shallow water wave equations. The new numerical method allows the use of low-order Lagrange finite element spaces, despite the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-09-21 Dimitrios Mitsotakis , Costas Synolakis , Mark Mcguinness

We propose and rigorously analyse semi- and fully discrete discontinuous Galerkin methods for an initial and boundary value problem describing inertial viscoelasticity in terms of elastic and viscoelastic stress components, and with mixed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-27 Salim Meddahi , Ricardo Ruiz-Baier

We present and analyze a discontinuous Galerkin method for the numerical solution of a class of second-order linear mixed-type partial differential equations, i.e. equations that change their nature from elliptic to hyperbolic through the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-09 Chiara Perinati , Lise-Marie Imbert-Gérard , Andrea Moiola , Paul Stocker

We consider a class of time dependent second order partial differential equations governed by a decaying entropy. The solution usually corresponds to a density distribution, hence positivity (non-negativity) is expected. This class of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-28 Zheng Sun , José A. Carrillo , Chi-Wang Shu

In this study, we examine numerical approximations for 2nd-order linear-nonlinear differential equations with diverse boundary conditions, followed by the residual corrections of the first approximations. We first obtain numerical results…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-19 Shovan Sourav Datta Pranta , Md. Shafiqul Islam

The numerical solution of time-dependent radiative transfer problems is challenging, both, due to the high dimension as well as the anisotropic structure of the underlying integro-partial differential equation. In this paper we propose a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-12-04 Herbert Egger , Matthias Schlottbom

In computational relativity, critical behaviour near the black hole threshold has been studied numerically for several models in the last decade. In this paper we present a spatial Galerkin method, suitable for finding numerical solutions…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Benedikt Zeller , Ralf Hiptmair

We propose a locally conservative enriched Galerkin scheme that preserves the physical bounds for an elliptic problem. To this end, we use a substantial over-penalization of the discrete solution's jumps to obtain optimal convergence. To…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-19 Gabriel R. Barrenechea , Philip L. Lederer , Andreas Rupp

We propose a meshless conservative Galerkin method for solving Hamiltonian wave equations. We first discretize the equation in space using radial basis functions in a Galerkin-type formulation. Differ from the traditional RBF Galerkin…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-20 Zhengjie Sun , Leevan Ling

We propose a boundary-corrected weak Galerkin mixed finite element method for solving elliptic interface problems in 2D domains with curved interfaces. The method is formulated on body-fitted polygonal meshes, where interface edges are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-06 Yongli Hou , Yi Liu , Yanqiu Wang

In this paper we establish a best approximation property of fully discrete Galerkin finite element solutions of second order parabolic problems on convex polygonal and polyhedral domains in the $L^\infty$ norm. The discretization method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-20 Dmitriy Leykekhman , Boris Vexler

In this paper, we develop monolithic limiting techniques for enforcing nonlinear stability constraints in enriched Galerkin (EG) discretizations of nonlinear scalar hyperbolic equations. To achieve local mass conservation and gain control…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-02 Dmitri Kuzmin , Sanghyun Lee , Yi-Yung Yang

For finite element approximations of transport phenomena, it is often necessary to apply a form of limiting to ensure that the discrete solution remains well-behaved and satisfies physical constraints. However, these limiting procedures are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-12 Tarik Dzanic

We introduce a family of mixed methods and discontinuous Galerkin discretisations designed to numerically solve the Oseen equations written in terms of velocity, vorticity, and Bernoulli pressure. The unique solvability of the continuous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-20 Veronica Anaya , Afaf Bouharguane , David Mora , Carlos Reales , Ricardo Ruiz Baier , Nour Seloula , Hector Torres