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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

In this paper we use the GeneralizedMultiscale Finite ElementMethod (GMsFEM) framework, introduced in [20], in order to solve nonlinear elliptic equations with high-contrast coefficients. The proposed solution method involves linearizing…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-08-24 Yalchin Efendiev , Juan Galvis , Guanglian Li , Michael Presho

In this work, we propose to efficiently solve time dependent parametrized optimal control problems governed by parabolic partial differential equations through the certified reduced basis method. In particular, we will exploit an error…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-10 Maria Strazzullo , Francesco Ballarin , Gianluigi Rozza

We study preconditioning techniques for discontinuous Galerkin discretizations of isotropic linear elasticity problems in primal (displacement) formulation. We propose subspace correction methods based on a splitting of the vector valued…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-11-01 Blanca Ayuso de Dios , Ivan Georgiev , Johannes Kraus , Ludmil Zikatanov

We develop numerical algorithms to approximate positive solutions of elliptic boundary value problems with superlinear subcritical nonlinearity on the boundary of the form $-\Delta u + u = 0$ in $\Omega$ with $\frac{\partial u}{\partial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-12 Shalmali Bandyopadhyay , Thomas Lewis , Dustin Nichols

We present a novel Galerkin method for solving partial differential equations on the sphere. The problem is discretized by a highly localized basis which is easily constructed. The stiffness matrix entries are computed by a recently…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-02-17 F. J. Narcowich , Stephen T. Rowe , Joseph D. Ward

The Galerkin method is often employed for numerical integration of evolutionary equations, such as the Navier-Stokes equation or the magnetic induction equation. Application of the method requires solving an equation of the form $P(Av-f)=0$…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-27 Olga Podvigina

In this note we develop a numerical method for partial differential equations with changing type. Our method is based on a unified solution theory found by Rainer Picard for several linear equations from mathematical physics. Parallel to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-06 Sebastian Franz , Sascha Trostorff , Marcus Waurick

This paper considers weak Galerkin finite element approximations for a quasistatic Maxwell viscoelastic model. The spatial discretization uses piecewise polynomials of degree $k \ (k\geq 1)$ for the stress approximation, degree $k+1$ for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-22 Jihong Xiao , Zimo Zhu , Xiaoping Xie

This paper studies Galerkin approximations applied to the Zakai equation of stochastic filtering. The basic idea of this approach is to project the infinite-dimensional Zakai equation onto some finite-dimensional subspace generated by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-03-06 Rüdiger Frey , Thorsten Schmidt , Ling Xu

The numerical simulation of complex physical processes requires the use of economical discrete models. This lecture presents a general paradigm of deriving a posteriori error estimates for the Galerkin finite element approximation of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Rolf Rannacher

In this work we analyze the inverse problem of recovering the space-dependent potential coefficient in an elliptic / parabolic problem from distributed observation. We establish novel (weighted) conditional stability estimates under very…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-21 Bangti Jin , Xiliang Lu , Qimeng Quan , Zhi Zhou

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

We present a fully iterative adaptive algorithm for the numerical minimization of strongly convex energy functionals in Hilbert spaces. The proposed approach, which we first present in abstract form, generates a hierarchical sequence of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-26 Raphael Leu , Thomas P. Wihler

We study linear parabolic initial-value problems in a space-time variational formulation based on fractional calculus. This formulation uses "time derivatives of order one half" on the bi-infinite time axis. We show that for linear,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-01-20 Stig Larsson , Christoph Schwab

Wave propagation problems for heterogeneous media are known to have many applications in physics and engineering. Recently, there has been an increasing interest in stochastic effects due to the uncertainty, which may arise from impurities…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Ching-Shan Chou , Yukun Li , Dongbin Xiu

In this paper, a space-time discontinuous Galerkin finite element method for distributed optimal control problems governed by unsteady diffusion-convection-reaction equations with control constraints is studied. Time discretization is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-08-09 Tuğba Akman , Bülent Karasözen

The paper addresses a numerical method for solving second order elliptic partial differential equations that describe fields inside heterogeneous media. The scope is general and treats the case of rough coefficients, i.e. coefficients with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-11-30 Ivo Babuska , Robert Lipton

In this article, an abstract framework for the error analysis of discontinuous Galerkin methods for control constrained optimal control problems is developed. The analysis establishes the best approximation result from a priori analysis…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-11-05 Sudipto Chowdhury , Thirupathi Gudi , A. K. Nandakumaran

Fully implicit Runge-Kutta (IRK) methods have many desirable accuracy and stability properties as time integration schemes, but high-order IRK methods are not commonly used in practice with large-scale numerical PDEs because of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-10-07 Ben S. Southworth , Oliver Krzysik , Will Pazner