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This paper is devoted to the convergence and optimality analysis of the adaptive Morley element method for the fourth order elliptic problem. A new technique is developed to establish a quasi-orthogonality which is crucial for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-09-17 Jun Hu , Zhongci Shi , Jinchao Xu

In this paper we consider the convergence analysis of adaptive finite element method for elliptic optimal control problems with pointwise control constraints. We use variational discretization concept to discretize the control variable and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-31 Wei Gong , Ningning Yan

We consider linear reaction-diffusion equations posed on unbounded domains, and discretized by adaptive Lagrange finite elements. To obtain finite-dimensional spaces, it is necessary to introduce a truncation boundary, whereby only a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-13 Théophile Chaumont-Frelet , Gregor Gantner

We consider adaptive finite element methods for second-order elliptic PDEs, where the arising discrete systems are not solved exactly. For contractive iterative solvers, we formulate an adaptive algorithm which monitors and steers the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-14 Gregor Gantner , Alexander Haberl , Dirk Praetorius , Stefan Schimanko

We construct a finite element method (FEM) for the infinity Laplacian. Solutions of this problem may be singular, which has prompted us to conduct an a posteriori analysis of the method deriving residual based estimators to drive an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-05-17 Omar Lakkis , Tristan Pryer

In this work we develop and analyze an adaptive finite element method for efficiently solving electrical impedance tomography -- a severely ill-posed nonlinear inverse problem for recovering the conductivity from boundary voltage…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-05-16 Bangti Jin , Yifeng Xu , Jun Zou

The ultimate goal of any numerical scheme for partial differential equations (PDEs) is to compute an approximation of user-prescribed accuracy at quasi-minimal computational time. To this end, algorithmically, the standard adaptive finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-30 Philipp Bringmann , Michael Feischl , Ani Miraci , Dirk Praetorius , Julian Streitberger

We introduce an adaptive superconvergent finite element method for a class of mixed formulations to solve partial differential equations involving a diffusion term. It combines a superconvergent postprocessing technique for the primal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-03 Ignacio Muga , Sergio Rojas , Patrick Vega

We revisit a unified methodology for the iterative solution of nonlinear equations in Hilbert spaces. Our key observation is that the general approach from [Heid & Wihler, Math. Comp. 89 (2020), Calcolo 57 (2020)] satisfies an energy…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-18 Pascal Heid , Dirk Praetorius , Thomas P. Wihler

We shall establish the convergence of an adaptive conforming finite element method for the reconstruction of the distributed flux in a diffusion system. The adaptive method is based on a posteriori error estimators for the distributed flux,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-09-10 Yifeng Xu , Jun Zou

This is a survey on the theory of adaptive finite element methods (AFEMs), which are fundamental in modern computational science and engineering but whose mathematical assessment is a formidable challenge. We present a self-contained and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-20 Andrea Bonito , Claudio Canuto , Ricardo H. Nochetto , Andreas Veeser

This article is concerned with the numerical solution of convex variational problems. More precisely, we develop an iterative minimisation technique which allows for the successive enrichment of an underlying discrete approximation space in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-07-07 Paul Houston , Thomas P. Wihler

The convergence of an adaptive mixed finite element method for general second order linear elliptic problems defined on simply connected bounded polygonal domains is analyzed in this paper. The main difficulties in the analysis are posed by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-02-14 Asha K. Dond , Neela Nataraj , Amiya K. Pani

We analyze optimal complexity of adaptive finite element methods (AFEMs) for general second-order linear elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs) in the Lax-Milgram setting. To this end, we formulate an adaptive algorithm which steers…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Thomas Führer , Paula Hilbert , Ani Miraçi , Dirk Praetorius

We consider the vertex-centered finite volume method with first-order conforming ansatz functions. The adaptive mesh-refinement is driven by the local contributions of the weighted-residual error estimator. We prove that the adaptive…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-24 Christoph Erath , Dirk Praetorius

Numerical computation of harmonic forms (typically called harmonic fields in three space dimensions) arises in various areas, including computer graphics and computational electromagnetics. The finite element exterior calculus framework…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-06-24 Alan Demlow

In this work, we derive a reliable and efficient residual-typed error estimator for the finite element approximation of a 2d cathodic protection problem governed by a steady-state diffusion equation with a nonlinear boundary condition. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-08-21 Guanglian Li , Yifeng Xu

We present a new approach for boundary integral equations for the wave equation with zero initial conditions. Unlike previous attempts, our mathematical formulation allows us to prove that the associated boundary integral operators are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-17 Olaf Steinbach , Carolina Urzúa-Torres

The rigorous convergence analysis of adaptive finite element methods for regularized variational models of quasi-static brittle fracture in strain-limiting elastic solids is presented. This work introduces two novel adaptive mesh refinement…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-19 Ram Manohar , S. M. Mallikarjunaiah

Adaptive Finite Element Method (adaptivity) is known to be an effective numerical tool for some ill-posed problems. The key advantage of the adaptivity is the image improvement with local mesh refinements. A rigorous proof of this property…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-10-30 Larisa Beilina , Michael V. Klibanov