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We present a new technique to apply finite element methods to partial differential equations over curved domains. A change of variables along a coordinate transformation satisfying only low regularity assumptions can translate a Poisson…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-09-28 M. Holst , M. Licht

We present a trust-region-based adaptive finite-element algorithm for numerically solving a class of nonsmooth PDE-constrained optimization problems that includes problems with sparsifying regularizers and convex constraints. In particular,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Harbir Antil , Robert J. Baraldi , Rohit Khandelwal , Drew P. Kouri

When using the finite element method (FEM) in inverse problems, its discretization error can produce parameter estimates that are inaccurate and overconfident. The Bayesian finite element method (BFEM) provides a probabilistic model for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-26 Anne Poot , Iuri Rocha , Pierre Kerfriden , Frans van der Meer

For the case of approximation of convection--diffusion equations using piecewise affine continuous finite elements a new edge-based nonlinear diffusion operator is proposed that makes the scheme satisfy a discrete maximum principle. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-09-30 Gabriel R. Barrenechea , Erik Burman , Fotini Karakatsani

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

The finite element method (FEM) is applied to obtain numerical solutions to a recently derived nonlinear equation for the shallow water wave problem. A weak formulation and the Petrov-Galerkin method are used. It is shown that the FEM gives…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-09-20 Anna Karczewska , Piotr Rozmej , Maciej Szczeciński , Bartosz Boguniewicz

Convergence of an adaptive collocation method for the stationary parametric diffusion equation with finite-dimensional affine coefficient is shown. The adaptive algorithm relies on a recently introduced residual-based reliable a posteriori…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-17 Martin Eigel , Oliver Ernst , Björn Sprungk , Lorenzo Tamellini

In this paper, we describe a stable finite element formulation for advection-diffusion-reaction problems that allows for robust automatic adaptive strategies to be easily implemented. We consider locally vanishing, heterogeneous, and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-01 Roberto J. Cier , Sergio Rojas , Victor M. Calo

In this paper, we couple regularization techniques with the adaptive $hp$-version of the boundary element method ($hp$-BEM) for the efficient numerical solution of linear elastic problems with nonmonotone contact boundary conditions. As a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-06-09 Nina Ovcharova , Lothar Banz

Nonlocality brings many challenges to the implementation of finite element methods (FEM) for nonlocal problems, such as large number of queries and invoke operations on the meshes. Besides, the interactions are usually limited to Euclidean…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-16 Gengjian Chen , Yuheng Ma , Jiwei Zhang

A nonlinear Helmholtz equation (NLH) with high wave number and Sommerfeld radiation condition is approximated by the perfectly matched layer (PML) technique and then discretized by the linear finite element method (FEM).…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-12 Run Jiang , Yonglin Li , Haijun Wu , Jun Zou

The Poisson-Nernst-Planck (PNP) equations are one of the most effective model for describing electrostatic interactions and diffusion processes in ion solution systems, and have been widely used in the numerical simulations of biological…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-19 Yang Liu , Shi Shu , Ying Yang

In this article, the piecewise-linear finite element method (FEM) is applied to approximate the solution of time-fractional diffusion equations on bounded convex domains. Standard energy arguments do not provide satisfactory results for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-06 Samir Karaa , Kassem Mustapha , Amiya K. Pani

Motivated by problems where the response is needed at select localized regions in a large computational domain, we devise a novel finite element discretization that results in exponential convergence at pre-selected points. The two key…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-03 Murthy N. Guddati , Vladimir Druskin , Ali Vaziri Astaneh

We propose a new method to design adaptation algorithms that guarantee a certain prescribed level of performance and are applicable to systems with nonconvex parameterization. The main idea behind the method is, given the desired…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 I. Y. Tyukin , D. V. Prokhorov , Cees van Leeuwen

A refined a priori error analysis of the lowest order (linear) nonconforming Virtual Element Method (VEM) for approximating a model Poisson problem is developed in both 2D and 3D. A set of new geometric assumptions is proposed on shape…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-05-17 Shuhao Cao , Long Chen

We consider a linear symmetric and elliptic PDE and a linear goal functional. We design and analyze a goal-oriented adaptive finite element method, which steers the adaptive mesh-refinement as well as the approximate solution of the arising…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-12 Roland Becker , Gregor Gantner , Michael Innerberger , Dirk Praetorius

In this paper, we develop an adaptive high-order surface finite element method (FEM) incorporating the spectral deferred correction method for chain contour discretization to solve polymeric self-consistent field equations on general curved…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-08-03 Kai Jiang , Xin Wang , Jianggang Liu , Huayi Wei

In this article we prove that it is possible to construct, using newest-vertex bisection, meshes that equidistribute the error in $H^1$-norm, whenever the function to approximate can be decomposed as a sum of a regular part plus a singular…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2008-03-28 Fernando D. Gaspoz , Pedro Morin

In this work, we propose and analyze a pointwise a posteriori error estimator for simple eigenvalues of elliptic eigenvalue problems with adaptive finite element methods (AFEMs). We prove the reliability and efficiency of the residual-type…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Zhenglei Li , Qigang Liang , Xuejun Xu