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We develop an efficient and reliable adaptive finite element method (AFEM) for the nonlinear Poisson-Boltzmann equation (PBE). We first examine the regularization technique of Chen, Holst, and Xu; this technique made possible the first a…

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In this paper, we propose a new approach -- the Tempered Finite Element Method (TFEM) -- that extends the Finite Element Method (FEM) to classes of meshes that include zero-measure or nearly degenerate elements for which standard FEM…

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This chapter provides an overview of state-of-the-art adaptive finite element methods (AFEMs) for the numerical solution of second-order elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs), where the primary focus is on the optimal interplay of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-11 Philipp Bringmann , Ani Miraçi , Dirk Praetorius

This work is devoted to the development and analysis of a linearization algorithm for microscopic elliptic equations, with scaled degenerate production, posed in a perforated medium and constrained by the homogeneous Neumann-Dirichlet…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-11 Anh-Khoa Vo , Ekeoma Rowland Ijioma , Nhu-Ngoc Nguyen

Finite Element Exterior Calculus (FEEC) was developed by Arnold, Falk, Winther and others over the last decade to exploit the observation that mixed variational problems can be posed on a Hilbert complex, and Galerkin-type mixed methods can…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-12-04 Michael Holst , Yuwen Li , Adam Mihalik , Ryan Szypowski

The convergence analysis for least-squares finite element methods led to various adaptive mesh-refinement strategies: Collective marking algorithms driven by the built-in a posteriori error estimator or an alternative explicit…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-18 Philipp Bringmann

We consider the solution of a second order elliptic PDE with inhomogeneous Dirichlet data by means of adaptive lowest-order FEM. As is usually done in practice, the given Dirichlet data are discretized by nodal interpolation. As model…

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This paper introduces a nonconforming virtual element method for general second-order elliptic problems with variable coefficients on domains with curved boundaries and curved internal interfaces. We prove arbitrary order optimal…

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We present the first rigorous convergence analysis of the smoothed adaptive finite element method (S-AFEM) proposed in [Mulita, Giani, Heltai: SIAM J. Sci. Comput. 43, 2021]. S-AFEM modifies the classical adaptive finite element method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-29 Philipp Bringmann , Christoph Lietz , Dirk Praetorius

We extend the standard notion of self-concordance to non-convex optimization and develop a family of second-order algorithms with global convergence guarantees. In particular, two function classes -- \textit{weakly self-concordant}…

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We focus on nonconvex and nonsmooth minimization problems with a composite objective, where the differentiable part of the objective is freed from the usual and restrictive global Lipschitz gradient continuity assumption. This longstanding…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-06-21 Jérôme Bolte , Shoham Sabach , Marc Teboulle , Yakov Vaisbourd

The adaptive nonconforming Morley finite element method (FEM) approximates a regular solution to the von K\'{a}rm\'{a}n equations with optimal convergence rates for sufficiently fine triangulations and small bulk parameter in the D\"orfler…

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This paper studies formulations of second-order elliptic partial differential equations in nondivergence form on convex domains as equivalent variational problems. The first formulation is that of Smears \& S\"uli [SIAM J.\ Numer.\ Anal.\…

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The problem of developing an adaptive isogeometric method (AIGM) for solving elliptic second-order partial differential equations with truncated hierarchical B-splines of arbitrary degree and different order of continuity is addressed. The…

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We consider a general nonsymmetric second-order linear elliptic PDE in the framework of the Lax-Milgram lemma. We formulate and analyze an adaptive finite element algorithm with arbitrary polynomial degree that steers the adaptive…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-28 Maximilian Brunner , Pascal Heid , Michael Innerberger , Ani Miraçi , Dirk Praetorius , Julian Streitberger

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 paper is devoted to analyze of nonconforming finite volume methods (FVMs), whose trial spaces are chosen as the nonconforming finite element (FE) spaces, for solving the second order elliptic boundary value problems. We formulate the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-10-31 Yuanyuan Zhang , Zhongying Chen

We use uniform $W^{2,p}$ estimates to obtain corrector results for periodic homogenization problems of the form $A(x/\varepsilon):D^2 u_{\varepsilon} = f$ subject to a homogeneous Dirichlet boundary condition. We propose and rigorously…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-17 Yves Capdeboscq , Timo Sprekeler , Endre Süli

A general adaptive refinement strategy for solving linear elliptic partial differential equation with random data is proposed and analysed herein. The adaptive strategy extends the a posteriori error estimation framework introduced by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-23 Alex Bespalov , David Silvester , Feng Xu