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This paper is part of a series developing $C^0$ finite element methods for fourth-order elliptic equations on polygonal domains. Here, we investigate how boundary conditions influence the design of effective $C^0$ schemes, specifically…

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This paper derives some discrete maximum principles for $P1$-conforming finite element approximations for quasi-linear second order elliptic equations. The results are extensions of the classical maximum principles in the theory of partial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-05-01 Junping Wang , Ran Zhang

In this paper we make a further discussion on the finite elements approximation for the Steklov eigenvalue problem on concave polygonal domain. We make full use of the regularity estimate and the characteristic of edge average interpolation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-01-10 Hai Bi , Yidu Yang , Yuanyuan Yu

This paper is concerned with $C^0$ (non-Lagrange) finite element approximations of the linear elliptic equations in non-divergence form and the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equations with Cordes coefficients. Motivated by the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-05-07 Shuonan Wu

This work is about global H\"older regularity for solutions to elliptic partial differential equations subject to mixed boundary conditions on irregular domains. There are two main results. In the first, we show that if the domain of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-10-10 Robert Haller , Hannes Meinlschmidt , Joachim Rehberg

We present a new finite element method, called $\phi$-FEM, to solve numerically elliptic partial differential equations with natural (Neumann or Robin) boundary conditions using simple computational grids, not fitted to the boundary of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-08 Michel Duprez , Vanessa Lleras , Alexei Lozinski

We study spectral properties of divergence form elliptic operators $-\textrm{div} [A(z) \nabla f(z)]$ with the Neumann boundary condition in planar domains (including some fractal type domains), that satisfy to the quasihyperbolic boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-04-24 Vladimir Gol'dshtein , Valeryi Pchelintsev , Alexander Ukhlov

This paper develops an enhanced finite element method for approximating a class of variational problems which exhibit the \textit{Lavrentiev gap phenomenon} in the sense that the minimum values of the energy functional have a nontrivial gap…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-10-12 Xiaobing Feng , Stefan Schnake

In order to generate initial data for nonlinear relativistic simulations, one needs to solve the Einstein constraints, which can be cast into a coupled set of nonlinear elliptic equations. Here we present an approach for solving these…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-13 Oleg Korobkin , Burak Aksoylu , Michael Holst , Enrique Pazos , Manuel Tiglio

We consider the eigenvalues of an elliptic operator for systems with bounded, measurable, and symmetric coefficients. We assume we have two non-empty, open, disjoint, and bounded sets and add a set of small measure to form the perturbed…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-07-30 Justin L. Taylor

In this article, we design and analyze a Hybrid High-Order (HHO) finite element approximation for a class of strongly nonlinear boundary value problems. We consider an HHO discretization for a suitable linearized problem and show its…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-26 Gouranga Mallik , Thirupathi Gudi

For elliptic systems with block structure in the upper half-space and t-independent coefficients, we settle the study of boundary value problems by proving compatible well-posedness of Dirichlet, regularity and Neumann problems in optimal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-04 Pascal Auscher , Moritz Egert

Nonlinear elliptic problems arise in many fields, including plasma physics, astrophysics, and optimal transport. In this article, we propose a novel operator-splitting/finite element method for solving such problems. We begin by introducing…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-12 Jingyu Yang , Shingyu Leung , Jianliang Qian , Hao Liu

In this paper we give an estimate on the asymptotic behavior of eigenvalues of discretized elliptic boundary values problems. We first prove a simple min-max principle for selfadjoint operators on a Hilbert space. Then we show two sided…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-11-01 Jinchao Xu , Hongxuan Zhang , Ludmil Zikatanov

We consider linear systems arising from the use of the finite element method for solving scalar linear elliptic problems. Our main result is that these linear systems, which are symmetric and positive semidefinite, are well approximated by…

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We establish a method for giving lower bounds for the fundamental tone of elliptic operators in divergence form in terms of the divergence of vector fields. We then apply this method to the $L_{r}$ operator associated to immersed…

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We discuss the $p$- and the $hp$-versions of the virtual element method for the approximation of eigenpairs of elliptic operators with a potential term on polygonal meshes. An application of this model is provided by the Schr\"odinger…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-12-24 O. Certik , F. Gardini , G. Manzini , L. Mascotto , G. Vacca

Proofs of convergence of adaptive finite element methods for the approximation of eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of linear elliptic problems have been given in a several recent papers. A key step in establishing such results for multiple…

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For a class of non-selfadjoint semiclassical pseudodifferential operators with double characteristics, we study bounds for resolvents and estimates for low lying eigenvalues. Specifically, assuming that the quadratic approximations of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-02-23 Michael Hitrik , Karel Pravda-Starov

In this paper, a nonconforming finite element method has been proposed and analyzed for the von Karman equations that describe bending of thin elastic plates. Optimal order error estimates in broken energy and $H^1$ norms are derived under…

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