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In this paper, we present and analyze a weak Galerkin finite element (WG) method for solving the symmetric hyperbolic systems. This method is highly flexible by allowing the use of discontinuous finite elements on element and its boundary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-24 Tie Zhang , Shangyou Zhang

In this work, the authors introduce a generalized weak Galerkin (gWG) finite element method for the time-dependent Oseen equation. The generalized weak Galerkin method is based on a new framework for approximating the gradient operator.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-14 Wenya Qi , Padmanabhan Seshaiyer , Junping Wang

A new numerical method is devised and analyzed for a type of ill-posed elliptic Cauchy problems by using the primal-dual weak Galerkin finite element method. This new primal-dual weak Galerkin algorithm is robust and efficient in the sense…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-09-14 Chunmei Wang

In this paper, we introduce and analyze a lowest-order locking-free weak Galerkin (WG) finite element scheme for the grad-div formulation of linear elasticity problems. The scheme uses linear functions in the interior of mesh elements and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-12 Fuchang Huo , Ruishu Wang , Yanqiu Wang , Ran Zhang

This paper introduces new discretization schemes for time-harmonic Maxwell equations in a connected domain by using the weak Galerkin (WG) finite element method. The corresponding WG algorithms are analyzed for their stability and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-10-17 Chunmei Wang

A newly developed weak Galerkin method is proposed to solve parabolic equations. This method allows the usage of totally discontinuous functions in approximation space and preserves the energy conservation law. Both continuous and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-03-18 Qiaoluan H. Li , Junping Wang

This article proposes a novel least-squares weak Galerkin (LS-WG) method for second-order elliptic equations in non-divergence form. The approach leverages a locally defined discrete weak Hessian operator constructed within the weak…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Chunmei Wang , Shangyou Zhang

In this paper we present an immersed weak Galerkin method for solving second-order elliptic interface problems on polygonal meshes, where the meshes do not need to be aligned with the interface. The discrete space consists of constants on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-17 Hyeokjoo Park , Do Y. Kwak

This paper proposes and analyzes a class of new weak Galerkin (WG) finite element methods for 2- and 3-dimensional linear elasticity problems. The methods use discontinuous piecewise-polynomial approximations of degrees $k(\geq 0)$ for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-10-24 Gang Chen , Xiaoping Xie

This article is devoted to computing the eigenvalue of the Laplace eigenvalue problem by the weak Galerkin (WG) finite element method with emphasis on obtaining lower bounds. The WG method is on the use of weak functions and their weak…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-08-24 Hehu Xie , Qilong Zhai , Ran Zhang

This article develops a weak Galerkin least-squares (WG--LS) finite element method for first-order linear convection equations in non-divergence form. The method is formulated using discontinuous finite element functions and does not…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-05 Chunmei Wang , Shangyou Zhang

This paper presents a generalized weak Galerkin (gWG) finite element method for linear elasticity problems on general polygonal and polyhedral meshes. The proposed framework is flexible and efficient, allowing for the use of nonpolynomial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Junping Wang , Yue Wang

This article introduces a weak Galerkin (WG) finite element method for quad-curl problems in three dimensions. It is proved that the proposed WG method is stable and accurate in an optimal order of error estimates for the exact solution in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-01 Chunmei Wang , Junping Wang , Shangyou Zhang

This paper introduces an auto-stabilized weak Galerkin (WG) finite element method with a built-in stabilizer for Poisson equations. By utilizing bubble functions as a key analytical tool, our method extends to both convex and non-convex…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-23 Chunmei Wang

This article proposes a new numerical algorithm for second order elliptic equations in non-divergence form. The new method is based on a discrete weak Hessian operator locally constructed by following the weak Galerkin strategy. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-10-14 Chunmei Wang , Junping Wang

This paper develops a weak Galerkin (WG) finite element method of arbitrary order for the steady incompressible Magnetohydrodynamics equations. The WG scheme uses piecewise polynomials of degrees $k(k\geq 1),k,k-1$, and $k-1$ respectively…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-06 Min Zhang , Tong Zhang , Xiaoping Xie

In this paper, we propose a simple numerical algorithm based on the weak Galerkin (WG) finite element method for a class of fourth-order problems in fluorescence tomography (FT), eliminating the need for stabilizer terms required in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-25 Chunmei Wang , Shangyou Zhang

This article introduces and analyzes a weak Galerkin mixed finite element method for solving the biharmonic equation. The weak Galerkin method, first introduced by two of the authors (J. Wang and X. Ye) in an earlier publication for second…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-12-05 Lin Mu , Junping Wang , Yanqiu Wang , Xiu Ye

We propose a weak Galerkin(WG) finite element method for solving the one-dimensional Burgers' equation. Based on a new weak variational form, both semi-discrete and fully-discrete WG finite element schemes are established and analyzed. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-07-20 Yanli Chen , Tie Zhang

In this paper, we propose new basis functions defined on curved sides or faces of curvilinear elements (polygons or polyhedrons with curved sides or faces) for the weak Galerkin finite element method. Those basis functions are constructed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-12 Qingguang Guan , Gillian Queisser , Wenju Zhao