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We introduce an $hp$-version symmetric interior penalty discontinuous Galerkin finite element method (DGFEM) for the numerical approximation of the biharmonic equation on general computational meshes consisting of polygonal/polyhedral…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-09-25 Zhaonan Dong

In this article, the stabilizer free weak Galerkin (SFWG) finite element method is applied to the Ciarlet-Raviart mixed form of the Biharmonic equation. We utilize the SFWG solutions of the second elliptic problems to define projection…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-20 Shanshan Gu , Fuchang Huo , Shicheng Liu

One of strengths in the finite element (FE) and Galerkin methods is their capability to apply weak formulations via integration by parts, which leads to elements matching at lower degree of continuity and relaxes requirements of choosing…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 W. Chen

A unified study is presented in this paper for the design and analysis of different finite element methods (FEMs), including conforming and nonconforming FEMs, mixed FEMs, hybrid FEMs,discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods, hybrid…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-25 Qingguo Hong , Fei Wang , Shuonan Wu , Jinchao Xu

A meshless Fragile Points Method (FPM) is presented for analyzing 2D flexoelectric problems. Local, simple, polynomial and discontinuous trial and test functions are generated with the help of a local meshless differential quadrature…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Yue Guan , Leiting Dong , Satya N. Atluri

This paper proposes a strong second-order two-step explicit/implicit technique with spectral orthogonal basis Galerkin finite element method for solving a two-dimensional Gray-Scott model subject to appropriate initial and boundary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-15 Eric Ngondiep

A simplified primal-dual weak Galerkin (S-PDWG) finite element method is designed for the Fokker-Planck type equation with non-smooth diffusion tensor and drift vector. The discrete system resulting from S-PDWG method has significantly…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-29 Dan Li , Chunmei Wang

We introduce and rigorously analyze a least-squares weak Galerkin (LS-WG) finite element method for the severely ill-posed Cauchy problem of convection--diffusion equations. The proposed framework utilizes weak derivatives defined on a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-15 Chunmei Wang , Shangyou Zhang

In this paper we consider second order elliptic partial differential equations with highly varying (heterogeneous) coefficients on a two-dimensional region. The problems are discretized by a composite finite element (FE) and discontinuous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-05-15 Rui Du , Yunfei Ma , Talal Rahman , Xuejun Xu

In this article, a weak Galerkin method is firstly presented and analyzed for the quasi-linear elliptic problem of non-monotone type. By using Brouwer's fixed point technique, the existence of WG solution and error estimates in both the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-07 Peng Zhu , Shenglan Xie

We formulate, analyse, and implement a discontinuous Galerkin finite element method (DG-FEM) for the approximation of the solution of an elliptic boundary value problem in a domain with fractal boundary. We consider the case of the Poisson…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-30 Sergio Gómez , David Hewett , Andrea Moiola

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

The embedded discontinuous Galerkin (EDG) method by Cockburn et al. [SIAM J. Numer. Anal., 2009, 47(4), 2686-2707] is obtained from the hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin method by changing the space of the Lagrangian multiplier from…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-11-16 Xiao Zhang , Xiaoping Xie , Shiquan Zhang

This article devises a new numerical method for first-order transport problems by using the primal-dual weak Galerkin (PD-WG) finite element method recently developed in scientific computing. The PD-WG method is based on a variational…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-15 Chunmei Wang , Junping Wang

We study the weak Galerkin finite element method for Stokes problem. A new weak Galerkin finite element velocity-pressure space pair is presented which satisfies the discrete inf-sup condition. Based on this space pair, we establish a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-01-30 Tie Zhang , Tao Lin

In this paper we establish a best approximation property of fully discrete Galerkin finite element solutions of second order parabolic problems on convex polygonal and polyhedral domains in the $L^\infty$ norm. The discretization method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-20 Dmitriy Leykekhman , Boris Vexler

This paper introduces a novel weak Galerkin (WG) finite element method for the numerical solution of the Brinkman equations. The Brinkman model, which seamlessly integrates characteristics of both the Stokes and Darcy equations, is employed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-09 Chunmei Wang , Shangyou Zhang

$H^1$-conforming Galerkin methods on polygonal meshes such as VEM, BEM-FEM and Trefftz-FEM employ local finite element functions that are implicitly defined as solutions of Poisson problems having polynomial source and boundary data.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-03 Jeffrey Ovall , Samuel Reynolds

This paper presents a numerical method for div-curl systems with normal boundary conditions by using a finite element technique known as primal-dual weak Galerkin (PDWG). The PDWG finite element scheme for the div-curl system has two…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-13 Shuhao Cao , Chunmei Wang , Junping Wang

We present a multiscale mixed finite element method for solving second order elliptic equations with general $L^{\infty}$-coefficients arising from flow in highly heterogeneous porous media. Our approach is based on a multiscale spectral…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-05 Christian Alber , Chupeng Ma , Robert Scheichl