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The conditioning of the linear finite volume element discretization for general diffusion equations is studied on arbitrary simplicial meshes. The condition number is defined as the ratio of the maximal singular value of the stiffness…
The present paper studies finite element discretizations of second-order elliptic boundary value problems with homogeneous right-hand side and inhomogeneous boundary conditions. We establish discrete spatial decay estimates on element…
This work proposes a nonlinear finite element method whose nodal values preserve bounds known for the exact solution. The discrete problem involves a nonlinear projection operator mapping arbitrary nodal values into bound-preserving ones…
We study several numerical discretization techniques for the one-space plus one-time dimensional Dirac equation, including finite difference and space-time finite element methods. Two finite difference schemes and several space-time finite…
This paper is concerned with the optimal approximation of a given multivariate Dirac mixture, i.e., a density comprising weighted Dirac distributions on a continuous domain, by an equally weighted Dirac mixture with a reduced number of…
We study a recently introduced formulation for fluid-structure interaction problems which makes use of a distributed Lagrange multiplier in the spirit of the fictitious domain method. The time discretization of the problem leads to a mixed…
For the Poisson equation posed in a domain containing a large number of polygonal perforations, we propose a low-dimensional coarse approximation space based on a coarse polygonal partitioning of the domain. Similarly to other multiscale…
We consider the initial boundary value problem for the inhomogeneous time-fractional diffusion equation with a homogeneous Dirichlet boundary condition and a nonsmooth right hand side data in a bounded convex polyhedral domain. We analyze…
We study the finite element approximation of the solid isotropic material with penalization method (SIMP) for the topology optimization problem of minimizing the compliance of a linearly elastic structure. To ensure the existence of a local…
The purpose of this work is to study an optimal control problem for a semilinear elliptic partial differential equation with a linear combination of Dirac measures as a forcing term; the control variable corresponds to the amplitude of such…
We present a multiscale finite element method for a diffusion problem with rough and high contrast coefficients. The construction of the multiscale finite element space is based on the localized orthogonal decomposition methodology and it…
In this paper, we investigate a sixth order elliptic equation with the simply supported boundary conditions in a polygonal domain. We propose a new method that decouples the sixth order problem into a system of second order equations.…
For shape optimization problems, governed by elliptic equations with Dirichlet boundary condition and random coefficients, we utilize a penalization technique to get the approximate problem. We consider that uncertainties exists in the…
Reduction of computational cost of solutions is a key issue to crack identification or crack propagation problems. One of the solution is to avoid re-meshing the domain when the crack position changes or when the crack extends. To avoid…
In this paper we discuss the numerical solution of elliptic distributed optimal control problems with state or control constraints when the control is considered in the energy norm. As in the unconstrained case we can relate the…
The solution of partial differential equations (PDEs) on complex domains often presents a significant computational challenge by requiring the generation of fitted meshes. The Diffuse Domain Method (DDM) is an alternative which reformulates…
In this paper, we propose weighted and unweighted enrichment strategies to enhance the accuracy of the linear lagrangian finite element for solving the Poisson problem with Dirichlet boundary conditions. We first recall key examples of…
The present study investigates a linear-quadratic Dirichlet control problem governed by a non-coercive elliptic equation posed on a possibly non-convex polygonal domain. Tikhonov regularization is carried out in an energy seminorm. The…
Dirichlet distributions are commonly used for modeling vectors in a probability simplex. When used as a prior or a proposal distribution, it is natural to set the mean of a Dirichlet to be equal to the location where one wants the…
Since the 1960's the finite element method emerged as a powerful tool for the numerical simulation of countless physical phenomena or processes in applied sciences. One of the reasons for this undeniable success is the great versatility of…