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We consider a simple initial-boundary-value problem for the shallow water equations in one space dimension. We discretize the problem in space by the standard Galerkin finite element method on a quasiuniform mesh and in time by the…
The solutions of elliptic problems with a Dirac measure in right-hand side are not H1 and therefore the convergence of the finite element solutions is suboptimal. Graded meshes are standard remedy to recover quasi-optimality, namely…
We develop Aubin--Nitsche-type estimates for recently proposed first-order system least-squares finite element methods (FOSLS) for the heat equation. Under certain assumptions, which are satisfied if the spatial domain is convex and the…
We consider a stochastic heat equation with nonlinear finite-rank space-coloured multiplicative noise that admits a unique nonnegative solution when given nonnegative initial data. Inspired by existing results for fully discrete finite…
We propose a generalized finite element method for the strongly damped wave equation with highly varying coefficients. The proposed method is based on the localized orthogonal decomposition introduced and is designed to handle independent…
In this paper, a few dual least-squares finite element methods and their application to scalar linear hyperbolic problems are studied. The purpose is to obtain $L^2$-norm approximations on finite element spaces of the exact solutions to…
In this work, we present a novel error analysis for recovering a spatially dependent diffusion coefficient in an elliptic or parabolic problem. It is based on the standard regularized output least-squares formulation with an $H^1(\Omega)$…
Second-order partial differential equations in non-divergence form are considered. Equations of this kind typically arise as subproblems for the solution of Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations in the context of stochastic optimal control, or…
We present an analysis for a mixed finite element method for the bending problem of Koiter shell. We derive an error estimate showing that when the geometrical coefficients of the shell mid-surface satisfy certain conditions the finite…
The purpose of this paper is the numerical analysis of a first order fractional-step time-scheme, using decomposition of theviscosity, and "inf-sup" stable finite element space-approximations for the Primitive Equations of the Ocean. The…
This work is devoted to the reconstruction of the initial temperature in the backward heat equation using the space-time finite element method on fully unstructured space-time simplicial meshes proposed by Steinbach (2015). Such a severely…
The solution to the initial and Dirichlet boundary value problem for a semilinear, one dimensional heat equation is approximated by a numerical method that combines the Besse relaxation scheme in time (C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris S{\'e}r. I,…
In this paper we study the quantitative homogenization of second-order parabolic systems with locally periodic (in both space and time) coefficients. The $O(\varepsilon)$ scale-invariant error estimate in $L^2(0, T;…
In [Kopteva, Math. Comp., 2014] a counterexample of an anisotropic triangulation was given on which the exact solution has a second-order error of linear interpolation, while the computed solution obtained using linear finite elements is…
We consider the numerical approximation of a general second order semi--linear parabolic partial differential equation. Equations of this type arise in many contexts, such as transport in porous media which is fundamental in many…
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…
We analyze a divergence based first order system least squares method applied to a second order elliptic model problem with homogeneous boundary conditions. We prove optimal convergence in the $L^2(\Omega)$ norm for the scalar variable.…
We present a space-time finite element method for the heat equation that computes quasi-optimal approximations with respect to natural norms while incorporating local mesh refinements in space-time. The discretized problem is solved with a…
We study the expanded mixed finite element method applied to degenerate parabolic equations with the Dirichlet boundary condition. The equation is considered a prototype of the nonlinear Forchheimer equation, a inverted to the nonlinear…
In a Lipschitz cylinder, this paper is devoted to establish an almost sharp error estimate $O(\varepsilon\log_2(1/\varepsilon))$ in $L^2$-norm for parabolic systems of elasticity with initial-Dirichlet conditions, arising in the…