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This article takes the form of a tutorial on the use of a particular class of mixed finite element methods, which can be thought of as the finite element extension of the C-grid staggered finite difference method. The class is often…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-01-06 C. J. Cotter , A. T. T. McRae

A finite element methodology for large classes of variational boundary value problems is defined which involves discretizing two linear operators: (1) the differential operator defining the spatial boundary value problem; and (2) a Riesz…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-08 Brendan Keith , Socratis Petrides , Federico Fuentes , Leszek Demkowicz

This paper presents a new narrow-stencil finite difference method for approximating the viscosity solution of second order fully nonlinear elliptic partial differential equations including Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations. The proposed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-30 Xiaobing Feng , Thomas Lewis

We consider the equilibrium equations for a linearized Cosserat material and provide two perspectives concerning well-posedness. First, the system can be viewed as the Hodge Laplace problem on a differential complex. On the other hand, we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-22 Wietse Marijn Boon , Omar Duran , Jan Martin Nordbotten

In this work we prove that a family of explicit numerical finite-difference methods is convergent when applied to a nonlinear Volterra equation with a power-type nonlinearity. In that case the kernel is not of Lipschitz type, therefore the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-12 Hanna Okrasińska-Płociniczak , Łukasz Płociniczak

Node embedding methods find latent lower-dimensional representations which are used as features in machine learning models. In the last few years, these methods have become extremely popular as a replacement for manual feature engineering.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-06-01 Christoph Martin , Meike Riebeling

We focus here on a class of fourth-order parabolic equations that can be written as a system of second-order equations by introducing an auxiliary variable. We design a novel second-order fully discrete mixed finite element method to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-28 Sana Keita , Abdelaziz Beljadid , Yves Bourgault

We explain four variants of an adaptive finite element method with cubic splines and compare their performance in simple elliptic model problems. The methods in comparison are Truncated Hierarchical B-splines with two different refinement…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-04-05 Paul Hennig , Markus Kästner , Philipp Morgenstern , Daniel Peterseim

In this paper, a symmetrized two-scale finite element method is proposed for a class of partial differential equations with symmetric solutions. With this method, the finite element approximation on a fine tensor product grid is reduced to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-01 Pengyu Hou , Fang Liu , Aihui Zhou

This paper studies proximal gradient iterations for solving simple bilevel optimization problems where both the upper and the lower level cost functions are split as the sum of differentiable and (possibly nonsmooth) proximable functions.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-05 Puya Latafat , Andreas Themelis , Silvia Villa , Panagiotis Patrinos

In this paper the numerical approximation of solutions of Liouville-Master Equations for time-dependent distribution functions of Piecewise Deterministic Processes with memory is considered. These equations are linear hyperbolic PDEs with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Mario Annunziato

In this paper, we study a fast and linearized finite difference method to solve the nonlinear time-fractional wave equation with multi fractional orders. We first propose a discretization to the multi-term Caputo derivative based on the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-22 Pin Lyu , Yuxiang Liang , Zhibo Wang

There has been a large increase in the amount of work on hierarchical low-rank approximation methods, where the interest is shared by multiple communities that previously did not intersect. This objective of this article is two-fold; to…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2016-02-09 Rio Yokota , Huda Ibeid , David Keyes

This article is devoted to exploring the Lipschitz truncation method for parabolic multi-phase problems. The method is based on Whitney decomposition and covering lemmas with a delicate comparison scheme of appropriate alternatives to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-15 Bogi Kim , Jehan Oh , Abhrojyoti Sen

Finite-difference methods are widely used for zeroth-order optimization in settings where gradient information is unavailable or expensive to compute. These procedures mimic first-order strategies by approximating gradients through function…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-27 Marco Rando , Cesare Molinari , Lorenzo Rosasco , Silvia Villa

New families of composition methods with processing of order 4 and 6 are presented and analyzed. They are specifically designed to be used for the numerical integration of differential equations whose vector field is separated into three or…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-09 Sergio Blanes , Fernando Casas , Alejandro Escorihuela-Tomàs

We extend a distributed finite element method built upon model order reduction to arbitrary polynomial degree using a hybrid Nitsche scheme. The new method considerably simplifies the transformation of the finite element system to the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-13 Tom Gustafsson , Antti Hannukainen , Vili Kohonen , Juha Videman

We review sharpening methods for finite volume schemes, with an emphasis on the basic structure of sharpening methods. It covers high order methods and non linear techniques for linear advection, Glimm's method, anti-diffusion techniques,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-10 B Després , S Kokh , Frédéric Lagoutière

The Hybrid Mimetic Mixed (HMM) family of discretisations includes the Hybrid Finite Volume method, the Mimetic Finite Difference method and the Mixed Finite Volume method. This note demonstrates that HMM discretisations of the equations…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-10-29 Kyle S. Talbot

Recently, the construction of finite difference schemes from lattice Boltzmann schemes has been rigorously analyzed [Bellotti et al. (2022), Numer. Math. 152, pp. 1-40]. It is thus known that any lattice Boltzmann scheme can be expressed in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-03 Eliane Kummer , Stephan Simonis