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We present a Galerkin boundary element method for clamped Kirchhoff--Love plates with piecewise smooth boundary. It is a direct method based on the representation formula and requires the inversion of the single-layer operator and an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-11 Thomas Führer , Gregor Gantner , Norbert Heuer

This paper is devoted to the study of a novel mixed Finite Element Method for approximating the solutions of fourth order variational problems subjected to a constraint. The first problem we consider consists in establishing the convergence…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Paolo Piersanti , Tianyu Sun

A new approach is introduced for deriving a mixed variational formulation for Kirchhoff plate bending problems with mixed boundary conditions involving clamped, simply supported, and free boundary parts. Based on a regular decomposition of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-21 Katharina Rafetseder , Walter Zulehner

High-order spatial discretisations and full discretisations of parabolic partial differential equations on evolving surfaces are studied. We prove convergence of the high-order evolving surface finite element method, by showing high-order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-06-24 Balázs Kovács

In this paper we consider the numerical upscaling of the Brinkman equation in the presence of high-contrast permeability fields. We develop and analyze a robust and efficient Generalized Multiscale Finite Element Method (GMsFEM) for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-04-22 Guanglian Li , Juan Galvis , Ke Shi

We present higher-order piecewise continuous finite element methods for solving a class of interface problems in two dimensions. The method is based on correction terms added to the right-hand side in the standard variational formulation of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-19 Johnny Guzman , Manuel A. Sanchez , Marcus Sarkis

We consider a stabilized finite element method for the Darcy problem on a surface based on the Masud-Hughes formulation. A special feature of the method is that the tangential condition of the velocity field is weakly enforced through the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-11-13 Peter Hansbo , Mats G. Larson

In this paper, we study adaptive finite element approximations in a perturbation framework, which makes use of the existing adaptive finite element analysis of a linear symmetric elliptic problem. We prove the convergence and complexity of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-02-05 Lianhua He , Aihui Zhou

We propose a new analysis of convergence for a $k$th order ($k\ge 1$) finite element method, which is applied on Bakhvalov-type meshes to a singularly perturbed two-point boundary value problem. A novel interpolant is introduced, which has…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-24 Jin Zhang , Xiaowei Liu

The convergence and optimality of adaptive mixed finite element methods for the Poisson equation are established in this paper. The main difficulty for mixed finite element methods is the lack of minimization principle and thus the failure…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-01-12 Long Chen , Michael Holst , Jinchao Xu

The Generalized Finite Element Method (GFEM) is an extension of the Finite Element Method (FEM), where the standard finite element space is augmented with a space of non-polynomial functions, called the enrichment space. The functions in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-03-30 Kenan Kergrene , Ivo Babuška , Uday Banerjee

In this paper, we study a generalized finite element method for solving second-order elliptic partial differential equations with rough coefficients. The method uses local approximation spaces computed by solving eigenvalue problems on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-17 Christian Alber , Peter Bastian , Moritz Hauck , Robert Scheichl

Fitted finite element methods are constructed for a singularly perturbed convection-diffusion problem in two space dimensions. Exponential splines as basis functions are combined with Shishkin meshes to obtain a stable parameter-uniform…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-03 Alan F. Hegarty , Eugene O'Riordan

This paper proposes a finite element method that couples mixed and Lagrange finite elements to efficiently capture stress concentrations in elasticity problems. The method employs conforming mixed finite elements in regions with stress…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Wei Chen , Jun Hu , Limin Ma , Mingyan Zhang

This paper is devoted to the analysis of a numerical scheme based on the Finite Element Method for approximating the solution of Koiter's model for a linearly elastic elliptic membrane shell subjected to remaining confined in a prescribed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-12 Xin Peng , Paolo Piersanti , Xiaoqin Shen

In this paper, the generalized finite element method (GFEM) for solving second order elliptic equations with rough coefficients is studied. New optimal local approximation spaces for GFEMs based on local eigenvalue problems involving a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-22 Chupeng Ma , Robert Scheichl , Tim Dodwell

We present a simple finite element method for the discretization of Reissner--Mindlin plate equations. The finite element method is based on using the nonconforming Crouzeix-Raviart finite element space for the transverse displacement, and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-01-30 Bishnu P Lamichhane

We develop a stabilized cut finite element method for the stationary convection diffusion problem on a surface embedded in ${\mathbb{R}}^d$. The cut finite element method is based on using an embedding of the surface into a three…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-07-24 Erik Burman , Peter Hansbo , Mats G. Larson , Andre Massing , Sara Zahedi

With the development of multi-layer elastic systems in the field of engineering mechanics, the corresponding variational inequality theory and algorithm design have received more attention and research. In this study, a class of equivalent…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-11 Zhizhuo Zhang , Mikaël Barboteu , Xiaobing Nie , Serge Dumont , Mahmoud Abdel-Aty , Jinde Cao

In this work we propose a discretisation method for the Reissner--Mindlin plate bending problem in primitive variables that supports general polygonal meshes and arbitrary order. The method is inspired by a two-dimensional discrete de Rham…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-05 Daniele A. Di Pietro , Jerome Droniou