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This article is concerned with the numerical solution of convex variational problems. More precisely, we develop an iterative minimisation technique which allows for the successive enrichment of an underlying discrete approximation space in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-07-07 Paul Houston , Thomas P. Wihler

In this paper, we develop an adaptive finite element method for the nonlinear steady-state Poisson-Nernst-Planck equations, where the spatial adaptivity for geometrical singularities and boundary layer effects are mainly considered. As a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-21 Tingting Hao , Manman Ma , Xuejun Xu

We introduce an adaptive superconvergent finite element method for a class of mixed formulations to solve partial differential equations involving a diffusion term. It combines a superconvergent postprocessing technique for the primal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-03 Ignacio Muga , Sergio Rojas , Patrick Vega

We propose an adaptive finite element method for the solution of a coefficient inverse problem of simultaneous reconstruction of the dielectric permittivity and magnetic permeability functions in the Maxwell's system using limited boundary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-01-26 Larisa Beilina , Samar Hosseinzadegan

In this paper we discuss the optimal convergence of a standard adaptive scheme based on mixed finite element approximation to the solution of the eigenvalue problem associated with the Stokes equations. The proofs of the quasi-orthogonality…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Daniele Boffi , Arbaz Khan

Two of the most widely used electronic structure theory methods, namely Hartree-Fock and Kohn-Sham density functional theory, both requires the iterative solution of a set of Schr\"odinger-like equations. The speed of convergence of such…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-06-06 S. Hazra , U. Patil , S. Sanvito

We derive the expressions for configurational forces in Kohn-Sham density functional theory, which correspond to the generalized variational force computed as the derivative of the Kohn-Sham energy functional with respect to the position of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-04-25 Phani Motamarri , Vikram Gavini

We present a real-space adaptive-coordinate method, which combines the advantages of the finite-difference approach with the accuracy and flexibility of the adaptive coordinate method. The discretized Kohn-Sham equations are written in…

mtrl-th · Physics 2009-10-28 Francois Gygi , Giulia Galli

We propose a way to improve energy density functionals (EDFs) in the density functional theory based on the combination of the inverse Kohn--Sham method and the density functional perturbation theory. Difference between the known EDF and…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-11-22 Tomoya Naito , Daisuke Ohashi , Haozhao Liang

We consider the standard adaptive finite element loop SOLVE, ESTIMATE, MARK, REFINE, with ESTIMATE being implemented using the $p$-robust equilibrated flux estimator, and MARK being D\"orfler marking. As a refinement strategy we employ…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-15 Claudio Canuto , Ricardo H. Nochetto , Rob Stevenson , Marco Verani

The aim of this paper is to propose an efficient adaptive finite element method for eigenvalue problems based on the multilevel correction scheme and inverse power method. This method involves solving associated boundary value problems on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-25 Qichen Hong , Hehu Xie , Fei Xu

The adaptive nonconforming Morley finite element method (FEM) approximates a regular solution to the von K\'{a}rm\'{a}n equations with optimal convergence rates for sufficiently fine triangulations and small bulk parameter in the D\"orfler…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-18 Carsten Carstensen , Neela Nataraj

We propose and analyze an adaptive finite element method for a phase-field model of dynamic brittle fracture. The model couples a second-order hyperbolic equation for elastodynamics with the Ambrosio-Tortorelli regularization of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-08 Ram Manohar , S. M. Mallikarjuaniah

One of the goals in the development of large scale electronic structure methods is to perform calculations explicitly for a localised region of a system, while still taking into account the rest of the system outside of this region. An…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-01 J. R. Trail , D. M. Bird

In this paper, we introduce a highly accurate and efficient numerical solver for the radial Kohn--Sham equation. The equation is discretized using a high-order finite element method, with its performance further improved by incorporating a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-08 Zheming Luo , Yang Kuang

Kohn-Sham spin-density functional theory provides an efficient and accurate model to study electron-electron interaction effects in quantum dots, but its application to large systems is a challenge. An efficient algorithm for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hong Jiang , Harold U. Baranger , Weitao Yang

In this paper, we define new unfitted finite element methods for numerically approximating the solution of surface partial differential equations using bulk finite elements. The key idea is that the $n$-dimensional hypersurface, $\Gamma…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-03-21 Klaus Deckelnick , Charles M. Elliott , Thomas Ranner

This paper proposes the response surface method for finite element model updating. The response surface method is implemented by approximating the finite element model surface response equation by a multi-layer perceptron. The updated…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Tshilidzi Marwala

A general adaptive refinement strategy for solving linear elliptic partial differential equation with random data is proposed and analysed herein. The adaptive strategy extends the a posteriori error estimation framework introduced by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-23 Alex Bespalov , David Silvester , Feng Xu

We present SPARC-atomSFE, a spectral finite-element package for accurate and efficient atomic structure calculations within the framework of Kohn-Sham density functional theory. The package supports both all-electron and norm conserving…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Qihao Cheng , Shubhang Krishnakant Trivedi , Phanish Suryanarayana