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This article considers the error analysis of finite element discretizations and adaptive mesh refinement procedures for nonlocal dynamic contact and friction, both in the domain and on the boundary. For a large class of parabolic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-05-14 Heiko Gimperlein , Jakub Stocek

This article examines the Dirichlet boundary control problem governed by the Poisson equation, where the control variables are square integrable functions defined on the boundary of a two dimensional bounded, convex, polygonal domain. It…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-12 Sudipto Chowdhury , Divay Garg

We study iterative finite element approximations for the numerical approximation of semilinear elliptic boundary value problems with monotone nonlinear reactions of subcritical growth. The focus of our contribution is on an optimal a priori…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-18 Florian Spicher , Thomas P. Wihler

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-07-17 Silvia Bertoluzza , Astrid Decoene , Loïc Lacouture , Sébastien Martin

We analyze a new framework for expressing finite element methods on arbitrarily many intersecting meshes: multimesh finite element methods. The multimesh finite element method, first presented in [40], enables the use of separate meshes to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-10 August Johansson , Mats G. Larson , Anders Logg

We present precise anisotropic interpolation error estimates for smooth functions using a new geometric parameter and derive inverse inequalities on anisotropic meshes. In our theory, the interpolation error is bounded in terms of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-03 Hiroki Ishizaka , Kenta Kobayashi , Takuya Tsuchiya

Heterogeneous anisotropic diffusion problems arise in the various areas of science and engineering including plasma physics, petroleum engineering, and image processing. Standard numerical methods can produce spurious oscillations when they…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-18 Xianping Li , Weizhang Huang

Anisotropic mesh adaptation has been successfully applied to the numerical solution of partial differential equations but little considered for variational problems. In this paper, we investigate the use of a global hierarchical basis error…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-17 Weizhang Huang , Lennard Kamenski , Xianping Li

This paper deals with a priori pointwise error estimates for the finite element solution of boundary value problems with Neumann boundary conditions in polygonal domains. Due to the corners of the domain, the convergence rate of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-01 Thomas Apel , Johannes Pfefferer , Sergejs Rogovs , Max Winkler

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.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Hengguang Li , Peimeng Yin

We consider families of finite elements on polygonal meshes, that are defined implicitly on each mesh cell as solutions of local Poisson problems with polynomial data. Functions in the local space on each mesh cell are evaluated via…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-29 Akash Anand , Jeffrey S. Ovall , Steffen Weisser

The biharmonic equation with Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions discretized using the mixed finite element method and piecewise linear (with the possible exception of boundary triangles) finite elements on triangular elements has…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-21 Oded Stein , Eitan Grinspun , Alec Jacobson , Max Wardetzky

A new concept is introduced for the adaptive finite element discretization of partial differential equations that have a sparsely representable solution. Motivated by recent work on compressed sensing, a recursive mesh refinement procedure…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2009-02-26 Sadegh Jokar , Volker Mehrmann , Marc Pfetsch , Harry Yserentant

This paper proposes a new hybrid high-order discretization for the biharmonic problem and the corresponding eigenvalue problem. The discrete ansatz space includes degrees of freedom in $n-2$ dimensional submanifolds (e.g., nodal values in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-06 Yizhou Liang , Ngoc Tien Tran

Anisotropic mesh quality measures and anisotropic mesh adaptation are studied for polygonal meshes. Three sets of alignment and equidistribution measures are developed, one based on least squares fitting, one based on generalized…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-30 Weizhang Huang , Yanqiu Wang

This paper presents an a priori error analysis of the hp-version of the boundary element method for the electric field integral equation on a piecewise plane (open or closed) Lipschitz surface. We use H(div)-conforming discretisations with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2009-06-01 Alexei Bespalov , Norbert Heuer

We propose a new and simpler residual based a posteriori error estimator for finite element approximation of the elliptic obstacle problem. The results in the article are two fold. Firstly, we address the influence of the inhomogeneous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-10 Sharat Gaddam , Thirupathi Gudi

Nitsche's method is a numerical approach that weakly enforces boundary conditions for partial differential equations. In recent years, Nitsche's method has experienced a revival owing to its natural application in modern computational…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-13 Hiroki Ishizaka

Bounds are developed for the condition number of the linear finite element equations of an anisotropic diffusion problem with arbitrary meshes. They depend on three factors. The first, factor proportional to a power of the number of mesh…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-06-23 Lennard Kamenski , Weizhang Huang , Hongguo Xu

We study a nonlocal diffusion equation of porous medium type featuring a generalised fractional pressure with spatial anisotropy. We construct a finite element method for the numerical solution of the equation on a bounded open Lipschitz…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-15 Stefano Fronzoni