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A discontinuous Galerkin (DG) scheme for solving semilinear elliptic problem is developed and analyzed in this paper. The DG finite element discretizations are established, and the corresponding existence and uniqueness theorem is proved by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-27 Jiajun Zhan , Liuqiang Zhong , Jie Peng

A conforming discontinuous Galerkin finite element method is introduced for solving the biharmonic equation. This method, by its name, uses discontinuous approximations and keeps simple formulation of the conforming finite element method at…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-26 Xiu Ye , Shangyou Zhang

We propose a multiscale spectral generalized finite element method (MS-GFEM) for discontinuous Galerkin (DG) discretizations. The method builds local approximations on overlapping subdomains as the sum of a local source solution and a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-15 Christian Alber , Lukas Holbach

In the context of Discontinuous Galerkin methods, we study approximations of nonlinear variational problems associated with convex energies. We propose element-wise nonconforming finite element methods to discretize the continuous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-05 Georgios Grekas , Konstantinos Koumatos , Charalambos Makridakis , Andreas Vikelis

We propose and analyze a space-time finite element method for Westervelt's quasilinear model of ultrasound waves in second-order formulation. The method combines conforming finite element spatial discretizations with a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-19 Sergio Gómez , Vanja Nikolić

A new weak Galerkin (WG) method is introduced and analyzed for the second order elliptic equation formulated as a system of two first order linear equations. This method, called WG-MFEM, is designed by using discontinuous piecewise…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-06-27 Junping Wang , Xiu Ye

We propose an $hp$-adaptive discontinuous Galerkin finite element method (DGFEM) to approximate the solution of a static crack boundary value problem. The mathematical model describes the behavior of a geometrically linear strain-limiting…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-04 Ram Manohar , S. M. Mallikarjunaiah

This paper is concerned with developing accurate and efficient numerical methods for fully nonlinear second order elliptic and parabolic partial differential equations (PDEs) in multiple spatial dimensions. It presents a general framework…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-01-19 Xiaobing Feng , Thomas Lewis

In this paper, authors shall introduce a finite element method by using a weakly defined gradient operator over discontinuous functions with heterogeneous properties. The use of weak gradients and their approximations results in a new…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-11-14 Junping Wang , Xiu Ye

In this paper we present and analyse a discontinuous Galerkin finite element method (DGFEM) for the approximation of solutions to elliptic partial differential equations in nondivergence form, with oblique boundary conditions, on curved…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-01 Ellya Kawecki

The Galerkin difference (GD) basis is a set of continuous, piecewise polynomials defined using a finite difference like grid of degrees of freedom. The one dimensional GD basis functions are naturally extended to multiple dimensions using…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-03 Jeremy E. Kozdon , Lucas C. Wilcox , Thomas Hagstrom , Jeffrey W. Banks

We present a novel high-order accurate nodal discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method for solving nonlinear hyperbolic systems of partial differential equations (PDEs) on fully unstructured three-dimensional polyhedral meshes. A mesh generator is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-04 Sixtine Michel , Lorenzo Diazzi , Walter Boscheri

This paper develops a high-order selective discontinuous Galerkin (SDG) method for solving elliptic interface problems on interface-unfitted Cartesian meshes. This method applies the discontinuous Galerkin (DG) formulation on interface…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Fang Liu , Haroun Meghaichi , Xu Zhang

In this work, we propose an accurate, robust, and stable discretization of the gamma-based compressible multicomponent model by Shyue [J. Comput. Phys., 142 (1998), 208-242] where each component follows a stiffened gas equation of state…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-10 Rémi Abgrall , Pratik Rai , Florent Renac

We present a discontinuous finite element method for the shallow water equations which exploits high-resolution realistic bathymetry data without any regularity assumption, also in the case of high-order discretizations. We prove a number…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Luca Arpaia , Giuseppe Orlando , Christian Ferrarin , Luca Bonaventura

The discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method is an established method for computing approximate solutions of partial differential equations in many applications. Unlike continuous finite elements, in DG methods, numerical fluxes are used to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-02 Kenneth Duru , Leonhard Rannabauer , Alice-Agnes Gabriel , Heiner Igel

We present a continuous finite element method for some examples of fully nonlinear elliptic equation. A key tool is the discretisation proposed in Lakkis & Pryer (2011, SISC) allowing us to work directly on the strong form of a linear PDE.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-19 Omar Lakkis , Tristan Pryer

We consider the damped time-harmonic Galbrun's equation, which is used to model stellar oscillations. We introduce a discontinuous Galerkin finite element method (DGFEM) with $H(\operatorname{div})$-elements, which is nonconform with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-07 Martin Halla

In this paper we consider second order elliptic partial differential equations with highly varying (heterogeneous) coefficients on a two-dimensional region. The problems are discretized by a composite finite element (FE) and discontinuous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-05-15 Rui Du , Yunfei Ma , Talal Rahman , Xuejun Xu

Discontinuous Galerkin Finite Element (DGFE) methods offer a mathematically beautiful, computationally efficient, and efficiently parallelizable way to solve hyperbolic partial differential equations. These properties make them highly…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-12-12 Jonah M. Miller , Erik Schnetter