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A new family of locking-free finite elements for shear deformable Reissner-Mindlin plates is presented. The elements are based on the "tangential-displacement normal-normal-stress" formulation of elasticity. In this formulation, the bending…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-07-31 Astrid Pechstein , Joachim Schöberl

We introduce a stabilised finite element formulation for the Kirchhoff plate obstacle problem and derive both a priori and residual-based a posteriori error estimates using conforming $C^1$-continuous finite elements. We implement the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-09 Tom Gustafsson , Rolf Stenberg , Juha Videman

This paper is concerned with minimization of a fourth-order linearized Canham-Helfrich energy subject to Dirichlet boundary conditions on curves inside the domain. Such problems arise in the modeling of the mechanical interaction of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-09-27 Carsten Gräser , Tobias Kies

We consider a finite element method with symmetric stabilisation for the discretisation of the transient convection--diffusion equation. For the time-discretisation we consider either the second order backwards differentiation formula or…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-11 Erik Burman , Johnny Guzman

In this article a special class of nonlinear optimal control problems involving a bilinear term in the boundary condition is studied. These kind of problems arise for instance in the identification of an unknown space-dependent Robin…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Max Winkler

A full multigrid finite element method is proposed for semilinear elliptic equations. The main idea is to transform the solution of the semilinear problem into a series of solutions of the corresponding linear boundary value problems on the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-03-29 Hehu Xie , Fei Xu

A new $n-$ noded polygonal plate element is proposed for the analysis of plate structures comprising of thin and thick members. The formulation is based on the discrete Kirchhoff Mindlin theory. On each side of the polygonal element,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-23 Javier Videla , Sundararajan Natarajan , Stephane PA Bordas

In this paper, we perform a comparison study of two methods (the embedded boundary method and several versions of the mixed finite element method) to solve an elliptic boundary value problem.

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-04-23 Jian Du , Shuqiang Wang , James Glimm , Roman Samulyak

We propose two different Lagrange multiplier methods for contact problems derived from the augmented Lagrangian variational formulation. Both the obstacle problem, where a constraint on the solution is imposed in the bulk domain and the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-09-13 Erik Burman , Peter Hansbo , Mats Larson

In this paper, based on the two-step discretization scheme proposed by Dahlquist, Liniger and Nevanlinna (DLN), we develop a semi-implicit Galerkin finite element method for solving the coupled generalized Ginzburg-Landau equations. By…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-12 Zhen Guan , Xianxian Cao , Junjun Wang

We present an extended framework for hybrid finite element approximations of self-adjoint, positive definite operators. It covers the cases of primal, mixed, and ultraweak formulations, both at the continuous and discrete levels, and gives…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-30 Norbert Heuer

We consider the time-dependent Gross-Pitaevskii equation describing the dynamics of rotating Bose-Einstein condensates and its discretization with the finite element method. We analyze a mass conserving Crank-Nicolson-type discretization…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-06-08 Patrick Henning , Axel Målqvist

It is shown that discretizations based on variational or weak formulations of the plate bending problem with simple support boundary conditions do not lead to failure of convergence when polygonal domain approximations are used and the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-12 Sören Bartels , Philipp Tscherner

We consider a boundary value problem involving a Riemann-Liouville fractional derivative of order $\alpha\in (3/2,2)$ on the unit interval $(0,1)$. The standard Galerkin finite element approximation converges slowly due to the presence of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-02 Bangti Jin , Raytcho Lazarov , Xiliang Lu , Zhi Zhou

We study the a priori error analysis of finite element methods for Biot's consolidation model. We consider a formulation which has the stress tensor, the fluid flux, the solid displacement, and the pore pressure as unknowns. Two mixed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-06-23 Jeonghun J. Lee

The main aim of this article is to analyze mixed finite element method for the second order Dirichlet boundary control problem. Therein, we develop both a priori and a posteriori error analysis using the energy space based approach. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-22 Divay Garg , Kamana Porwal

This paper uses the HCT finite element method and mesh adaptation technology to solve the nonlinear plate bending problem and conducts error analysis on the iterative method, including a priori and a posteriori error estimates. Our…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-17 Akakpo A. Wilfried , Houédanou K. Wilfrid

The divergence condition is reformulated in the scaled boundary coordinates so as to prevent the spurious solutions in the finite element formulation.

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. S. Prasanna Rajan , K. C. James Raju

We consider linear reaction-diffusion equations posed on unbounded domains, and discretized by adaptive Lagrange finite elements. To obtain finite-dimensional spaces, it is necessary to introduce a truncation boundary, whereby only a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-13 Théophile Chaumont-Frelet , Gregor Gantner

A finite element (FE) discretization for the steady, incompressible, fully inhomogeneous, generalized Navier-Stokes equations is proposed. By the method of divergence reconstruction operators, the formulation is valid for all shear stress…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-08 Alex Kaltenbach , Julius Jeßberger