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This is a survey on the theory of adaptive finite element methods (AFEMs), which are fundamental in modern computational science and engineering but whose mathematical assessment is a formidable challenge. We present a self-contained and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-20 Andrea Bonito , Claudio Canuto , Ricardo H. Nochetto , Andreas Veeser

A numerical scheme is presented for approximating fractional order Poisson problems in two and three dimensions. The scheme is based on reformulating the original problem posed over $\Omega$ on the extruded domain…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-05-27 Mark Ainsworth , Christian Glusa

We propose a new fictitious domain finite element method, well suited for elliptic problems posed in a domain given by a level-set function without requiring a mesh fitting the boundary. To impose the Dirichlet boundary conditions, we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-09 Michel Duprez , Alexei Lozinski

Discrete exterior calculus (DEC) is a framework for constructing discrete versions of exterior differential calculus objects, and is widely used in computer graphics, computational topology, and discretizations of the Hodge-Laplace operator…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-01 Erick Schulz , Gantumur Tsogtgerel

We present a framework for the structure-preserving approximation of partial differential equations on mapped multipatch domains, extending the classical theory of finite element exterior calculus (FEEC) to discrete de Rham sequences which…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-10 Yaman Güçlü , Said Hadjout , Martin Campos Pinto

This paper is concerned with finite element methods for Poisson's equation with rough boundary data. Conventional methods require that the boundary data $g$ of the problem belongs to $H^{1/2} (\partial \Omega)$. However, in many…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-02 Huadong Gao , Yuhui Huang , Wen Xie

In this paper, the adaptive numerical solution of a 2D Poisson model problem by Crouzeix-Raviart elements ($\operatorname*{CR}_{k}$ $\operatorname*{FEM}$) of arbitrary odd degree $k\geq1$ is investigated. The analysis is based on an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-19 Nis-Erik Bohne , Stefan A. Sauter

In this article we develop a convergence theory for goal-oriented adaptive finite element algorithms designed for a class of second-order semilinear elliptic equations. We briefly discuss the target problem class, and introduce several…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-04-24 Michael Holst , Sara Pollock , Yunrong Zhu

We present a new technique to apply finite element methods to partial differential equations over curved domains. A change of variables along a coordinate transformation satisfying only low regularity assumptions can translate a Poisson…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-09-28 M. Holst , M. Licht

We provide a framework for interpreting Discrete Exterior Calculus (DEC) numerical schemes in terms of Finite Element Exterior Calculus (FEEC). We demonstrate the equivalence of cochains on primal and dual meshes with Whitney and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-04 Johnny Guzmán , Pratyush Potu

This chapter provides an overview of state-of-the-art adaptive finite element methods (AFEMs) for the numerical solution of second-order elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs), where the primary focus is on the optimal interplay of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-11 Philipp Bringmann , Ani Miraçi , Dirk Praetorius

We survey recent contributions to finite element exterior calculus on manifolds and surfaces within a comprehensive formalism for the error analysis of vector-valued partial differential equations on manifolds. Our primary focus is on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-02 Martin W. Licht

This paper generalizes the non-conforming FEM of Crouzeix and Raviart and its fundamental projection property by a novel mixed formulation for the Poisson problem based on the Helmholtz decomposition. The new formulation allows for ansatz…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-01-25 Mira Schedensack

This article introduces a novel approach for broken-FEEC (Finite Element Exterior Calculus), extending its application to locally refined spline spaces with non-matching interfaces. Traditional broken-FEEC allows for discontinuous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-01 Martin Campos Pinto , Frederik Schnack

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

There are very few results on mixed finite element methods on surfaces. A theory for the study of such methods was given recently by Holst and Stern, using a variational crimes framework in the context of finite element exterior calculus.…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2011-03-28 Anil N. Hirani , Kaushik Kalyanaraman

We construct finite element de~Rham complexes of higher and possibly non-uniform polynomial order in finite element exterior calculus (FEEC). Starting from the finite element differential complex of lowest-order, known as the complex of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-17 Martin Werner Licht

In this work, we develop an adaptive nonconforming finite element algorithm for the numerical approximation of phase-field parameterized topology optimization governed by the Stokes system. We employ the conforming linear finite element…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-20 Bangti Jin , Jing Li , Yifeng Xu , Shengfeng Zhu

We present a new framework for expressing finite element methods on multiple intersecting meshes: multimesh finite element methods. The framework enables the use of separate meshes to discretize parts of a computational domain that are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-28 August Johansson , Benjamin Kehlet , Mats G. Larson , Anders Logg

Elliptic Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) play a central role in computing the equilibrium conditions of physical problems (heat, gravitation, electrostatics, etc.). Efficient solutions to elliptic PDEs are also relevant to computer…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Zhiyuan Zhang , Amir Vaxman , Stefanos-Aldo Papanicolopulos , Kartic Subr