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Adaptive finite elements are the method of choice for accurate simulations of optical components. However as shown recently by Bienstman et al. many finite element mode solvers fail to compute the propagation constant's imaginary part of a…

Optics · Physics 2009-05-28 L. Zschiedrich , S. Burger , J. Pomplun , F. Schmidt

We consider the finite volume approximation of a reaction-diffusion system with fast reversible reaction. We deduce from a priori estimates that the approximate solution converges to the weak solution of the reaction-diffusion problem and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-08-05 R. Eymard , D. Hilhorst , M. Olech

We consider the approximation in the reaction-diffusion norm with continuous finite elements and prove that the best error is equivalent to a sum of the local best errors on pairs of elements. The equivalence constants do not depend on the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-03-07 Francesca Tantardini , Andreas Veeser , R"udiger Verf"urth

In this paper, we study an adaptive finite element method for a class of a nonlinear eigenvalue problems that may be of nonconvex energy functional and consider its applications to quantum chemistry. We prove the convergence of adaptive…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-01-15 H. Chen , X. Gong , L. He , A. Zhou

We construct a finite element method (FEM) for the infinity Laplacian. Solutions of this problem may be singular, which has prompted us to conduct an a posteriori analysis of the method deriving residual based estimators to drive an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-05-17 Omar Lakkis , Tristan Pryer

We discuss realization, properties and performance of the adaptive finite element approach to the design of nano-photonic components. Central issues are the construction of vectorial finite elements and the embedding of bounded components…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-13 Jan Pomplun , Sven Burger , Lin Zschiedrich , Frank Schmidt

In this paper we formulate and analyse adaptive (space-time) least-squares finite element methods for the solution of convection-diffusion equations. The convective derivative $\mathbf{v} \cdot \nabla u$ is considered as part of the total…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-16 Christian Köthe , Olaf Steinbach

In this study we construct a time-space finite element (FE) scheme and furnish cost-efficient approximations for one-dimensional multi-term time fractional advection diffusion equations on a bounded domain $\Omega$. Firstly, a fully…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-08-08 Xiaoqiang Yue , Yehong Xu , Shi Shu , Menghuan Liu , Weiping Bu

We develop all of the components needed to construct an adaptive finite element code that can be used to approximate fractional partial differential equations, on non-trivial domains in $d\geq 1$ dimensions. Our main approach consists of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-02-14 Mark Ainsworth , Christian Glusa

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

An adaptive finite element method is presented for the elastic scattering of a time-harmonic plane wave by a periodic surface. First, the unbounded physical domain is truncated into a bounded computational domain by introducing the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-05-30 Xue Jiang , Peijun Li , Junliang Lv , Weiying Zheng

Error estimates of finite element methods for reaction-diffusion problems are often realised in the related energy norm. In the singularly perturbed case, however, this norm is not adequate. A different scaling of the $H^m$ seminorm for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-15 Sebastian Franz , Hans-G. Roos

In this paper, we develop a modified nonlinear dynamic diffusion (DD) finite element method for convection-diffusion-reaction equations. This method is free of stabilization parameters and is capable of precluding spurious oscillations. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-11 Shaohong Du , Qianqian Hou , Xiaoping Xie

We develop a micromorphic-based approach for finite element stabilization of reaction-convection-diffusion equations, by gradient enhancement of the field of interest via introducing an auxiliary variable. The well-posedness of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-10-15 Soheil Firooz , B. Daya Reddy , Paul Steinmann

This paper introduces a novel approach to approximate a broad range of reaction-convection-diffusion equations using conforming finite element methods while providing a discrete solution respecting the physical bounds given by the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-28 Abdolreza Amiri , Gabriel R. Barrenechea , Tristan Pryer

The paper is concerned with the adaptive finite element solution of linear elliptic differential equations using equidistributing meshes. A strategy is developed for defining this type of mesh based on residual-based a posteriori error…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-20 Yinnian He , Weizhang Huang

The computation time required by standard finite difference methods with fixed timesteps for solving fractional diffusion equations is usually very large because the number of operations required to find the solution scales as the square of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-06-28 Santos B. Yuste , Joaquin Quintana-Murillo

An implicit finite difference method with non-uniform timesteps for solving the fractional diffusion equation in the Caputo form is proposed. The method allows one to build adaptive methods where the size of the timesteps is adjusted to the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-06-28 Santos B. Yuste , Joaquín Quintana-Murillo

In this article, the piecewise-linear finite element method (FEM) is applied to approximate the solution of time-fractional diffusion equations on bounded convex domains. Standard energy arguments do not provide satisfactory results for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-06 Samir Karaa , Kassem Mustapha , Amiya K. Pani

This work is concerned with the development of a space-time adaptive numerical method, based on a rigorous a posteriori error bound, for a semilinear convection-diffusion problem which may exhibit blow-up in finite time. More specifically,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-02-12 Andrea Cangiani , Emmanuil H. Georgoulis , Irene Kyza , Stephen Metcalfe