English
Related papers

Related papers: Convergence and optimality of the adaptive Morley …

200 papers

In this paper, we prove that the standard adaptive finite element method with a (modified) `maximum marking strategy' is `instance optimal' for the `total error', being the sum of the energy error and the oscillation. This result will be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-03-22 Lars Diening , Christian Kreuzer , Rob Stevenson

We propose and analyze a reliable and efficient a posteriori error estimator for the pointwise tracking optimal control problem of the Stokes equations. This linear-quadratic optimal control problem entails the minimization of a cost…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-08 Alejandro Allendes , Francisco Fuica , Enrique Otárola , Daniel Quero

In this paper, we study the numerical method for the bi-Laplace problems with inhomogeneous coefficients; particularly, we propose finite element schemes on rectangular grids respectively for an inhomogeneous fourth-order elliptic singular…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-23 Bin Dai , Huilan Zeng , Chensong Zhang , Shuo Zhang

We study the finite element approximation of linear second-order elliptic partial differential equations in nondivergence form with highly heterogeneous diffusion and drift coefficients. A generalized Cordes condition is imposed to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-17 Moritz Hauck , Roland Maier , Timo Sprekeler

Finite element exterior calculus (FEEC) has been developed as a systematical framework for constructing and analyzing stable and accurate numerical method for partial differential equations by employing differential complexes. This paper is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-09-12 Long Chen , Yongke Wu

This work introduces a novel, fully robust and highly-scalable, $h$-adaptive aggregated unfitted finite element method for large-scale interface elliptic problems. The new method is based on a recent distributed-memory implementation of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-07 Eric Neiva , Santiago Badia

This paper introduces an extension of the Morley element for approximating solutions to biharmonic equations. Traditionally limited to piecewise quadratic polynomials on triangular elements, the extension leverages weak Galerkin finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-27 Dan Li , Chunmei Wang , Junping Wang , Shangyou Zhang

It is significant and challenging to solve eigenvalue problems of partial differential operators when many highly accurate eigenpair approximations are required. The adaptive finite element discretization based parallel orbital-updating…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-24 Xiaoying Dai , Yan Li , Bin Yang , Aihui Zhou

We propose a new practical adaptive refinement strategy for $hp$-finite element approximations of elliptic problems. Following recent theoretical developments in polynomial-degree-robust a posteriori error analysis, we solve two types of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-17 Patrik Daniel , Alexandre Ern , Iain Smears , Martin Vohralík

This paper presents a convergence analysis for the Hessian Discretisation Method (HDM) applied to fourth-order semilinear elliptic equations involving a trilinear nonlinearity and general source, based on two complementary approaches. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Devika Shylaja

Adaptive multilevel finite element methods are developed and analyzed for certain elliptic systems arising in geometric analysis and general relativity. This class of nonlinear elliptic systems of tensor equations on manifolds is first…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-01-12 Michael Holst

We study finite element approximations of second-order elliptic problems with measure-valued right-hand sides supported on lower-dimensional sets. The exact solution generally lacks $H^1$-regularity due to the source singularity, which…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Huadong Gao , Yuhui Huang

We develop a general convergence theory for adaptive discontinuous Galerkin methods for elliptic PDEs covering the popular SIPG, NIPG and LDG schemes as well as all practically relevant marking strategies. Another key feature of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-07 Christian Kreuzer , Emmanuil H. Georgoulis

In this paper, we introduce new stable mixed finite elements of any order on polytopal mesh for solving second order elliptic problem. We establish optimal order error estimates for velocity and super convergence for pressure. Numerical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-14 Yanping Lin , Xiu Ye , Shangyou Zhang

In this paper, we develop an adaptive finite element method for the nonlinear steady-state Poisson-Nernst-Planck equations, where the spatial adaptivity for geometrical singularities and boundary layer effects are mainly considered. As a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-21 Tingting Hao , Manman Ma , Xuejun Xu

In this paper we propose a finite element method for solving elliptic equations with the observational Dirichlet boundary data which may subject to random noises. The method is based on the weak formulation of Lagrangian multiplier. We show…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-02-20 Zhiming Chen , Rui Tuo , Wenlong Zhang

This paper derives some discrete maximum principles for $P1$-conforming finite element approximations for quasi-linear second order elliptic equations. The results are extensions of the classical maximum principles in the theory of partial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-05-01 Junping Wang , Ran Zhang

We introduce an adaptive superconvergent finite element method for a class of mixed formulations to solve partial differential equations involving a diffusion term. It combines a superconvergent postprocessing technique for the primal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-03 Ignacio Muga , Sergio Rojas , Patrick Vega

A general a posteriori error analysis applies to five lowest-order finite element methods for two fourth-order semi-linear problems with trilinear non-linearity and a general source. A quasi-optimal smoother extends the source term to the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-18 Carsten Carstensen , Benedikt Gräßle , Neela Nataraj

In this paper, an important discovery has been found for nonconforming immersed finite element (IFE) methods using the integral values on edges as degrees of freedom for solving elliptic interface problems. We show that those IFE methods…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-17 Haifeng Ji , Feng Wang , Jinru Chen , Zhilin Li