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Many problems in physics are inherently of multi-scale nature. The issues of MHD turbulence or magnetic reconnection, namely in the hot and sparse, almost collision-less astrophysical plasmas, can stand as clear examples. The Finite Element…

Computational Physics · Physics 2012-06-14 Jan Skala , Miroslav Barta

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

Functional error estimates are well-established tools for a posteriori error estimation and related adaptive mesh-refinement for the finite element method (FEM). The present work proposes a first functional error estimate for the boundary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-29 Stefan Kurz , Dirk Pauly , Dirk Praetorius , Sergey Repin , Daniel Sebastian

In this paper, we present a new immersed finite element scheme for solving elliptic interface problems on unfitted meshes by combining the skeletal finite element method (FEM) with the standard FEM. The skeletal FEM is used for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-17 Lin Yang , Qilong Zhai

In this work, we develop and analyze a higher-order finite element method for the multidimensional fragmentation equation. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study to establish a rigorous, conforming finite element framework…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-10 Arushi , Naresh Kumar

A generalized finite element method is proposed for solving a heterogeneous reaction-diffusion equation with a singular perturbation parameter $\varepsilon$, based on locally approximating the solution on each subdomain by solution of a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-25 Chupeng Ma , Jens Markus Melenk

In this paper, we propose a new approach -- the Tempered Finite Element Method (TFEM) -- that extends the Finite Element Method (FEM) to classes of meshes that include zero-measure or nearly degenerate elements for which standard FEM…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-27 Antoine Quiriny , Václav Kučera , Jonathan Lambrechts , Nicolas Moës , Jean-François Remacle

In this paper, we develop an adaptive high-order surface finite element method (FEM) incorporating the spectral deferred correction method for chain contour discretization to solve polymeric self-consistent field equations on general curved…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-08-03 Kai Jiang , Xin Wang , Jianggang Liu , Huayi Wei

We establish robust exponential convergence for $rp$-Finite Element Methods (FEMs) applied to fourth order singularly perturbed boundary value problems, in a \emph{balanced norm} which is stronger than the usual energy norm associated with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-20 Torsten Linß , Christos Xenophontos

This paper deals with the \emph{integral} version of the Dirichlet homogeneous fractional Laplace equation. For this problem weighted and fractional Sobolev a priori estimates are provided in terms of the H\"older regularity of the data. By…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-01-11 Gabriel Acosta , Juan Pablo Borthagaray

We consider a coefficient inverse problem for the dielectric permittivity in Maxwell's equations, with data consisting of boundary measurements of one or two backscattered or transmitted waves. The problem is treated using a Lagrangian…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-03-18 John Bondestam Malmberg , Larisa Beilina

In this paper we discuss the optimal convergence of a standard adaptive scheme based on mixed finite element approximation to the solution of the eigenvalue problem associated with the Stokes equations. The proofs of the quasi-orthogonality…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Daniele Boffi , Arbaz Khan

The finite element method can be viewed as a machine that automates the discretization of differential equations, taking as input a variational problem, a finite element and a mesh, and producing as output a system of discrete equations.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-12-05 Anders Logg

We present a new finite element method, called $\phi$-FEM, to solve numerically elliptic partial differential equations with natural (Neumann or Robin) boundary conditions using simple computational grids, not fitted to the boundary of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-08 Michel Duprez , Vanessa Lleras , Alexei Lozinski

In this paper, we propose a hybrid method that combines finite element method (FEM) and physics-informed neural network (PINN) for solving linear elliptic problems. This method contains three steps: (1) train a PINN and obtain an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-20 Xiao Chen , Yixin Luo , Jingrun Chen

Finite element methods provide accurate and efficient methods for the numerical solution of partial differential equations by means of restricting variational problems to finite-dimensional approximating spaces. However, they do not…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-24 Robert C. Kirby , John D. Stephens

We define a new finite element method for a steady state elliptic problem with discontinuous diffusion coefficients where the meshes are not aligned with the interface. We prove optimal error estimates in the $L^2$ norm and $H^1$ weighted…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-10-18 Johnny Guzman , Manuel A. Sanchez , Marcus Sarkis

We study finite element approximations of the nonhomogeneous Dirichlet problem for the fractional Laplacian. Our approach is based on weak imposition of the Dirichlet condition and incorporating a nonlocal analogous of the normal derivative…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-05 Gabriel Acosta , Juan Pablo Borthagaray , Norbert Heuer

The a posteriori error analysis of the classical Argyris finite element methods dates back to 1996, while the optimal convergence rates of associated adaptive finite element schemes are established only very recently in 2021. It took a long…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-20 Carsten Carstensen , Benedikt Gräßle

We present a locally adapted parametric finite element method for interface problems. For this adapted finite element method we show optimal convergence for elliptic interface problems with a discontinuous diffusion parameter. The method is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-16 Johan Hoffman , Bärbel Holm , Thomas Richter