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Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-12-01 Volodymyr Sushch

The scalar and vector Laplacians are basic operators in physics and engineering. In applications, they show up frequently perturbed by lower-order terms. The effect of such perturbations on mixed finite element methods in the scalar case is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-13 Douglas N. Arnold , Lizao Li

The linearization of a quadratic form gives rise to a Clifford algebra structure, as seen in Dirac's factorization of the d'Alembert operator. A similar structure known as a generalized Clifford algebra arises from the continuation of this…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-05-16 Erin T. Albertin , Zachary P. Bradshaw , Kaitlyn M. Kirt , Kathryn E. Long , Anthony Nguyen

We consider a Strang-type second order operator-splitting discretization for the Cahn-Hilliard equation. We introduce a new theoretical framework and prove uniform energy stability of the numerical solution and persistence of all higher…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-13 Dong Li , Chaoyu Quan

A proof of convergence is given for bulk--surface finite element semi-discretisation of the Cahn--Hilliard equation with Cahn--Hilliard-type dynamic boundary conditions in a smooth domain. The semi-discretisation is studied in the weak…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-01 Paula Harder , Balázs Kovács

We consider continuous Dirac operators defined on $\mathbf{R}^d$, $d\in\{1,2,3\}$, together with various discrete versions of them. Both forward-backward and symmetric finite differences are used as approximations to partial derivatives. We…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 Horia D. Cornean , Henrik Garde , Arne Jensen

This paper presents an operational framework for the computation of the discretized solutions for relativistic equations of Klein-Gordon and Dirac type. The proposed method relies on the construction of an evolution-type operador from the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-08-07 Nelson Faustino

The existence of uniformly bounded discrete extension operators is established for conforming Raviart-Thomas and N\'ed\'elec discretisations of $H(div)$ and $H(curl)$ on locally refined partitions of a polyhedral domain into tetrahedra.

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-03 Mark Ainsworth , Johnny Guzmán , Francisco-Javier Sayas

We consider a numerical approach for the incompressible surface Navier-Stokes equation. The approach is based on the covariant form and uses discrete exterior calculus (DEC) in space and a semi-implicit discretization in time. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-26 Ingo Nitschke , Sebastian Reuther , Axel Voigt

This article studies structure-preserving discretizations of Hilbert complexes with nonconforming spaces that rely on projections onto an underlying conforming subcomplex. This approach follows the conforming/nonconforming Galerkin (CONGA)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-14 Martin Campos-Pinto , Yaman Güçlü

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

This paper proposes and analyzes the Morley element method for the Cahn-Hilliard equation. It is a fourth order nonlinear singular perturbation equation arises from the binary alloy problem in materials science, and its limit is proved to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-09-18 Yukun Li

We construct conjugate-linear perturbations of twisted spinc Dirac operators on compact almost hermitian manifolds of dimension congruent to 2 or 6 modulo 8, employing the conjugate-linear Hodge star operator rescaled by unit complex…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-19 Junho Lee

In this paper we study semi-discrete and fully discrete evolving surface finite element schemes for the Cahn-Hilliard equation with a logarithmic potential. Specifically we consider linear finite elements discretising space and backward…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-11 Charles M. Elliott , Thomas Sales

We describe how it is possible to describe irreducible actions of the Hodge - de Rham Dirac operator upon the exterior algebra over the quantum spheres ${\rm SU}_q(2)$ equipped with a three dimensional left covariant calculus.

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2024-01-04 Fabio Di Cosmo , Giuseppe Marmo , Juan Manuel Pérez-Pardo , Alessandro Zampini

We introduce the cut finite element method in the language of finite element exterior calculus, by formulating a stabilisation -- for any form degree -- that makes the method robust with respect to the position of the interface relative to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-17 Daniele Di Pietro , Jérôme Droniou , Erik Nilsson

This paper is a follow-up on the \emph{noncommutative differential geometry on infinitesimal spaces} [15]. In the present work, we extend the algebraic convergence from [15] to the geometric setting. On the one hand, we reformulate the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-13 Damien Tageddine , Jean-Christophe Nave

This paper develops the theory of discrete Dirac reduction of discrete Lagrange-Dirac systems with an abelian symmetry group acting on the configuration space. We begin with the linear theory and, then, we extend it to the nonlinear setting…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-03-10 Álvaro Rodríguez Abella , Melvin Leok

We describe discretisations of the shallow water equations on the sphere using the framework of finite element exterior calculus, which are extensions of the mimetic finite difference framework presented in Ringler, Thuburn, Klemp, and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-08-20 C. J. Cotter , J. Thuburn

A mimetic spectral element discretization, utilizing a novel Galerkin projection Hodge star operator, of the macroscopic Maxwell equations in Hamiltonian form is presented. The idea of splitting purely topological and metric dependent…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-06-23 William Barham , Yaman Güçlü , Philip J. Morrison , Eric Sonnendrücker