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This article introduces a weak Galerkin (WG) finite element method for quad-curl problems in three dimensions. It is proved that the proposed WG method is stable and accurate in an optimal order of error estimates for the exact solution in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-01 Chunmei Wang , Junping Wang , Shangyou Zhang

We introduce and rigorously analyze a least-squares weak Galerkin (LS-WG) finite element method for the severely ill-posed Cauchy problem of convection--diffusion equations. The proposed framework utilizes weak derivatives defined on a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-15 Chunmei Wang , Shangyou Zhang

A new weak Galerkin (WG) finite element method for solving the second-order elliptic problems on polygonal meshes by using polynomials of boundary continuity is introduced and analyzed. The WG method is utilizing weak functions and their…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-09-30 Qilong Zhai , Xiu Ye , Ruishu Wang , Ran Zhang

In this paper, authors shall introduce a finite element method by using a weakly defined gradient operator over discontinuous functions with heterogeneous properties. The use of weak gradients and their approximations results in a new…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-11-14 Junping Wang , Xiu Ye

The weak Galerkin (WG) finite element method is an effective and flexible general numerical technique for solving partial differential equations. It is a natural extension of the classic conforming finite element method for discontinuous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-29 Xiu Ye , Shangyou Zhang

In this paper, we propose a simple numerical algorithm based on the weak Galerkin (WG) finite element method for a class of fourth-order problems in fluorescence tomography (FT), eliminating the need for stabilizer terms required in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-25 Chunmei Wang , Shangyou Zhang

Weak Galerkin (WG) refers to general finite element methods for partial differential equations in which differential operators are approximated by weak forms through the usual integration by parts. In particular, WG methods allow the use of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-11-04 Lin Mu , Junping Wang , Xiu Ye , Shan Zhao

The weak Galerkin (WG) finite element method is an effective and flexible general numerical technique for solving partial differential equations. The novel idea of weak Galerkin finite element methods is on the use of weak functions and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-28 Xiu Ye , Shangyou Zhang

Weak Galerkin methods refer to general finite element methods for PDEs in which differential operators are approximated by their weak forms as distributions. Such weak forms give rise to desirable flexibilities in enforcing boundary and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-06-10 Lin Mu , Junping Wang , Guowei Wei , Xiu Ye , Shan Zhao

We consider the singularly perturbed fourth-order boundary value problem $\varepsilon ^{2}\Delta ^{2}u-\Delta u=f $ on the unit square $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^2$, with boundary conditions $u = \partial u / \partial n = 0$ on $\partial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-01 Shicheng Liu , Xiangyun Meng , Qilong Zhai

This article proposes and analyzes the generalized weak Galerkin ({\rm g}WG) finite element method for the second order elliptic problem. A generalized discrete weak gradient operator is introduced in the weak Galerkin framework so that the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-16 Dan Li , Chunmei Wang , Junping Wang , Xiu Ye

This paper introduces a novel weak Galerkin (WG) finite element method for the numerical solution of the Brinkman equations. The Brinkman model, which seamlessly integrates characteristics of both the Stokes and Darcy equations, is employed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-09 Chunmei Wang , Shangyou Zhang

In this paper, a new and efficient numerical algorithm by using weak Galerkin (WG) finite element methods is proposed for a type of fourth order problem arising from fluorescence tomography(FT). Fluorescence tomography is an emerging, in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-10-21 Chunmei Wang , Haomin Zhou

This paper introduces a new weak Galerkin (WG) finite element method for second order elliptic equations on polytopal meshes. This method, called WG-FEM, is designed by using a discrete weak gradient operator applied to discontinuous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-08-20 Lin Mu , Junping Wang , Xiu Ye

The weak Galerkin (WG) finite element method is an effective and flexible general numerical techniques for solving partial differential equations. A simple weak Galerkin finite element method is introduced for second order elliptic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-24 Ahmed Al-Taweel , Xiaoshen Wang , Xiu Ye , Shangyou Zhang

This paper presents a simplified weak Galerkin (WG) finite element method for solving biharmonic equations avoiding the use of traditional stabilizers. The proposed WG method supports both convex and non-convex polytopal elements in finite…

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This article introduces a simple weak Galerkin (WG) finite element method for solving convection-diffusion-reaction equation. The proposed method offers significant flexibility by supporting discontinuous approximating functions on general…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-06 Chunmei Wang , Shangyou Zhang

We propose a weak Galerkin(WG) finite element method for solving the one-dimensional Burgers' equation. Based on a new weak variational form, both semi-discrete and fully-discrete WG finite element schemes are established and analyzed. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-07-20 Yanli Chen , Tie Zhang

A weak Galerkin (WG) finite element method for solving the stationary Stokes equations in two- or three- dimensional spaces by using discontinuous piecewise polynomials is developed and analyzed. The variational form we considered is based…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-01-22 Ruishu Wang , Xiaoshen Wang , Qilong Zhai , Ran Zhang

We propose and analyze a space-time finite element method for Westervelt's quasilinear model of ultrasound waves in second-order formulation. The method combines conforming finite element spatial discretizations with a…

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