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This paper is concerned with the two--phase obstacle problem, a type of a variational free boundary problem. We recall the basic estimates of Repin and Valdman (2015) and verify them numerically on two examples in two space dimensions. A…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-06-06 Farid Bozorgnia , Jan Valdman

We prove the maximal local regularity of weak solutions to the parabolic problem associated with the fractional Laplacian with homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions on an arbitrary bounded open set $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^N$. Proofs…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-05-23 Umberto Biccari , Mahamadi Warma , Enrique Zuazua

We study the finite element approximation of problems involving the weighted $\Phi$-Laplacian, where $\Phi$ is an $N$-function and the weight belongs to the class $A_\Phi$. In particular, we consider a boundary value problem and an obstacle…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-15 Enrique Otarola , Abner J. Salgado

In this paper we give a full classification of global solutions of the obstacle problem for the fractional Laplacian (including the thin obstacle problem) with compact coincidence set and at most polynomial growth in dimension $N \geq 3$.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-06-16 Simon Eberle , Xavier Ros-Oton , Georg S. Weiss

In this paper, we consider the obstacle problem for the fractional Laplace operator $(-\Delta)^s$ in the Euclidian space $\mathbb{R}^n$ in the case where $1<s<2$. As first observed in \cite{Y}, the problem can be extended to the upper…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-01-23 Donatella Danielli , Alaa Haj Ali , Arshak Petrosyan

We prove existence of weak solutions to the obstacle problem for semilinear wave equations (including the fractional case) by using a suitable approximating scheme in the spirit of minimizing movements. This extends the results in [9],…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-04-05 Mauro Bonafini , Van Phu Cuong Le , Matteo Novaga , Giandomenico Orlandi

In this paper we study existence, regularity, and approximation of solution to a fractional semilinear elliptic equation of order $s \in (0,1)$. We identify minimal conditions on the nonlinear term and the source which leads to existence of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-07-27 Harbir Antil , Johannes Pfefferer , Mahamadi Warma

In this paper we establish the optimal interior regularity and the $C^{1,\gamma}$ smoothness of the regular part of the free boundary in the thin obstacle problem for a class of degenerate elliptic equations with variable coefficients.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-07-01 Agnid Banerjee , Federico Buseghin , Nicola Garofalo

For a family of second-order elliptic systems in divergence form with rapidly oscillating almost-periodic coefficients, we obtain estimates for approximate correctors in terms of a function that quantifies the almost periodicity of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-26 Zhongwei Shen

The purpose of this work is to study a finite element method for finding solutions to the eigenvalue problem for the fractional Laplacian. We prove that the discrete eigenvalue problem converges to the continuous one and we show the order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-04 Juan Pablo Borthagaray , Leandro M. Del Pezzo , Sandra Martínez

In this paper, we study an adaptive finite element method for multiple eigenvalue problems of a class of second order elliptic equations. By using some eigenspace approximation technology and its crucial property which is also presented in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-09-18 Xiaoying Dai , Lianhua He , Aihui Zhou

We prove an epiperimetric inequality for the thin obstacle problem, extending the pioneering results by Weiss on the classical obstacle problem (Invent. Math. 138 (1999), no. 1, 23-50). This inequality provides the means to study the rate…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-02-27 Matteo Focardi , Emanuele Spadaro

Error estimates are proved for finite element approximations to the solution of second-order hyperbolic partial differential equations with coefficients varying in both space and time. Optimal rates of convergence in the energy norm are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Oussama Al Jarroudi , Marcus J. Grote

We prove existence, uniqueness and optimal regularity of solutions to the stationary obstacle problem defined by the fractional Laplacian operator with drift, in the subcritical regime. We localize our problem by considering a suitable…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-03-21 Arshak Petrosyan , Camelia A. Pop

This paper deals with the obstacle problem for the fractional infinity Laplacian with nonhomogeneous term $f(u)$, where $f:\mathbb{R}^+ \mapsto \mathbb{R}^+$: $$\begin{cases} L[u]=f(u) &\qquad in \{u>0\}\\ u \geq 0 &\qquad in\, \Omega\\ u=g…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Samer Dweik , Ahmad Sabra

We propose and analyze a general framework for space-time finite element methods that is based on least-squares finite element methods for solving a first-order reformulation of the thick parabolic obstacle problem. Discretizations based on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-12 José Joaquín Carvajal , Davood Damircheli , Thomas Führer , Francisco Fuica , Michael Karkulik

We study a Caputo time fractional degenerate diffusion equation which we prove to be equivalent to the fractional parabolic obstacle problem, showing that its solution evolves for any $\alpha\in(0,1)$ to the same stationary state, the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-12-23 Carlo Alberini , Raffaela Capitanelli , Mirko D'Ovidio , Stefano Finzi Vita

In this paper, we consider elliptic boundary value problems with discontinuous coefficients and obtain the asymptotic optimal error estimate $\|u-u_k\|_{1,\Omega}\leqslant Ch|\ln h|^{1/2}\|u\|_{2,\Omega_1+\Omega_2}$ for triangle linear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-11-19 Jinchao Xu

The thin obstacle problem or $n$-dimensional Signorini problem is a classical variational problem arising in several applications, starting with its first introduction in elasticity theory. The vast literature concerns mostly quadratic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-03-29 Anna Abbatiello , Giovanna Andreucci , Emanuele Spadaro

In this paper, we consider the numerical approximation of time-fractional parabolic problems involving Caputo derivatives in time of order $\alpha$, $0< \alpha<1$. We derive optimal error estimates for semidiscrete Galerkin FE type…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-10-04 Samir Karaa