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We study dendritic microstructure evolution using an adaptive grid, finite element method applied to a phase-field model. The computational complexity of our algorithm, per unit time, scales linearly with system size, rather than the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-30 Nikolas Provatas , Nigel Goldenfeld , Jonathan Dantzig

In this paper we consider the convergence analysis of adaptive finite element method for elliptic optimal control problems with pointwise control constraints. We use variational discretization concept to discretize the control variable and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-31 Wei Gong , Ningning Yan

We analyze adaptive mesh-refining algorithms for conforming finite element discretizations of certain non-linear second-order partial differential equations. We allow continuous polynomials of arbitrary, but fixed polynomial order. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-03-14 Michael Feischl , Thomas Führer , Dirk Praetorius

The multiscale complexity of modern problems in computational science and engineering can prohibit the use of traditional numerical methods in multi-dimensional simulations. Therefore, novel algorithms are required in these situations to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-15 Cale Harnish , Luke Dalessandro , Karel Matous , Daniel Livescu

We present a new mimetic finite difference method for diffusion problems that converges on grids with \textit{curved} (i.e., non-planar) faces. Crucially, it gives a symmetric discrete problem that uses only one discrete unknown per curved…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-19 Silvano Pitassi , Riccardo Ghiloni , Igor Petretti , Francesco Trevisan , Ruben Specogna

We develop efficient and high-order accurate finite difference methods for elliptic partial differential equations in complex geometry in the Difference Potentials framework. The main novelty of the developed schemes is the use of local…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-28 Qing Xia

We propose, analyze, and numerically validate a correction adaptive two-grid finite element method (CAT-GFEM) for nonselfadjoint or indefinite elliptic problems. In contrast to the adaptive two-grid finite element method (ATGFEM) of Li and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Fei Li , Qingguo Hong , Ming Tang , Liuqiang Zhong

Spectral methods for solving partial differential equations (PDEs) and stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs) often use Fourier or polynomial spectral expansions on either uniform and non-uniform grids. However, while very widely…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-30 Channa Hatharasinghe , Run Yan Teh , Jesse van Rhijn , Peter D. Drummond , Margaret D. Reid

This paper aims to devise an adaptive neural network basis method for numerically solving a second-order semilinear partial differential equation (PDE) with low-regular solutions in two/three dimensions. The method is obtained by combining…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-05 Jianguo Huang , Haohao Wu , Tao Zhou

A new and efficient neural-network and finite-difference hybrid method is developed for solving Poisson equation in a regular domain with jump discontinuities on embedded irregular interfaces. Since the solution has low regularity across…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-13 Wei-Fan Hu , Te-Sheng Lin , Yu-Hau Tseng , Ming-Chih Lai

We devise an a posteriori error estimator for an affine optimal control problem subject to a semilinear elliptic PDE and control constraints. To approximate the problem, we consider a semidiscrete scheme based on the variational…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-08 Francisco Fuica , Nicolai Jork

We design a monotone meshfree finite difference method for linear elliptic equations in the non-divergence form on point clouds via a nonlocal relaxation method. The key idea is a novel combination of a nonlocal integral relaxation of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-08 Qihao Ye , Xiaochuan Tian

In this paper we present an adaptive discretization technique for solving elliptic partial differential equations via a collocation radial basis function partition of unity method. In particular, we propose a new adaptive scheme based on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-13 R. Cavoretto , A. De Rossi

We consider a linear symmetric and elliptic PDE and a linear goal functional. We design and analyze a goal-oriented adaptive finite element method, which steers the adaptive mesh-refinement as well as the approximate solution of the arising…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-12 Roland Becker , Gregor Gantner , Michael Innerberger , Dirk Praetorius

We design and analyze an iterative two-grid algorithm for the finite element discretizations of strongly nonlinear elliptic boundary value problems in this paper. We propose an iterative two-grid algorithm, in which a nonlinear problem is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-04 Jiajun Zhan , Lei Yang , Xiaoqing Xing , Liuqiang Zhong

Finite difference methods (FDMs) are widely used for solving partial differential equations (PDEs) due to their relatively simple implementation. However, they face significant challenges when applied to non-rectangular domains and in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Bin Han , Jiwoon Sim

A general adaptive refinement strategy for solving linear elliptic partial differential equation with random data is proposed and analysed herein. The adaptive strategy extends the a posteriori error estimation framework introduced by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-23 Alex Bespalov , David Silvester , Feng Xu

We introduce an $r-$adaptive algorithm to solve Partial Differential Equations using a Deep Neural Network. The proposed method restricts to tensor product meshes and optimizes the boundary node locations in one dimension, from which we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-21 Ángel J. Omella , David Pardo

This manuscript presents an adaptive high order discretization technique for elliptic boundary value problems. The technique is applied to an updated version of the Hierarchical Poincar\'e-Steklov (HPS) method. Roughly speaking, the HPS…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-07-03 Peter Geldermans , Adrianna Gillman

Nonlinear optimal control problems for trajectory planning with obstacle avoidance present several challenges. While general-purpose optimizers and dynamic programming methods struggle when adopted separately, their combination enabled by a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-09 Rebecca Richter , Alberto De Marchi , Matthias Gerdts