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We present new aposteriori error estimates for the interior penalty discontinuous Galerkin method applied to non-stationary convection-diffusion equations. The focus is on strongly convection-dominated problems without zeroth-order reaction…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-14 Tiffany Barry , Andrea Cangiani , Samuel P. Cox , Emmanuil H. Georgoulis

We deal with the numerical solution of the time-dependent partial differential equations using the adaptive space-time discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method. The discretization leads to a nonlinear algebraic system at each time level, the size…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-29 Vit Dolejsi , Jakub Sistek

In this article we present an a posteriori error estimator for the spatial-stochastic error of a Galerkin-type discretisation of an initial value problem for a random hyperbolic conservation law. For the stochastic discretisation we use the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-22 Jan Giesselmann , Fabian Meyer , Christian Rohde

A posteriori error estimators are studied for discontinuous Galerkin methods for solving a frictional contact problem, which is a representative elliptic variational inequality of the second kind. The estimators are derived by relating the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-01-21 Fei Wang , Weimin Han

We study an iterative Galerkin method for quasilinear elliptic problems in the Browder-Minty setting. The resulting discrete nonlinear systems are solved by linearization via a (damped) Zarantonello iteration. Unlike prior work, adaptive…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-25 Maximilian Brunner , Gregor Gantner , Christoph Lietz , Dirk Praetorius

In this paper, we consider a class of discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods for one-dimensional nonlocal diffusion (ND) problems. The nonlocal models, which are integral equations, are widely used in describing many physical phenomena with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-15 Qiang Du , Lili Ju , Jianfang Lu , Xiaochuan Tian

We describe a posteriori error analysis for a discontinuous Galerkin method for a fourth order elliptic interface problem that arises from a linearized model of thin sheet folding. The primary contribution is a local efficiency bound for an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-02 Harbir Antil , Sean P. Carney , Rohit Khandelwal

In this paper, we develop an adaptive Generalized Multiscale Discontinuous Galerkin Method (GMs-DGM) for a class of high-contrast flow problems, and derive a-priori and a-posteriori error estimates for the method. Based on the a-posteriori…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-09-12 Eric T. Chung , Yalchin Efendiev , Wing Tat Leung

In many applications of practical interest, solutions of partial differential equation models arise as critical points of an underlying (energy) functional. If such solutions are saddle points, rather than being maxima or minima, then the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-07 Pascal Heid , Thomas P. Wihler

Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) discretizations with exact representation of the geometry and local polynomial degree adaptivity are revisited. Hybridization techniques are employed to reduce the computational cost of DG approximations and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-08-20 Matteo Giacomini , Ruben Sevilla

We consider the goal-oriented error estimates for a linearized iterative solver for nonlinear partial differential equations. For the adjoint problem and iterative solver we consider, instead of the differentiation of the primal problem, a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-24 Vit Dolejsi , Scott Congreve

The analyses of interior penalty discontinuous Galerkin methods of any order k for solving elliptic and parabolic problems with Dirac line sources are presented. For the steady state case, we prove convergence of the method by deriving a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-19 Rami Masri , Boqian Shen , Beatrice Riviere

This paper develops a high order adaptive scheme for solving nonlinear Schrodinger equations. The solutions to such equations often exhibit solitary wave and local structures, which makes adaptivity essential in improving the simulation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-06 Zhanjing Tao , Juntao Huang , Yuan Liu , Wei Guo , Yingda Cheng

This paper presents an $hp$ a posteriori error analysis for the 2D Helmholtz equation that is robust in the polynomial degree $p$ and the wave number $k$. For the discretization, we consider a discontinuous Galerkin formulation that is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-01-31 Scott Congreve , Joscha Gedicke , Ilaria Perugia

In this paper we propose and analyze a Discontinuous Galerkin method for a linear parabolic problem with dynamic boundary conditions. We present the formulation and prove stability and optimal a priori error estimates for the fully discrete…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-01-21 Paola F. Antonietti , Maurizio Grasselli , Simone Stangalino , Marco Verani

This paper analyses discontinuous Galerkin finite element methods (DGFEM) to approximate a regular solution to the von K\'arm\'an equations defined on a polygonal domain. A discrete inf-sup condition sufficient for the stability of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-08-28 Carsten Carstensen , Gouranga Mallik , Neela Nataraj

In this paper we discuss the local discontinuous Galerkin methods coupled with two specific explicit-implicit-null time discretizations for solving one-dimensional nonlinear diffusion problems $U_t=(a(U)U_x)_x$. The basic idea is to add and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-03-29 Haijin Wang , Qiang Zhang , Shiping Wang , Chi-Wang Shu

We consider the a posteriori error analysis of approximations of parabolic problems based on arbitrarily high-order conforming Galerkin spatial discretizations and arbitrarily high-order discontinuous Galerkin temporal discretizations.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-25 Alexandre Ern , Iain Smears , Martin Vohralík

In this paper, we introduce and analyze a space-time $p$-adaptive discontinuous Galerkin method for nonlinear acoustics. We first present the underlying mathematical model, which is based on a recently derived formulation involving, in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-16 Daniele Corallo , Pascal Lehner , Christian Wieners

Critical points of energy functionals, which are of broad interest, for instance, in physics and chemistry, in solid and quantum mechanics, in material science, or in general diffusion-reaction models arise as solutions to the associated…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Pascal Heid , Thomas P. Wihler