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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

This paper concerns the inclusion of Newton's method into an adaptive finite element method (FEM) for the solution of nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs). It features an adaptive choice of the damping parameter in the Newton…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-23 Philipp Bringmann , Maximilian Brunner , Dirk Praetorius

A finite element methodology for large classes of variational boundary value problems is defined which involves discretizing two linear operators: (1) the differential operator defining the spatial boundary value problem; and (2) a Riesz…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-08 Brendan Keith , Socratis Petrides , Federico Fuentes , Leszek Demkowicz

The ultimate goal of any numerical scheme for partial differential equations (PDEs) is to compute an approximation of user-prescribed accuracy at quasi-minimal computational time. To this end, algorithmically, the standard adaptive finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-30 Philipp Bringmann , Michael Feischl , Ani Miraci , Dirk Praetorius , Julian Streitberger

We extend the ideas of Diening, Kreuzer, and Stevenson [Instance optimality of the adaptive maximum strategy, Found. Comput. Math. (2015)], from conforming approximations of the Poisson problem to nonconforming Crouzeix-Raviart…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-04-13 Christian Kreuzer , Mira Schedensack

A multilevel adaptive refinement strategy for solving linear elliptic partial differential equations with random data is recalled in this work. The strategy extends the a posteriori error estimation framework introduced by Guignard and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-21 Alex Bespalov , David J. Silvester

We present a new technique to apply finite element methods to partial differential equations over curved domains. A change of variables along a coordinate transformation satisfying only low regularity assumptions can translate a Poisson…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-09-28 M. Holst , M. Licht

We present a new framework for expressing finite element methods on multiple intersecting meshes: multimesh finite element methods. The framework enables the use of separate meshes to discretize parts of a computational domain that are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-28 August Johansson , Benjamin Kehlet , Mats G. Larson , Anders Logg

This paper derives some discrete maximum principles for $P1$-conforming finite element approximations for quasi-linear second order elliptic equations. The results are extensions of the classical maximum principles in the theory of partial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-05-01 Junping Wang , Ran Zhang

This paper analyzes two eXtended finite element methods (XFEMs) for linear quadratic optimal control problems governed by Poisson equation in non-convex domains. We follow the variational discretization concept to discretize the continuous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-06 Tao Wang , Chao Chao Yang , Xiaoping Xie

Composite minimization is a powerful framework in large-scale convex optimization, based on decoupling of the objective function into terms with structurally different properties and allowing for more flexible algorithmic design. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-17 Jelena Diakonikolas , Cristóbal Guzmán

This paper is concerned with the numerical approximation of quantities of interest associated with solutions to parametric elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs). The key novelty of this work is in its focus on the quantities of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-09 Alex Bespalov , Dirk Praetorius , Michele Ruggeri

In this article, we develop goal-oriented error indicators to drive adaptive refinement algorithms for the Poisson-Boltzmann equation. Empirical results for the solvation free energy linear functional demonstrate that goal-oriented…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-09-20 Burak Aksoylu , Stephen Bond , Eric Cyr , Michael Holst

In this paper, we prove that the standard adaptive finite element method with a (modified) `maximum marking strategy' is `instance optimal' for the `total error', being the sum of the energy error and the oscillation. This result will be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-03-22 Lars Diening , Christian Kreuzer , Rob Stevenson

This paper generalizes the non-conforming FEM of Crouzeix and Raviart and its fundamental projection property by a novel mixed formulation for the Poisson problem based on the Helmholtz decomposition. The new formulation allows for ansatz…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-01-25 Mira Schedensack

We propose a new fictitious domain finite element method, well suited for elliptic problems posed in a domain given by a level-set function without requiring a mesh fitting the boundary. To impose the Dirichlet boundary conditions, we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-09 Michel Duprez , Alexei Lozinski

In this paper, optimal convergence for an adaptive finite element algorithm for elastoplasticity is considered. To this end, the proposed adaptive algorithm is established within the abstract framework of the axioms of adaptivity [Comput.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-09 Miriam Schönauer , Andreas Schröder

This paper presents a numerical method for variable coefficient elliptic PDEs with mostly smooth solutions on two dimensional domains. The PDE is discretized via a multi-domain spectral collocation method of high local order (order 30 and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-12-09 Tracy Babb , Adrianna Gillman , Sijia Hao , Per-Gunnar Martinsson

In this paper we study adaptive discretization of the iteratively regularized Gauss-Newton method IRGNM with an a posteriori (discrepancy principle) choice of the regularization parameter in each Newton step and of the stopping index. We…

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