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In this paper we analyze a homogeneous parabolic problem with initial data in the space of regular Borel measures. The problem is discretized in time with a discontinuous Galerkin scheme of arbitrary degree and in space with continuous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Dmitriy Leykekhman , Boris Vexler , Jakob Wagner

This paper is concerned with adaptive mesh refinement strategies for the spatial discretization of parabolic problems with dynamic boundary conditions. This includes the characterization of inf-sup stable discretization schemes for a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-12 Robert Altmann , Christoph Zimmer

In this paper, both semidiscrete and completely discrete finite volume element methods (FVEMs) are analyzed for approximating solutions of a class of linear hyperbolic integro- differential equations in a two-dimensional convex polygonal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-01-22 Samir Karaa , Amiya K. Pani

Low-rank tensor methods for the approximate solution of second-order elliptic partial differential equations in high dimensions have recently attracted significant attention. A critical issue is to rigorously bound the error of such…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-12-15 Markus Bachmayr , Wolfgang Dahmen

A theoretical analysis of the finite element method for a generalized Robin boundary value problem, which involves a second-order differential operator on the boundary, is presented. If $\Omega$ is a general smooth domain with a curved…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-03 Takahito Kashiwabara

We consider goal-oriented adaptive space-time finite-element discretizations of the regularized parabolic p-Laplace problem on completely unstructured simplicial space-time meshes. The adaptivity is driven by the dual-weighted residual…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-13 B. Endtmayer , U. Langer , A. Schafelner

We establish rigorous \emph{a posteriori} error bounds for a space-time finite element method of arbitrary order discretising linear wave problems in second order formulation. The method combines standard finite elements in space and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-24 Zhaonan Dong , Emmanuil H. Georgoulis , Lorenzo Mascotto , Zuodong Wang

Finite element approximations of Dirichlet boundary control problems governed by parabolic PDEs on convex polygonal domains are studied in this paper. The existence of a unique solution to optimal control problems is guaranteed based on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-10-02 Wei Gong , Michael Hinze , Zhaojie Zhou

We consider a linear-quadratic elliptic optimal control problem with point evaluations of the state variable in the cost functional. The state variable is discretized by conforming linear finite elements. For control discretization, three…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-02-09 Niklas Behringer , Dominik Meidner , Boris Vexler

We present a new entropy-based moment method for the velocity discretization of kinetic equations. This method is based on a regularization of the optimization problem defining the original entropy-based moment method, and this gives the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-17 Graham W. Alldredge , Martin Frank , Cory D. Hauck

We establish a well-posedness and error-estimation framework that solves Hamilton-Jacobi equations by minimizing the least-squares residual of monotone finite-difference discretizations. This approach also applies naturally to second-order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Olivier Bokanowski , Carlos Esteve-Yagüe , Richard Tsai

This paper deals with a priori pointwise error estimates for the finite element solution of boundary value problems with Neumann boundary conditions in polygonal domains. Due to the corners of the domain, the convergence rate of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-01 Thomas Apel , Johannes Pfefferer , Sergejs Rogovs , Max Winkler

We consider error estimates for the fully discretized instationary Navier-Stokes problem. For the spatial approximation we use conforming inf-sup stable finite element methods in conjunction with grad-div and local projection stabilization…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-09-06 Daniel Arndt , Helene Dallmann , Gert Lube

We focus here on a class of fourth-order parabolic equations that can be written as a system of second-order equations by introducing an auxiliary variable. We design a novel second-order fully discrete mixed finite element method to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-28 Sana Keita , Abdelaziz Beljadid , Yves Bourgault

This is a study of certain finite element methods designed for convection-dominated, time-dependent partial differential equations. Specifically, we analyze high order space-time tensor product finite element discretizations, used in a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-10-30 Randolph E. Bank , Maximilian S. Metti

We use moment techniques to construct a converging hierarchy of optimization problems to lower bound the ground state energy of interacting particle systems. We approximate (from below) the infinite dimensional optimization problems in this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-12 David de Laat

Irksome is a library based on the Unified Form Language (UFL) that automates the application of Runge-Kutta time-stepping methods for finite element spatial discretizations of partial differential equations (PDEs). This paper describes…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-29 Robert C. Kirby , Scott P. MacLachlan , Pablo D. Brubeck

This article is a review on basic concepts and tools devoted to a posteriori error estimation for problems solved with the Finite Element Method. For the sake of simplicity and clarity, we mostly focus on linear elliptic diffusion problems,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-10-06 Ludovic Chamoin , Frederic Legoll

We consider a surface Stokes problem in stream function formulation on a simply connected oriented surface $\Gamma \subset \mathbb{R}^3$ without boundary. This formulation leads to a coupled system of two second order scalar surface partial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-22 Philip Brandner , Arnold Reusken

We develop a cut finite element method for a second order elliptic coupled bulk-surface model problem. We prove a priori estimates for the energy and $L^2$ norms of the error. Using stabilization terms we show that the resulting algebraic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-03-27 Erik Burman , Peter Hansbo , Mats G. Larson , Sara Zahedi