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The generalized weak Galerkin (gWG) finite element method is proposed and analyzed for the biharmonic equation. A new generalized discrete weak second order partial derivative is introduced in the gWG scheme to allow arbitrary combinations…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-14 Dan Li , Chunmei Wang , Junping Wang

This paper is devoted to a weak Galerkin (WG) finite element method for linear poroelasticity problems where weakly defined divergence and gradient operators over discontinuous functions are introduced. We establish both the continuous and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-10 Shanshan Gu , Shimin Chai , Chenguang Zhou

A weak Galerkin (WG) method is introduced and numerically tested for the Helmholtz equation. This method is flexible by using discontinuous piecewise polynomials and retains the mass conservation property. At the same time, the WG finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-24 Lin Mu , Junping Wang , Xiu Ye , Shan Zhao

This paper introduces a new weak Galerkin (WG) finite element method for second order elliptic equations on polytopal meshes. This method, called WG-FEM, is designed by using a discrete weak gradient operator applied to discontinuous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-08-20 Lin Mu , Junping Wang , Xiu Ye

In this paper, authors shall introduce a finite element method by using a weakly defined gradient operator over discontinuous functions with heterogeneous properties. The use of weak gradients and their approximations results in a new…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-11-14 Junping Wang , Xiu Ye

This paper proposes a weak Galerkin (WG) finite element method for elliptic interface problems defined on nonconvex polygonal partitions. The method features a built-in stabilizer and retains a simple, symmetric, and positive definite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-23 Chunmei Wang , Shangyou Zhang

A C^0-weak Galerkin (WG) method is introduced and analyzed for solving the biharmonic equation in 2D and 3D. A weak Laplacian is defined for C^0 functions in the new weak formulation. This WG finite element formulation is symmetric,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-12-04 Lin Mu , Junping Wang , Xiu Ye , Shangyou Zhang

We propose a weak Galerkin(WG) finite element method for solving the one-dimensional Burgers' equation. Based on a new weak variational form, both semi-discrete and fully-discrete WG finite element schemes are established and analyzed. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-07-20 Yanli Chen , Tie Zhang

In this paper, a new and efficient numerical algorithm by using weak Galerkin (WG) finite element methods is proposed for a type of fourth order problem arising from fluorescence tomography(FT). Fluorescence tomography is an emerging, in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-10-21 Chunmei Wang , Haomin Zhou

Weak Galerkin methods refer to general finite element methods for PDEs in which differential operators are approximated by their weak forms as distributions. Such weak forms give rise to desirable flexibilities in enforcing boundary and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-06-10 Lin Mu , Junping Wang , Guowei Wei , Xiu Ye , Shan Zhao

This article introduces a weak Galerkin (WG) finite element method for linear elasticity interface problems on general polygonal/ployhedra partitions. The developed WG method has been proved to be stable and accurate with optimal order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-14 Chunmei Wang , Shangyou Zhang

A weak Galerkin (WG) finite element method for solving the stationary Stokes equations in two- or three- dimensional spaces by using discontinuous piecewise polynomials is developed and analyzed. The variational form we considered is based…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-01-22 Ruishu Wang , Xiaoshen Wang , Qilong Zhai , Ran Zhang

This paper proposes and analyzes a class of new weak Galerkin (WG) finite element methods for 2- and 3-dimensional linear elasticity problems. The methods use discontinuous piecewise-polynomial approximations of degrees $k(\geq 0)$ for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-10-24 Gang Chen , Xiaoping Xie

This paper is concerned with the development of weak Galerkin (WG) finite element method for optimal control problems governed by second order elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs). It is advantageous to use discontinuous finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-03 Chunmei Wang , Junping Wang , Shangyou Zhang

In this work, the authors introduce a generalized weak Galerkin (gWG) finite element method for the time-dependent Oseen equation. The generalized weak Galerkin method is based on a new framework for approximating the gradient operator.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-14 Wenya Qi , Padmanabhan Seshaiyer , Junping Wang

This paper presents a primal-dual weak Galerkin (PD-WG) finite element method for a class of second order elliptic equations of Fokker-Planck type. The method is based on a variational form where all the derivatives are applied to the test…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-04-20 Chunmei Wang , Junping Wang

A new weak Galerkin finite element method, called generalized weak Galerkin method ({g}WG), is introduced for Stokes equations in this paper by using a new definition of the weak gradient. Error estimates in energy norm and $L^2$ norm for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-05-24 W. Qi , P. Seshaiyer , J. Wang

This paper presents an arbitrary order locking-free numerical scheme for linear elasticity on general polygonal/polyhedral partitions by using weak Galerkin (WG) finite element methods. Like other WG methods, the key idea for the linear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-08-18 Chunmei Wang , Junping Wang , Ruishu Wang , Ran Zhang

This paper proposes and analyzes a new weak Galerkin method for the eigenvalue problem by using the shifted-inverse power technique. A high order lower bound can be obtained at a relatively low cost via the proposed method. The error…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-03-28 Qilong Zhai , Xiaozhe Hu , Ran Zhang

Recently, we proposed a weak Galerkin finite element method for the Laplace eigenvalue problem. In this paper, we present two-grid and two-space skills to accelerate the weak Galerkin method. By choosing parameters properly, the two-grid…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-08-29 Qilong Zhai , Hehu Xie , Ran Zhang , Zhimin Zhang