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In the context of unfitted finite element discretizations the realization of high order methods is challenging due to the fact that the geometry approximation has to be sufficiently accurate. Recently a new unfitted finite element method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-09-01 Christoph Lehrenfeld , Arnold Reusken

In this article we introduce a finite difference approximation for integro-differential operators of L\'evy type. We approximate solutions of integro-differential equations, where the second order operator is allowed to degenerate. In the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-02 Konstantinos Dareiotis

In this paper, we consider elliptic boundary value problems with discontinuous coefficients and obtain the asymptotic optimal error estimate $\|u-u_k\|_{1,\Omega}\leqslant Ch|\ln h|^{1/2}\|u\|_{2,\Omega_1+\Omega_2}$ for triangle linear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-11-19 Jinchao Xu

For a smooth, compact Riemannian manifold (M,g) of dimension $N \geg 3$, we are interested in the critical equation $$\Delta_g u+(N-2/4(N-1) S_g+\epsilon h)u=u^{N+2/N-2} in M, u>0 in M,$$ where \Delta_g is the Laplace--Beltrami operator,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-10-31 Pierpaolo Esposito , Angela Pistoia , Jérôme Vétois

In this paper, an error analysis of a three steps two level Galekin finite element method for the two dimensional transient Navier-Stokes equations is discussed. First of all, the problem is discretized in spatial direction by employing…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-01-23 Saumya Bajpai , Amiya K. Pani

We verify functional a posteriori error estimate proposed by S. Repin for a class of obstacle problems. The obstacle problem is formulated as a quadratic minimization problem with constrains equivalently formulated as a variational…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-03-27 Petr Harasim , Jan Valdman

In this paper we provide some error estimates for the div least-squares finite element method on elliptic problems. The main contribution is presenting a complete error analysis, which improves the current \emph{state-of-the-art} results.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-16 Gang Chen , Fanyi Yang , Zheyuan Zhang

We propose a discontinuous least squares finite element method for solving the Helmholtz equation. The method is based on the L2 norm least squares functional with the weak imposition of the continuity across the interior faces as well as…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-06 Ruo Li , Qicheng Liu , Fanyi Yang

In this paper, we propose accurate and efficient finite difference methods to discretize the two- and three-dimensional fractional Laplacian $(-\Delta)^{\frac{\alpha}{2}}$ ($0 < \alpha < 2$) in hypersingular integral form. The proposed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-30 Siwei Duo , Yanzhi Zhang

This work presents a numerical study of the Dirichlet problem for the fractional Laplacian $(-\Delta)^s$ with $s\in(0,1)$ using Finite Element methods with non-standard bases. Classical approaches based on piece-wise linear basis yield…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-19 Félix del Teso , Stefano Fronzoni , David Gómez-Castro

In this paper, both semidiscrete and fully discrete finite element methods are analyzed for the penalized two-dimensional unsteady Navier-Stokes equations with nonsmooth initial data. First order backward Euler method is applied for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-16 Bikram Bir , Deepjyoti Goswami , Amiya K. Pani

For the singular integral definition of the fractional Laplacian, we consider an adaptive finite element method steered by two-level error indicators. For this algorithm, we show linear convergence in two and three space dimensions as well…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-28 Markus Faustmann , Ernst Peter Stephan , David Wörgötter

We make the split of the integral fractional Laplacian as $(-\Delta)^s u=(-\Delta)(-\Delta)^{s-1}u$, where $s\in(0,\frac{1}{2})\cup(\frac{1}{2},1)$. Based on this splitting, we respectively discretize the one- and two-dimensional integral…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-28 Jing Sun , Weihua Deng , Daxin Nie

The solutions of elliptic problems with a Dirac measure in right-hand side are not H1 and therefore the convergence of the finite element solutions is suboptimal. Graded meshes are standard remedy to recover quasi-optimality, namely…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-07-17 Silvia Bertoluzza , Astrid Decoene , Loïc Lacouture , Sébastien Martin

We develop error estimates for the finite element approximation of elliptic partial differential equations on perturbed domains, i.e. when the computational domain does not match the real geometry. The result shows that the error related to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-19 Piotr Minakowski , Thomas Richter

In this paper we treat the numerical approximation of the two-phase parabolic obstacle-like problem: \[\Delta u -u_t=\lambda^+\cdot\chi_{\{u>0\}}-\lambda^-\cdot\chi_{\{u<0\}},\quad (t,x)\in (0,T)\times\Omega,\] where $T < \infty, \lambda^+…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-12 Avetik Arakelyan

We give estimates for the $L^p$ norm ($2\leq p \leq +\infty$) of the restriction to a curve of the eigenfunctions of the Laplace Beltrami operator on a Riemannian surface. If the curve is a geodesic, we show that on the sphere these…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 N. Burq , P. Gerard , N. Tzvetkov

In [KP16] (arXiv:1605.07880) the authors introduced a second-order variational problem in $L^{\infty}$. The associated equation, coined the $\infty$-Bilaplacian, is a \emph{third order} fully nonlinear PDE given by $\Delta^2_\infty u\, :=…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-15 Nikos Katzourakis , Tristan Pryer

We study superconvergent discretization of the Laplace-Beltrami operator on time-space product manifolds with Neumann temporal boundary values, which arise in the context of dynamic optimal transport on general surfaces. We propose a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-24 Chengrun Jiang , Guozhi Dong , Hailong Guo , Zuoqiang Shi

We consider an arbitrary-Lagrangian-Eulerian evolving surface finite element method for the numerical approximation of advection and diffusion of a conserved scalar quantity on a moving surface. We describe the method, prove optimal order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-09-02 Charles M. Elliott , Chandrasekhar Venkataraman