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This paper is part of a series developing $C^0$ finite element methods for fourth-order elliptic equations on polygonal domains. Here, we investigate how boundary conditions influence the design of effective $C^0$ schemes, specifically…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-05 Xihao Zhang , Hengguang Li , Nianyu Yi , Peimeng Yin

A convincing feature of least-squares finite element methods is the built-in a posteriori error estimator for any conforming discretization. In order to generalize this property to discontinuous finite element ansatz functions, this paper…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-18 Philipp Bringmann

The weak maximum principle of the isoparametric finite element method is proved for the Poisson equation under the Dirichlet boundary condition in a (possibly concave) curvilinear polyhedral domain with edge openings smaller than $\pi$,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-17 Buyang Li , Weifeng Qiu , Yupei Xie , Wenshan Yu

In this work we design and analyze a free energy satisfying finite difference method for solving Poisson-Nernst-Planck equations in a bounded domain. The algorithm is of second order in space, with numerical solutions satisfying all three…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-17 Hailiang Liu , Zhongming Wang

The mixed formulation of the classical Poisson problem introduces the flux as an additional variable, leading to a system of coupled equations. Using fractional calculus identities, in this work we explore a mixed formulation of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-24 Juan Pablo Borthagaray , Nahuel de León

We propose and analyze reliable and efficient a posteriori error estimators for an optimal control problem that involves a nondifferentiable cost functional, the Poisson problem as state equation and control constraints. To approximate the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-01-14 Alejandro Allendes , Francisco Fuica , Enrique Otárola

A mixed finite element method for the Navier-Stokes equations is introduced in which the stress is a primary variable. The variational formulation retains the mathematical structure of the Navier-Stokes equations and the classical theory…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-03-31 Jason S. Howell , Noel J. Walkington

This article presents a new finite element method for convection-diffusion equations by enhancing the continuous finite element space with a flux space for flux approximations that preserve the important mass conservation locally on each…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-10-24 Yujie Liu , Junping Wang , Qingsong Zou

This article is concerned with the numerical solution of convex variational problems. More precisely, we develop an iterative minimisation technique which allows for the successive enrichment of an underlying discrete approximation space in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-07-07 Paul Houston , Thomas P. Wihler

In this work, we analyze a penalized variant of the {\phi}-FEM scheme for the Poisson equation with Dirichlet boundary conditions. The {\phi}-FEM is a recently introduced unfitted finite element method based on a level-set description of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-06 Raphaël Bulle , Michel Duprez , Vanessa Lleras , Killian Vuillemot

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

We propose and analyze a two-scale finite element method for the Isaacs equation. The fine scale is given by the mesh size $h$ whereas the coarse scale $\varepsilon$ is dictated by an integro-differential approximation of the partial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-12-31 Abner J. Salgado , Wujun Zhang

We consider the finite element method on locally damaged meshes allowing for some distorted cells which are isolated from one another. In the case of the Poisson equation and piecewise linear Lagrange finite elements, we show that the usual…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-21 Michel Duprez , Vanessa Lleras , Alexei Lozinski

By using the Onsager principle as an approximation tool, we give a novel derivation for the moving finite element method for gradient flow equations. We show that the discretized problem has the same energy dissipation structure as the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-04 Xianmin Xu

An expandable local and parallel two-grid finite element scheme based on superposition principle for elliptic problems is proposed and analyzed in this paper by taking example of Poisson equation. Compared with the usual local and parallel…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-09-10 Yanren Hou , Guangzhi Du

In this paper we present a new H(div)-conforming unfitted finite element method for the mixed Poisson problem which is robust in the cut configuration and preserves conservation properties of body-fitted finite element methods. The key is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-04 Christoph Lehrenfeld , Tim van Beeck , Igor Voulis

In this paper we propose a variant of the linear least squares model allowing practitioners to partition the input features into groups of variables that they require to contribute similarly to the final result. The output allows…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Roberto Esposito , Mattia Cerrato , Marco Locatelli

An improved finite difference method with compact correction term is proposed to solve the Poisson equations. The compact correction term is developed by a coupled high-order compact and low-order classical finite difference formulations.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-31 Kun Zhang , Liangbi Wang , Yuwen Zhang

When solving the Poisson equation by the finite element method, we use one degree of freedom for interpolation by the given Laplacian - the right hand side function in the partial differential equation. The finite element solution is the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-06 Tatyana Sorokina , Shangyou Zhang

We introduce a nonconforming virtual element method for the Poisson equation on domains with curved boundary and internal interfaces. We prove arbitrary order optimal convergence in the energy and $L^2$ norms, and validate the theoretical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-28 Lourenco Beirão Da Veiga , Yi Liu , Lorenzo Mascotto , Alessandro Russo