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The scaled boundary finite element method is known for its capability in reproducing highly-detailed solution fields. This, however, is only attainable in those cases where analytical solutions exist. Many others invoke the use of numerical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-27 Alireza Daneshyar , Stefan Kollmannsberger

A linear evolving surface partial differential equation is first discretized in space by an arbitrary Lagrangian Eulerian (ALE) evolving surface finite element method, and then in time either by a Runge-Kutta method, or by a backward…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-01-14 Balázs Kovács , Christian Andreas Power Guerra

Finite element simulations have been used to solve various partial differential equations (PDEs) that model physical, chemical, and biological phenomena. The resulting discretized solutions to PDEs often do not satisfy requisite physical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-17 Vidhi Zala , Robert M. Kirby , Akil Narayan

We analyze optimal complexity of adaptive finite element methods (AFEMs) for general second-order linear elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs) in the Lax-Milgram setting. To this end, we formulate an adaptive algorithm which steers…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Thomas Führer , Paula Hilbert , Ani Miraçi , Dirk Praetorius

Since the seminal papers by Giannessi, an interesting topic in vector optimization has been the characterization of (weak) efficiency thorough Minty and Stampacchia type variational inequalities. Several results have been proved to extend…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-12-02 Giovanni P. Crespi , Carola Schrage

We develop all of the components needed to construct an adaptive finite element code that can be used to approximate fractional partial differential equations, on non-trivial domains in $d\geq 1$ dimensions. Our main approach consists of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-02-14 Mark Ainsworth , Christian Glusa

The biharmonic equation with Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions discretized using the mixed finite element method and piecewise linear (with the possible exception of boundary triangles) finite elements on triangular elements has…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-21 Oded Stein , Eitan Grinspun , Alec Jacobson , Max Wardetzky

The scaled boundary finite element method (SBFEM) has recently been employed as an efficient means to model three-dimensional structures, in particular when the geometry is provided as a voxel-based image. To this end, an octree…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-31 Hauke Gravenkamp , Albert A. Saputra , Sascha Eisenträger

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

We propose an explicit construction of Poincar\'e operators for the lowest order finite element spaces, by employing spanning trees in the grid. In turn, a stable decomposition of the discrete spaces is derived that leads to an efficient…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-14 Wietse M. Boon

This paper presents a pressure-robust discretizations, specifically within the context of optimal control problems for the Stokes-Darcy system. The study meticulously revisits the formulation of the divergence constraint and the enforcement…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-25 Jingshi Li , Jiachuan Zhang , Ran Zhang

In this work we prove that weak solutions constructed by a variational multiscale method are suitable in the sense of Scheffer. In order to prove this result, we consider a subgrid model that enforces orthogonality between subgrid and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-06-15 Santiago Badia , Juan Vicente Gutiérrez-Santacreu

A finite element method using B-splines is presented and compared with a conventional finite element method of Lagrangian type. The efficiency of both methods has been investigated at the example of a coupled non-linear system of Dirac…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 W. Poeschl

The paper considers grad-div stabilized equal-order finite elements (FE) methods for the linearized Navier-Stokes equations. A block triangular preconditioner for the resulting system of algebraic equations is proposed which is closely…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-12 Yunhui He , Maxim Olshanskii

This article reports on the confluence of two streams of research, one emanating from the fields of numerical analysis and scientific computation, the other from topology and geometry. In it we consider the numerical discretization of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-01-29 Douglas N. Arnold , Richard S. Falk , Ragnar Winther

We propose a new framework to design and analyze accelerated methods that solve general monotone equation (ME) problems $F(x)=0$. Traditional approaches include generalized steepest descent methods and inexact Newton-type methods. If $F$ is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-22 Tianyi Lin , Michael. I. Jordan

We present a higher order space-time unfitted finite element method for convection-diffusion problems on coupled (surface and bulk) domains. In that way, we combine a method suggested by Heimann, Lehrenfeld, Preu{\ss} (SIAM J. Sci. Comput.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-28 Fabian Heimann

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

We analyze adaptive mesh-refining algorithms for conforming finite element discretizations of certain non-linear second-order partial differential equations. We allow continuous polynomials of arbitrary, but fixed polynomial order. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-03-14 Michael Feischl , Thomas Führer , Dirk Praetorius

This article takes the form of a tutorial on the use of a particular class of mixed finite element methods, which can be thought of as the finite element extension of the C-grid staggered finite difference method. The class is often…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-01-06 C. J. Cotter , A. T. T. McRae