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Hybrid finite element methods, particularly hybridized discontinuous Galerkin (HDG) methods, are efficient numerical schemes for discretizing the diffusion equation, which encompasses two main physical principles: mass conservation and…

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We propose and analyse a novel surface finite element method that preserves the invariant regions of systems of semilinear parabolic equations on closed compact surfaces in $\mathbb{R}^3$ under discretisation. We also provide a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-20 Massimo Frittelli , Anotida Madzvamuse , Ivonne Sgura , Chandrasekhar Venkataraman

Preservation of nonnengativity and boundedness in the finite element solution of Nagumo-type equations with general anisotropic diffusion is studied. Linear finite elements and the backward Euler scheme are used for the spatial and temporal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-20 Xianping Li , Weizhang Huang

We consider the initial boundary value problem for the inhomogeneous time-fractional diffusion equation with a homogeneous Dirichlet boundary condition and a nonsmooth right hand side data in a bounded convex polyhedral domain. We analyze…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-07-04 Bangti Jin , Raytcho Lazarov , Joseph Pasciak , Zhi Zhou

We propose boundary conditions for the diffusion equation that maintain the initial mean and the total mass of a discrete data sample in the density estimation process. A complete study of this framework with numerical experiments using the…

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A numerical method for approximating weak solutions of an aggregation equation with degenerate diffusion is introduced. The numerical method consists of a stabilized finite element method together with a mass lumping technique and an extra…

We present a finite element discretization of a non-linear diffusion equation used in the field of critical phenomena and, more recently, in the context of Dynamic Density Functional Theory. The discretized equation preserves the structure…

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We consider the tensorial diffusion equation, and address the discrete maximum-minimum principle of mixed finite element formulations. In particular, we address non-negative solutions (which is a special case of the maximum-minimum…

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In this work, we present the construction of two distinct finite element approaches to solve the Porous Medium Equation (PME). In the first approach, we transform the PME to a log-density variable formulation and construct a continuous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-28 Arjun Vijaywargiya , Guosheng Fu

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

We consider the initial/boundary value problem for a diffusion equation involving multiple time-fractional derivatives on a bounded convex polyhedral domain. We analyze a space semidiscrete scheme based on the standard Galerkin finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-18 Bangti Jin , Raytcho Lazarov , Yikan Liu , Zhi Zhou

We examine the validity of the principle of mass conservation for solutions of some typical equations in the theory of nonlinear diffusion, including equations in standard differential form and also their fractional counterparts. In Part 1,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-24 Juan Luis Vázquez

A semidiscrete Galerkin finite element method applied to time-fractional diffusion equations with time-space dependent diffusivity on bounded convex spatial domains will be studied. The main focus is on achieving optimal error results with…

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The dynamics of the magnetic distribution in a ferromagnetic material is governed by the Landau-Lifshitz equation, which is a nonlinear geometric dispersive equation with a nonconvex constraint that requires the magnetization to remain of…

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We consider a prototypical parabolic SPDE with finite-dimensional multiplicative noise, which, subject to a nonnegative initial datum, has a unique nonnegative solution. Inspired by well-established techniques in the deterministic case, we…

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Problems with sign-changing coefficients occur, for instance, in the study of transmission problems with metamaterials. In this work, we present and analyze a generalized finite element method in the spirit of the Localized Orthogonal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-28 Théophile Chaumont-Frelet , Barbara Verfürth

Different variants of the method of weighted residual finite element method are used to get a solution for the parabolic heat equation, which is considered to be the model equation for the steady state Navier-Stokes equations. Results show…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-05-26 Ahmed A. Hamada , Mahmoud Ayyad , Amr Guaily

We study spatially semidiscrete and fully discrete finite volume element methods for the homogeneous heat equation with homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions and derive error estimates for smooth and nonsmooth initial data. We show that…

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Preservation of the maximum principle is studied for the combination of the linear finite element method in space and the $\theta$-method in time for solving time dependent anisotropic diffusion problems. It is shown that the numerical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-10-23 Xianping Li , Weizhang Huang
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