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In this work, a time-fractional nonlocal diffusion equation is considered. Based on the $L2$-$1_{\sigma}$ scheme on a graded mesh in time and the standard finite element method (FEM) in space, the fully-discrete $L2$-$1_{\sigma}$ finite…

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Standard finite element discretizations of the Richards equation may violate the discrete minimum principle, producing unphysical negative saturations. While existing bound-preserving methods typically rely on computationally expensive…

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We develop a conservative cut finite element method for an elliptic coupled bulk-interface problem. The method is based on a discontinuous Galerkin framework where stabilization is added in such a way that we retain conservation on macro…

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We prove sharp estimates for the decay in time of solutions to a rather general class of non-local in time subdiffusion equations on a bounded domain subject to a homogeneous Dirichlet boundary condition. Important special cases are the…

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Critical points of energy functionals, which are of broad interest, for instance, in physics and chemistry, in solid and quantum mechanics, in material science, or in general diffusion-reaction models arise as solutions to the associated…

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We develop a cut finite element method (CutFEM) for convection-diffusion problems posed on mixed-dimensional domains, i.e., unions of manifolds of different dimensions arranged in a hierarchical structure where lower-dimensional components…

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We consider a finite element discretization for the reconstruction of the final state of the heat equation, when the initial data is unknown, but additional data is given in a sub domain in the space time. For the discretization in space we…

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In this work we present the convergence of a positivity preserving semi-discrete finite volume scheme for a coupled system of two non-local partial differential equations with cross-diffusion. The key to proving the convergence result is to…

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We consider primal-dual mixed finite element methods for the advection--diffusion equation. For the primal variable we use standard continuous finite element space and for the flux we use the Raviart-Thomas space. We prove optimal a priori…

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The finite element method (FEM) is applied to obtain numerical solutions to a recently derived nonlinear equation for the shallow water wave problem. A weak formulation and the Petrov-Galerkin method are used. It is shown that the FEM gives…

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We construct a finite element method for the numerical solution of a fractional porous medium equation on a bounded open Lipschitz polytopal domain $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^{d}$, where $d = 2$ or $3$. The pressure in the model is defined…

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Diffusion with multipole-moment conservation gives rise to transport laws that generalize Fick's law and has attracted growing attention following experimental advances in strongly tilted optical lattices. It was recently shown that…

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An H(div) conforming finite element method for solving the linear Biot equations is analyzed. Formulations for the standard mixed method are combined with formulation of interior penalty discontinuous Galerkin method to obtain a consistent…

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A newly developed weak Galerkin method is proposed to solve parabolic equations. This method allows the usage of totally discontinuous functions in approximation space and preserves the energy conservation law. Both continuous and…

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