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The very weak solution of the Poisson equation with $L^2$ boundary data is defined by the method of transposition. The finite element solution with regularized boundary data converges with order $1/2$ in convex domains but has a reduced…
This paper is concerned with finite element methods for Poisson's equation with rough boundary data. Conventional methods require that the boundary data $g$ of the problem belongs to $H^{1/2} (\partial \Omega)$. However, in many…
This work delves into solving the two dimensional Poisson problem through the Finite Element Method which is relevant in various physical scenarios including heat conduction, electrostatics, gravity potential, and fluid dynamics. However,…
Several approaches are discussed how to understand the solution of the Dirichlet problem for the Poisson equation when the Dirichlet data are non-smooth such as if they are in $L^2$ only. For the method of transposition (sometimes called…
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A theoretical analysis of the finite element method for a generalized Robin boundary value problem, which involves a second-order differential operator on the boundary, is presented. If $\Omega$ is a general smooth domain with a curved…
Nitsche's method is a standard device for weakly imposing Dirichlet boundary conditions, but for the stabilized nonsymmetric formulation the available $L^2$-error analysis for Poisson's equation still predicts a half-order loss, whereas…
It is well known that the usual mixed method for solving the biharmonic eigenvalue problem by decomposing the operator into two Laplacians may generate spurious eigenvalues on non-convex domains. To overcome this difficulty, we adopt a…
The convergence and optimality of adaptive mixed finite element methods for the Poisson equation are established in this paper. The main difficulty for mixed finite element methods is the lack of minimization principle and thus the failure…
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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…
We present a new technique to apply finite element methods to partial differential equations over curved domains. A change of variables along a coordinate transformation satisfying only low regularity assumptions can translate a Poisson…
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This paper considers the finite element solution of the boundary value problem of Poisson's equation and proposes a guaranteed em a posteriori local error estimation based on the hypercircle method. Compared to the existing literature on…
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A finite element methodology for large classes of variational boundary value problems is defined which involves discretizing two linear operators: (1) the differential operator defining the spatial boundary value problem; and (2) a Riesz…
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Minimum residual methods such as the least-squares finite element method (FEM) or the discontinuous Petrov--Galerkin method with optimal test functions (DPG) usually exclude singular data, e.g., non square-integrable loads. We consider a…