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We present new finite elements for solving the Riesz maps of the de Rham complex on triangular and tetrahedral meshes at high order. The finite elements discretize the same spaces as usual, but with different basis functions, so that the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-18 Pablo D. Brubeck , Patrick E. Farrell , Robert C. Kirby , Charles Parker

Complexes of discrete distributional differential forms are introduced into finite element exterior calculus. Thus we generalize a notion of Braess and Sch\"oberl, originally studied for a posteriori error estimation. We construct…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-09-09 Martin Werner Licht

Interpolation methods for nonlinear finite element discretizations are commonly used to eliminate the computational costs associated with the repeated assembly of the nonlinear systems. While the group finite element formulation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-24 Kevin Tolle , Nicole Marheineke

In this work, we consider unfitted finite element methods for the numerical approximation of the Stokes problem. It is well-known that this kind of methods lead to arbitrarily ill-conditioned systems. In order to solve this issue, we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-30 Santiago Badia , Alberto F. Martín , Francesc Verdugo

The design of mixed finite element methods in linear elasticity with symmetric stress approximations has been a longstanding open problem until Arnold and Winther designed the first family of mixed finite elements where the discrete stress…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-04-15 Jun Hu

Finite Element discretizations of coupled multi-physics partial differential equation models require the handling of composed function spaces. In this paper we discuss software concepts and abstractions to handle the composition of function…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Christian Engwer , Carsten Gräser , Steffen Müthing , Simon Praetorius , Oliver Sander

In this paper, we first construct a nonconforming finite element pair for the incompressible Stokes problem on quadrilateral grids, and then construct a discrete Stokes complex associated with that finite element pair. The finite element…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-10-18 Shuo Zhang

We develop a high order cut finite element method for the Stokes problem based on general inf-sup stable finite element spaces. We focus in particular on composite meshes consisting of one mesh that overlaps another. The method is based on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-05 August Johansson , Mats G. Larson , Anders Logg

We show how the high order finite element spaces of differential forms due to Raviart-Thomas-N\'edelec-Hiptmair fit into the framework of finite element systems, in an elaboration of the finite element exterior calculus of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-07-01 Snorre Harald Christiansen , Francesca Rapetti

A family of mixed finite elements is proposed for solving the first order system of linear elasticity equations in any space dimension, where the stress field is approximated by symmetric finite element tensors. This family of elements has…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-04-22 Jun Hu , Hongying Man , Shangyou Zhang

In this paper, we construct discrete versions of some Bernstein-Gelfand-Gelfand (BGG) complexes, i.e., the Hessian and the divdiv complexes, on triangulations in 2D and 3D. The sequences consist of finite elements with local polynomial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-28 Kaibo Hu , Ting Lin , Qian Zhang

This paper is devoted to the construction of order reduced method of fourth order problems. A framework is presented such that a problem on a high-regularity space can be deduced in a constructive way to an equivalent problem on three…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-02 Shuo Zhang

We present a class of discretisation spaces and H(div)-conformal elements that can be built on any polytope. Bridging the flexibility of the Virtual Element spaces towards the element's shape with the divergence properties of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-17 Rémi Abgrall , Élise Le Mélédo , Philipp Öffner

We study the two primary families of spaces of finite element differential forms with respect to a simplicial mesh in any number of space dimensions. These spaces are generalizations of the classical finite element spaces for vector fields,…

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

Complex processes in perforated domains occur in many real-world applications. These problems are typically characterized by physical processes in domains with multiple scales (see Figure 1 for the illustration of a perforated domain).…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-01-16 Eric T. Chung , Yalchin Efendiev , Guanglian Li , Maria Vasilyeva

We present degrees of freedom to accompany the approximation spaces already presented in a companion paper and thus complete the definition of families of high-order conforming finite elements on pyramids for the spaces of the de Rham…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-10-29 Nilima Nigam , Joel Phillips

We introduce a framework for the design of finite element methods for two-dimensional moving boundary problems with prescribed boundary evolution that have arbitrarily high order of accuracy, both in space and in time. At the core of our…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-19 Evan S. Gawlik , Adrian J. Lew

The tensor product of two differential forms of degree $p$ and $q$ is a multilinear form that is alternating in its first $p$ arguments and alternating in its last $q$ arguments. These forms, which are known as double forms or…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-26 Yakov Berchenko-Kogan , Evan S. Gawlik

A new discontinuous Galerkin finite element method for the Stokes equations is developed in the primary velocity-pressure formulation. This method employs discontinuous polynomials for both velocity and pressure on general…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-05 Xiu Ye , Shangyou Zhang

We propose a general framework for solving forward and inverse problems constrained by partial differential equations, where we interpolate neural networks onto finite element spaces to represent the (partial) unknowns. The framework…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-11 Santiago Badia , Wei Li , Alberto F. Martín