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A high order cut finite element method is formulated for solving the elastic wave equation. Both a single domain problem and an interface problem are treated. The boundary or interface are allowed to cut through the background mesh. To…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-03 Simon Sticko , Gustav Ludvigsson , Gunilla Kreiss

This paper presents a novel multi-scale method for elliptic partial differential equations with arbitrarily rough coefficients. In the spirit of numerical homogenization, the method constructs problem-adapted ansatz spaces with uniform…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-05 Philip Freese , Moritz Hauck , Tim Keil , Daniel Peterseim

This work discusses the finite element discretization of an optimal control problem for the linear wave equation with time-dependent controls of bounded variation. The main focus lies on the convergence analysis of the discretization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-26 Sebastian Engel , Philip Trautmann , Boris Vexler

A finite element method is introduced to track interface evolution governed by the level set equation. The method solves for the level set indicator function in a narrow band around the interface. An extension procedure, which is essential…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-10 Maxim Olshanskii , Arnold Reusken , Paul Schwering

We demonstrate the ability of a stabilized finite element method, inspired by the weighted Nitsche approach, to alleviate spurious traction oscillations at interlaminar interfaces in multi-ply multi-directional composite laminates. In…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-08-21 Gourab Ghosh , Ravindra Duddu , Chandrasekhar Annavarapu

In this paper we proposed a two-level finite element discretization of the nonlinear stationary quasi-geostrophic equations, which model the wind driven large scale ocean circulation. Optimal error estimates for the two-level finite element…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-06-17 Erich L Foster , Traian Iliescu , David Wells

This paper presents an innovative continuous linear finite element approach to effectively solve biharmonic problems on surfaces. The key idea behind this method lies in the strategic utilization of a surface gradient recovery operator to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-30 Ying Cai , Hailong Guo , Zhimin Zhang

We discretize a tangential tensor field equation using a surface-finite element approach with a penalization term to ensure almost tangentiality. It is natural to measure the quality of such a discretization intrinsically, i.e., to examine…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-05-26 Hanne Hardering , Simon Praetorius

Immersed boundary methods have attracted substantial interest in the last decades due to their potential for computations involving complex geometries. Often these cannot be efficiently discretized using boundary-fitted finite elements.…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Tim Bürchner , Lars Radtke , Philipp Kopp , Stefan Kollmannsberger , Ernst Rank , Alexander Düster

This paper presents a finite element method that preserves (at the degrees of freedom) the eigenvalue range of the solution of tensor-valued time-dependent convection--diffusion equations. Starting from a high-order spatial baseline…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-09 Abdolreza Amiri , Gabriel R. Barrenechea , Tristan Pryer

We formulate a cut finite element method for linear elasticity based on higher order elements on a fixed background mesh. Key to the method is a stabilization term which provides control of the jumps in the derivatives of the finite element…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-05 Peter Hansbo , Mats G. Larson , Karl Larsson

In this paper, we define new unfitted finite element methods for numerically approximating the solution of surface partial differential equations using bulk finite elements. The key idea is that the $n$-dimensional hypersurface, $\Gamma…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-03-21 Klaus Deckelnick , Charles M. Elliott , Thomas Ranner

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

This paper develops and analyzes an optimal-order semi-discrete scheme and its fully discrete finite element approximation for nonlinear stochastic elastic wave equations with multiplicative noise. A non-standard time-stepping scheme is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-08 Xiaobing Feng , Yukun Li , Liet Vo

This paper introduces a discretization-accurate stopping criterion of symmetric iterative methods for solving systems of algebraic equations resulting from the finite element approximation. The stopping criterion consists of the evaluations…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-09-19 Zhiqiang Cai , Shuhao Cao , Robert D. Falgout

In this paper, we propose a ${ P_{1}^{c}}\oplus {RT0}-P0$ discretization of the Stokes equations on general simplicial meshes in two/three dimensions (2D/3D), which yields an exactly divergence-free and pressure-independent velocity…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-07 Xu Li , Hongxing Rui

A recently developed Eulerian finite element method is applied to solve advection-diffusion equations posed on hypersurfaces. When transport processes on a surface dominate over diffusion, finite element methods tend to be unstable unless…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-03-26 Maxim A. Olshanskii , Arnold Reusken , Xianmin Xu

Obtaining high-precision guaranteed lower eigenvalue bounds remains difficult, even though the standard high-order conforming finite element (FEM) easily yields extremely sharp upper bounds. Recently developed rigorous approaches using such…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-30 Xuefeng Liu , Michael Plum

We present a new discretization method for homogeneous convection-diffusion-reaction boundary value problems in 3D that is a non-standard finite element method with PDE-harmonic shape functions on polyhedral elements. The element stiffness…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-08-29 Clemens Hofreither , Ulrich Langer , Steffen Weißer

We derive and analyze a broad class of finite element methods for numerically simulating the stationary, low Reynolds number flow of concentrated mixtures of several distinct chemical species in a common thermodynamic phase. The underlying…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-24 Aaron Baier-Reinio , Patrick E. Farrell