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We develop the \textit{a posteriori} error analysis of three mixed finite element formulations for rotation-based equations in elasticity, poroelasticity, and interfacial elasticity-poroelasticity. The discretisations use $H^1$-conforming…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-18 VerÓnica Anaya , Arbaz Khan , David Mora , Ricardo Ruiz-Baier

We establish rigorous \emph{a posteriori} error bounds for a space-time finite element method of arbitrary order discretising linear wave problems in second order formulation. The method combines standard finite elements in space and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-24 Zhaonan Dong , Emmanuil H. Georgoulis , Lorenzo Mascotto , Zuodong Wang

A common observation from an atomistic to continuum coupling method is that the error is often generated and concentrated near the interface, where the two models are combined. In this paper, a new method is proposed to suppress the error…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-11 Jingrun Chen , Carlos J. García-Cervera , Xiantao Li

This work is motivated by the need of efficient numerical simulations of gas flows in the serpentine channels used in proton-exchange membrane fuel cells. In particular, we consider the Poisson problem in a 2D domain composed of several…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-14 Hussein Albazzal , Alexei Lozinski , Roberta Tittarelli

We present a new optimization-based method for atomistic-to-continuum (AtC) coupling. The main idea is to cast the coupling of the atomistic and continuum models as a constrained optimization problem with virtual Dirichlet controls on the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-04-19 Derek Olson , Pavel Bochev , Mitchell Luskin , Alexander V. Shapeev

The purpose of this work is the design and analysis of a reliable and efficient a posteriori error estimator for the so-called pointwise tracking optimal control problem. This linear-quadratic optimal control problem entails the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-30 Alejandro Allendes , Enrique Otarola , Richard Rankin , Abner J. Salgado

This paper presents a reliable and efficient residual-based a posteriori error analysis for the symmetric $H(\operatorname{div}\operatorname{div})$ mixed finite element method for the Kirchhoff-Love plate bending problem with mixed boundary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-13 Jun Hu , Rui Ma , Min Zhang

We give a goal-oriented a posteriori error estimator for the atomistic-continuum modeling error in the quasicontinuum method, and we use this estimator to design an adaptive algorithm to compute a quantity of interest to a given tolerance…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-08-02 Marcel Arndt , Mitchell Luskin

We formulate and analyze an optimization-based Atomistic-to-Continuum (AtC) coupling method for problems with point defects. Near the defect core the method employs a potential-based atomistic model, which enables accurate simulation of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-11-17 Derek Olson , Alexander V. Shapeev , Pavel Bochev , Mitchell Luskin

Concurrent multiscale methods play an important role in modeling and simulating materials with defects, aiming to achieve the balance between accuracy and efficiency. Atomistic-to-continuum (a/c) coupling methods, a typical class of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-27 Junfeng Lu , Hao Wang , Yangshuai Wang

We propose and analyze a goal-oriented a posteriori error estimator for the atomistic-continuum modeling error in the quasicontinuum method. Based on this error estimator, we develop an algorithm which adaptively determines the atomistic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Marcel Arndt , Mitchell Luskin

Hybrid quantum/molecular mechanics (QM/MM) models play a pivotal role in molecular simulations. These models provide a balance between accuracy, surpassing pure MM models, and computational efficiency, offering advantages over pure QM…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-02-20 Yangshuai Wang , James R. Kermode , Christoph Ortner , Lei Zhang

Adaptive finite element methods are a powerful tool to obtain numerical simulation results in a reasonable time. Due to complex chemical and mechanical couplings in lithium-ion batteries, numerical simulations are very helpful to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-17 Raphael Schoof , Lennart Flür , Florian Tuschner , Willy Dörfler

The classical alternating minimization (or projection) algorithm has been successful in the context of solving optimization problems over two variables. The iterative nature and simplicity of the algorithm has led to its application to many…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-08-24 Urs Niesen , Devavrat Shah , Gregory Wornell

We formulate a new atomistic/continuum (a/c) coupling scheme that employs the boundary element method (BEM) to obtain an improved far-field boundary condition. We establish sharp error bounds in a 2D model problem for a point defect…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-09-27 A. S. Dedner , C. Ortner , H. Wu

We derive a posteriori error estimators for an optimal control problem governed by a convection-reaction-diffusion equation; control constraints are also considered. We consider a family of low-order stabilized finite element methods to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-04-24 Alejandro Allendes , Enrique Otarola , Richard Rankin

For the non-conforming Crouzeix-Raviart boundary elements from [Heuer, Sayas: Crouzeix-Raviart boundary elements, Numer. Math. 112, 2009], we develop and analyze a posteriori error estimators based on the $h-h/2$ methodology. We discuss the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-12-03 Norbert Heuer , Michael Karkulik

We present a comprehensive error analysis of two prototypical atomistic-to-continuum coupling methods of blending type: the energy-based and the force-based quasicontinuum methods. Our results are valid in two and three dimensions, for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-04-22 Xingjie Helen Li , Christoph Ortner , Alexander V. Shapeev , Brian Van Koten

In this paper we develop adaptive iterative coupling schemes for the Biot system modeling coupled poromechanics problems. We particularly consider the space-time formulation of the fixed-stress iterative scheme, in which we first solve the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Elyes Ahmed , Jan Martin Nordbotten , Florin Adrian Radu

The convergence analysis for least-squares finite element methods led to various adaptive mesh-refinement strategies: Collective marking algorithms driven by the built-in a posteriori error estimator or an alternative explicit…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-18 Philipp Bringmann