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We develop a new approach to the $L^p$ Dirichlet problem via $L^2$ estimates and reverse Holder inequalities. We apply this approach to second order elliptic systems and the polyharmonic equation on a bounded Lipschitz domain $\Omega$ in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Zhongwei Shen

This article investigates residual a posteriori error estimates and adaptive mesh refinements for time-dependent boundary element methods for the wave equation. We obtain reliable estimates for Dirichlet and acoustic boundary conditions…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-01 Heiko Gimperlein , Ceyhun Oezdemir , David Stark , Ernst P. Stephan

We consider an initial- and Dirichlet boundary- value problem for a fourth-order linear stochastic parabolic equation, in two or three space dimensions, forced by an additive space-time white noise. Discretizing the space-time white noise a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2009-06-11 Georgios T. Kossioris , Georgios E. Zouraris

For shape optimization problems, governed by elliptic equations with Dirichlet boundary condition and random coefficients, we utilize a penalization technique to get the approximate problem. We consider that uncertainties exists in the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-26 Xiaowei Pang

This article is a review on basic concepts and tools devoted to a posteriori error estimation for problems solved with the Finite Element Method. For the sake of simplicity and clarity, we mostly focus on linear elliptic diffusion problems,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-10-06 Ludovic Chamoin , Frederic Legoll

A systematic numerical study on weak Galerkin (WG) finite element method for second order linear parabolic problems is presented by allowing polynomial approximations with various degrees for each local element. Convergence of both…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-26 Bhupen Deka , Naresh Kumar

We consider the finite element solution of the vector Laplace equation on a domain in two dimensions. For various choices of boundary conditions, it is known that a mixed finite element method, in which the rotation of the solution is…

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

We consider the mathematical analysis and numerical approximation of a system of nonlinear partial differential equations that arises in models that have relevance to steady isochoric flows of colloidal suspensions. The symmetric velocity…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-08-09 Andrea Bonito , Vivette Girault , Diane Guignard , Kumbakonam R. Rajagopal , Endre Süli

We consider a numerical approximation of a linear quadratic control problem constrained by the stochastic heat equation with non-homogeneous Neumann boundary conditions. This involves a combination of distributed and boundary control, as…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-28 Peter Benner , Tony Stillfjord , Christoph Trautwein

In this paper, we consider elliptic boundary value problems with discontinuous coefficients and obtain the asymptotic optimal error estimate $\|u-u_k\|_{1,\Omega}\leqslant Ch|\ln h|^{1/2}\|u\|_{2,\Omega_1+\Omega_2}$ for triangle linear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-11-19 Jinchao Xu

A general analysis framework is presented in this paper for many different types of finite element methods (including various discontinuous Galerkin methods). For second order elliptic equation, this framework employs $4$ different…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-03 Qingguo Hong , Shuonan Wu , Jinchao Xu

In this paper, we propose weighted and unweighted enrichment strategies to enhance the accuracy of the linear lagrangian finite element for solving the Poisson problem with Dirichlet boundary conditions. We first recall key examples of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-12 Francesco Dell'Accio , Luca Desiderio , Allal Guessab , Federico Nudo

A new numerical method is devised and analyzed for a type of ill-posed elliptic Cauchy problems by using the primal-dual weak Galerkin finite element method. This new primal-dual weak Galerkin algorithm is robust and efficient in the sense…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-09-14 Chunmei Wang

In the context of unfitted finite element discretizations the realization of high order methods is challenging due to the fact that the geometry approximation has to be sufficiently accurate. Recently a new unfitted finite element method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-09-01 Christoph Lehrenfeld , Arnold Reusken

In this paper, the author derives an $O(h^4)$-superconvergence for the piecewise linear Ritz-Galerkin finite element approximations for the second order elliptic equation $-\nabla \cdot(A\nabla u)= f$ equipped with Dirichlet boundary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-06-27 Chunmei Wang

We establish the convergence of an adaptive spline-based finite element method of a fourth order elliptic problem with weakly imposed Dirichlet boundary conditions using polynomial Bsplines.

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-03-28 Ibrahim Al Balushi

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 in the $L^2(\Omega)$-norm with order $1/2$ in convex…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-02-18 Thomas Apel , Serge Nicaise , Johannes Pfefferer

The paper studies a method for solving elliptic partial differential equations posed on hypersurfaces in $\mathbb{R}^N$, $N=2,3$. The method allows a surface to be given implicitly as a zero level of a level set function. A surface equation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-01-16 Maxim A. Olshanskii , Danil Safin

The aim of the paper is to introduce a new systematic method that can produce lower bounds for eigenvalues. The main idea is to use nonconforming finite element methods. The general conclusion herein is that if local approximation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-04-22 Jun Hu , Yunqing Huang , Qun Lin

This work presents a numerical study of the Dirichlet problem for the fractional Laplacian $(-\Delta)^s$ with $s\in(0,1)$ using Finite Element methods with non-standard bases. Classical approaches based on piece-wise linear basis yield…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-19 Félix del Teso , Stefano Fronzoni , David Gómez-Castro