Related papers: A remark about Galerkin method
We give a unified proof for the well-posedness of a class of linear half-space equations with general incoming data and construct a Galerkin method to numerically resolve this type of equations in a systematic way. Our main strategy in both…
We apply the discontinuous Galerkin finite element method with a degree $p$ polynomial basis to the linear advection equation and derive a PDE which the numerical solution solves exactly. We use a Fourier approach to derive polynomial…
In this note we develop a numerical method for partial differential equations with changing type. Our method is based on a unified solution theory found by Rainer Picard for several linear equations from mathematical physics. Parallel to…
An elliptic partial differential equation Lu=f with a zero Dirichlet boundary condition is converted to an equivalent elliptic equation on the unit ball. A spectral Galerkin method is applied to the reformulated problem, using multivariate…
Recent work has explored solver strategies for the linear system of equations arising from a spectral Galerkin approximation of the solution of PDEs with parameterized (or stochastic) inputs. We consider the related problem of a matrix…
We present a method for linear stability analysis of systems with parametric uncertainty formulated in the stochastic Galerkin framework. Specifically, we assume that for a model partial differential equation, the parameter is given in the…
In this paper the author reviews a version of the global Galerkin that was developed and applied in a series of earlier publications. The method is based on divergence-free basis functions satisfying all the linear and homogeneous boundary…
This paper proposes a matrix-free residual evaluation technique for the hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin method requiring a number of operations scaling only linearly with the number of degrees of freedom. The method results from…
We prove existence of weak solutions to the Cauchy problem corresponding to various strictly parabolic equations on a compact Riemannian manifold $(M,g)$. This also includes strictly parabolic equations with stochastic forcing with linear…
In this work, approximate solutions to the nonlinear Klein-Gordon equation are constructed by means of the Galerkin method. Specifically, it is shown how the dynamics of a real scalar field in $1+1$ dimensions subjected to Dirichlet…
We propose, analyze, and demonstrate a discontinuous Galerkin method for fractal conservation laws. Various stability estimates are established along with error estimates for regular solutions of linear equations. Moreover, in the nonlinear…
The interior penalty discontinuous Galerkin method is applied to solve elliptic equations on either networks of segments or networks of planar surfaces, with arbitrary but fixed number of bifurcations. Stability is obtained by proving a…
When solving the Poisson equation by the finite element method, we use one degree of freedom for interpolation by the given Laplacian - the right hand side function in the partial differential equation. The finite element solution is the…
We derive Lyapunov-type inequalities for general third order nonlinear equations involving multiple $\psi$-Laplacian operators of the form \begin{equation*} (\psi_{2}((\psi_{1}(u'))'))' + q(x)f(u) = 0, \end{equation*} where $\psi_{2}$ and…
The Galerkin difference (GD) basis is a set of continuous, piecewise polynomials defined using a finite difference like grid of degrees of freedom. The one dimensional GD basis functions are naturally extended to multiple dimensions using…
In this paper, we study superconvergence properties of the discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method for one-dimensional linear hyperbolic equation when upwind fluxes are used. We prove, for any polynomial degree $k$, the $2k+1$th (or $2k+1/2$th)…
This paper studies Galerkin approximations applied to the Zakai equation of stochastic filtering. The basic idea of this approach is to project the infinite-dimensional Zakai equation onto some finite-dimensional subspace generated by…
This paper is concerned with developing accurate and efficient discontinuous Galerkin methods for fully nonlinear second order elliptic and parabolic partial differential equations (PDEs) in the case of one spatial dimension. The primary…
The paper is concerned with Galerkin finite element solutions for parabolic equations in a convex polygon or polyhehron with a diffusion coefficient in $W^{1,N+\epsilon}$ for some $\epsilon>0$, where $N$ denotes the dimension of the domain.…
This paper is a theoretical and numerical study of the uniform growth of a repeating sinusoidal imperfection in the line of a strut on a nonlinear elastic Winkler type foundation. The imperfection is introduced by considering an initially…