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Fitted finite element methods are constructed for a singularly perturbed convection-diffusion problem in two space dimensions. Exponential splines as basis functions are combined with Shishkin meshes to obtain a stable parameter-uniform…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-03 Alan F. Hegarty , Eugene O'Riordan

This paper addresses the analysis and numerical assessment of a computational method for solving the Cahn--Hilliard equation defined on a surface. The proposed approach combines the stabilized trace finite element method for spatial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-27 Deepika Garg , Maxim Olshanskii

Time fractional advection-dispersion equations arise as generalizations of classical integer order advection-dispersion equations and are increasingly used to model fluid flow problems through porous media. In this paper we develop an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-05-16 Carlos E. Mejía , Alejandro Piedrahita

We analyze numerical approximation of the fractional elliptic problem $L^{\beta}u=f$, ${\beta>0}$, where $L$ is a second-order self-adjoint elliptic operator with homogeneous Dirichlet or Neumann boundary conditions. The paper develops a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Kelvin J. R. Almeida-Sousa , David Bolin , Alexandre B. Simas

We discuss computational and qualitative aspects of the fractional Plateau and the prescribed fractional mean curvature problems on bounded domains subject to exterior data being a subgraph. We recast these problems in terms of energy…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-14 Juan Pablo Borthagaray , Wenbo Li , Ricardo H. Nochetto

We adopt the integral definition of the fractional Laplace operator and analyze an optimal control problem for a fractional semilinear elliptic partial differential equation (PDE); control constraints are also considered. We establish the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-07 Enrique Otarola

Applying proper orthogonal decomposition to a usual finite element (FE) formulation for space fractional partial differential equation, we get a reduced FE model, which greatly reduces the complexity of computation. Then, the stability…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-01-04 Jing Sun , Daxin Nie , Weihua Deng

A numerical procedure providing guaranteed two-sided bounds on the effective coefficients of elliptic partial differential operators is presented. The upper bounds are obtained in a standard manner through the variational formulation of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-24 Liya Gaynutdinova , Martin Ladecký , Aleš Nekvinda , Ivana Pultarová , Jan Zeman

We prove convergence of the spectral element method for piecewise polynomial collocation applied to periodic boundary value problems for functional differential equations. In particular, we prove that the numerical collocation solution…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-27 Alessia andò , Jan Sieber

We study the regularity of the solution to an obstacle problem for a class of integro-differential operators. The differential part is a second order elliptic operator, whereas the nonlocal part is given by the integral fractional…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-07 Andrea Bonito , Wenyu Lei , Abner J. Salgado

We study several numerical discretization techniques for the one-space plus one-time dimensional Dirac equation, including finite difference and space-time finite element methods. Two finite difference schemes and several space-time finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-12-04 Robert Vaselaar , Hyun Lim , Jung-Han Kimn

Elliptic partial differential equations arise in many fields of science and engineering such as steady state distribution of heat, fluid dynamics, structural/mechanical engineering, aerospace engineering and seismology etc. In three…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-10-12 Akhlaq Husain

We consider an elliptic partial differential equation in non-divergence form with a random diffusion matrix and random forcing term. To address this, we propose a mixed-type continuous finite element discretization in the physical domain,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-04 Amireh Mousavi

Of primary interest in this paper is the numerical approximation of a time dependent fractional, in space, diffusion equation where the domain is assumed to be nonhomogeneous, having different axial diffusion coefficients. This work is…

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We prove conditions for existence of analytical solutions for boundary value problems with the Hilfer fractional derivative, generalizing the commonly used Riemann-Liouville and Caputo operators. The boundary values, referred to in this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Niels Goedegebure , Kateryna Marynets

We analyze a nonlocal diffusion operator having as special cases the fractional Laplacian and fractional differential operators that arise in several applications. In our analysis, a nonlocal vector calculus is exploited to define a weak…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-03-28 Marta D'Elia , Max Gunzburger

We present a finite element (FE) scheme for the numerical approximation of the solution to a non-local Poisson equation involving the one-dimensional fractional Laplacian $(-d_x^2)^s$ on the interval $(-L,L)$. In particular, we include the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-07-24 Umberto Biccari , Víctor Hernández-Santamaría

The Fisher-KPP partial differential equation has been employed in science to model various biological, chemical, and thermal phenomena. Time fractional extensions of Fisher's equation have also appeared in the literature, aiming to model…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-25 Theodore V. Gortsas

This paper aims to develop and analyze a numerical scheme for solving the backward problem of semilinear subdiffusion equations. We establish the existence, uniqueness, and conditional stability of the solution to the inverse problem by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-07 Xu Wu , Jiang Yang , Zhi Zhou

We study a nonlocal diffusion equation of porous medium type featuring a generalised fractional pressure with spatial anisotropy. We construct a finite element method for the numerical solution of the equation on a bounded open Lipschitz…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-15 Stefano Fronzoni