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This is a study of certain finite element methods designed for convection-dominated, time-dependent partial differential equations. Specifically, we analyze high order space-time tensor product finite element discretizations, used in a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-10-30 Randolph E. Bank , Maximilian S. Metti

We present a novel approach that integrates unfitted finite element methods and neural networks to approximate partial differential equations on complex geometries. Easy-to-generate background meshes (e.g., a simple Cartesian mesh) that cut…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-04 Wei Li , Alberto F. Martín , Santiago Badia

Given a function f defined on a bidimensional bounded domain and a positive integer N, we study the properties of the triangulation that minimizes the distance between f and its interpolation on the associated finite element space, over all…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-06-06 Jean-Marie Mirebeau

We combine theoretical results from polytope domain meshing, generalized barycentric coordinates, and finite element exterior calculus to construct scalar- and vector-valued basis functions for conforming finite element methods on generic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-04-27 Andrew Gillette , Alexander Rand , Chandrajit Bajaj

We introduce a new paradigm for immersed finite element and isogeometric methods based on interpolating function spaces from an unfitted background mesh into Lagrange finite element spaces defined on a foreground mesh that captures the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-25 Jennifer E. Fromm , Nils Wunsch , Ru Xiang , Han Zhao , Kurt Maute , John A. Evans , David Kamensky

In this paper, we present a new polygonal finite element method, called the Zipped Finite Element Method, for star-shaped polygons. The proposed approach constructs high-order shape functions as linear combinations of standard finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-27 Stefano Berrone , Lorenzo Neva , Moreno Pintore , Gioana Teora , Fabio Vicini

The finite element method can be viewed as a machine that automates the discretization of differential equations, taking as input a variational problem, a finite element and a mesh, and producing as output a system of discrete equations.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-12-05 Anders Logg

Recovered finite element methods (R-FEM) have been recently introduced for meshes consisting of simplicial and/or box-type meshes. Here, utilising the flexibility of R-FEM framework, we extend their definition on polygonal and polyhedral…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-24 Zhaonan Dong , Emmanuil H. Georgoulis , Tristan Pryer

We introduce an integrated meshing and finite element method pipeline enabling black-box solution of partial differential equations in the volume enclosed by a boundary representation. We construct a hybrid hexahedral-dominant mesh, which…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2022-02-04 Teseo Schneider , Jeremie Dumas , Xifeng Gao , Mario Botsch , Daniele Panozzo , Denis Zorin

We introduce a novel method for bounding high-order multi-dimensional polynomials in finite element approximations. The method involves precomputing optimal piecewise-linear bounding boxes for polynomial basis functions, which can then be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-17 Tarik Dzanic , Tzanio Kolev , Ketan Mittal

I formulate a general finite element method (FEM) for self-gravitating stellar systems. I split the configuration space to finite elements, and express the potential and density functions over each element in terms of their nodal values and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Mir Abbas Jalali

We present a method of CutFEM type for the Poisson problem with either Dirichlet or Neumann boundary conditions. The computational mesh is obtained from a background (typically uniform Cartesian) mesh by retaining only the elements…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-09-04 Alexei Lozinski

In this paper, based on the combination of finite element mesh and neural network, a novel type of neural network element space and corresponding machine learning method are designed for solving partial differential equations. The…

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A new numerical method is presented for solving the rotating shallow water equations on a rotating sphere using quasi-uniform polygonal meshes. The method uses special families of finite element function spaces to mimic key mathematical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-23 John Thuburn , Colin J. Cotter

The accuracy of finite element solutions is closely tied to the mesh quality. In particular, geometrically nonlinear problems involving large and strongly localized deformations often result in prohibitively large element distortions. In…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Abhiroop Satheesh , Christoph P. Schmidt , Wolfgang A. Wall , Christoph Meier

This article addresses the research question if and how the finite cell method, an embedded domain finite element method of high order, may be used in the simulation of metal deposition to harvest its computational efficiency. This…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-09-26 Ali Özcan , Stefan Kollmannsberger , John N. Jomo , Ernst Rank

The presented article contains a 2D mesh generation routine optimized with the Metropolis algorithm. The procedure enables to produce meshes with a prescribed size h of elements. These finite element meshes can serve as standard discrete…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-21 Ilona Dominika Kosinska

The modeling of electric machines and power transformers typically involves systems of nonlinear magnetostatics or -quasistatics, and their efficient and accurate simulation is required for the reliable design, control, and optimization of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-23 Herbert Egger , Felix Engertsberger , Bogdan Radu

In this paper, Particle-in-Cell algorithms for the Vlasov-Poisson system are presented based on its Poisson bracket structure. The Poisson equation is solved by finite element methods, in which the appropriate finite element spaces are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-10 Anjiao Gu , Yang He , Yajuan Sun