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The functional distributions of particle trajectories have wide applications, including the occupation time in half-space, the first passage time, and the maximal displacement, etc. The models discussed in this paper are for characterizing…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-07-27 Zhijiang Zhang , Weihua Deng

The paper proposes a new, conservative fully-discrete scheme for the numerical solution of the regularised shallow water Boussinesq system of equations in the cases of periodic and reflective boundary conditions. The particular system is…

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We consider numerical methods for linear parabolic equations in one spatial dimension having piecewise constant diffusion coefficients defined by a one parameter family of interface conditions at the discontinuity. We construct immersed…

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This article presents a high order conservative flux optimization (CFO) finite element method for the elliptic diffusion equations. The numerical scheme is based on the classical Galerkin finite element method enhanced by a flux…

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This paper develops and analyzes a class of semi-discrete and fully discrete weak Galerkin finite element methods for unsteady incompressible convective Brinkman-Forchheimer equations. For the spatial discretization, the methods adopt the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-30 Xiaojuan Wang , Jihong Xiao , Xiaoping Xie , Shiquan Zhang

We study solution techniques for parabolic equations with fractional diffusion and Caputo fractional time derivative, the latter being discretized and analyzed in a general Hilbert space setting. The spatial fractional diffusion is realized…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-05 Ricardo H. Nochetto , Enrique Otarola , Abner J. Salgado

In this work, the propagation of an ultrasonic pulse in a thin plate is computed solving the differential equations modeling this problem. To solve these equations finite differences are used to discretize the temporal variable, while…

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Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-17 Weiping Bu , Chen Nie , Weizhi Liao

We propose and analyze a time-stepping discontinuous Petrov-Galerkin method combined with the continuous conforming finite element method in space for the numerical solution of time-fractional subdiffusion problems. We prove the existence,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-09-09 Kassem Mustapha , Basheer Abdallah , Khaled Furati

Backward parabolic equations, such as the backward heat equation, are classical examples of ill-posed problems where solutions may not exist or depend continuously on the data. In this work, we study a least squares finite element method to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Harald Monsuur

The purpose of this work is to study a finite element method for finding solutions to the eigenvalue problem for the fractional Laplacian. We prove that the discrete eigenvalue problem converges to the continuous one and we show the order…

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We propose an efficient finite-element analysis of the vector wave equation in a class of relatively general curved polygons. The proposed method is suitable for an accurate and efficient calculation of the propagation constants of…

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The Ericksen model for nematic liquid crystals couples a director field with a scalar degree of orientation variable, and allows the formation of various defects with finite energy. We propose a simple but novel finite element approximation…

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An integro-differential equation, modeling dynamic fractional order viscoelasticity, with a Mittag-Leffler type convolution kernel is considered. A discontinuous Galerkin method, based on piecewise constant polynomials is formulated for…

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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…

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Consider the scattering of an elastic plane wave by a rigid obstacle, which is immersed in a homogeneous and isotropic elastic medium in two dimensions. Based on a Dirichlet-to-Neumann (DtN) operator, an exact transparent boundary condition…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-03-11 Peijun Li , Xiaokai Yuan

We consider the simplest one-constant model, put forward by J. Ericksen, for nematic liquid crystals with variable degree of orientation. The equilibrium state is described by a director field $\mathbf{n}$ and its degree of orientation $s$,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-08-03 Ricardo H. Nochetto , Shawn W. Walker , Wujun Zhang

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…

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