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In the context of Discontinuous Galerkin methods, we study approximations of nonlinear variational problems associated with convex energies. We propose element-wise nonconforming finite element methods to discretize the continuous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-05 Georgios Grekas , Konstantinos Koumatos , Charalambos Makridakis , Andreas Vikelis

A conforming discontinuous Galerkin finite element method is introduced for solving the biharmonic equation. This method, by its name, uses discontinuous approximations and keeps simple formulation of the conforming finite element method at…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-26 Xiu Ye , Shangyou Zhang

This paper develops a discontinuous Galerkin (DG) finite element differential calculus theory for approximating weak derivatives of Sobolev functions and piecewise Sobolev functions. By introducing numerical one-sided derivatives as…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-03-06 Xiaobing Feng , Thomas Lewis , Michael Neilan

This paper is concerned with the development of weak Galerkin (WG) finite element method for optimal control problems governed by second order elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs). It is advantageous to use discontinuous finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-03 Chunmei Wang , Junping Wang , Shangyou Zhang

Over the past few years, neural network methods have evolved in various directions for approximating partial differential equations (PDEs). A promising new development is the integration of neural networks with classical numerical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-10 Georgios Grekas , Charalambos G. Makridakis , Tristan Pryer

The aim of this work is to present the details of the finite element approach we developed for solving the Landau-Lifschitz-Gilbert equations in order to be able to treat problems involving complex geometries. There are several…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-03-31 Helga Szambolics , Liliana-Daniela Buda , Jean-Christophe Toussaint , Olivier Fruchart

We propose and analyze novel adaptive algorithms for the numerical solution of elliptic partial differential equations with parametric uncertainty. Four different marking strategies are employed for refinement of stochastic Galerkin finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-08 Alex Bespalov , Dirk Praetorius , Leonardo Rocchi , Michele Ruggeri

The finite element method (FEM) is applied to obtain numerical solutions to a recently derived nonlinear equation for the shallow water wave problem. A weak formulation and the Petrov-Galerkin method are used. It is shown that the FEM gives…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-09-20 Anna Karczewska , Piotr Rozmej , Maciej Szczeciński , Bartosz Boguniewicz

We consider Galerkin finite element methods for semilinear stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs) with multiplicative noise and Lipschitz continuous nonlinearities. We analyze the strong error of convergence for spatially…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-11-26 Raphael Kruse

In this paper, we introduce a discontinuous Finite Element formulation on simplicial unstructured meshes for the study of free surface flows based on the fully nonlinear and weakly dispersive Green-Naghdi equations. Working with a new class…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-04-19 Arnaud Duran , Fabien Marche

The numerical simulation of complex physical processes requires the use of economical discrete models. This lecture presents a general paradigm of deriving a posteriori error estimates for the Galerkin finite element approximation of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Rolf Rannacher

In this paper, numerical solutions of singularly perturbed boundary value problems are given by using variants of finite element method. Both Galerkin and subdomain Galerkin method based on quadratic B-spline functions are applied over the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-02-09 Ozlem Ersoy Hepson , Idris Dag

This document contains working annotations on the Virtual Element Method (VEM) for the approximate solution of diffusion problems with variable coefficients. To read this document you are assumed to have familiarity with concepts from the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-12-30 Gianmarco Manzini

Error estimates are proved for finite element approximations to the solution of second-order hyperbolic partial differential equations with coefficients varying in both space and time. Optimal rates of convergence in the energy norm are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Oussama Al Jarroudi , Marcus J. Grote

We study a space-time finite element approach for the nonhomogeneous wave equation using a continuous time Galerkin method. We present fully implicit examples in 1+1, 2+1, and 3+1 dimensions using linear quadrilateral, hexahedral, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Matthew Anderson , Jung-Han Kimn

In this paper, discontinuous Galerkin finite element methods are applied to one dimensional Rosenau equation. Theoretical results including consistency, a priori bounds and optimal error estimates are established for both semidiscrete and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-02 P. Danumjaya , K. Balaje

Finite difference method and pseudo-spectral method have been widely used in the numerical relativity to solve the Einstein equations. As the third major category method to solve partial differential equations, finite element method is much…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-29 Zhoujian Cao , Pei Fu , Li-Wei Ji , Yinhua Xia

We consider the numerical discretization of the time-domain Maxwell's equations with an energy-conserving discontinuous Galerkin finite element formulation. This particular formulation allows for higher order approximations of the electric…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-01-10 Christoph Koutschan , Christoph Lehrenfeld , Joachim Schoeberl

In this paper we investigate the application of pseudo-transient-continuation (PTC) schemes for the numerical solution of semilinear elliptic partial differential equations, with possible singular perturbations. We will outline a residual…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-07-07 Mario Amrein , Thomas P. Wihler

The conformal formulation of the Einstein constraint equations is first reviewed, and we then consider the design, analysis, and implementation of adaptive multilevel finite element-type numerical methods for the resulting coupled nonlinear…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-04-07 Burak Aksoylu , David Bernstein , Stephen Bond , Michael Holst