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A systematic numerical study on weak Galerkin (WG) finite element method for second order linear parabolic problems is presented by allowing polynomial approximations with various degrees for each local element. Convergence of both…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-26 Bhupen Deka , Naresh Kumar

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-06 Tatyana Sorokina , Shangyou Zhang

In recent years, the immersed finite element methods (IFEM) introduced in \cite{Li2003}, \cite{Li2004} to solve elliptic problems having an interface in the domain due to the discontinuity of coefficients are getting more attentions of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-07-06 Do Y. Kwak , Juho Lee

This chapter reviews and compares discontinuous Galerkin time-stepping methods for the numerical approximation of second-order ordinary differential equations, particularly those stemming from space finite element discretization of wave…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-12 Paola F. Antonietti , Alberto Artoni , Gabriele Ciaramella , Ilario Mazzieri

The proximal Galerkin finite element method is a high-order, low-iteration complexity, nonlinear numerical method that preserves the geometric and algebraic structure of point-wise bound constraints in infinite-dimensional function spaces.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-18 Brendan Keith , Thomas M. Surowiec

To obtain the highest confidence on the correction of numerical simulation programs for the resolution of Partial Differential Equations (PDEs), one has to formalize the mathematical notions and results that allow to establish the soundness…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-10-03 François Clément , Vincent Martin

Motivated by applications to numerical simulation of flows in highly heterogeneous porous media, we develop multiscale finite element methods for second order elliptic equations. We discuss a multiscale model reduction technique in the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-15 Y. Efendiev , J. Galvis , R. Lazarov , M. Moon , M. Sarkis

We develop a conservative cut finite element method for an elliptic coupled bulk-interface problem. The method is based on a discontinuous Galerkin framework where stabilization is added in such a way that we retain conservation on macro…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-06 Mats G. Larson , Sara Zahedi

In this paper we use the GeneralizedMultiscale Finite ElementMethod (GMsFEM) framework, introduced in [20], in order to solve nonlinear elliptic equations with high-contrast coefficients. The proposed solution method involves linearizing…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-08-24 Yalchin Efendiev , Juan Galvis , Guanglian Li , Michael Presho

We introduce the concept of data-driven finite element methods. These are finite-element discretizations of partial differential equations (PDEs) that resolve quantities of interest with striking accuracy, regardless of the underlying mesh…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-15 Ignacio Brevis , Ignacio Muga , Kristoffer G. van der Zee

The novel idea of weak Galerkin (WG) finite element methods is on the use of weak functions and their weak derivatives defined as distributions. Weak functions and weak derivatives can be approximated by polynomials with various degrees.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-04-25 Lin Mu , Junping Wang , Xiu Ye

This paper introduces a novel a posteriori error estimation framework for the enriched Galerkin (EG) finite element method applied to linear parabolic equations. While the EG method has been recognized for its local conservation property…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-29 Hyun-Geun Shin , Yi-Yung Yang , Sanghyun Lee

We introduce a family of Galerkin finite element methods which are constructed via recovery operators over element-wise discontinuous approximation spaces. This new family, termed collectively as recovered finite element methods (R-FEM) has…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-03-14 Emmanuil H. Georgoulis , Tristan Pryer

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

Near-optimal computational complexity of an adaptive stochastic Galerkin method with independently refined spatial meshes for elliptic partial differential equations is shown. The method takes advantage of multilevel structure in expansions…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-25 Markus Bachmayr , Henrik Eisenmann , Igor Voulis

We consider the initial/boundary value problem for a diffusion equation involving multiple time-fractional derivatives on a bounded convex polyhedral domain. We analyze a space semidiscrete scheme based on the standard Galerkin finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-18 Bangti Jin , Raytcho Lazarov , Yikan Liu , Zhi Zhou

This paper presents a numerical approximation technique for the Boltzmann equation based on a moment system approximation in velocity dependence and a discontinuous Galerkin finite-element approximation in position dependence. The closure…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-02-04 M. R. A. Abdelmalik , E. H. van Brummelen

We extend the finite element method introduced by Lakkis and Pryer [2011] to approximate the solution of second order elliptic problems in nonvariational form to incorporate the discontinuous Galerkin (DG) framework. This is done by viewing…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-04-09 Andreas Dedner , Tristan Pryer

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-06 Sebastian Franz , Sascha Trostorff , Marcus Waurick

This article takes the form of a tutorial on the use of a particular class of mixed finite element methods, which can be thought of as the finite element extension of the C-grid staggered finite difference method. The class is often…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-01-06 C. J. Cotter , A. T. T. McRae