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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

We revisit a unified methodology for the iterative solution of nonlinear equations in Hilbert spaces. Our key observation is that the general approach from [Heid & Wihler, Math. Comp. 89 (2020), Calcolo 57 (2020)] satisfies an energy…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-18 Pascal Heid , Dirk Praetorius , Thomas P. Wihler

In this paper, we propose an extended mixed finite element method for elliptic interface problems. By adding some stabilization terms, we present a mixed approximation form based on Brezzi-Douglas-Marini element space and the piecewise…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-14 Pei Cao , Jinru Chen , Feng Wang

We consider the vertex-centered finite volume method with first-order conforming ansatz functions. The adaptive mesh-refinement is driven by the local contributions of the weighted-residual error estimator. We prove that the adaptive…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-24 Christoph Erath , Dirk Praetorius

We develop a new $C^{\,0}$-continuous Petrov-Galerkin spectral element method for one-dimensional fractional elliptic problems of the form ${}_{0}{\mathcal{D}}_{x}^{\alpha} u(x) - \lambda u(x) = f(x)$, $\alpha \in (1,2]$, subject to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-10-11 Ehsan Kharazmi , Mohsen Zayernouri , George Em Karniadakis

In this paper, we propose and analyze an efficient preconditioning method for the elliptic problem based on the reconstructed discontinuous approximation method. We reconstruct a high-order piecewise polynomial space that arbitrary order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-16 Ruo Li , Qicheng Liu , Fanyi Yang

In this article we study adaptive finite element methods (AFEM) with inexact solvers for a class of semilinear elliptic interface problems. We are particularly interested in nonlinear problems with discontinuous diffusion coefficients, such…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-24 Michael Holst , Ryan Szypowski , Yunrong Zhu

In this work, we propose the application of the eXtended Finite Element Method (XFEM) in the context of the coupling between three-dimensional and one-dimensional elliptic problems. In particular, we consider the case in which the 3D-1D…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-20 Denise Grappein , Stefano Scialó , Fabio Vicini

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

Fourth-order differential equations play an important role in many applications in science and engineering. In this paper, we present a three-field mixed finite-element formulation for fourth-order problems, with a focus on the effective…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-13 Patrick E. Farrell , Abdalaziz Hamdan , Scott P. MacLachlan

We analyze the application to elastodynamic problems of mixed finite element methods for elasticity with weak symmetry. Our approach leads to a semidiscrete method which consists of a system of ordinary differential equations without…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-13 Douglas N. Arnold , Jeonghun J. Lee

This paper presents a space-time finite element method (FEM) based on an unfitted mesh for solving parabolic problems on moving domains. Unlike other unfitted space-time finite element approaches that commonly employ the discontinuous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-03 Ruizhi Wang , Weibing Deng

In this work, a cell agglomeration strategy for the cut cells arising in the extended discontinuous Galerkin (XDG) method is presented. Cut cells are a fundamental aspect of unfitted mesh approaches where complex geometries or interfaces…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-25 Muhammed Toprak , Matthias Rieckmann , Florian Kummer

In this paper, we propose new basis functions defined on curved sides or faces of curvilinear elements (polygons or polyhedrons with curved sides or faces) for the weak Galerkin finite element method. Those basis functions are constructed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-12 Qingguang Guan , Gillian Queisser , Wenju Zhao

We develop all of the components needed to construct an adaptive finite element code that can be used to approximate fractional partial differential equations, on non-trivial domains in $d\geq 1$ dimensions. Our main approach consists of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-02-14 Mark Ainsworth , Christian Glusa

Elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs) with discontinuous diffusion coefficients occur in application domains such as diffusions through porous media, electro-magnetic field propagation on heterogeneous media, and diffusion…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-01-20 Andrea Bonito , Ronald A. DeVore , Ricardo H. Nochetto

We develop an unfitted compatible finite element discretisation for the Darcy problem based on $H(\mathrm{div})$-conforming flux spaces and discontinuous pressure spaces. The method is designed to preserve pointwise discrete mass…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-30 Santiago Badia , Anne Boschman , Alberto F. Martín , Erik Nilsson , Ricardo Ruiz-Baier , Sara Zahedi

We prove that for compactly perturbed elliptic problems, where the corresponding bilinear form satisfies a Garding inequality, adaptive mesh-refinement is capable of overcoming the preasymptotic behavior and eventually leads to convergence…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-01-30 Alex Bespalov , Alexander Haberl , Dirk Praetorius

In this paper, we propose an unfitted finite element method to solve PDE-constrained shape optimization problems via shape gradient flow. The shape gradient flow system consists of the state equation, the adjoint equation, the velocity…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-13 Wei Gong , Chuwen Ma , Ziyi Zhang

This article proposes a new numerical algorithm for second order elliptic equations in non-divergence form. The new method is based on a discrete weak Hessian operator locally constructed by following the weak Galerkin strategy. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-10-14 Chunmei Wang , Junping Wang