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The weak Galerkin (WG) finite element method is an effective and flexible general numerical technique for solving partial differential equations. The novel idea of weak Galerkin finite element methods is on the use of weak functions and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-28 Xiu Ye , Shangyou Zhang

This paper introduces an auto-stabilized weak Galerkin (WG) finite element method for biharmonic equations with built-in stabilizers. Unlike existing stabilizer-free WG methods limited to convex elements in finite element partitions, our…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-11 Chunmei Wang

This paper introduces a new weak Galerkin (WG) finite element method for second order elliptic equations on polytopal meshes. This method, called WG-FEM, is designed by using a discrete weak gradient operator applied to discontinuous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-08-20 Lin Mu , Junping Wang , Xiu Ye

A new weak Galerkin (WG) method is introduced and analyzed for the second order elliptic equation formulated as a system of two first order linear equations. This method, called WG-MFEM, is designed by using discontinuous piecewise…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-06-27 Junping Wang , Xiu Ye

This paper develops a class of robust weak Galerkin methods for the stationary incompressible convective Brinkman-Forchheimer equations. The methods adopt piecewise polynomials of degrees $m\ (m\geq1)$ and $m-1$ respectively for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-30 X. J. Wang , X. P. Xie

A new stabilizer free weak Galerkin (WG) method is introduced and analyzed for the biharmonic equation. Stabilizing/penalty terms are often necessary in the finite element formulations with discontinuous approximations to ensure the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-23 Xiu Ye , Shangyou Zhang

This article develops a weak Galerkin least-squares (WG--LS) finite element method for first-order linear convection equations in non-divergence form. The method is formulated using discontinuous finite element functions and does not…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-05 Chunmei Wang , Shangyou Zhang

This article is devoted to computing the eigenvalue of the Laplace eigenvalue problem by the weak Galerkin (WG) finite element method with emphasis on obtaining lower bounds. The WG method is on the use of weak functions and their weak…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-08-24 Hehu Xie , Qilong Zhai , Ran Zhang

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

A weak Galerkin (WG) method is introduced and numerically tested for the Helmholtz equation. This method is flexible by using discontinuous piecewise polynomials and retains the mass conservation property. At the same time, the WG finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-24 Lin Mu , Junping Wang , Xiu Ye , Shan Zhao

A newly developed weak Galerkin method is proposed to solve parabolic equations. This method allows the usage of totally discontinuous functions in approximation space and preserves the energy conservation law. Both continuous and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-03-18 Qiaoluan H. Li , Junping Wang

This article proposes and analyzes the generalized weak Galerkin ({\rm g}WG) finite element method for the second order elliptic problem. A generalized discrete weak gradient operator is introduced in the weak Galerkin framework so that the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-16 Dan Li , Chunmei Wang , Junping Wang , Xiu Ye

We propose a neural-enhanced weak Galerkin (WG) finite element method for second-order elliptic problems with low-regularity solutions. The method augments the classical WG approximation space with neural network functions constructed via a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-08 Chunmei Wang

This paper presents a weak Galerkin (WG) finite element method for linear elasticity on general polygonal and polyhedral meshes, free from convexity constraints, by leveraging bubble functions as central analytical tools. The proposed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-28 Chunmei Wang , Shangyou Zhang

A new weak Galerkin finite element method, called generalized weak Galerkin method ({g}WG), is introduced for Stokes equations in this paper by using a new definition of the weak gradient. Error estimates in energy norm and $L^2$ norm for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-05-24 W. Qi , P. Seshaiyer , J. Wang

This paper presents a new and efficient numerical algorithm for the biharmonic equation by using weak Galerkin (WG) finite element methods. The WG finite element scheme is based on a variational form of the biharmonic equation that is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-09-24 Chunmei Wang , Junping Wang

This article introduces a weak Galerkin (WG) finite element method for quad-curl problems in three dimensions. It is proved that the proposed WG method is stable and accurate in an optimal order of error estimates for the exact solution in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-01 Chunmei Wang , Junping Wang , Shangyou Zhang

In this paper, authors shall introduce a finite element method by using a weakly defined gradient operator over discontinuous functions with heterogeneous properties. The use of weak gradients and their approximations results in a new…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-11-14 Junping Wang , Xiu Ye

This paper proposes a weak Galerkin (WG) finite element method for elliptic interface problems defined on nonconvex polygonal partitions. The method features a built-in stabilizer and retains a simple, symmetric, and positive definite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-23 Chunmei Wang , Shangyou Zhang

Weak Galerkin methods refer to general finite element methods for PDEs in which differential operators are approximated by their weak forms as distributions. Such weak forms give rise to desirable flexibilities in enforcing boundary and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-06-10 Lin Mu , Junping Wang , Guowei Wei , Xiu Ye , Shan Zhao