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We present improved $L^2$-error estimates on the time-integrated primal variable for the wave equation in its first-order formulation. The space discretization relies on a hybrid nonconforming method, such as the hybridizable discontinuous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Bernardo Cockburn , Alexandre Ern , Rekha Khot

We provide a posteriori error estimates in the energy norm for temporal semi-discretisations of wave maps into spheres that are based on the angular momentum formulation. Our analysis is based on novel weak-strong stability estimates which…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-25 Jan Giesselmann , Elena Mäder-Baumdicker , David Jakob Stonner

We present a hybrid a-priori/a-posteriori goal oriented error estimator for a combination of dynamic iteration-based solution of ordinary differential equations discretized by finite elements. Our novel error estimator combines estimates…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-13 Erik Weyl , Andreas Bartel , Manuel Schaller

In this paper, we study the adaptive planewave discretization for a cluster of eigenvalues of second-order elliptic partial differential equations. We first design an a posteriori error estimator and prove both the upper and lower bounds.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-28 Xiaoying Dai , Yan Pan , Bin Yang , Aihui Zhou

We propose a randomized a posteriori error estimator for reduced order approximations of parametrized (partial) differential equations. The error estimator has several important properties: the effectivity is close to unity with prescribed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-04-02 Kathrin Smetana , Olivier Zahm , Anthony T Patera

We introduce and analyze a class of Galerkin-collocation discretization schemes in time for the wave equation. Its conceptual basis is the establishment of a direct connection between the Galerkin method for the time discretization and the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-08-23 Mathias Anselmann , Markus Bause , Simon Becher , Gunar Matthies

Inverse problems use physical measurements along with a computational model to estimate the parameters or state of a system of interest. Errors in measurements and uncertainties in the computational model lead to inaccurate estimates. This…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-02-02 Vishwas Rao , Adrian Sandu

We consider second order explicit and implicit two-step time-discrete schemes for wave-type equations. We derive optimal order aposteriori estimates controlling the time discretization error. Our analysis, has been motivated by the need to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-05-17 Emmanuil H. Georgoulis , Omar Lakkis , Charalambos Makridakis , Juha M. Virtanen

In this work, we propose and analyze a pointwise a posteriori error estimator for simple eigenvalues of elliptic eigenvalue problems with adaptive finite element methods (AFEMs). We prove the reliability and efficiency of the residual-type…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Zhenglei Li , Qigang Liang , Xuejun Xu

We propose a new residual-based a posteriori error estimator for discontinuous Galerkin discretizations of time-harmonic Maxwell's equations in first-order form. We establish that the estimator is reliable and efficient, and the dependency…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-03 T. Chaumont-Frelet , P. Vega

In two dimensions, we propose and analyze an a posteriori error estimator for the acoustic spectral problem based on the virtual element method in $\H(\div;\Omega)$. Introducing an auxiliary unknown, we use the fact that the primal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-27 Felipe Lepe , David Mora , Gonzalo Rivera , Iván Velásquez

We consider Poisson's equation with a finite number of weighted Dirac masses as a source term, together with its discretization by means of conforming finite elements. For the error in fractional Sobolev spaces, we propose residual-type a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-07-30 Fernando D. Gaspoz , Pedro Morin , Andreas Veeser

We consider the Virtual Element method (VEM) introduced by Beir\~ao da Veiga, Lovadina and Vacca in 2016 for the numerical solution of the steady, incompressible Navier-Stokes equations; the method has arbitrary order $k \geq 2$ and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-02 Claudio Canuto , Davide Rosso

This article is a review on basic concepts and tools devoted to a posteriori error estimation for problems solved with the Finite Element Method. For the sake of simplicity and clarity, we mostly focus on linear elliptic diffusion problems,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-10-06 Ludovic Chamoin , Frederic Legoll

This paper discusses lowest-order nonstandard finite element methods for space discretization and explicit and implicit schemes for time discretization of the biharmonic wave equation with clamped boundary conditions. A modified Ritz…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-16 Neela Nataraj , Ricardo Ruiz-Baier , Aamir Yousuf

For the model problem of the heat equation discretized by an implicit Euler method in time and a conforming finite element method in space, we prove the efficiency of a posteriori error estimators with respect to the energy norm of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-12 Iain Smears

We consider the a posteriori error analysis of approximations of parabolic problems based on arbitrarily high-order conforming Galerkin spatial discretizations and arbitrarily high-order discontinuous Galerkin temporal discretizations.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-25 Alexandre Ern , Iain Smears , Martin Vohralík

Computable estimates for the error of finite element discretisations of parabolic problems in the $L^\infty(0,T; L^2)$ norm are developed, which exhibit constant effectivities (the ratio of the estimated error to the true error) with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-03-09 Oliver J. Sutton

We introduce a very weak space-time variational formulation for the wave equation, prove its well-posedness (even in the case of minimal regularity) and optimal inf-sup stability. Then, we introduce a tensor product-style space-time…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-27 Julian Henning , Davide Palitta , Valeria Simoncini , Karsten Urban

We introduce and explain key relations between a posteriori error estimates and subspace correction methods viewed as preconditioners for problems in infinite dimensional Hilbert spaces. We set the stage using the Finite Element Exterior…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-16 Yuwen Li , Ludmil T. Zikatanov