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The paper is concerned with the finite element solution of the Poisson equation with homogeneous Dirichlet boundary condition in a three-dimensional domain. Anisotropic, graded meshes from a former paper are reused for dealing with the…
A general theory for obtaining anisotropic interpolation error estimates for macro-element interpolation is developed revealing general construction principles. We apply this theory to interpolation operators on a macro type of biquadratic…
Consider the Poisson equation with the Dirichlet boundary condition on a three-dimensional polyhedral domain. For singular solutions from the non-smoothness of the domain boundary, we propose new anisotropic tetrahedral mesh refinement…
Given a function f defined on a bidimensional bounded domain and a positive integer N, we study the properties of the triangulation that minimizes the distance between f and its interpolation on the associated finite element space, over all…
This work derives a posteriori error estimate of polygonal finite element methods based on Wachspress barycentric coordinates. In particular, we prove that the classical residual-based a posteriori error estimator is both an upper and lower…
Anisotropic mesh quality measures and anisotropic mesh adaptation are studied for polygonal meshes. Three sets of alignment and equidistribution measures are developed, one based on least squares fitting, one based on generalized…
In the discretization of differential problems on complex geometrical domains, discretization methods based on polygonal and polyhedral elements are powerful tools. Adaptive mesh refinement for such kind of problems is very useful as well…
The state-of-the art proof of a global inf-sup condition on mixed finite element schemes does not allow for an analysis of truly indefinite, second-order linear elliptic PDEs. This paper, therefore, first analyses a nonconforming finite…
We analyze adaptive mesh-refining algorithms for conforming finite element discretizations of certain non-linear second-order partial differential equations. We allow continuous polynomials of arbitrary, but fixed polynomial order. The…
We consider the solution of a second order elliptic PDE with inhomogeneous Dirichlet data by means of adaptive lowest-order FEM. As is usually done in practice, the given Dirichlet data are discretized by nodal interpolation. As model…
We study the use of polyhedral discretizations for the solution of heat diffusion and elastodynamic problems in computer graphics. Polyhedral meshes are more natural for certain applications than pure triangular or quadrilateral meshes,…
We consider families of finite elements on polygonal meshes, that are defined implicitly on each mesh cell as solutions of local Poisson problems with polynomial data. Functions in the local space on each mesh cell are evaluated via…
The paper presents a numerical study for the finite element method with anisotropic meshes. We compare the accuracy of the numerical solutions on quasi-uniform, isotropic, and anisotropic meshes for a test problem which combines several…
Only a few numerical methods can treat boundary value problems on polygonal and polyhedral meshes. The BEM-based Finite Element Method is one of the new discretization strategies, which make use of and benefits from the flexibility of these…
This is a study of certain finite element methods designed for convection-dominated, time-dependent partial differential equations. Specifically, we analyze high order space-time tensor product finite element discretizations, used in a…
Pressure-robust discretizations for incompressible flows have been in the focus of research for the past years. Many publications construct exactly divergence-free methods or use a reconstruction approach [13] for existing methods like the…
Given a function f defined on a bidimensional bounded domain and a positive integer N, we study the properties of the triangulation that minimizes the distance between f and its interpolation on the associated finite element space, over all…
We propose an adaptive polygonal finite element formulation for collapse plastic analysis of solids. The article contributes into four crucial points: 1) Wachspress shape functions at vertex and bubble nodes handled at a primal-mesh level;…
One of the main approaches for modeling fracture and crack propagation in solid materials is adaptive insertion of cohesive elements, in which line-like (2D) or surface-like (3D) elements are inserted into the finite element mesh to model…
A refined a priori error analysis of the lowest order (linear) Virtual Element Method (VEM) is developed for approximating a model two dimensional Poisson problem. A set of new geometric assumptions is proposed on shape regularity of…