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The biharmonic equation with Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions discretized using the mixed finite element method and piecewise linear (with the possible exception of boundary triangles) finite elements on triangular elements has…

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We develop commuting finite element projections over smooth Riemannian manifolds. This extension of finite element exterior calculus establishes the stability and convergence of finite element methods for the Hodge-Laplace equation on…

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We present a new stability and convergence analysis for the spatial discretization of a time-fractional Fokker--Planck equation in a convex polyhedral domain, using continuous, piecewise-linear, finite elements. The forcing may depend on…

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This paper is concerned with error estimates of the fully discrete generalized finite element method (GFEM) with optimal local approximation spaces for solving elliptic problems with heterogeneous coefficients. The local approximation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-10-01 Chupeng Ma , Robert Scheichl

A generalized finite element method is proposed for solving a heterogeneous reaction-diffusion equation with a singular perturbation parameter $\varepsilon$, based on locally approximating the solution on each subdomain by solution of a…

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We develop error estimates for the finite element approximation of elliptic partial differential equations on perturbed domains, i.e. when the computational domain does not match the real geometry. The result shows that the error related to…

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We present a finite element scheme for fractional diffusion problems with varying diffusivity and fractional order. We consider a symmetric integral form of these nonlocal equations defined on general geometries and in arbitrary bounded…

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We present a continuous finite element method for some examples of fully nonlinear elliptic equation. A key tool is the discretisation proposed in Lakkis & Pryer (2011, SISC) allowing us to work directly on the strong form of a linear PDE.…

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The regularity of the solution of elliptic partial differential equa- tions in a polygonal domain with re-entrant corners is, in general, reduced compared to the one on a smooth convex domain. This results in a best approximation property…

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We develop the theory of mixed finite elements in terms of special inverse systems of complexes of differential forms, defined over cellular complexes. Inclusion of cells corresponds to pullback of forms. The theory covers for instance…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-25 Snorre Harald Christiansen

This work establishes the well-posedness and a priori error analysis for the mixed FEEC-type finite element approximation of the three-dimensional vector Laplace boundary value problem subject to the Dirichlet boundary condition. The…

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Finite element methods are effective for Helmholtz problems involving complex geometries and heterogeneous media. However, the resulting linear systems are often large, indefinite, and challenging for iterative solvers, particularly at high…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-07 Victorita Dolean , Pierre Marchand , Axel Modave , Timothée Raynaud

We consider the mathematical analysis and numerical approximation of a system of nonlinear partial differential equations that arises in models that have relevance to steady isochoric flows of colloidal suspensions. The symmetric velocity…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-08-09 Andrea Bonito , Vivette Girault , Diane Guignard , Kumbakonam R. Rajagopal , Endre Süli

We provide a finite element discretization of $\ell$-form-valued $k$-forms on triangulation in $\mathbb{R}^{n}$ for general $k$, $\ell$ and $n$ and any polynomial degree. The construction generalizes finite element Whitney forms for the…

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We use uniform $W^{2,p}$ estimates to obtain corrector results for periodic homogenization problems of the form $A(x/\varepsilon):D^2 u_{\varepsilon} = f$ subject to a homogeneous Dirichlet boundary condition. We propose and rigorously…

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In this paper, the numerical approximation of the generalized Burgers'-Huxley equation (GBHE) with weakly singular kernels using non-conforming methods will be presented. Specifically, we discuss two new formulations. The first formulation…

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This paper addresses the approximation of fractional harmonic maps. Besides a unit-length constraint, one has to tackle the difficulty of nonlocality. We establish weak compactness results for critical points of the fractional Dirichlet…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-21 Harbir Antil , Sören Bartels , Armin Schikorra

In this paper, we present finite element approximations of a class of Generalized random fields defined over a bounded domain of R d or a smooth d-dimensional Riemannian manifold (d $\ge$ 1). An explicit expression for the covariance matrix…

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