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The aim of this work is to present the details of the finite element approach we developed for solving the Landau-Lifschitz-Gilbert equations in order to be able to treat problems involving complex geometries. There are several…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-03-31 Helga Szambolics , Liliana-Daniela Buda , Jean-Christophe Toussaint , Olivier Fruchart

We consider scalar semilinear elliptic PDEs, where the nonlinearity is strongly monotone, but only locally Lipschitz continuous. To linearize the arising discrete nonlinear problem, we employ a damped Zarantonello iteration, which leads to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-13 Maximilian Brunner , Dirk Praetorius , Julian Streitberger

We develop an efficient $hp$-finite element method for piecewise-smooth differential equations with periodic boundary conditions, using orthogonal polynomials defined on circular arcs. The operators derived from this basis are banded and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-23 Daniel VandenHeuvel , Sheehan Olver

We present a simple and efficient MATLAB implementation of the local refinement for polygonal meshes. The purpose of this implementation is primarily educational, especially on the teaching of adaptive virtual element methods.

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-12 Yue Yu

We present here a Finite Element Method devoted to the simulation of 3D periodic structures of arbitrary geometry. The numerical method based on ARPACK and PARDISO libraries, is discussed with the aim of extracting the eigenmodes of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2014-02-21 Romain Garnier , André Barka , Olivier Pascal

We study a space-time finite element approach for the nonhomogeneous wave equation using a continuous time Galerkin method. We present fully implicit examples in 1+1, 2+1, and 3+1 dimensions using linear quadrilateral, hexahedral, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Matthew Anderson , Jung-Han Kimn

We focus here on a class of fourth-order parabolic equations that can be written as a system of second-order equations by introducing an auxiliary variable. We design a novel second-order fully discrete mixed finite element method to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-28 Sana Keita , Abdelaziz Beljadid , Yves Bourgault

A macroscopic model to describe the dynamics of ion transport in ion channels is the Poisson-Nernst-Planck(PNP) equations. In this paper, we develop a finite-difference method for solving PNP equations, which is second-order accurate in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-03-18 Allen Flavell , Michael Machen , Bob Eisenberg , Chun Liu , Xiaofan Li

We analyze the bit complexity of efficient algorithms for fundamental optimization problems, such as linear regression, $p$-norm regression, and linear programming (LP). State-of-the-art algorithms are iterative, and in terms of the number…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Mehrdad Ghadiri , Richard Peng , Santosh S. Vempala

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-29 Akash Anand , Jeffrey S. Ovall , Steffen Weisser

In this article, we establish a class of new accelerated modulus-based iteration methods for solving the linear complementarity problem. When the system matrix is an $H_+$-matrix, we present appropriate criteria for the convergence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-05 Bharat Kumar , Deepmala , A. K. Das

We use the work of Milton, Seppecher, and Bouchitt\'{e} on variational principles for waves in lossy media to formulate a finite element method for solving the complex Helmholtz equation that is based entirely on minimization. In…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-08-02 Russell B. Richins , David C. Dobson

We propose a novel iterative algorithm for solving a large sparse linear system. The method is based on the EM algorithm. If the system has a unique solution, the algorithm guarantees convergence with a geometric rate. Otherwise,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-03 Minwoo Chae , Stephen G. Walker

This paper proposes a finite element method that couples mixed and Lagrange finite elements to efficiently capture stress concentrations in elasticity problems. The method employs conforming mixed finite elements in regions with stress…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Wei Chen , Jun Hu , Limin Ma , Mingyan Zhang

The efficient solution of large sparse saddle point systems is very important in computational fluid mechanics. The discontinuous Galerkin finite element methods have become increasingly popular for incompressible flow problems but their…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2021-01-18 Denis Demidov , Lin Mu , Bin Wang

We analyze the spatially semidiscrete piecewise linear finite element method for a nonlocal parabolic equation resulting from thermistor problem. Our approach is based on the properties of the elliptic projection defined by the bilinear…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-02-23 Moulay Rchid Sidi Ammi , Delfim F. M. Torres

The multimesh finite element method enables the solution of partial differential equations on a computational mesh composed by multiple arbitrarily overlapping meshes. The discretization is based on a continuous--discontinuous function…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-02 August Johansson , Mats G. Larson , Anders Logg

A numerical scheme is presented for approximating fractional order Poisson problems in two and three dimensions. The scheme is based on reformulating the original problem posed over $\Omega$ on the extruded domain…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-05-27 Mark Ainsworth , Christian Glusa

This article presents a $P_0$ finite element method for boundary value problems for linear elasticity equations. The new method makes use of piecewise constant approximating functions on the boundary of each polytopal element, and is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-11-21 Yujie Liu , Junping Wang

The presented article contains a 2D mesh generation routine optimized with the Metropolis algorithm. The procedure enables to produce meshes with a prescribed size h of elements. These finite element meshes can serve as standard discrete…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-21 Ilona Dominika Kosinska