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In this paper, we propose a new approach -- the Tempered Finite Element Method (TFEM) -- that extends the Finite Element Method (FEM) to classes of meshes that include zero-measure or nearly degenerate elements for which standard FEM…
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…
In this paper we present an immersed weak Galerkin method for solving second-order elliptic interface problems on polygonal meshes, where the meshes do not need to be aligned with the interface. The discrete space consists of constants on…
The recent work [Kurz et al., Numer. Math., 147 (2021)] proposed functional a posteriori error estimates for boundary element methods (BEMs) together with a related adaptive mesh-refinement strategy. Unlike most a posteriori BEM error…
A new higher-order accurate method is proposed that combines the advantages of the classical $p$-version of the FEM on body-fitted meshes with embedded domain methods. A background mesh composed by higher-order Lagrange elements is used.…
Motivated by problems where the response is needed at select localized regions in a large computational domain, we devise a novel finite element discretization that results in exponential convergence at pre-selected points. The two key…
This paper introduces an accurate edge-based smoothed finite element method (ES-FEM) for electromagnetic analysis for both two dimensional cylindrical and three dimensional cartesian systems, which shows much better performance in terms of…
A higher-order accurate finite element method is proposed which uses automatically generated meshes based on implicit level-set data for the description of boundaries and interfaces in two and three dimensions. The method is an alternative…
Spectral element methods (SEM), which are extensions of finite element methods (FEM), are important emerging techniques for solving partial differential equations in physics and engineering. SEM can potentially deliver better accuracy due…
We propose a new fictitious domain finite element method, well suited for elliptic problems posed in a domain given by a level-set function without requiring a mesh fitting the boundary. To impose the Dirichlet boundary conditions, we…
We present in this paper a rigorous theoretical framework to show stability, convergence and accuracy of improved edge-based and face-based smoothed finite element methods (bESFEM and bFS-FEM) for nearly-incompressible elasticity problems.…
Boundary element methods (BEM) reduce a partial differential equation in a domain to an integral equation on the domain's boundary. They are particularly attractive for solving problems on unbounded domains, but handling the dense matrices…
We propose a parametric finite element method (PFEM) for efficiently solving the morphological evolution of solid-state dewetting of thin films on a flat rigid substrate in three dimensions (3D). The interface evolution of the dewetting…
We present a quasi-conforming embedded reproducing kernel particle method (QCE-RKPM) for modeling heterogeneous materials that makes use of techniques not available to mesh-based methods such as the finite element method (FEM) and avoids…
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…
I formulate a general finite element method (FEM) for self-gravitating stellar systems. I split the configuration space to finite elements, and express the potential and density functions over each element in terms of their nodal values and…
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 present the first rigorous convergence analysis of the smoothed adaptive finite element method (S-AFEM) proposed in [Mulita, Giani, Heltai: SIAM J. Sci. Comput. 43, 2021]. S-AFEM modifies the classical adaptive finite element method…
This work focuses on a class of elliptic boundary value problems with diffusive, advective and reactive terms, motivated by the study of three-dimensional heterogeneous physical systems composed of two or more media separated by a selective…
An important step in shape optimization with partial differential equation constraints is to adapt the geometry during each optimization iteration. Common strategies are to employ mesh-deformation or re-meshing, where one or the other…