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We define and analyse a least-squares finite element method for a first-order reformulation of the obstacle problem. Moreover, we derive variational inequalities that are based on similar but non-symmetric bilinear forms. A priori error…
This paper studies adaptive first-order least-squares finite element methods for second-order elliptic partial differential equations in non-divergence form. Unlike the classical finite element method which uses weak formulations of PDEs…
We present a space-time least squares finite element method for the heat equation. It is based on residual minimization in L2 norms in space-time of an equivalent first order system. This implies that (i) the resulting bilinear form is…
In this paper, a few dual least-squares finite element methods and their application to scalar linear hyperbolic problems are studied. The purpose is to obtain $L^2$-norm approximations on finite element spaces of the exact solutions to…
We propose and analyze a general framework for space-time finite element methods that is based on least-squares finite element methods for solving a first-order reformulation of the thick parabolic obstacle problem. Discretizations based on…
We develop a new least squares method for solving the second-order elliptic equations in non-divergence form. Two least-squares-type functionals are proposed for solving the equations in two steps. We first obtain a numerical approximation…
In many recent applications when new materials and technologies are developed it is important to describe and simulate new nonlinear and nonlocal diffusion transport processes. A general class of such models deals with nonlocal fractional…
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…
We consider the least-squares finite element method (lsfem) for systems of nonlinear ordinary differential equations and establish an optimal error estimate for this method when piecewise linear elements are used. The main assumptions are…
We use the local orthogonal decomposition technique to derive a generalized finite element method for linear and semilinear parabolic equations with spatial multiscale diffusion coefficient. We consider nonsmooth initial data and a backward…
This paper studies adaptive least-squares finite element methods for convection-dominated diffusion-reaction problems. The least-squares methods are based on the first-order system of the primal and dual variables with various ways of…
Backward parabolic equations, such as the backward heat equation, are classical examples of ill-posed problems where solutions may not exist or depend continuously on the data. In this work, we study a least squares finite element method to…
In this paper, a piecewise quadratic nonconforming finite element method on rectangular grids for a fourth-order elliptic singular perturbation problem is presented. This proposed method is robustly convergent with respect to the…
In this paper, we employ a space-time finite element method to discretize the parabolic initial-boundary value problem and extend its error analysis with refined estimates on unstructured space-time meshes. We establish higher-order…
The goal of this paper is to propose preconditioners for the system of linear equations that arises from a discretization of fourth order elliptic problems using spectral element methods. These preconditioners are constructed using…
We analyze a divergence based first order system least squares method applied to a second order elliptic model problem with homogeneous boundary conditions. We prove optimal convergence in the $L^2(\Omega)$ norm for the scalar variable.…
We consider the numerical solution of an abstract operator equation $Bu=f$ by using a least-squares approach. We assume that $B: X \to Y^*$ is an isomorphism, and that $A : Y \to Y^*$ implies a norm in $Y$, where $X$ and $Y$ are Hilbert…
In this work, we present a novel error analysis for recovering a spatially dependent diffusion coefficient in an elliptic or parabolic problem. It is based on the standard regularized output least-squares formulation with an $H^1(\Omega)$…
The a posteriori error estimator using the least-squares functional can be used for adaptive mesh refinement and error control even if the numerical approximations are not obtained from the corresponding least-squares method. This suggests…
This paper studies formulations of second-order elliptic partial differential equations in nondivergence form on convex domains as equivalent variational problems. The first formulation is that of Smears \& S\"uli [SIAM J.\ Numer.\ Anal.\…