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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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-19 Piotr Minakowski , Thomas Richter

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-30 Huilan Zeng , Chen-Song Zhang , Shuo Zhang

This paper is devoted to the analysis of a numerical scheme based on the Finite Element Method for approximating the solution of Koiter's model for a linearly elastic elliptic membrane shell subjected to remaining confined in a prescribed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-12 Xin Peng , Paolo Piersanti , Xiaoqin Shen

In this article we investigate the higher regularity properties of the regular free boundary in the fractional thin obstacle problem. Relying on a Hodograph-Legendre transform, we show that for smooth or analytic obstacles the regular free…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-05-24 Herbert Koch , Angkana Rüland , Wenhui Shi

We investigate the application of a posteriori error estimates to a fractional optimal control problem with pointwise control constraints. Specifically, we address a problem in which the state equation is formulated as an integral form of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-10 Fangyuan Wang , Qiming Wang , Zhaojie Zhou

We present the numerical analysis of a finite element method (FEM) for one-dimensional Dirichlet problems involving the logarithmic Laplacian (the pseudo-differential operator that appears as a first-order expansion of the fractional…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-21 Víctor Hernández-Santamaría , Sven Jarohs , Alberto Saldaña , Leonard Sinsch

We consider finite element approximations for a one dimensional second order stochastic differential equation of boundary value type driven by a fractional Brownian motion with Hurst index $H\le 1/2$. We make use of a sequence of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-08 Yanzhao Cao , Jialin Hong , Zhihui Liu

We consider the problem of constructing spatial finite difference approximations on a fixed, arbitrary grid, which have analogues of any number of integrals of the partial differential equation and of some of its symmetries. A basis for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Robert I McLachlan

In this paper, we study adaptive finite element approximations in a perturbation framework, which makes use of the existing adaptive finite element analysis of a linear symmetric elliptic problem. We prove the convergence and complexity of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-02-05 Lianhua He , Aihui Zhou

We propose and analyze a new stabilized cut finite element method for the Laplace-Beltrami operator on a closed surface. The new stabilization term provides control of the full $\mathbb{R}^3$ gradient on the active mesh consisting of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-24 Erik Burman , Peter Hansbo , Mats G. Larson , André Massing , Sara Zahedi

Spherical Whittle--Mat\'ern Gaussian random fields are considered as solutions to fractional elliptic stochastic partial differential equations on the sphere. Approximation is done with surface finite elements. While the non-fractional part…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-06 Erik Jansson , Mihály Kovács , Annika Lang

We discuss some regularity issues in the study of the obstacle problem. In particular, we present a recent result by O. Savin and the author on the regularity of the singular set for the obstacle problem with a fully nonlinear elliptic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-10-22 Hui Yu

Nowadays, fractional differential equations are a well established tool to model phenomena from the real world. Since the analytical solution is rarely available, there is a great effort in constructing efficient numerical methods for their…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-29 Enza Pellegrino , Laura Pezza , Francesca Pitolli

We consider fully nonlinear elliptic integro-differential operators with kernels of variable orders, which generalize the integro-differential operators of the fractional Laplacian type in \cite{CS}. Since the order of differentiability of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-05-22 Minhyun Kim , Ki-Ahm Lee

In this paper, we present numerical procedures to compute solutions of partial differential equations posed on fractals. In particular, we consider the strong form of the equation using standard graph Laplacian matrices and also weak forms…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-05-20 Fernando Contreras , Juan Galvis

For the singular integral definition of the fractional Laplacian, we consider an adaptive finite element method steered by two-level error indicators. For this algorithm, we show linear convergence in two and three space dimensions as well…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-28 Markus Faustmann , Ernst Peter Stephan , David Wörgötter

This paper presents an innovative continuous linear finite element approach to effectively solve biharmonic problems on surfaces. The key idea behind this method lies in the strategic utilization of a surface gradient recovery operator to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-30 Ying Cai , Hailong Guo , Zhimin Zhang

We prove a uniqueness theorem for the obstacle problem for linear equations involving the fractional Laplacian with zero Dirichlet exterior condition. The problem under consideration arises as the limit of some logistic-type equations. Our…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-30 Tomasz Klimsiak

Despite significant recent advances in the regularity theory for obstacle problems with integro-differential operators, some fundamental questions remained open. On the one hand, there was a lack of understanding of parabolic problems with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-29 Alessio Figalli , Xavier Ros-Oton , Joaquim Serra

Non-self-adjoint second-order ordinary differential operators on a finite interval with complex weights are studied. Properties of spectral characteristics are established and the inverse problem of recovering operators from their spectral…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2024-02-09 V. A. Yurko