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This paper presents a primal-dual weak Galerkin (PD-WG) finite element method for a class of second order elliptic equations of Fokker-Planck type. The method is based on a variational form where all the derivatives are applied to the test…

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In this article, using the weighted discrete least-squares, we propose a patch reconstruction finite element space with only one degree of freedom per element. As the approximation space, it is applied to the discontinuous Galerkin methods…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-03 Di Yang , Yinnian He

A new weak Galerkin (WG) finite element method for solving the second-order elliptic problems on polygonal meshes by using polynomials of boundary continuity is introduced and analyzed. The WG method is utilizing weak functions and their…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-09-30 Qilong Zhai , Xiu Ye , Ruishu Wang , Ran Zhang

We provide a framework for high-order discretizations of nonlinear scalar convection-diffusion equations that satisfy a discrete maximum principle. The resulting schemes can have arbitrarily high order accuracy in time and space, and can be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-20 Manuel Quezada de Luna , David I. Ketcheson

This article provides quasi-optimal a priori error estimates for an optimal control problem constrained by an elliptic obstacle problem where the finite element discretization is carried out using the symmetric interior penalty…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-21 Harbir Antil , Rohit Khandelwal , Umarkhon Rakhimov

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-17 Hyeokjoo Park , Do Y. Kwak

We devise a stabilized method to weakly enforce bound constraints in the discrete solution of advection-dominated diffusion problems. This method combines a nonlinear penalty formulation with a discontinuous Galerkin-based residual…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-24 Roberto J. Cier , Sergio Rojas , Victor M. Calo

This article develops a weak Galerkin least-squares (WG--LS) finite element method for first-order linear convection equations in non-divergence form. The method is formulated using discontinuous finite element functions and does not…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-05 Chunmei Wang , Shangyou Zhang

This paper introduces a numerical scheme for time harmonic Maxwell's equations by using weak Galerkin (WG) finite element methods. The WG finite element method is based on two operators: discrete weak curl and discrete weak gradient, with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-12-10 Lin Mu , Junping Wang , Xiu Ye , Shangyou Zhang

We introduce and rigorously analyze a least-squares weak Galerkin (LS-WG) finite element method for the severely ill-posed Cauchy problem of convection--diffusion equations. The proposed framework utilizes weak derivatives defined on a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-15 Chunmei Wang , Shangyou Zhang

In this work, we establish that discontinuous Galerkin methods are capable of producing reliable approximations for a broad class of nonlinear variational problems. In particular, we demonstrate that these schemes provide essential…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-22 Georgios Grekas , Konstantinos Koumatos , Charalambos Makridakis , Andreas Vikelis

In this paper, we present and analyze an interior penalty discontinuous Galerkin method for the distributed elliptic optimal control problems. It is based on a reconstructed discontinuous approximation which admits arbitrarily high-order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-05 Ruo Li , Haoyang Liu , Jun Yin

In many applications of practical interest, solutions of partial differential equation models arise as critical points of an underlying (energy) functional. If such solutions are saddle points, rather than being maxima or minima, then the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-07 Pascal Heid , Thomas P. Wihler

We consider the initial/boundary value problem for a diffusion equation involving multiple time-fractional derivatives on a bounded convex polyhedral domain. We analyze a space semidiscrete scheme based on the standard Galerkin finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-18 Bangti Jin , Raytcho Lazarov , Yikan Liu , Zhi Zhou

We propose a numerical method for convection-diffusion problems under low regularity assumptions. We derive the method and analyze it using the primal-dual weak Galerkin (PDWG) finite element framework. The Euler-Lagrange formulation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Chunmei Wang , Ludmil Zikatanov

A discrete divergence-free weak Galerkin finite element method is developed for the Stokes equations based on a weak Galerkin (WG) method introduced in the reference [15]. Discrete divergence-free bases are constructed explicitly for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-03-01 Lin Mu , Junping Wang , Xiu Ye

In this paper we discuss the local discontinuous Galerkin methods coupled with two specific explicit-implicit-null time discretizations for solving one-dimensional nonlinear diffusion problems $U_t=(a(U)U_x)_x$. The basic idea is to add and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-03-29 Haijin Wang , Qiang Zhang , Shiping Wang , Chi-Wang Shu

We extend the finite element method introduced by Lakkis and Pryer [2011] to approximate the solution of second order elliptic problems in nonvariational form to incorporate the discontinuous Galerkin (DG) framework. This is done by viewing…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-04-09 Andreas Dedner , Tristan Pryer

We extend the applicability of the popular interior-penalty discontinuous Galerkin (dG) method discretizing advection-diffusion-reaction problems to meshes comprising extremely general, essentially arbitrarily-shaped element shapes. In…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-11 Andrea Cangiani , Zhaonan Dong , Emmanuil H. Georgoulis

We propose and analyze a discretization scheme that combines the discontinuous Petrov-Galerkin and finite element methods. The underlying model problem is of general diffusion-advection-reaction type on bounded domains, with decomposition…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-04-26 Thomas Führer , Norbert Heuer , Michael Karkulik , Rodolfo Rodríguez