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Thanks to a finite element method, we solve numerically parabolic partial differential equations on complex domains by avoiding the mesh generation, using a regular background mesh, not fitting the domain and its real boundary exactly. Our…

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In this paper, both semidiscrete and fully discrete finite element methods are analyzed for the penalized two-dimensional unsteady Navier-Stokes equations with nonsmooth initial data. First order backward Euler method is applied for the…

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We study the regularity of the solution to an obstacle problem for a class of integro-differential operators. The differential part is a second order elliptic operator, whereas the nonlocal part is given by the integral fractional…

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The aim of this work is to derive a priori error estimates for finite element discretizations of control--constrained optimal control problems that involve the Stokes system and Dirac measures. The first problem entails the minimization of…

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The aim of this paper is to extend the global error estimation and control addressed in Lang and Verwer [SIAM J. Sci. Comput. 29, 2007] for initial value problems to finite difference solutions of semilinear parabolic partial differential…

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In this paper we provide some error estimates for the div least-squares finite element method on elliptic problems. The main contribution is presenting a complete error analysis, which improves the current \emph{state-of-the-art} results.…

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This paper introduces a new computational methodology for determining a-posteriori multi-objective error estimates for finite-element approximations, and for constructing corresponding (quasi-)optimal adaptive refinements of finite-element…

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