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We study the systematic numerical approximation of Maxwell's equations in dispersive media. Two discretization strategies are considered, one based on a traditional leapfrog time integration method and the other based on convolution…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-02 Jürgen Dölz , Herbert Egger , Vsevolod Shashkov

We analyze a finite element/boundary element procedure to solve a non-convex contact problem for the double-well potential. After relaxing the associated functional, the degenerate minimization problem is reduced to a boundary/domain…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-09-16 Heiko Gimperlein , Matthias Maischak , Elmar Schrohe , Ernst P. Stephan

We consider a mixed dimensional elliptic partial differential equation posed in a bulk domain with a large number of embedded interfaces. In particular, we study well-posedness of the problem and regularity of the solution. We also propose…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-02 Fredrik Hellman , Axel Målqvist , Malin Mosquera

We consider a boundary value problem involving a Riemann-Liouville fractional derivative of order $\alpha\in (3/2,2)$ on the unit interval $(0,1)$. The standard Galerkin finite element approximation converges slowly due to the presence of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-02 Bangti Jin , Raytcho Lazarov , Xiliang Lu , Zhi Zhou

In this paper, we propose a weak Galerkin (WG) finite element method for the Maxwell eigenvalue problem. By restricting subspaces, we transform the mixed form of Maxwell eigenvalue problem into simple elliptic equation. Then we give the WG…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-24 Shusheng Li , Qilong Zhai

Light scattering in disordered media plays an important role in various areas of applied science from biophysics to astronomy. In this paper we study two approaches to calculate scattering properties of semi-infinite densely packed media…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-04-12 Sofia Ponomareva , Alexey A. Shcherbakov

This paper is concerned with error estimates of the fully discrete generalized finite element method (GFEM) with optimal local approximation spaces for solving elliptic problems with heterogeneous coefficients. The local approximation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-10-01 Chupeng Ma , Robert Scheichl

To model wave propagation in inhomogeneous media with frequency-dependent power-law attenuation, it is needed to use the fractional powers of symmetric coercive elliptic operators in space and the Caputo tempered fractional derivative in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-11-19 Yajing Li , Yejuan Wang , Weihua Deng

This paper analyses the finite element component of the error when using preintegration to approximate the cdf and pdf for uncertainty quantification (UQ) problems involving elliptic PDEs with random inputs. It is a follow up to Gilbert,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Alexander D. Gilbert

We study fully discrete linearized Galerkin finite element approximations to a nonlinear gradient flow, applications of which can be found in many areas. Due to the strong nonlinearity of the equation, existing analyses for implicit schemes…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-06-17 Buyang Li , Weiwei Sun

We study the numerical approximation of advection-diffusion equations with highly oscillatory coefficients and possibly dominant advection terms by means of the Multiscale Finite Element Method. The latter method is a now classical, finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-12 Rutger A. Biezemans , Claude Le Bris , Frédéric Legoll , Alexei Lozinski

We estimate best-approximation errors using vector-valued finite elements for fields with low regularity in the scale of fractional-order Sobolev spaces. By assuming additionally that the target field has a curl or divergence property, we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-04 Zhaonan Dong , Alexandre Ern , Jean-Luc Guermond

The electroporoelasticity model, which couples Maxwell's equations with Biot's equations, plays a critical role in applications such as water conservancy exploration, earthquake early warning, and various other fields. This work focuses on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-25 Xuan Liu , Yongkui Zou , Ran Zhang , Yanzhao Cao , Amnon J. Meir

We address the numerical treatment of source terms in algebraic flux correction schemes for steady convection-diffusion-reaction (CDR) equations. The proposed algorithm constrains a continuous piecewise-linear finite element approximation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-09 Petr Knobloch , Dmitri Kuzmin , Abhinav Jha

Partial differential equations (PDEs) are at the heart of many mathematical and scientific advances. While great progress has been made on the theory of PDEs of standard types during the last eight decades, the analysis of nonlinear PDEs of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-08-16 Gui-Qiang G. Chen

We investigate mathematically a nonlinear approximation type approach recently introduced in [A. Ammar et al., J. Non-Newtonian Fluid Mech., 2006] to solve high dimensional partial differential equations. We show the link between the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2008-11-05 C. Le Bris , T. Lelievre , Y. Maday

We present strongly stable semi-discrete finite difference approximations to the quarter space problem (x>0, t>0) for the first order in time, second order in space wave equation with a shift term. We consider space-like (pure outflow) and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-11 Gioel Calabrese , Carsten Gundlach

In this article, we analyze semi-discrete finite element approximation and full discretization of a fourth-order stochastic pseudo-parabolic equation in a bounded convex polygonal domain driven by additive Wiener noise. We use the finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Suprio Bhar , Mrinmay Biswas , Mangala Prasad

Interpolation methods for nonlinear finite element discretizations are commonly used to eliminate the computational costs associated with the repeated assembly of the nonlinear systems. While the group finite element formulation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-24 Kevin Tolle , Nicole Marheineke

The time-harmonic Maxwell equations with impedance boundary condition and large wave number are discretized using the second-type N\'{e}d\'{e}lec's edge element method (EEM). Preasymptotic error bounds are derived, showing that, under the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Shuaishuai Lu , Haijun Wu