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We consider the singularly perturbed fourth-order boundary value problem $\varepsilon ^{2}\Delta ^{2}u-\Delta u=f $ on the unit square $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^2$, with boundary conditions $u = \partial u / \partial n = 0$ on $\partial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-01 Shicheng Liu , Xiangyun Meng , Qilong Zhai

The weak Galerkin finite element method is a novel numerical method that was first proposed and analyzed by Wang and Ye for general second order elliptic problems on triangular meshes. The goal of this paper is to conduct a computational…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-11-14 Lin Mu , Junping Wang , Yanqiu Wang , Xiu Ye

In this paper, we design and analysis a modified weak Galerkin (MWG) finite element method for $\boldsymbol{H}(\mathrm{curl})-$elliptic problem. We first introduce a new discrete weak curl operator and the MWG finite element space. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-25 Ming Tang , Liuqiang Zhong , Yingying Xie

A weak Galerkin (WG) finite element method without stabilizers was introduced in [J. Comput. Appl. Math., 371 (2020). arXiv:1906.06634] on polytopal mesh. Then it was improved in [arXiv:2008.13631] with order one superconvergence. The goal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-21 Xiu Ye , Shangyou Zhang

This paper presents a hybridized formulation for the weak Galerkin finite element method for the biharmonic equation. The hybridized weak Galerkin scheme is based on the use of a Lagrange multiplier defined on the element boundaries. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-02-06 Chunmei Wang , Junping Wang

In this paper, we propose a simple numerical algorithm based on the weak Galerkin (WG) finite element method for a class of fourth-order problems in fluorescence tomography (FT), eliminating the need for stabilizer terms required in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-25 Chunmei Wang , Shangyou Zhang

We establish that the Weak Galerkin methods are rewritings of the hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin methods.

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-12-20 Bernardo Cockburn

In this article a simplified weak Galerkin finite element method is developed for the Dirichlet boundary value problem of convection-diffusion-reaction equations. The simplified weak Galerkin method utilizes only the degrees of freedom on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-29 Yujie Liu , Junping Wang

The weak Galerkin (WG) methods have been introduced in the references [11, 16] for solving the biharmonic equation. The purpose of this paper is to develop an algorithm to implement the WG methods effectively. This can be achieved by…

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

This paper introduces an auto-stabilized weak Galerkin (WG) finite element method for biharmonic equations with built-in stabilizers. Unlike existing stabilizer-free WG methods limited to convex elements in finite element partitions, our…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-11 Chunmei Wang

A stabilizing/penalty term is often used in finite element methods with discontinuous approximations to enforce connection of discontinuous functions across element boundaries. Removing stabilizers from discontinuous finite element methods…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-15 Xiu Ye , Shangyou Zhang

This article introduces and analyzes a weak Galerkin mixed finite element method for solving the biharmonic equation. The weak Galerkin method, first introduced by two of the authors (J. Wang and X. Ye) in an earlier publication for second…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-12-05 Lin Mu , Junping Wang , Yanqiu Wang , Xiu Ye

In this paper, we introduce and analyze a lowest-order locking-free weak Galerkin (WG) finite element scheme for the grad-div formulation of linear elasticity problems. The scheme uses linear functions in the interior of mesh elements and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-12 Fuchang Huo , Ruishu Wang , Yanqiu Wang , Ran Zhang

A new stabilizer free weak Galerkin (WG) method is introduced and analyzed for the biharmonic equation. Stabilizing/penalty terms are often necessary in the finite element formulations with discontinuous approximations to ensure the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-23 Xiu Ye , Shangyou Zhang

A new primal-dual weak Galerkin (PDWG) finite element method is introduced and analyzed for the ill-posed elliptic Cauchy problems with ultra-low regularity assumptions on the exact solution. The Euler-Lagrange formulation resulting from…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-26 Chunmei Wang

In this paper, we observe an interesting phenomenon for a hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin (HDG) method for eigenvalue problems. Specifically, using the same finite element method, we may achieve both upper and lower eigenvalue bounds…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-01 Qigang Liang , Xuejun Xu , Liuyao Yuan

We establish a simple, rigorous, and easy to implement connection between the classical continuous finite element method (FEM) and the discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method for Poisson's problem. The key idea is to insert a vanishing-thickness…

In an electrostatic simulation, an equipotential condition with an undefined/floating potential value has to be enforced on the surface of an isolated conductor. If this conductor is charged, a nonzero charge condition is also required.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-28 Liang Chen , Ming Dong , Ping Li , Hakan Bagci

Hybrid finite element methods, particularly hybridized discontinuous Galerkin (HDG) methods, are efficient numerical schemes for discretizing the diffusion equation, which encompasses two main physical principles: mass conservation and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-14 Petr Knobloch , Philip L. Lederer , Andreas Rupp

We survey finite element methods for approximating the time harmonic Maxwell equations. We concentrate on comparing error estimates for problems with spatially varying coefficients. For the conforming edge finite element methods, such…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-23 Peter Monk , Yangwen Zhang