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We propose a multiscale spectral generalized finite element method (MS-GFEM) for discontinuous Galerkin (DG) discretizations. The method builds local approximations on overlapping subdomains as the sum of a local source solution and a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-15 Christian Alber , Lukas Holbach

We derive and analyze a hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin (HDG) method for approximating weak solutions to the equations of time-harmonic linear elasticity on a bounded Lipschitz domain in three dimensions. The real symmetry of the stress…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-18 Allan Hungria , Daniele Prada , Francisco-Javier Sayas

Explicit, unconditionally stable, high-order schemes for the approximation of some first- andsecond-order linear, time-dependent partial differential equations (PDEs) are proposed.The schemes are based on a weak formulation of a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-11-15 Olivier Bokanowski , Giorevinus Simarmata

In order to perform electroencephalography (EEG) source reconstruction, i.e., to localize the sources underlying a measured EEG, the electric potential distribution at the electrodes generated by a dipolar current source in the brain has to…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2016-11-16 Christian Engwer , Johannes Vorwerk , Jakob Ludewig , Carsten H. Wolters

We present a novel high-order accurate nodal discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method for solving nonlinear hyperbolic systems of partial differential equations (PDEs) on fully unstructured three-dimensional polyhedral meshes. A mesh generator is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-04 Sixtine Michel , Lorenzo Diazzi , Walter Boscheri

We present and analyze a weak Galerkin finite element method for solving the transport-reaction equation in $d$ space dimensions. This method is highly flexible by allowing the use of discontinuous finite element on general meshes…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-25 Tie Zhang , Shangyou Zhang

We investigate a macro-element variant of the hybridized discontinuous Galerkin (HDG) method, using patches of standard simplicial elements that can have non-matching interfaces. Coupled via the HDG technique, our method enables local…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Vahid Badrkhani , Rene R. Hiemstra , Michal Mika , Dominik Schillinger

One of strengths in the finite element (FE) and Galerkin methods is their capability to apply weak formulations via integration by parts, which leads to elements matching at lower degree of continuity and relaxes requirements of choosing…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 W. Chen

We propose and analyze a space-time finite element method for Westervelt's quasilinear model of ultrasound waves in second-order formulation. The method combines conforming finite element spatial discretizations with a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-19 Sergio Gómez , Vanja Nikolić

We introduce an $hp$-version discontinuous Galerkin finite element method (DGFEM) for the linear Boltzmann transport problem. A key feature of this new method is that, while offering arbitrary order convergence rates, it may be implemented…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-18 Paul Houston , Matthew E. Hubbard , Thomas J. Radley , Oliver J. Sutton , Richard S. J. Widdowson

This paper presents an efficient weak Galerkin (WG) finite element method with reduced stabilizers for solving the time-harmonic Maxwell equations on both convex and non-convex polyhedral meshes. By employing bubble functions as a critical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-29 Chunmei Wang , Shangyou Zhang

We present the recent development of hybridizable and embedded discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods for wave propagation problems in fluids, solids, and electromagnetism. In each of these areas, we describe the methods, discuss their main…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-07-03 Pablo Fernandez , Alexandra Christophe , Sebastien Terrana , Ngoc-Cuong Nguyen , Jaime Peraire

This is a survey on the theory of adaptive finite element methods (AFEMs), which are fundamental in modern computational science and engineering but whose mathematical assessment is a formidable challenge. We present a self-contained and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-20 Andrea Bonito , Claudio Canuto , Ricardo H. Nochetto , Andreas Veeser

We consider the finite element solution of time-harmonic wave propagation problems in heterogeneous media with hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin (HDG) methods. In the case of homogeneous media, it has been observed that the iterative…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-28 Simone Pescuma , Gwénaël Gabard , Théophile Chaumont-Frelet , Axel Modave

This paper introduces and rigorously analyzes a least-squares weak Galerkin (LS-WG) finite element method for the severely ill-posed Cauchy problem associated with the Helmholtz equation. By utilizing a weak Laplacian operator defined on a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-21 Chunmei Wang , Shangyou Zhang

The Galerkin difference (GD) basis is a set of continuous, piecewise polynomials defined using a finite difference like grid of degrees of freedom. The one dimensional GD basis functions are naturally extended to multiple dimensions using…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-03 Jeremy E. Kozdon , Lucas C. Wilcox , Thomas Hagstrom , Jeffrey W. Banks

On meshes with the maximum angle condition violated, the standard conforming, nonconforming, and discontinuous Galerkin finite elements do not converge to the true solution when the mesh size goes to zero. It is shown that one type of weak…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-30 Ran Zhang , Shangyou Zhang

In this work we propose a weighted hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin method (W-HDG) for drift-diffusion problems. By using specific exponential weights when computing the $L^2$ product in each cell of the discretization, we are able to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-04-13 Wenyu Lei , Stefano Piani , Patricio Farrell , Nella Rotundo , Luca Heltai

A linear semi-implicit hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin (HDG) scheme is proposed to solve the diffusive Peterlin viscoelastic model, allowing the diffusion coefficient $\ep$ of the conformation tensor to be arbitrarily small. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-12 Sibang Gou , Jingyan Hu , Qi Wang , Feifei Jing , Guanyu Zhou

In this paper, we consider the constrained energy minimizing generalized multiscale finite element method (CEM-GMsFEM) with discontinuous Galerkin (DG) coupling for the linear elasticity equations in highly heterogeneous and high contrast…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-09 Zhongqian Wang , Shubin Fu , Eric Chung