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We consider adaptive finite element methods for solving a multiscale system consisting of a macroscale model comprising a system of reaction-diffusion partial differential equations coupled to a microscale model comprising a system of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-22 A. Johansson , J. H. Chaudry , V. Carey , D. Estep , V. Ginting , M. Larson , S. Tavener

This paper details the development and application of an $h$-adaptive finite element method for the numerical solution of the \textit{Falkner-Skan equation}. A posteriori error estimation governs the adaptivity of the mesh, specifically the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-06 B. Veena S. N. Rao

In this paper, we introduce a new approach to solving the porous medium equation using a moving mesh finite element method that leverages the Onsager variational principle as an approximation tool. Both the continuous and discrete problems…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-01 Si Xiao , Xianmin Xu

Fitted finite element methods are constructed for a singularly perturbed convection-diffusion problem in two space dimensions. Exponential splines as basis functions are combined with Shishkin meshes to obtain a stable parameter-uniform…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-03 Alan F. Hegarty , Eugene O'Riordan

We present a novel energy-based numerical analysis of semilinear diffusion-reaction boundary value problems. Based on a suitable variational setting, the proposed computational scheme can be seen as an energy minimisation approach. More…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-16 Mario Amrein , Pascal Heid , Thomas P. Wihler

We consider goal-oriented adaptive space-time finite-element discretizations of the parabolic heat equation on completely unstructured simplicial space-time meshes. In some applications, we are interested in an accurate computation of some…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-31 Bernhard Endtmayer , Andreas Schafelner

This paper interprets the stabilized finite element method via residual minimization as a variational multiscale method. We approximate the solution to the partial differential equations using two discrete spaces that we build on a…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Juan F. Giraldo , Victor M. Calo

This is a study of certain finite element methods designed for convection-dominated, time-dependent partial differential equations. Specifically, we analyze high order space-time tensor product finite element discretizations, used in a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-10-30 Randolph E. Bank , Maximilian S. Metti

We consider an interface problem often arising in transport problems: a coupled system of partial differential equations with one (elliptic) transport equation on a bounded domain and one equation (in this case the Laplace problem) on the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-05-24 Christoph Erath , Robert Schorr

We introduce a framework for the design of finite element methods for two-dimensional moving boundary problems with prescribed boundary evolution that have arbitrarily high order of accuracy, both in space and in time. At the core of our…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-19 Evan S. Gawlik , Adrian J. Lew

We analyze optimal complexity of adaptive finite element methods (AFEMs) for general second-order linear elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs) in the Lax-Milgram setting. To this end, we formulate an adaptive algorithm which steers…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Thomas Führer , Paula Hilbert , Ani Miraçi , Dirk Praetorius

Many problems in physics are inherently of multi-scale nature. The issues of MHD turbulence or magnetic reconnection, namely in the hot and sparse, almost collision-less astrophysical plasmas, can stand as clear examples. The Finite Element…

Computational Physics · Physics 2012-06-14 Jan Skala , Miroslav Barta

This article is concerned with the numerical solution of convex variational problems. More precisely, we develop an iterative minimisation technique which allows for the successive enrichment of an underlying discrete approximation space in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-07-07 Paul Houston , Thomas P. Wihler

We develop all of the components needed to construct an adaptive finite element code that can be used to approximate fractional partial differential equations, on non-trivial domains in $d\geq 1$ dimensions. Our main approach consists of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-02-14 Mark Ainsworth , Christian Glusa

A Lagrangian-type numerical scheme called the "comoving mesh method" or CMM is developed for numerically solving certain classes of moving boundary problems which include, for example, the classical Hele-Shaw flow problem and the well-known…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-02 Yosuke Sunayama , Masato Kimura , Julius Fergy Rabago

An adaptive finite element method is presented for the elastic scattering of a time-harmonic plane wave by a periodic surface. First, the unbounded physical domain is truncated into a bounded computational domain by introducing the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-05-30 Xue Jiang , Peijun Li , Junliang Lv , Weiying Zheng

Numerical computations of stationary states of fast-rotating Bose-Einstein condensates require high spatial resolution due to the presence of a large number of quantized vortices. In this paper we propose a low-order finite element method…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-18 Ionut Danaila , Frederic Hecht

The paper presents a numerical study for the finite element method with anisotropic meshes. We compare the accuracy of the numerical solutions on quasi-uniform, isotropic, and anisotropic meshes for a test problem which combines several…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-11-20 Weizhang Huang , Lennard Kamenski , Jens Lang

The convergence of an adaptive mixed finite element method for general second order linear elliptic problems defined on simply connected bounded polygonal domains is analyzed in this paper. The main difficulties in the analysis are posed by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-02-14 Asha K. Dond , Neela Nataraj , Amiya K. Pani

In moving mesh methods, the underlying mesh is dynamically adapted without changing the connectivity of the mesh. We specifically consider the generation of meshes which are adapted to a scalar monitor function through equidistribution.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-11-23 Andrew T. T. McRae , Colin J. Cotter , Chris J. Budd