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A finite element method for elliptic problems with discontinuous coefficients is presented. The discontinuity is assumed to take place along a closed smooth curve. The proposed method allows to deal with meshes that are not adapted to the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-07-12 Gunther H. Peichl , Rachid Touzani

We present numerical experiments for geophysics electromagnetic (EM) modeling based upon high-order edge elements and supervised $h+p$ refinement approaches on massively parallel computers. Our high-order $h+p$ refinement strategy is based…

We consider a two-dimensional singularly perturbed transmission problem with two different diffusion coefficients, in a domain with smooth (analytic) boundary. The solution will contain boundary layers only in the part of the domain where…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-04-06 Serge Nicaise , Xenophontos Christos

Hybridizable \(H(\textrm{div})\)-conforming finite elements for symmetric tensors on simplices with barycentric refinement are developed in this work for arbitrary dimensions and any polynomial order. By employing barycentric refinement and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-27 Long Chen , Xuehai Huang

A nonlinear Helmholtz (NLH) equation with high frequencies and corner singularities is discretized by the linear finite element method (FEM). After deriving some wave-number-explicit stability estimates and the singularity decomposition for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-28 Run Jiang , Haijun Wu , Yifeng Xu , Jun Zou

The hp-version of the finite element method is applied to singularly perturbed reaction-diffusion type equations on polygonal domains. The solution exhibits boundary layers as well as corner layers. On a class of meshes that are suitable…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-03-07 Jens Markus Melenk , Markus Faustmann

This work develops a convergence theory for H(div)-conforming finite element methods applied to the steady Oseen problem, focusing on cases where the exact finite element complex holds while the commuting diagram property may fail. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-01 Jin Zhang , Xiaowei Liu

In this paper, we present a new polygonal finite element method, called the Zipped Finite Element Method, for star-shaped polygons. The proposed approach constructs high-order shape functions as linear combinations of standard finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-27 Stefano Berrone , Lorenzo Neva , Moreno Pintore , Gioana Teora , Fabio Vicini

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 within a finite element approach the usage of different adaptively refined meshes for different variables in systems of nonlinear, time-depended PDEs. To resolve different solution behaviours of these variables, the meshes can…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-05-27 Thomas Witkowski , Axel Voigt

The finite-element method is a preferred numerical method when electromagnetic fields at high accuracy are to be computed in nano-optics design. Here, we demonstrate a finite-element method using hp-adaptivity on tetrahedral meshes for…

In this paper, we present a finite element method (FEM) framework enhanced by an operator-adapted wavelet decomposition algorithm designed for the efficient analysis of multiscale electromagnetic problems. Usual adaptive FEM approaches,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-02-18 F. Şık , F. L. Teixeira , B. Shanker

The paper develops a finite element method for partial differential equations posed on hypersurfaces in $\mathbb{R}^N$, $N=2,3$. The method uses traces of bulk finite element functions on a surface embedded in a volumetric domain. The bulk…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-19 Alexey Y. Chernyshenko , Maxim A. Olshanskii

We present a novel approach for the construction of basis functions to be employed in selective or adaptive h-refined finite element applications with arbitrary-level hanging node configurations. Our analysis is not restricted to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-03 Eugenio Aulisa , Giacomo Capodaglio , Guoyi Ke

Finite differences, finite elements, and their generalizations are widely used for solving partial differential equations, and their high-order variants have respective advantages and disadvantages. Traditionally, these methods are treated…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-22 Rebecca Conley , Xiangmin Jiao , Tristan J. Delaney

The eXtended Finite Element Method (XFEM) is used to solve interface problems with an unfitted mesh. We present an implementation of the XFEM in the FEM-library deal.II. The main parts of the implementation are (i) the appropriate…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-07-16 Thomas Carraro , Sven Wetterauer

We introduce an integrated meshing and finite element method pipeline enabling black-box solution of partial differential equations in the volume enclosed by a boundary representation. We construct a hybrid hexahedral-dominant mesh, which…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2022-02-04 Teseo Schneider , Jeremie Dumas , Xifeng Gao , Mario Botsch , Daniele Panozzo , Denis Zorin

In this paper, we propose a novel $hr$-adaptive finite element method, enhanced by neural networks, for parabolic equations. The main challenge of the conventional $h$-adaptive finite element method is interpolating the finite element…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-22 Jiaxiong Hao , Yunqing Huang , Nianyu Yi , Peimeng Yin

This paper presents a novel approach for solving fourth-order phase-field models in brittle fracture mechanics using the Interior Penalty Finite Element Method (IP-FEM). The fourth-order model improves numerical stability and accuracy…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-15 Tian Tian , Chen Chunyu , Wei Huayi

We summarise three applications of the obstacle problem to membrane contact, elastoplastic torsion and cavitation modelling, and show how the resulting models can be solved using mixed finite elements. It is challenging to construct fixed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-28 Tom Gustafsson