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We present a continuous finite element method for some examples of fully nonlinear elliptic equation. A key tool is the discretisation proposed in Lakkis & Pryer (2011, SISC) allowing us to work directly on the strong form of a linear PDE.…

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In this work, we mainly present the optimal convergence rates of the temporally second-order finite element scheme for solving the electrohydrodynamic equation. Suffering from the highly coupled nonlinearity, the convergence analysis of the…

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This article proposes a new numerical algorithm for second order elliptic equations in non-divergence form. The new method is based on a discrete weak Hessian operator locally constructed by following the weak Galerkin strategy. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-10-14 Chunmei Wang , Junping Wang

We consider an elliptic partial differential equation in non-divergence form with a random diffusion matrix and random forcing term. To address this, we propose a mixed-type continuous finite element discretization in the physical domain,…

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We consider second-order PDE problems set in unbounded domains and discretized by Lagrange finite elements on a finite mesh, thus introducing an artificial boundary in the discretization. Specifically, we consider the reaction diffusion…

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In this paper, we establish the second order estimates of solutions to the first initial-boundary value problem for general Hessian type fully nonlinear parabolic equations on Riemannian manifolds. The techniques used in this article can…

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We investigate the application of a posteriori error estimates to a fractional optimal control problem with pointwise control constraints. Specifically, we address a problem in which the state equation is formulated as an integral form of…

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We present a class of nonconforming virtual element methods for general fourth order partial differential equations in two dimensions. We develop a generic approach for constructing the necessary projection operators and virtual element…

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In this article we develop a convergence theory for goal-oriented adaptive finite element algorithms designed for a class of second-order semilinear elliptic equations. We briefly discuss the target problem class, and introduce several…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-04-24 Michael Holst , Sara Pollock , Yunrong Zhu

We prove precise rates of convergence for monotone approximation schemes of fractional and nonlocal Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equations. We consider diffusion corrected difference-quadrature schemes from the literature and new…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-09-04 Indranil Chowdhury , Espen R. Jakobsen

The porous medium equation (PME) is a typical nonlinear degenerate parabolic equation. An energetic variational approach has been studied in a recent work [6], in which the trajectory equation is obtained, and a few first order accurate…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-23 Chenghua Duan , Wenbin Chen , Chun Liu , Cheng Wang , Xingye Yue

This paper concerns the inclusion of Newton's method into an adaptive finite element method (FEM) for the solution of nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs). It features an adaptive choice of the damping parameter in the Newton…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-23 Philipp Bringmann , Maximilian Brunner , Dirk Praetorius

This paper is concerned with finite element approximations of $W^{2,p}$ strong solutions of second-order linear elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs) in non-divergence form with continuous coefficients. A nonstandard (primal)…

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We consider finite element approximations for a one dimensional second order stochastic differential equation of boundary value type driven by a fractional Brownian motion with Hurst index $H\le 1/2$. We make use of a sequence of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-08 Yanzhao Cao , Jialin Hong , Zhihui Liu

We analyze adaptive mesh-refining algorithms for conforming finite element discretizations of certain non-linear second-order partial differential equations. We allow continuous polynomials of arbitrary, but fixed polynomial order. The…

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This paper develops a new framework for designing and analyzing convergent finite difference methods for approximating both classical and viscosity solutions of second order fully nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs) in 1-D. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-02-28 Xiaobing Feng , Chiu-Yen Kao , Thomas Lewis

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…

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While many methods exist to discretize nonlinear time-dependent partial differential equations (PDEs), the rigorous estimation and adaptive control of their discretization errors remains challenging. In this paper, we present a methodology…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-06-15 Xunxun Wu , Kristoffer van der Zee , Gorkem Simsek , Harald Van Brummelen

We consider the approximation of singularly perturbed linear second-order boundary value problems by $hp$-finite element methods. In particular, we include the case where the associated differential operator may not be coercive. Within this…

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