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In this work, we develop an adaptive algorithm for the efficient numerical solution of the minimum compliance problem in topology optimization. The algorithm employs the phase field approximation and continuous density field. The adaptive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-18 Bangti Jin , Jing Li , Yifeng Xu , Shengfeng Zhu

An error analysis of trigonometric integrators (or exponential integrators) applied to spatial semi-discretizations of semilinear wave equations with periodic boundary conditions in one space dimension is given. In particular, optimal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-02-03 Ludwig Gauckler

We analyze adaptive mesh-refining algorithms in the frame of boundary element methods (BEM) and the coupling of finite elements and boundary elements (FEM-BEM). Adaptivity is driven by the two-level error estimator proposed by Ernst P.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-12-10 Michael Feischl , Thomas Führer , Gregor Mitscha-Eibl , Dirk Praetorius , Ernst P. Stephan

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

Optimal convergence rates of adaptive finite element methods are well understood in terms of the axioms of adaptivity. One key ingredient is the discrete reliability of a residual-based a posteriori error estimator, which controls the error…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-11-06 Carsten Carstensen , Sophie Puttkammer

During design optimization, a smooth description of the geometry is important, especially for problems that are sensitive to the way interfaces are resolved, e.g., wave propagation or fluid-structure interaction. A levelset description of…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Sanne J. van den Boom , Jian Zhang , Fred van Keulen , Alejandro M. Aragón

We consider linear reaction-diffusion equations posed on unbounded domains, and discretized by adaptive Lagrange finite elements. To obtain finite-dimensional spaces, it is necessary to introduce a truncation boundary, whereby only a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-13 Théophile Chaumont-Frelet , Gregor Gantner

We present a novel probabilistic finite element method (FEM) for the solution and uncertainty quantification of elliptic partial differential equations based on random meshes, which we call random mesh FEM (RM-FEM). Our methodology allows…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-17 Assyr Abdulle , Giacomo Garegnani

This paper proposes and analyzes an a posteriori error estimator for the finite element multi-scale discretization approximation of the Steklov eigenvalue problem. Based on the a posteriori error estimates, an adaptive algorithm of shifted…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-01-08 Hai Bi , Hao Li , Yidu Yang

We propose and analyze a general goal-oriented adaptive strategy for approximating quantities of interest (QoIs) associated with solutions to linear elliptic partial differential equations with random inputs. The QoIs are represented by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-11 Alex Bespalov , Dirk Praetorius , Thomas Round , Andrey Savinov

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

Recovery type a posteriori error estimators are popular, particularly in the engineering community, for their computationally inexpensive, easy to implement, and generally asymptotically exactness. Unlike the residual type error estimators,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-26 Ying Liu , Jingjing Xiao , Nianyu Yi , Huihui Cao

This paper is concerned with the adaptive numerical treatment of stochastic partial differential equations. Our method of choice is Rothe's method. We use the implicit Euler scheme for the time discretization. Consequently, in each step, an…

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 propose and analyze an adaptive finite element method for a phase-field model of dynamic brittle fracture. The model couples a second-order hyperbolic equation for elastodynamics with the Ambrosio-Tortorelli regularization of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-08 Ram Manohar , S. M. Mallikarjuaniah

We consider a coefficient inverse problem for the dielectric permittivity in Maxwell's equations, with data consisting of boundary measurements of one or two backscattered or transmitted waves. The problem is treated using a Lagrangian…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-03-18 John Bondestam Malmberg , Larisa Beilina

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-06 Shengfeng Wang , Zeyu Xia , Maojun Li

This paper presents a novel methodology of local adaptivity for the frequency-domain analysis of the vibrations of Reissner-Mindlin plates. The adaptive discretization is based on the recently developed Geometry Independent Field…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-17 Peng Yu , Cosmin Anitescu , Satyendra Tomar , Stéphane Bordas , Pierre Kerfriden

The nonconforming virtual element method (NCVEM) for the approximation of the weak solution to a general linear second-order non-selfadjoint indefinite elliptic PDE in a polygonal domain is analyzed under reduced elliptic regularity. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-15 Carsten Carstensen , Rekha Khot , Amiya K. Pani

In this paper, we define new unfitted finite element methods for numerically approximating the solution of surface partial differential equations using bulk finite elements. The key idea is that the $n$-dimensional hypersurface, $\Gamma…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-03-21 Klaus Deckelnick , Charles M. Elliott , Thomas Ranner