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In this paper, we propose a space-time least-squares isogeometric method to solve parabolic evolution problems, well suited for high-degree smooth splines in the space-time domain. We focus on the linear solver and its computational…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-09-17 Monica Montardini , Matteo Negri , Giancarlo Sangalli , Mattia Tani

This paper is concerned with the analysis of a new stable space-time finite element method (FEM) for the numerical solution of parabolic evolution problems in moving spatial computational domains. The discrete bilinear form is elliptic on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-14 Stephen Edward Moore

We develop Aubin--Nitsche-type estimates for recently proposed first-order system least-squares finite element methods (FOSLS) for the heat equation. Under certain assumptions, which are satisfied if the spatial domain is convex and the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-30 Thomas Führer , Gregor Gantner

We consider a space-time finite element method on fully unstructured simplicial meshes for optimal sparse control of semilinear parabolic equations. The objective is a combination of a standard quadratic tracking-type functional including a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-01 Ulrich Langer , Olaf Steinbach , Fredi Tröltzsch , Huidong Yang

We consider the space-time boundary element method (BEM) for the heat equation with prescribed initial and Dirichlet data. We propose a residual-type a posteriori error estimator that is a lower bound and, up to weighted $L_2$-norms of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-11 Gregor Gantner , Raymond van Venetië

This paper presents a unified Least-Squares framework for solving nonlinear partial differential equations by recasting the governing system as a residual minimisation problem. A Least-Squares functional is formulated and the corresponding…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-10 Fleurianne Bertrand , Maximilian Brodbeck , Tim Ricken , Henrik Schneider

In this paper, a least-squares finite element method for scalar nonlinear hyperbolic balance laws is proposed and studied. The approach is based on a formulation that utilizes an appropriate Helmholtz decomposition of the flux vector and is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-06 Delyan Z. Kalchev , Thomas A. Manteuffel

We present locally stabilized, conforming space-time finite element methods for parabolic evolution equations on hexahedral decompositions of the space-time cylinder. Tensor-product decompositions allow for anisotropic a priori error…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-26 Ulrich Langer , Andreas Schafelner

A first-order system least squares formulation for the sea-ice dynamics is presented. In addition to the displacement field, the stress tensor is used as a variable. As finite element spaces, standard conforming piecewise polynomials for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-09-06 Fleurianne Bertrand

We construct four variants of space-time finite element discretizations based on linear tensor-product and simplex-type finite elements. The resulting discretizations are continuous in space, and continuous or discontinuous in time. In a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-05 Max von Danwitz , Igor Voulis , Norbert Hosters , Marek Behr

We provide a framework for the numerical approximation of distributed optimal control problems, based on least-squares finite element methods. Our proposed method simultaneously solves the state and adjoint equations and is $\inf$--$\sup$…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-03 Thomas Führer , Michael Karkulik

We consider locally stabilized, conforming finite element schemes on completely unstructured simplicial space-time meshes for the numerical solution of parabolic initial-boundary value problems with variable, possibly discontinuous in space…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-23 Ulrich Langer , Andreas Schafelner

We define and analyse a least-squares finite element method for a first-order reformulation of the obstacle problem. Moreover, we derive variational inequalities that are based on similar but non-symmetric bilinear forms. A priori error…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-01-30 Thomas Führer

We investigate a weak space-time formulation of the heat equation and its use for the construction of a numerical scheme. The formulation is based on a known weak space-time formulation, with the difference that a pointwise component of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-10-18 Stig Larsson , Matteo Molteni

Thanks to a finite element method, we solve numerically parabolic partial differential equations on complex domains by avoiding the mesh generation, using a regular background mesh, not fitting the domain and its real boundary exactly. Our…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-22 Michel Duprez , Vanessa Lleras , Alexei Lozinski , Killian Vuillemot

This paper studies adaptive first-order least-squares finite element methods for second-order elliptic partial differential equations in non-divergence form. Unlike the classical finite element method which uses weak formulations of PDEs…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-06-28 Weifeng Qiu , Shun Zhang

We develop couplings of a recent space-time first-order system least-squares (FOSLS) method for parabolic problems and space-time boundary element methods (BEM) for the heat equation to numerically solve a parabolic transmission problem on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-08 Thomas Führer , Gregor Gantner , Michael Karkulik

We develop a space-time spectral element method for topology optimization of transient heat conduction. The forward problem is discretized with summation-by-parts (SBP) operators, and interface/boundary and initial/terminal conditions are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-15 Sarah Nataj , Magnus Appel , Joe Alexandersen

A finite element methodology for large classes of variational boundary value problems is defined which involves discretizing two linear operators: (1) the differential operator defining the spatial boundary value problem; and (2) a Riesz…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-08 Brendan Keith , Socratis Petrides , Federico Fuentes , Leszek Demkowicz

In this work, we present a POD-greedy reduced basis method for parabolic partial differential equations (PDEs), based on the least squares space-time formulation proposed in [Hinze, Kahle, Stahl, A least-squares space-time approach for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-30 Michael Hinze , Christian Kahle , Michael Stahl