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In this paper, the author derives an $O(h^4)$-superconvergence for the piecewise linear Ritz-Galerkin finite element approximations for the second order elliptic equation $-\nabla \cdot(A\nabla u)= f$ equipped with Dirichlet boundary…
A high-order finite element method is proposed to solve the nonlinear convection-diffusion equation on a time-varying domain whose boundary is implicitly driven by the solution of the equation. The method is semi-implicit in the sense that…
This paper develops a smoothing-based postprocessing method for superconvergence in finite element methods. The method applies a few smoothing iterations, such as damped Jacobi, Gauss-Seidel, or conjugate gradient, with initial guess being…
It is known from the monograph [1, Chapter 5] that the weak convergence analysis of numerical schemes for stochastic Maxwell equations is an unsolved problem. This paper aims to fill the gap by establishing the long-time weak convergence…
We present a multiscale mixed finite element method for solving second order elliptic equations with general $L^{\infty}$-coefficients arising from flow in highly heterogeneous porous media. Our approach is based on a multiscale spectral…
Here we study theoretically and compare experimentally an efficient method for solving systems of algebraic equations, where the matrix comes from the discretization of a fractional diffusion operator. More specifically, we focus on…
We propose an unfitted finite element method for numerically solving the time-harmonic Maxwell equations on a smooth domain. The model problem involves a Lagrangian multiplier to relax the divergence constraint of the vector unknown. The…
Over the last two decades, the field of geometric curve evolutions has attracted significant attention from scientific computing. One of the most popular numerical methods for solving geometric flows is the so-called BGN scheme, which was…
In this paper, the generalized finite element method (GFEM) for solving second order elliptic equations with rough coefficients is studied. New optimal local approximation spaces for GFEMs based on local eigenvalue problems involving a…
In this paper we consider a numerical homogenization technique for curl-curl-problems that is based on the framework of the Localized Orthogonal Decomposition and which was proposed in [D. Gallistl, P. Henning, B. Verf\"urth. SIAM J. Numer.…
In this work we present a mass conservative numerical scheme for two-phase flow in porous media. The model for flow consists on two fully coupled, non-linear equations: a degenerate parabolic equation and an elliptic equation. The proposed…
Strong approximation errors of both finite element semi-discretization and spatio-temporal full discretization are analyzed for the stochastic Allen-Cahn equation driven by additive noise in space dimension $d \leq 3$. The full…
We present two strategies for designing passivity preserving higher order discretization methods for Maxwell's equations in nonlinear Kerr-type media. Both approaches are based on variational approximation schemes in space and time. This…
We analyze the conforming approximation of the time-harmonic Maxwell's equations using N\'ed\'elec (edge) finite elements. We prove that the approximation is asymptotically optimal, i.e., the approximation error in the energy norm is…
Two-fluid plasma flow equations describe the flow of ions and electrons with different densities, velocities, and pressures. We consider the ideal plasma flow i.e. we ignore viscous, resistive, and collision effects. The resulting system of…
Locally refined meshes impose severe stability constraints on explicit time-stepping methods for the numerical simulation of time dependent wave phenomena. Local time-stepping methods overcome that bottleneck by using smaller time-steps…
In this paper, we suggest a new heterogeneous multiscale method (HMM) for the time-harmonic Maxwell equations in locally periodic media. The method is constructed by using a divergence-regularization in one of the cell problems. This allows…
We propose an adaptive finite element algorithm to approximate solutions of elliptic problems whose forcing data is locally defined and is approximated by regularization (or mollification). We show that the energy error decay is…
In this paper, we introduce second order and fourth order space discretization via finite difference implementation of the finite element method for solving Fokker-Planck equations associated with irreversible processes. The proposed…
Explicit time integration schemes coupled with Galerkin discretizations of time-dependent partial differential equations require solving a linear system with the mass matrix at each time step. For applications in structural dynamics, the…