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We study finite element approximations of second-order elliptic problems with measure-valued right-hand sides supported on lower-dimensional sets. The exact solution generally lacks $H^1$-regularity due to the source singularity, which…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Huadong Gao , Yuhui Huang

The first-order system LL* (FOSLL*) approach for general second-order elliptic partial differential equations was proposed and analyzed in [10], in order to retain the full efficiency of the L2 norm first-order system least-squares (FOSLS)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-07-18 Zhiqiang Cai , Rob Falgout , Shun Zhang

We consider the approximation to the solution of the initial boundary value problem for the heat equation with right hand side and initial condition that merely belong to $L^1$. Due to the low integrability of the data, to guarantee…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-08 Gabriel Barrenechea , Abner J. Salgado

In arXiv:2307.03503 [math.NA] we commenced to study a variant of the Raviart-Thomas mixed finite element method for triangles, to solve second order elliptic equations in a curved domain with Neumann or mixed boundary conditions. It is well…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-02 Fleurianne Bertrand , Vitoriano Ruas

We study mixed finite element methods for the rotating shallow water equations with linearized momentum terms but nonlinear drag. By means of an equivalent second-order formulation, we prove long-time stability of the system without energy…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-06-06 Colin J. Cotter , P. Jameson Graber , Robert C. Kirby

In this paper, we present and analyse a class of "filtered" numerical schemes for second order Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations. Our approach follows the ideas introduced in B.D. Froese and A.M. Oberman, Convergent filtered schemes for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-16 Olivier Bokanowski , Athena Picarelli , Christoph Reisinger

We construct a compact fourth-order scheme, in space and time, for the time-dependent Maxwell's equations given as a first-order system on a staggered (Yee) grid. At each time step, we update the fields by solving positive definite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-07 Idan Versano , Eli Turkel , Semyon Tsynkov

In the first part of this paper, we establish a conditional optimality result for an adaptive mixed finite element method for the stationary Stokes problem discretized by the standard Taylor-Hood elements, under the assumption of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-10-14 Tsogtgerel Gantumur

We introduce a numerical method, based on finite elements and lattice gauge theory, to compute approximate solutions to Schr\"odinger and Pauli equations. The crucial geometric property of the method is discrete gauge invariance. The main…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-01 Snorre Harald Christiansen , Tore Gunnar Halvorsen

We study the systematic numerical approximation of Maxwell's equations in dispersive media. Two discretization strategies are considered, one based on a traditional leapfrog time integration method and the other based on convolution…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-02 Jürgen Dölz , Herbert Egger , Vsevolod Shashkov

In the first part of the paper, we propose and rigorously analyze a mixed finite element method for the approximation of the periodic strong solution to the fully nonlinear second-order Hamilton--Jacobi--Bellman equation with coefficients…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-18 Dietmar Gallistl , Timo Sprekeler , Endre Süli

This paper studies formulations of second-order elliptic partial differential equations in nondivergence form on convex domains as equivalent variational problems. The first formulation is that of Smears \& S\"uli [SIAM J.\ Numer.\ Anal.\…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-01-17 Dietmar Gallistl

We propose a fully discrete finite volume scheme for the standard Fokker-Planck equation. The space discretization relies on the well-known square-root approximation, which falls into the framework of two-point flux approximations. Our time…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-07 Clément Cancès , Léonard Monsaingeon , Andrea Natale

We consider the problem of domain approximation in finite element methods for Maxwell equations on curved domains, i.e., when affine or polynomial meshes fail to exactly cover the domain of interest. In such cases, one is forced to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-05 Rubén Aylwin , Carlos Jerez-Hanckes

We investigate a mixed finite element method for the spatial discretization of a time-fractional Allen--Cahn equation defined on a convex polyhedral domain, combined with a nonuniform Alikhanov scheme for the temporal approximation. Under…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-13 Abhinav Jha , Samir Karaa , Aditi Tomar

We propose a generalized finite element method for the strongly damped wave equation with highly varying coefficients. The proposed method is based on the localized orthogonal decomposition introduced and is designed to handle independent…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-09 Per Ljung , Axel Målqvist , Anna Persson

Meshing of geometric domains having curved boundaries by affine simplices produces a polytopial approximation of those domains. The resulting error in the representation of the domain limits the accuracy of finite element methods based on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-02-09 James Cheung , Mauro Perego , Pavel Bochev , Max Gunzburger

We propose and analyze a class of finite element methods for the time-dependent incompressible magnetohydrodynamics system based on $H(\mathrm{curl})$-conforming discretizations for both the velocity and the magnetic field. This choice is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-08 Lourenço Beirão da Veiga , Sergio Gómez , Ilaria Perugia , Enrico Zampa

In this note we discuss the numerical solution of the eddy current approximation of the Maxwell equations using the simple Pragmatic Algebraic Model to include hysteresis effects. In addition to the more standard time-stepping approach we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-17 Mario Gobrial , Lukas Domenig , Michael Reichelt , Manfred Kaltenbacher , Olaf Steinbach

First-order convergence in time and space is proved for a fully discrete semi-implicit finite element method for the two-dimensional Navier--Stokes equations with $L^2$ initial data in convex polygonal domains, without extra regularity…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-19 Buyang Li , Shu Ma , Yuki Ueda