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We present new finite elements for solving the Riesz maps of the de Rham complex on triangular and tetrahedral meshes at high order. The finite elements discretize the same spaces as usual, but with different basis functions, so that the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-18 Pablo D. Brubeck , Patrick E. Farrell , Robert C. Kirby , Charles Parker

This paper presents a simplified weak Galerkin (WG) finite element method for solving biharmonic equations avoiding the use of traditional stabilizers. The proposed WG method supports both convex and non-convex polytopal elements in finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-17 Chunmei Wang

In the present work, we consider weakly-singular integral equations arising from linear second-order strongly-elliptic PDE systems with constant coefficients, including, e.g., linear elasticity. We introduce a general framework for optimal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-29 Gregor Gantner , Dirk Praetorius

A conforming discontinuous Galerkin (DG) finite element method has been introduced in [21] on simplicial meshes, which has the flexibility of using discontinuous approximation and the simplicity in formulation of the classic continuous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-11 Xiu Ye , Shangyou Zhang

Weak Galerkin (WG) refers to general finite element methods for partial differential equations in which differential operators are approximated by weak forms through the usual integration by parts. In particular, WG methods allow the use of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-11-04 Lin Mu , Junping Wang , Xiu Ye , Shan Zhao

The goal of this article is to clarify some misunderstandings and inappropriate claims made in [6] regarding the relation between the weak Galerkin (WG) finite element method and the hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin (HDG). In this paper,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Junping Wang , Xiu Ye

A stabilizing/penalty term is often used in finite element methods with discontinuous approximations to enforce connection of discontinuous functions across element boundaries. Removing stabilizers from discontinuous finite element methods…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-15 Xiu Ye , Shangyou Zhang

This paper develops and analyzes a class of semi-discrete and fully discrete weak Galerkin finite element methods for unsteady incompressible convective Brinkman-Forchheimer equations. For the spatial discretization, the methods adopt the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-30 Xiaojuan Wang , Jihong Xiao , Xiaoping Xie , Shiquan Zhang

The weak Galerkin finite element method is a novel numerical method that was first proposed and analyzed by Wang and Ye for general second order elliptic problems on triangular meshes. The goal of this paper is to conduct a computational…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-11-14 Lin Mu , Junping Wang , Yanqiu Wang , Xiu Ye

We construct finite element de~Rham complexes of higher and possibly non-uniform polynomial order in finite element exterior calculus (FEEC). Starting from the finite element differential complex of lowest-order, known as the complex of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-17 Martin Werner Licht

This article introduces a weak Galerkin (WG) finite element method for linear elasticity interface problems on general polygonal/ployhedra partitions. The developed WG method has been proved to be stable and accurate with optimal order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-14 Chunmei Wang , Shangyou Zhang

This paper presents an arbitrary order locking-free numerical scheme for linear elasticity on general polygonal/polyhedral partitions by using weak Galerkin (WG) finite element methods. Like other WG methods, the key idea for the linear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-08-18 Chunmei Wang , Junping Wang , Ruishu Wang , Ran Zhang

In this paper, a new and efficient numerical algorithm by using weak Galerkin (WG) finite element methods is proposed for a type of fourth order problem arising from fluorescence tomography(FT). Fluorescence tomography is an emerging, in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-10-21 Chunmei Wang , Haomin Zhou

We develop a finite element discretization for the weakly symmetric equations of linear elasticity on tetrahedral meshes. The finite element combines, for $r \geq 0$, discontinuous polynomials of $r$ for the displacement,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-02-09 Tobin Isaac

This paper develops a class of robust weak Galerkin methods for the stationary incompressible convective Brinkman-Forchheimer equations. The methods adopt piecewise polynomials of degrees $m\ (m\geq1)$ and $m-1$ respectively for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-30 X. J. Wang , X. P. Xie

A new weak Galerkin finite element method, called generalized weak Galerkin method ({g}WG), is introduced for Stokes equations in this paper by using a new definition of the weak gradient. Error estimates in energy norm and $L^2$ norm for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-05-24 W. Qi , P. Seshaiyer , J. Wang

Composite basis functions for pyramidal elements on the spaces $H^1(\Omega)$, $H(\mathrm{curl},\Omega)$, $H(\mathrm{div},\Omega)$ and $L^2(\Omega)$ are presented. In particular, we construct the lowest-order composite pyramidal elements and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-08-02 Mark Ainsworth , Guosheng Fu

In this work, the authors introduce a generalized weak Galerkin (gWG) finite element method for the time-dependent Oseen equation. The generalized weak Galerkin method is based on a new framework for approximating the gradient operator.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-14 Wenya Qi , Padmanabhan Seshaiyer , Junping Wang

We propose a neural-enhanced weak Galerkin (WG) finite element method for second-order elliptic problems with low-regularity solutions. The method augments the classical WG approximation space with neural network functions constructed via a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-08 Chunmei Wang

The aim of this article is to derive discontinuous finite elements vector spaces which can be put in a discrete de-Rham complex for which an harmonic gap property may be proven. First, discontinuous finite element spaces inspired by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-16 Vincent Perrier