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This paper is concerned with goal-oriented a posteriori error estimation for nonlinear functionals in the context of nonlinear variational problems solved with continuous Galerkin finite element discretizations. A two-level, or discrete,…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Brian N. Granzow , D. Thomas Seidl , Stephen D. Bond

We present multi-adaptive versions of the standard continuous and discontinuous Galerkin methods for ODEs. Taking adaptivity one step further, we allow for individual time-steps, order and quadrature, so that in particular each individual…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-05-15 Anders Logg

An adaptive direct collocation method is developed for solving optimal control problems constrained by parabolic partial differential equations. The partial differential equation is first reformulated in a variational setting, where the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-18 Alexander M. Davies , Sara Pollock , Miriam E. Dennis , Anil V. Rao

We derive and discuss a posteriori error estimators for Galerkin and collocation IGA boundary element methods for weakly-singular integral equations of the first-kind in 2D. While recent own work considered the Faermann residual error…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-24 Michael Feischl , Gregor Gantner , Alexander Haberl , Dirk Praetorius

We study an iterative Galerkin method for quasilinear elliptic problems in the Browder-Minty setting. The resulting discrete nonlinear systems are solved by linearization via a (damped) Zarantonello iteration. Unlike prior work, adaptive…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-25 Maximilian Brunner , Gregor Gantner , Christoph Lietz , Dirk Praetorius

This paper is concerned with a posteriori error bounds for linear transport equations and related questions of contriving corresponding adaptive solution strategies in the context of Discontinuous-Petrov-Galerkin schemes. After indicating…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-22 W. Dahmen , R. P. Stevenson

The numerical simulation of complex physical processes requires the use of economical discrete models. This lecture presents a general paradigm of deriving a posteriori error estimates for the Galerkin finite element approximation of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Rolf Rannacher

In this paper, we present and analyze an interior penalty discontinuous Galerkin method for the distributed elliptic optimal control problems. It is based on a reconstructed discontinuous approximation which admits arbitrarily high-order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-05 Ruo Li , Haoyang Liu , Jun Yin

For elliptic interface problems, this paper studies residual-based a posteriori error estimations for various finite element approximations. For the conforming and the Raviart-Thomas mixed elements in two-dimension and for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-03-04 Zhiqiang Cai , Cuiyu He , Shun Zhang

We present a dual weighted residual-based a posteriori error estimate for a discontinuous Galerkin (DG) approximation of a linear second-order elliptic problem on compact smooth connected and oriented surfaces in $\mathbb{R}^{3}$ which are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-02-11 Andreas Dedner , Pravin Madhavan

In this paper we develop an adaptive procedure for the numerical solution of semilinear parabolic problems, with possible singular perturbations. Our approach combines a linearization technique using Newton's method with an adaptive…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-10-05 Mario Amrein , Thomas P. Wihler

In this paper we establish a best approximation property of fully discrete Galerkin finite element solutions of second order parabolic problems on convex polygonal and polyhedral domains in the $L^\infty$ norm. The discretization method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-20 Dmitriy Leykekhman , Boris Vexler

In this work we analyze the inverse problem of recovering the space-dependent potential coefficient in an elliptic / parabolic problem from distributed observation. We establish novel (weighted) conditional stability estimates under very…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-21 Bangti Jin , Xiliang Lu , Qimeng Quan , Zhi Zhou

We derive a posteriori error bounds for a quasilinear parabolic problem, which is approximated by the $hp$-version interior penalty discontinuous Galerkin method (IPDG). The error is measured in the energy norm. The theory is developed for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-09-20 Emmanuil H. Georgoulis , Omar Lakkis

This work is concerned with the proof of \emph{a posteriori} error estimates for fully-discrete Galerkin approximations of the Allen-Cahn equation in two and three spatial dimensions. The numerical method comprises of the backward Euler…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-30 Konstantinos Chrysafinos , Emmanuil H. Georgoulis , Dimitra Plaka

We consider the vertex-centered finite volume method with first-order conforming ansatz functions. The adaptive mesh-refinement is driven by the local contributions of the weighted-residual error estimator. We prove that the adaptive…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-24 Christoph Erath , Dirk Praetorius

In this article we develop function-based a posteriori error estimators for the solution of linear second order elliptic problems considering hierarchical spline spaces for the Galerkin discretization. We prove a global upper bound for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-24 Annalisa Buffa , Eduardo M. Garau

In this paper we study the finite element approximation of systems of second-order nonlinear hyperbolic equations. The proposed numerical method combines a $hp$-version discontinuous Galerkin finite element approximation in the time…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-02 Aili Shao

An hp-adaptive Discontinuous Galerkin Method for electromagnetic wave propagation phenomena in the time-domain is proposed. The method is highly efficient and allows for the first time the adaptive full-wave simulation of transient problems…

Computational Physics · Physics 2013-12-31 Sascha M. Schnepp

The analyses of interior penalty discontinuous Galerkin methods of any order k for solving elliptic and parabolic problems with Dirac line sources are presented. For the steady state case, we prove convergence of the method by deriving a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-19 Rami Masri , Boqian Shen , Beatrice Riviere