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This paper presents a generalized weak Galerkin (gWG) finite element method for linear elasticity problems on general polygonal and polyhedral meshes. The proposed framework is flexible and efficient, allowing for the use of nonpolynomial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Junping Wang , Yue Wang

In this paper, we introduce the locally conservative enriched immersed finite element method (EIFEM) to tackle the elliptic problem with interface. The immersed finite element is useful for handling interface with mesh unfit with the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-05 Gwanghyun Jo , Do Young Kwak , Young Ju Lee

We design a monotone meshfree finite difference method for linear elliptic equations in the non-divergence form on point clouds via a nonlocal relaxation method. The key idea is a novel combination of a nonlocal integral relaxation of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-08 Qihao Ye , Xiaochuan Tian

We consider discrete Poisson interface problems resulting from linear unfitted finite elements, also called cut finite elements (CutFEM). Three of these unfitted finite element methods known from the literature are studied. All three…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-07-27 Thomas Ludescher , Sven Gross , Arnold Reusken

A general adaptive refinement strategy for solving linear elliptic partial differential equation with random data is proposed and analysed herein. The adaptive strategy extends the a posteriori error estimation framework introduced by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-23 Alex Bespalov , David Silvester , Feng Xu

In this paper, we discuss multiscale methods for nonlinear problems. The main idea of these approaches is to use local constraints and solve problems in oversampled regions for constructing macroscopic equations. These techniques are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-04-01 Wing T. Leung , Eric T. Chung , Yalchin Efendiev , Mary F. Wheeler

The paper studies an Allen-Cahn-type equation defined on a time-dependent surface as a model of phase separation with order-disorder transition in a thin material layer. By a formal inner-outer expansion, it is shown that the limiting…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-27 Maxim Olshanskii , Xianmin Xu , Vladimir Yushutin

This article considers the error analysis of finite element discretizations and adaptive mesh refinement procedures for nonlocal dynamic contact and friction, both in the domain and on the boundary. For a large class of parabolic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-05-14 Heiko Gimperlein , Jakub Stocek

The computational modeling of many engineering problems using the Finite Element method involves the modeling of two or more bodies that meet through an interface. The interface can be physical, as in multi-physics and contact problems, or…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2009-09-30 G. Haikal

Partial differential equations can be solved on general polygonal and polyhedral meshes, through Polytopal Element Methods (PEMs). Unfortunately, the relation between geometry and analysis is still unknown and subject to ongoing research in…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Daniela Cabiddu , Giuseppe Patanè , Michela Spagnuolo

We summarise three applications of the obstacle problem to membrane contact, elastoplastic torsion and cavitation modelling, and show how the resulting models can be solved using mixed finite elements. It is challenging to construct fixed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-28 Tom Gustafsson

In recent years, a number of finite element methods have been formulated for the solution of partial differential equations on complex geometries based on non-matching or overlapping meshes. Examples of such methods include the fictitious…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-10-29 André Massing , Mats G. Larson , Anders Logg

In this paper, an important discovery has been found for nonconforming immersed finite element (IFE) methods using the integral values on edges as degrees of freedom for solving elliptic interface problems. We show that those IFE methods…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-17 Haifeng Ji , Feng Wang , Jinru Chen , Zhilin Li

This paper presents a lowest-order immersed Raviart-Thomas mixed triangular finite element method for solving elliptic interface problems on unfitted meshes independent of the interface. In order to achieve the optimal convergence rates on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-10 Haifeng Ji

In this paper, we consider multiscale methods for nonlinear elasticity. In particular, we investigate the Generalized Multiscale Finite Element Method (GMsFEM) for a strain-limiting elasticity problem. Being a special case of the naturally…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-05-24 Shubin Fu , Eric Chung , Tina Mai

We review basic design principles underpinning the construction of mimetic finite difference and a few finite volume and finite element schemes for mixed formulations of elliptic problems. For a class of low-order mixed-hybrid schemes, we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-10-20 Konstantin Lipnikov , Gianmarco Manzini

An $hp$-adaptive continuous Galerkin finite element method is developed to analyze a static anti-plane shear crack embedded in a nonlinear, strain-limiting elastic body. The geometrically linear material is described by a constitutive law…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-01 S. M. Mallikarjunaiah , Pavithra Venkatachalapthy

Spatially localized deformation components are very useful for shape analysis and synthesis in 3D geometry processing. Several methods have recently been developed, with an aim to extract intuitive and interpretable deformation components.…

Graphics · Computer Science 2017-12-19 Qingyang Tan , Lin Gao , Yu-Kun Lai , Jie Yang , Shihong Xia

We propose a generalized finite element method for linear elasticity equations with highly varying and oscillating coefficients. The method is formulated in the framework of localized orthogonal decomposition techniques introduced by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-24 Patrick Henning , Anna Persson

We analyze optimal complexity of adaptive finite element methods (AFEMs) for general second-order linear elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs) in the Lax-Milgram setting. To this end, we formulate an adaptive algorithm which steers…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Thomas Führer , Paula Hilbert , Ani Miraçi , Dirk Praetorius