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The Poisson-Boltzmann equation is widely used to model molecular electrostatics; however, it is usually solved in linearised form because the sinh nonlinearity is challenging, limiting its applicability in highly charged systems such as…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-04-20 Mauricio Guerrero-Montero , Michal Bosy , Christopher D. Cooper

The Poisson-Boltzmann equation is a widely used model to study the electrostatics in molecular solvation. Its numerical solution using a boundary integral formulation requires a mesh on the molecular surface only, yielding accurate…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-25 Vicente Ramm , Jehanzeb H. Chaudhry , Christopher D. Cooper

We derive a posteriori error estimates for a fully discrete finite element approximation of the stochastic Cahn-Hilliard equation. The a posteriori bound is obtained by a splitting of the equation into a linear stochastic partial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-24 Ľubomír Baňas , Christian Vieth

We design and analyze a new adaptive stabilized finite element method. We construct a discrete approximation of the solution in a continuous trial space by minimizing the residual measured in a dual norm of a discontinuous test space that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-22 Victor M. Calo , Alexandre Ern , Ignacio Muga , Sergio Rojas

This article investigates adaptive mesh refinement procedures for the time-domain wave equation with Neumann boundary conditions, formulated as an equivalent hypersingular boundary integral equation. Space-adaptive and time-adaptive…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-28 Alessandra Aimi , Giulia Di Credico , Heiko Gimperlein , Chiara Guardasoni

This work introduces a novel, fully robust and highly-scalable, $h$-adaptive aggregated unfitted finite element method for large-scale interface elliptic problems. The new method is based on a recent distributed-memory implementation of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-07 Eric Neiva , Santiago Badia

We consider within a finite element approach the usage of different adaptively refined meshes for different variables in systems of nonlinear, time-depended PDEs. To resolve different solution behaviours of these variables, the meshes can…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-05-27 Thomas Witkowski , Axel Voigt

The paper introduces a finite element method for the incompressible Navier--Stokes equations posed on a closed surface $\Gamma\subset\R^3$. The method needs a shape regular tetrahedra mesh in $\mathbb{R}^3$ to discretize equations on the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-03-27 Maxim A. Olshanskii , Vladimir Yushutin

We consider a conforming finite element approximation of the Reissner-Mindlin system. We propose a new robust a posteriori error estimator based on H(div) conforming finite elements and equilibrated fluxes. It is shown that this estimator…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-11-04 Emmanuel Creusé , Serge Nicaise , Emmanuel Verhille

We consider an adaptive algorithm for finite element methods for the isogeometric analysis (IGAFEM) of elliptic (possibly non-symmetric) second-order partial differential equations. We employ analysis-suitable T-splines of arbitrary odd…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-07 Gregor Gantner , Dirk Praetorius

In this paper we develop an $hp$-adaptive procedure for the numerical solution of general second-order semilinear elliptic boundary value problems, with possible singular perturbation. Our approach combines both adaptive Newton schemes and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-07-25 Paul Houston , Thomas P. Wihler

A method for adaptive model order reduction for nonsmooth discrete element simulation is developed and analysed in numerical experiments. Regions of the granular media that collectively move as rigid bodies are substituted with rigid bodies…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-12-02 Martin Servin , Da Wang

We develop $H$(div)-conforming mixed finite element methods for the unsteady Stokes equations modeling single-phase incompressible fluid flow. A projection method in the framework of the incremental pressure correction methodology is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-21 Costanza Aricò , Rainer Helmig , Ivan Yotov

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

In this paper we study the behavior of finite dimensional fixed point iterations, induced by discretization of a continuous fixed point iteration defined within a Banach space setting. We show that the difference between the discrete…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-06-29 Mario Amrein

We formulate and analyze an adaptive algorithm for isogeometric analysis with hierarchical B-splines for weakly-singular boundary integral equations. We prove that the employed weighted-residual error estimator is reliable and converges at…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-24 Gregor Gantner , Dirk Praetorius

We develop a fully discrete, semi-implicit mixed finite element method for approximating solutions to a class of fourth-order stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs) with non-globally Lipschitz and non-monotone nonlinearities,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Beniamin Goldys , Agus L. Soenjaya , Thanh Tran

This paper introduces a new variational formulation for Dirichlet boundary control problem of elliptic partial differential equations, based on observations that the state and adjoint state are related through the control on the boundary of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-04-23 Shaohong Du , Zhiqiang Cai

The nonconforming triangular piecewise quadratic finite element space by Fortin and Soulie can be used for the displacement approximation and its combination with discontinuous piecewise linear pressure elements is known to constitute a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-09-06 Fleurianne Bertrand , Marcel Moldenhauer , Gerhard Starke

This work proposes an adaptive framework to solve a robust structural shape optimization problem governed by linear elasticity models that account for uncertainties in the loading and material inputs. A posteriori error estimators are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-06 Oğuz Han Altıntaş , Hamdullah Yücel