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The Poisson-Boltzmann equation (PBE) is an implicit solvent continuum model for calculating the electrostatic potential and energies of ionic solvated biomolecules. However, its numerical solution remains a significant challenge due strong…

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This paper reviews the state of the art and discusses very recent mathematical developments in the field of adaptive boundary element methods. This includes an overview of available a posteriori error estimates as well as a state-of-the-art…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-07-03 Michael Feischl , Thomas Führer , Norbert Heuer , Michael Karkulik , Dirk Praetorius

This paper is concerned with finite element methods for Poisson's equation with rough boundary data. Conventional methods require that the boundary data $g$ of the problem belongs to $H^{1/2} (\partial \Omega)$. However, in many…

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A lack of regularity in the solution of the porous medium equation poses a serious challenge in its theoretical and numerical studies. A common strategy in theoretical studies is to utilize the pressure formulation of the equation where a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-20 Cuong Ngo , Weizhang Huang

This paper presents a numerical method for variable coefficient elliptic PDEs with mostly smooth solutions on two dimensional domains. The PDE is discretized via a multi-domain spectral collocation method of high local order (order 30 and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-12-09 Tracy Babb , Adrianna Gillman , Sijia Hao , Per-Gunnar Martinsson

Computations of incompressible flows with velocity boundary conditions require solution of a Poisson equation for pressure with all Neumann boundary conditions. Discretization of such a Poisson equation results in a rank-deficient matrix of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-08 Shantanu Shahane , Surya Pratap Vanka

A multilevel adaptive refinement strategy for solving linear elliptic partial differential equations with random data is recalled in this work. The strategy extends the a posteriori error estimation framework introduced by Guignard and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-21 Alex Bespalov , David J. Silvester

The standard Poisson-Boltzmann model for molecular electrostatics assumes a sharp variation of the permittivity and salt concentration along the solute-solvent interface. The discontinuous field parameters are not only difficult…

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

The mesh flexibility offered by the virtual element method through the permission of arbitrary element geometries, and the seamless incorporation of `hanging' nodes, has made the method increasingly attractive in the context of adaptive…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-19 Daniel van Huyssteen , Felipe Lopez Rivarola , Guillermo Etse , Paul Steinmann

A class of quasilinear singularly perturbed boundary value problems with a turning point of attractive type is considered. The problems are solved numerically by a finite-difference scheme on a special discretization mesh which is dense…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-04-21 Relja Vulanović

We propose and analyze reliable and efficient a posteriori error estimators for an optimal control problem that involves a nondifferentiable cost functional, the Poisson problem as state equation and control constraints. To approximate the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-01-14 Alejandro Allendes , Francisco Fuica , Enrique Otárola

The presented article contains a 2D mesh generation routine optimized with the Metropolis algorithm. The procedure enables to produce meshes with a prescribed size h of elements. These finite element meshes can serve as standard discrete…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-21 Ilona Dominika Kosinska

Some methods based on simple regularizing geometric element transformations have heuristically been shown to give runtime efficient and quality effective smoothing algorithms for meshes. We describe the mathematical framework and a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2013-07-09 Dimitris Vartziotis , Benjamin Himpel

Many important physical problems, such as fluid structure interaction or conjugate heat transfer, require numerical methods that compute boundary derivatives or fluxes to high accuracy. This paper proposes a novel alternative to calculating…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-03-12 David Wells , Jeffrey Banks

A method is developed within an adaptive framework to solve quasilinear diffusion problems with internal and possibly boundary layers starting from a coarse mesh. The solution process is assumed to start on a mesh where the problem is badly…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-02-16 Sara Pollock

Recent quasi-optimal error estimates for the finite element approximation of total-variation regularized minimization problems require the existence of a Lipschitz continuous dual solution. We discuss the validity of this condition and…

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We introduce an integrated meshing and finite element method pipeline enabling black-box solution of partial differential equations in the volume enclosed by a boundary representation. We construct a hybrid hexahedral-dominant mesh, which…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2022-02-04 Teseo Schneider , Jeremie Dumas , Xifeng Gao , Mario Botsch , Daniele Panozzo , Denis Zorin

Simulating space plasma in a global scale is computationally demanding. Modeling different regions with different resolution can save computational resources without compromising too much on simulation accuracy. This thesis examines…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-11-15 Leo Kotipalo

We present a new multigrid scheme for solving the Poisson equation with Dirichlet boundary conditions on a Cartesian grid with irregular domain boundaries. This scheme was developed in the context of the Adaptive Mesh Refinement (AMR)…

Computational Physics · Physics 2011-05-16 Thomas Guillet , Romain Teyssier

For the non-conforming Crouzeix-Raviart boundary elements from [Heuer, Sayas: Crouzeix-Raviart boundary elements, Numer. Math. 112, 2009], we develop and analyze a posteriori error estimators based on the $h-h/2$ methodology. We discuss the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-12-03 Norbert Heuer , Michael Karkulik