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We develop a method to compute $H^2$-conforming finite element approximations in both two and three space dimensions using readily available finite element spaces. This is accomplished by deriving a novel, equivalent mixed variational…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-06-04 Mark Ainsworth , Charles Parker

We study the approximation properties of a wide class of finite element differential forms on curvilinear cubic meshes in n dimensions. Specifically, we consider meshes in which each element is the image of a cubical reference element under…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-13 Douglas N. Arnold , Daniele Boffi , Francesca Bonizzoni

In this article, we analyze semi-discrete finite element approximation and full discretization of a fourth-order stochastic pseudo-parabolic equation in a bounded convex polygonal domain driven by additive Wiener noise. We use the finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Suprio Bhar , Mrinmay Biswas , Mangala Prasad

This article takes the form of a tutorial on the use of a particular class of mixed finite element methods, which can be thought of as the finite element extension of the C-grid staggered finite difference method. The class is often…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-01-06 C. J. Cotter , A. T. T. McRae

In this work, we propose an efficient finite element method for solving fractional Sturm-Liouville problems involving either the Caputo or Riemann-Liouville derivative of order $\alpha\in(1,2)$ on the unit interval $(0,1)$. It is based on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-07-22 Bangti Jin , Raytcho Lazarov , Joseph Pasciak , William Rundell

In this paper, the generalized finite element method (GFEM) for solving second order elliptic equations with rough coefficients is studied. New optimal local approximation spaces for GFEMs based on local eigenvalue problems involving a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-22 Chupeng Ma , Robert Scheichl , Tim Dodwell

We propose a new fictitious domain finite element method, well suited for elliptic problems posed in a domain given by a level-set function without requiring a mesh fitting the boundary. To impose the Dirichlet boundary conditions, we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-09 Michel Duprez , Alexei Lozinski

We study the discretization of an elliptic partial differential equation, posed on a two- or three-dimensional domain with smooth boundary, endowed with a generalized Robin boundary condition which involves the Laplace-Beltrami operator on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-24 Dominik Edelmann

The divergence condition is reformulated in the scaled boundary coordinates so as to prevent the spurious solutions in the finite element formulation.

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. S. Prasanna Rajan , K. C. James Raju

In this paper we analyze a space-time unfitted finite element method for the discretization of scalar surface partial differential equations on evolving surfaces. For higher order approximations of the evolving surface we use the technique…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-26 Arnold Reusken , Hauke Sass

This paper develops an enhanced finite element method for approximating a class of variational problems which exhibit the \textit{Lavrentiev gap phenomenon} in the sense that the minimum values of the energy functional have a nontrivial gap…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-10-12 Xiaobing Feng , Stefan Schnake

Given a function f defined on a bidimensional bounded domain and a positive integer N, we study the properties of the triangulation that minimizes the distance between f and its interpolation on the associated finite element space, over all…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-06-06 Jean-Marie Mirebeau

We investigate the consistency and convergence of flux-corrected finite element approximations in the context of nonlinear hyperbolic conservation laws. In particular, we focus on a monolithic convex limiting approach and prove a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-30 Dmitri Kuzmin , Mária Lukácova-Medvid'ová , Philipp Öffner

This article investigates a space-time differential model related to the degradation of stone artifacts caused by exposure to air and atmospheric agents, which specifically lead to the accumulation of salt crystals in the material. A…

In this paper, we develop global superconvergence estimates for the lowest order Raviart--Thomas mixed finite element method for second order elliptic equations with general boundary conditions on triangular meshes, where most pairs of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-18 Yuwen Li

In this note we study the convergence of monotone P1 finite element methods on unstructured meshes for fully non-linear Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations arising from stochastic optimal control problems with possibly degenerate, isotropic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-02-25 Max Jensen , Iain Smears

We analyze finite element discretizations of scalar curvature in dimension $N \ge 2$. Our analysis focuses on piecewise polynomial interpolants of a smooth Riemannian metric $g$ on a simplicial triangulation of a polyhedral domain $\Omega…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-06 Evan S. Gawlik , Michael Neunteufel

We generalize the closest point method (CPM) to solve surface partial differential equations with general boundary conditions. The proposed extrapolation method provides a unified framework for treating a broad class of inhomogeneous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Tony Wong , Colin B. Macdonald , Byungjoon Lee

We consider finite element approximations of ill-posed elliptic problems with conditional stability. The notion of {\emph{optimal error estimates}} is defined including both convergence with respect to mesh parameter and perturbations in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-25 Erik Burman , Mihai Nechita , Lauri Oksanen

The thin plate spline smoother is a classical model for fnding a smooth function from the knowledge of its observation at scattered locations which may have random noises. We consider a nonconforming Morley finite element method to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-01-31 Zhiming Chen , Rui Tuo , Wenlong Zhang