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This article presents a superconvergence for the gradient approximation of the second order elliptic equation discretized by the weak Galerkin finite element methods on nonuniform rectangular partitions. The result shows a convergence of…
Weak Galerkin methods refer to general finite element methods for PDEs in which differential operators are approximated by their weak forms as distributions. Such weak forms give rise to desirable flexibilities in enforcing boundary and…
We introduce a new numerical method for solving time-harmonic Maxwell's equations via the modified weak Galerkin technique. The inter-element functions of the weak Galerkin finite elements are replaced by the average of the two…
We present a weak finite element method for elliptic problems in one space dimension. Our analysis shows that this method has more advantages than the known weak Galerkin method proposed for multi-dimensional problems, for example, it has…
This paper is concerned with the development of weak Galerkin (WG) finite element method for optimal control problems governed by second order elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs). It is advantageous to use discontinuous finite…
This paper proposes and analyzes a class of new weak Galerkin (WG) finite element methods for 2- and 3-dimensional linear elasticity problems. The methods use discontinuous piecewise-polynomial approximations of degrees $k(\geq 0)$ for the…
This paper proposes a weak Galerkin (WG) finite element method for elliptic interface problems defined on nonconvex polygonal partitions. The method features a built-in stabilizer and retains a simple, symmetric, and positive definite…
In this paper we present an immersed weak Galerkin method for solving second-order elliptic interface problems on polygonal meshes, where the meshes do not need to be aligned with the interface. The discrete space consists of constants on…
A conforming discontinuous Galerkin (DG) finite element method has been introduced in [21] on simplicial meshes, which has the flexibility of using discontinuous approximation and the simplicity in formulation of the classic continuous…
The weak Galerkin (WG) finite element method is an effective and flexible general numerical technique for solving partial differential equations. The novel idea of weak Galerkin finite element methods is on the use of weak functions and…
This paper introduces a weak Galerkin (WG) finite element method for the Stokes equations in the primary velocity-pressure formulation. This WG method is equipped with stable finite elements consisting of usual polynomials of degree $k\ge…
This article presents a simplified formulation for the weak Galerkin finite element method for the Stokes equation without using the degrees of freedom associated with the unknowns in the interior of each element as formulated in the…
The weak Galerkin (WG) finite element method is an effective and flexible general numerical technique for solving partial differential equations. It is a natural extension of the classic conforming finite element method for discontinuous…
In this paper, we introduce and analyze a lowest-order locking-free weak Galerkin (WG) finite element scheme for the grad-div formulation of linear elasticity problems. The scheme uses linear functions in the interior of mesh elements and…
A new weak Galerkin (WG) finite element method for solving the biharmonic equation in two or three dimensional spaces by using polynomials of reduced order is introduced and analyzed. The WG method is on the use of weak functions and their…
We introduce a new weak Galerkin finite element method whose weak functions on interior neighboring edges are double-valued for parabolic problems. Based on $(P_k(T), P_{k}(e), RT_k(T))$ element, a fully discrete approach is formulated with…
The weak Galerkin (WG) finite element method has shown great potential in solving various type of partial differential equations. In this paper, we propose an arbitrary order locking-free WG method for solving linear elasticity problems,…
This paper introduces a numerical scheme for time harmonic Maxwell's equations by using weak Galerkin (WG) finite element methods. The WG finite element method is based on two operators: discrete weak curl and discrete weak gradient, with…
This paper presents an arbitrary order locking-free numerical scheme for linear elasticity on general polygonal/polyhedral partitions by using weak Galerkin (WG) finite element methods. Like other WG methods, the key idea for the linear…
A mathematical analysis is established for the weak Galerkin finite element methods for the Poisson equation with Dirichlet boundary value when the curved elements are involved on the interior edges of the finite element partition or/and on…