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This article proposes and analyzes the generalized weak Galerkin ({\rm g}WG) finite element method for the second order elliptic problem. A generalized discrete weak gradient operator is introduced in the weak Galerkin framework so that the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-16 Dan Li , Chunmei Wang , Junping Wang , Xiu Ye

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-23 Chunmei Wang , Shangyou Zhang

We introduce and rigorously analyze a least-squares weak Galerkin (LS-WG) finite element method for the severely ill-posed Cauchy problem of convection--diffusion equations. The proposed framework utilizes weak derivatives defined on a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-15 Chunmei Wang , Shangyou Zhang

This paper introduces and rigorously analyzes a least-squares weak Galerkin (LS-WG) finite element method for the severely ill-posed Cauchy problem associated with the Helmholtz equation. By utilizing a weak Laplacian operator defined on a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-21 Chunmei Wang , Shangyou Zhang

This paper is devoted to a weak Galerkin (WG) finite element method for linear poroelasticity problems where weakly defined divergence and gradient operators over discontinuous functions are introduced. We establish both the continuous and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-10 Shanshan Gu , Shimin Chai , Chenguang Zhou

This article introduces a weak Galerkin (WG) finite element method for quad-curl problems in three dimensions. It is proved that the proposed WG method is stable and accurate in an optimal order of error estimates for the exact solution in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-01 Chunmei Wang , Junping Wang , Shangyou Zhang

This article presents a new primal-dual weak Galerkin method for second order elliptic equations in non-divergence form. The new method is devised as a constrained $L^p$-optimization problem with constraints that mimic the second order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-08 Waixiang Cao , Junping Wang , Yuesheng Xu

This article devises a new primal-dual weak Galerkin finite element method for the convection-diffusion equation. Optimal order error estimates are established for the primal-dual weak Galerkin approximations in various discrete norms and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-22 Waixiang Cao , Chunmei Wang

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-06-10 Lin Mu , Junping Wang , Guowei Wei , Xiu Ye , Shan Zhao

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-12-10 Lin Mu , Junping Wang , Xiu Ye , Shangyou Zhang

The novel idea of weak Galerkin (WG) finite element methods is on the use of weak functions and their weak derivatives defined as distributions. Weak functions and weak derivatives can be approximated by polynomials with various degrees.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-04-25 Lin Mu , Junping Wang , Xiu Ye

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-06-29 Tie Zhang , Yanli Chen

This article proposes a novel least-squares weak Galerkin (LS-WG) method for second-order elliptic equations in non-divergence form. The approach leverages a locally defined discrete weak Hessian operator constructed within the weak…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Chunmei Wang , Shangyou Zhang

An adaptive modified weak Galerkin method (AmWG) for an elliptic problem is studied in this paper, in addition to its convergence and optimality. The modified weak Galerkin bilinear form is simplified without the need of the skeletal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-11 Yingying Xie , Shuhao Cao , Long Chen , Liuqiang Zhong

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-01-27 Ran Zhang , Qilong Zhai

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-08-18 Chunmei Wang , Junping Wang , Ruishu Wang , Ran Zhang

This paper introduces a new weak Galerkin (WG) finite element method for second order elliptic equations on polytopal meshes. This method, called WG-FEM, is designed by using a discrete weak gradient operator applied to discontinuous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-08-20 Lin Mu , Junping Wang , Xiu Ye

We provide a mathematical framework for studying different versions of discontinuous Galerkin (DG) approaches for solving 2D Riemann-Liouville fractional elliptic problems on a finite domain. The boundedness and stability analysis of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-19 Tarek Aboelenen

A newly developed weak Galerkin method is proposed to solve parabolic equations. This method allows the usage of totally discontinuous functions in approximation space and preserves the energy conservation law. Both continuous and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-03-18 Qiaoluan H. Li , Junping Wang

A new weak Galerkin (WG) finite element method is introduced and analyzed in this paper for the biharmonic equation in its primary form. This method is highly robust and flexible in the element construction by using discontinuous piecewise…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-03-06 Lin Mu , Junping Wang , Xiu Ye