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In this paper we focus on high order finite element approximations of the electric field combined with suitable preconditioners, to solve the time-harmonic Maxwell's equations in waveguide configurations. The implementation of high order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-05-16 Marcella Bonazzoli , Victorita Dolean , Frédéric Hecht , Francesca Rapetti

In this paper we design efficient quadrature rules for finite element discretizations of nonlocal diffusion problems with compactly supported kernel functions. Two of the main challenges in nonlocal modeling and simulations are the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-23 Eugenio Aulisa , Giacomo Capodaglio , Andrea Chierici , Marta D'Elia

In this paper, we carry out the error analysis for the structure-preserving discretization of the incompressible MHD system. This system, as a coupled system of Navier-Stokes equations and Maxwell's equations, is nonlinear. We use its…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-11 Yicong Ma , Jinchao Xu , Guodong Zhang

This paper proposes four fundamental requirements for establishing PDEs (partial differential equations) modeling irreversible processes. We show that the PDEs derived via the CDF (conservation-dissipation formalism) meet all the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-03-17 Wen-An Yong

The fourth-order PDE that models the density variation of smectic A liquid crystals presents unique challenges in its (numerical) analysis beyond more common fourth-order operators, such as the classical biharmonic. While the operator is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-24 Patrick E. Farrell , Abdalaziz Hamdan , Scott P. MacLachlan

We develop a new finite difference scheme for the Maxwell-Stefan diffusion system. The scheme is conservative, energy stable and positivity-preserving. These nice properties stem from a variational structure and are proved by reformulating…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-05-19 Xiaokai Huo , Hailiang Liu , Athanasios E. Tzavaras , Shuaikun Wang

We describe a fully discrete mixed finite element method for the linearized rotating shallow water model, possibly with damping. While Crank-Nicolson time-stepping conserves energy in the absence of drag or forcing terms and is not subject…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-04 Tate Kernell , Robert C. Kirby

The MFEM (Modular Finite Element Methods) library is a high-performance C++ library for finite element discretizations. MFEM supports numerous types of finite element methods and is the discretization engine powering many computational…

We analyze numerical approximation of the fractional elliptic problem $L^{\beta}u=f$, ${\beta>0}$, where $L$ is a second-order self-adjoint elliptic operator with homogeneous Dirichlet or Neumann boundary conditions. The paper develops a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Kelvin J. R. Almeida-Sousa , David Bolin , Alexandre B. Simas

The compact finite difference method is a powerful tool for discretizing conservation laws, owing to its inherent flexibility in developing high-resolution and highly stable schemes. In this paper, we propose a framework for the design of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-30 Weifeng Hou , Zhangpeng Sun , Wenqi Yao , Liupeng Wang

In this paper we consider a class of unfitted finite element methods for discretization of partial differential equations on surfaces. In this class of methods known as the Trace Finite Element Method (TraceFEM), restrictions or traces of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-07-06 Maxim A. Olshanskii , Arnold Reusken

A diffusion interface two-phase magnetohydrodynamic model has been used for matched densities in our previous work [1,2], which may limit the applications of the model. In this work, we derive a thermodynamically consistent diffuse…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-13 Ke Zhang

We analyze a new framework for expressing finite element methods on arbitrarily many intersecting meshes: multimesh finite element methods. The multimesh finite element method, first presented in [40], enables the use of separate meshes to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-10 August Johansson , Mats G. Larson , Anders Logg

Deformable fractured porous media appear in many geoscience applications. While the extended finite element (XFEM) has been successfully developed within the computational mechanics community for accurate modeling of the deformation, its…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-04-07 Fanxiang Xu , Hadi Hajibeygi , Lambertus J. Sluys

This paper introduces a Variational Multiscale Stabilization (VMS) formulation of the incompressible Navier--Stokes equations that utilizes the Finite Element Exterior Calculus (FEEC) framework. The FEEC framework preserves the geometric…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-17 Kevin Dijkstra , Deepesh Toshniwal

This paper presents an immersed, isogeometric finite element framework to predict the response of multi-material, multi-physics problems with complex geometries using locally refined discretizations. To circumvent the need to generate…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-05 Mathias Schmidt , Lise Noel , Keenan Doble , John A. Evans , Kurt Maute

We are interested in the discretisation of a drift-diffusion system in the framework of hybrid finite volume (HFV) methods on general polygonal/polyhedral meshes. The system under study is composed of two anisotropic and nonlinear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-11 Julien Moatti

In this paper we propose a novel approach to discretize linear port-Hamiltonian systems while preserving the underlying structure. We present a finite element exterior calculus formulation that is able to mimetically represent conservation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-19 Andrea Brugnoli , Ramy Rashad , Stefano Stramigioli

We present a new high order finite element method for the discretization of partial differential equations on stationary smooth surfaces which are implicitly described as the zero level of a level set function. The discretization is based…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-04-17 Jörg Grande , Christoph Lehrenfeld , Arnold Reusken

In wave propagation problems, finite difference methods implemented on staggered grids are commonly used to avoid checkerboard patterns and to improve accuracy in the approximation of short-wavelength components of the solutions. In this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-15 Micol Bassanini , Simone Deparis , Paolo Ricci