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We derive an ultraweak variational formulation of the quad-curl problem in two and three dimensions. We present a discontinuous Petrov-Galerkin (DPG) method for its approximation and prove its quasi-optimal convergence. We illustrate how…

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This paper analyses discontinuous Galerkin finite element methods (DGFEM) to approximate a regular solution to the von K\'arm\'an equations defined on a polygonal domain. A discrete inf-sup condition sufficient for the stability of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-08-28 Carsten Carstensen , Gouranga Mallik , Neela Nataraj

A weak Galerkin (WG) finite element method without stabilizers was introduced in [J. Comput. Appl. Math., 371 (2020). arXiv:1906.06634] on polytopal mesh. Then it was improved in [arXiv:2008.13631] with order one superconvergence. The goal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-21 Xiu Ye , Shangyou Zhang

The Galerkin difference (GD) basis is a set of continuous, piecewise polynomials defined using a finite difference like grid of degrees of freedom. The one dimensional GD basis functions are naturally extended to multiple dimensions using…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-03 Jeremy E. Kozdon , Lucas C. Wilcox , Thomas Hagstrom , Jeffrey W. Banks

Recently, a new stabilizer free weak Galerkin method (SFWG) is proposed, which is easier to implement. The idea is to raise the degree of polynomials j for computing weak gradient. It is shown that if j>=j0 for some j0, then SFWG achieves…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-05 Ahmed Al-Taweel , Xiaoshen Wang

The weak Galerkin finite element method is a novel numerical method that was first proposed and analyzed by Wang and Ye for general second order elliptic problems on triangular meshes. The goal of this paper is to conduct a computational…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-11-14 Lin Mu , Junping Wang , Yanqiu Wang , Xiu Ye

This study introduces the divergence-conforming discontinuous Galerkin finite element method (DGFEM) for numerically approximating optimal control problems with distributed constraints, specifically those governed by stationary generalized…

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This paper develops interior penalty discontinuous Galerkin (IP-DG) methods to approximate $W^{2,p}$ strong solutions of second order linear elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs) in non-divergence form with continuous coefficients.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-05-17 Xiaobing Feng , Michael Neilan , Stefan Schnake

This article introduces a simple weak Galerkin (WG) finite element method for solving convection-diffusion-reaction equation. The proposed method offers significant flexibility by supporting discontinuous approximating functions on general…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-06 Chunmei Wang , Shangyou Zhang

This paper introduces an auto-stabilized weak Galerkin (WG) finite element method for elasticity interface problems on general polygonal and polyhedral meshes, without requiring convexity constraints. The method utilizes bubble functions as…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-24 Chunmei Wang , Shangyou Zhang

We propose to use a hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin (HDG) method combined with the continuous Galerkin (CG) method to approximate Maxwell's equations. We make two contributions in this paper. First, even though there are many papers…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-17 Gang Chen , Peter Monk , Yangwen Zhang

We propose and analyze discontinuous Galerkin (dG) approximations to 3D-1D coupled systems which model diffusion in a 3D domain containing a small inclusion reduced to its 1D centerline. Convergence to weak solutions of a steady state…

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Mixed optimal stopping and stochastic control problems define variational inequalities with non-linear Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) operators, whose numerical solution is notoriously difficult and lack of reliable benchmarks. We first use…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-27 Yun Zhao , Harry Zheng

For the simulation of rectilinearly moving conductors across a magnetic field, the Galer-kin finite element method (GFEM) is generally employed. The inherent instability of GFEM is very often addressed by employing Streamline…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-22 Sethupathy Subramanian , Udaya Kumar

We consider a system of second order non-linear elliptic partial differential equations that models the equilibrium configurations of a two dimensional planar bistable nematic liquid crystal device. Discontinuous Galerkin finite element…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-05-29 Ruma Rani Maity , Apala Majumdar , Neela Nataraj

We introduce a high-order weight-adjusted discontinuous Galerkin (WADG) scheme for the numerical solution of three-dimensional (3D) wave propagation problems in anisotropic porous media. We use a coupled first-order symmetric…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-29 Khemraj Shukla , Jesse Chan , Maarten V. de Hoop , Priyank Jaiswal

We introduce new hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin (HDG) methods for solving the two-dimensional vector Laplacian equation under three types of boundary conditions: electric, magnetic, and Dirichlet. The method is formulated on a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-08 Bernardo Cockburn , Cristhian Núñez , Manuel A. Sánchez

A stabilizer free weak Galerkin (WG) finite element method on polytopal mesh has been introduced in Part I of this paper (J. Comput. Appl. Math, 371 (2020) 112699. arXiv:1906.06634.) Removing stabilizers from discontinuous finite element…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-01 Xiu Ye , Shangyou Zhang

In this article, we decrease the degree of the polynomials on the boundary of the weak functions and modify the definition of the weak laplacian which are introduced in \cite{BiharmonicSFWG} to use the SFWG method for the biharmonic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-26 Shanshan Gu , Qilong Zhai