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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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-08 Chunmei Wang , Xiu Ye , Shangyou Zhang

A systematic numerical study on weak Galerkin (WG) finite element method for second order linear parabolic problems is presented by allowing polynomial approximations with various degrees for each local element. Convergence of both…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-26 Bhupen Deka , Naresh Kumar

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-11 Xiu Ye , Shangyou Zhang

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

The state-of-the art proof of a global inf-sup condition on mixed finite element schemes does not allow for an analysis of truly indefinite, second-order linear elliptic PDEs. This paper, therefore, first analyses a nonconforming finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-01-21 Carsten Carstensen , Asha K. Dond , Neela Nataraj , Amiya K. Pani

A new weak Galerkin (WG) finite element method for solving the second-order elliptic problems on polygonal meshes by using polynomials of boundary continuity is introduced and analyzed. The WG method is utilizing weak functions and their…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-09-30 Qilong Zhai , Xiu Ye , Ruishu Wang , Ran 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

The conforming finite element Galerkin method is applied to discretise in the spatial direction for a class of strongly nonlinear parabolic problems. Using elliptic projection of the associated linearised stationary problem with Gronwall…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-08-04 Ambit Kumar Pany , Morrakot Khebchareon , Amiya K. Pani

A superconvergence error estimate for the gradient approximation of the second order elliptic problem in three dimensions is analyzed by using weak Galerkin finite element scheme on the uniform and non-uniform cubic partitions. Due to the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-19 Dan Li , Yufeng Nie , Chunmei Wang

In this paper, we study the numerical method for the bi-Laplace problems with inhomogeneous coefficients; particularly, we propose finite element schemes on rectangular grids respectively for an inhomogeneous fourth-order elliptic singular…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-23 Bin Dai , Huilan Zeng , Chensong Zhang , Shuo Zhang

In this article, we present and analyze a stabilizer-free $C^0$ weak Galerkin (SF-C0WG) method for solving the biharmonic problem. The SF-C0WG method is formulated in terms of cell unknowns which are $C^0$ continuous piecewise polynomials…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-21 Peng Zhu , Shenglan Xie , Xiaoshen Wang

A family of continuous piecewise linear finite elements for thin plate problems is presented. We use standard linear interpolation of the deflection field to reconstruct a discontinuous piecewise quadratic deflection field. This allows us…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-24 Karl Larsson , Mats G. Larson

We present an analysis for a mixed finite element method for the bending problem of Koiter shell. We derive an error estimate showing that when the geometrical coefficients of the shell mid-surface satisfy certain conditions the finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-03-28 Sheng Zhang

A finite element methodology for large classes of variational boundary value problems is defined which involves discretizing two linear operators: (1) the differential operator defining the spatial boundary value problem; and (2) a Riesz…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-08 Brendan Keith , Socratis Petrides , Federico Fuentes , Leszek Demkowicz

A convincing feature of least-squares finite element methods is the built-in a posteriori error estimator for any conforming discretization. In order to generalize this property to discontinuous finite element ansatz functions, this paper…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-18 Philipp Bringmann

In this paper, we investigate a sequentially decoupled numerical method for solving the fully coupled quasi-static thermo-poroelasticity problems with nonlinear convective transport. The symmetric interior penalty discontinuous Galerkin…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-09 Fan Chen , Ming Cui , Chenguang Zhou

In the first part of the paper, we study the discontinuous Galerkin (DG) and $C^0$ interior penalty ($C^0$-IP) finite element approximation of the periodic strong solution to the fully nonlinear second-order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-16 Ellya L. Kawecki , Timo Sprekeler

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

We introduce a family of proximal discontinuous Galerkin methods for variational inequalities, focusing on the obstacle problem as a didactic example. Each member of this family is born from applying a different well-known nonconforming…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-23 Alexandre Ern , Brendan Keith , Dohyun Kim , Rami Masri , Beatrice Riviere

We develop a general convergence theory for adaptive discontinuous Galerkin methods for elliptic PDEs covering the popular SIPG, NIPG and LDG schemes as well as all practically relevant marking strategies. Another key feature of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-07 Christian Kreuzer , Emmanuil H. Georgoulis