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We investigate a finite element discretization of an elastic bending-plate model with an effective prestrain. The model has been obtained via homogenization and dimension reduction by B\"onlein at al. (2023). Its energy functional is the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-13 Klaus Böhnlein , Stefan Neukamm , Oliver Sander

Finite difference method and pseudo-spectral method have been widely used in the numerical relativity to solve the Einstein equations. As the third major category method to solve partial differential equations, finite element method is much…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-29 Zhoujian Cao , Pei Fu , Li-Wei Ji , Yinhua Xia

We present a class of discretisation spaces and H(div)-conformal elements that can be built on any polytope. Bridging the flexibility of the Virtual Element spaces towards the element's shape with the divergence properties of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-23 Rémi Abgrall , Élise Le Mélédo , Philipp Öffner

We extend a new finite element code, Einstein PHG (iPHG), to solve the evolution part of Einstein equations in first-order GH formalism. This paper is the third one of a systematic investigation of applying adaptive finite element method to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-10-18 Li-Wei Ji , Rong-Gen Cai , Zhoujian Cao

In [24], we proposed H(curl^2)-conforming elements on both a triangle and a rectangle. This family of elements provides a brand new method to solve the quad-curl problem in 2 dimensions. In this paper, we turn our focus to 3 dimensions and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-05 Qian Zhang , Zhimin Zhang

A unified construction of $H(\textrm{div})$-conforming finite element tensors, including vector element, symmetric matrix element, traceless matrix element, and, in general, tensors with linear constraints, is developed in this work. It is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-04 Long Chen , Xuehai Huang

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

The construction of finite element approximations in $\mathbf{H}(\mbox{div}, {\Omega})$ usually requires the Piola transformation to map vector polynomials from a master element to vector fields in the elements of a partition of the region…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-13 Philippe R. B. Devloo , Agnaldo M. Farias , Sônia M. Gomes

In this paper, we study adaptive finite element approximations in a perturbation framework, which makes use of the existing adaptive finite element analysis of a linear symmetric elliptic problem. We prove the convergence and complexity of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-02-05 Lianhua He , Aihui Zhou

This paper presents a novel approach to the construction of the lowest order $H(\mathrm{curl})$ and $H(\mathrm{div})$ exponentially-fitted finite element spaces ${\mathcal{S}_{1^-}^{k}}~(k=1,2)$ on 3D simplicial mesh for corresponding…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-16 Jindong Wang , Shuonan Wu

We propose two families of mixed finite elements for solving the classical Hellinger-Reissner mixed problem of the linear elasticity equations in three dimensions. First, a family of conforming mixed triangular prism elements is constructed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-04-28 Jun Hu , Rui Ma

We develop a finite element discretization for the weakly symmetric equations of linear elasticity on tetrahedral meshes. The finite element combines, for $r \geq 0$, discontinuous polynomials of $r$ for the displacement,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-02-09 Tobin Isaac

We discuss a class of magnetic-electric fields based finite element schemes for stationary magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) systems with two types of boundary conditions. We establish a key $L^{3}$ estimate for divergence-free finite element…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-05-03 Kaibo Hu , Weifeng Qiu , Ke Shi

In this paper, the author derives an $O(h^4)$-superconvergence for the piecewise linear Ritz-Galerkin finite element approximations for the second order elliptic equation $-\nabla \cdot(A\nabla u)= f$ equipped with Dirichlet boundary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-06-27 Chunmei Wang

New variational formulations are devised for the curl--div system, and the corresponding finite element approximations are shown to converge. Curl--free and divergence--free finite elements are employed for discretizing the problem.

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-12-31 Ana Alonso Rodríguez , Enrico Bertolazzi , Alberto Valli

This work develops a convergence theory for H(div)-conforming finite element methods applied to the steady Oseen problem, focusing on cases where the exact finite element complex holds while the commuting diagram property may fail. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-01 Jin Zhang , Xiaowei Liu

We show: 1) The existence of the first twisted Hilbert space that is not isomorphic to its dual; this solves a problem posed by Cabello in [Nonlinear centralizers in homology, Math. Ann. 358 (2014), no. 3-4, 779-798]. 2) The existence of a…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-25 J. M. F. Castillo , W. H. G. Corrêa

We show that for certain arithmetic groups, geometrically finite subgroups are the intersection of finite index subgroups containing them. Examples are the Bianchi groups and the Seifert-Weber dodecahedral space. In particular, for…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Ian Agol , Darren D. Long , Alan W. Reid

In this paper, two nonconforming finite element schemes that use piecewise cubic and piecewise quartic polynomials respectively are constructed for the planar biharmonic equation with optimal convergence rates on general shape-regular…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-11 Shuo Zhang

We study the two primary families of spaces of finite element differential forms with respect to a simplicial mesh in any number of space dimensions. These spaces are generalizations of the classical finite element spaces for vector fields,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-01-29 Douglas N. Arnold , Richard S. Falk , Ragnar Winther