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We consider the null controllability problem for the wave equation, and analyse a stabilized finite element method formulated on a global, unstructured spacetime mesh. We prove error estimates for the approximate control given by the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-13 Erik Burman , Ali Feizmohammadi , Arnaud Munch , Lauri Oksanen

In this work we develop and analyze an adaptive finite element method for efficiently solving electrical impedance tomography -- a severely ill-posed nonlinear inverse problem for recovering the conductivity from boundary voltage…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-05-16 Bangti Jin , Yifeng Xu , Jun Zou

We consider locally stabilized, conforming finite element schemes on completely unstructured simplicial space-time meshes for the numerical solution of parabolic initial-boundary value problems with variable, possibly discontinuous in space…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-23 Ulrich Langer , Andreas Schafelner

We consider a system of equations that model the temperature, electric potential and deformation of a thermoviscoelastic body. A typical application is a thermistor; an electrical component that can be used e.g. as a surge protector,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-09 Axel Målqvist , Tony Stillfjord

An initial-boundary value problem for the time-fractional diffusion equation is discretized in space using continuous piecewise-linear finite elements on a polygonal domain with a re-entrant corner. Known error bounds for the case of a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-21 Kim Ngan Le , William McLean , Bishnu Lamichhane

A space-time interface-fitted approximation of an inverse source problem for the advection-diffusion equation with moving subdomains is investigated. The problem is reformulated as an optimization problem using Tikhonov regularization. A…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-11 Thi Thanh Mai Ta , Quang Huy Nguyen , Dinh Nho Hào

We propose an adaptive finite element method for the solution of a coefficient inverse problem of simultaneous reconstruction of the dielectric permittivity and magnetic permeability functions in the Maxwell's system using limited boundary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-01-26 Larisa Beilina , Samar Hosseinzadegan

We prove strong convergence for a large class of finite element methods for the time-dependent Joule heating problem in three spatial dimensions with mixed boundary conditions on Lipschitz domains. We consider conforming subspaces for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-01-31 Max Jensen , Axel Målqvist , Anna Persson

We consider a distributed optimal control problem subject to a parabolic evolution equation as constraint. The control will be considered in the energy norm of the anisotropic Sobolev space $[H_{0;,0}^{1,1/2}(Q)]^\ast$, such that the state…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-14 Richard Löscher , Michael Reichelt , Olaf Steinbach

Given a proper convex lower semicontinuous function defined on a Hilbert space and whose solution set is supposed nonempty. For attaining a global minimizer when this convex function is continuously differentiable, we approach it by a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-02 A. C. Bagy , Z. Chbani , H. Riahi

Backward parabolic equations, such as the backward heat equation, are classical examples of ill-posed problems where solutions may not exist or depend continuously on the data. In this work, we study a least squares finite element method to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Harald Monsuur

In this contribution we show sufficient conditions for simultaneous unique identification of unknown spacewise coefficients and heat source in a parabolic partial differential equation given additional final time measurements. Our approach…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-10-30 Adriano De Cezaro , Fabiana Travessini De Cezaro

We study spatially semidiscrete and fully discrete finite volume element methods for the homogeneous heat equation with homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions and derive error estimates for smooth and nonsmooth initial data. We show that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-08-17 P. Chatzipantelidis , R. D. Lazarov , V. Thomee

We consider primal-dual mixed finite element methods for the solution of the elliptic Cauchy problem, or other related data assimilation problems. The method has a local conservation property. We derive a priori error estimates using known…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-01-01 Erik Burman , Mats. G. Larson , Lauri Oksanen

We present a finite element analysis of electrical impedance tomography for reconstructing the conductivity distribution from electrode voltage measurements by means of Tikhonov regularization. Two popular choices of the penalty term, i.e.,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-18 Matthias Gehre , Bangti Jin , Xiliang Lu

The presence of corners in the computational domain, in general, reduces the regularity of solutions of parabolic problems and diminishes the convergence properties of the finite element approximation introducing a so-called "pollution…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-03-19 Piotr Swierczynski , Barbara Wohlmuth

Fitted finite element methods are constructed for a singularly perturbed convection-diffusion problem in two space dimensions. Exponential splines as basis functions are combined with Shishkin meshes to obtain a stable parameter-uniform…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-03 Alan F. Hegarty , Eugene O'Riordan

In this paper we formulate and analyze a space-time finite element method for the numerical simulation of rotating electric machines where the finite element mesh is fixed in space-time domain. Based on the Babu\v{s}ka--Ne\v{c}as theory we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-01 Peter Gangl , Mario Gobrial , Olaf Steinbach

Error estimates are proved for finite element approximations to the solution of second-order hyperbolic partial differential equations with coefficients varying in both space and time. Optimal rates of convergence in the energy norm are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Oussama Al Jarroudi , Marcus J. Grote

We present locally stabilized, conforming space-time finite element methods for parabolic evolution equations on hexahedral decompositions of the space-time cylinder. Tensor-product decompositions allow for anisotropic a priori error…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-26 Ulrich Langer , Andreas Schafelner