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Simulation of 3D low-frequency electromagnetic fields propagating in the Earth is computationally expensive. We present a fictitious wave domain high-order finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) modelling method on nonuniform grids to compute…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-13 Pengliang Yang , Rune Mittet

In this paper, a generalized finite element method (GFEM) with optimal local approximation spaces for solving high-frequency heterogeneous Helmholtz problems is systematically studied. The local spaces are built from selected eigenvectors…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-15 Chupeng Ma , Christian Alber , Robert Scheichl

A new immersed finite element (IFE) method is developed for second-order elliptic problems with discontinuous diffusion coefficient. The IFE space is constructed based on the rotated Q1 nonconforming finite elements with the integral-value…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-18 Tao Lin , Dongwoo Sheen , Xu Zhang

Derivative boundary conditions introduce challenges for mesh-free discretizations of PDEs on surfaces, especially when the domain is represented by randomly sampled point clouds. The recently developed two-step tangent-space RBF-generated…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Peng Chen , Shixiao Willing Jiang , Rongji Li , Qile Yan

In this paper we present a methodology for increasing the accuracy and accelerating the convergence of numerical methods for solution of Maxwell's equations in the frequency domain by taking into account the be-havior of the electromagnetic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-06-30 Igor Semenikhin

A novel recovery-based error indicator for high-order Finite Difference Methods, based on post-processing of the Finite Difference values is presented. The values obtained on the Finite Difference grid are interpolated into a suitable…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-19 Ferhat Sindy , Annalisa Buffa , Marco Picasso

In this paper we present a multigrid approach to solve the Poisson equation in arbitrary domain (identified by a level set function) and mixed boundary conditions. The discretization is based on finite difference scheme and ghost-cell…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-11-07 Armando Coco , Giovanni Russo

Designing efficient and accurate numerical solvers for high-dimensional partial differential equations (PDEs) remains a challenging and important topic in computational science and engineering, mainly due to the "curse of dimensionality" in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-20 Senwei Liang , Haizhao Yang

Finite difference method was extended to unstructured meshes to solve Euler equations. The spatial discretization is made of two steps. First, numerical fluxes are computed at the middle point of each edge with high order accuracy. In this…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-02-26 Meiyuan Zhen , Kun Qu , Jinsheng Cai

We present a novel parametric finite element approach for simulating the surface diffusion of curves and surfaces. Our core strategy incorporates a predictor-corrector time-stepping method, which enhances the classical first-order temporal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-17 Wei Jiang , Chunmei Su , Ganghui Zhang , Lian Zhang

We present a full-vector finite element method (FEM) mode solver for dielectric waveguides based on a mixed Nedelec-Lagrange discretization of Maxwell's curl equations in the frequency domain. The formulation combines edge elements for…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-15 Ergun Simsek

Partial differential equations (PDEs) on surfaces appear in many applications throughout the natural and applied sciences. The classical closest point method (Ruuth and Merriman, J. Comput. Phys. 227(3):1943-1961, [2008]) is an embedding…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-17 Argyrios Petras , Leevan Ling , Steven J. Ruuth

An expandable local and parallel two-grid finite element scheme based on superposition principle for elliptic problems is proposed and analyzed in this paper by taking example of Poisson equation. Compared with the usual local and parallel…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-09-10 Yanren Hou , Guangzhi Du

To numerically solve a generic elliptic equation on two-dimensional domains with rectangular Cartesian grids, we propose a cut-cell geometric multigrid method that features (1) general algorithmic steps that apply to two-dimensional…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-19 Jiyu Liu , Zhixuan Li , Jiatu Yan , Zhiqi Li , Qinghai Zhang

In this paper, a class of finite difference numerical techniques is presented to solve the second-order linear inhomogeneous damped wave equation. The consistency, stability, and convergences of these numerical schemes are discussed. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-23 Fazel Hadadifard , Satbir Malhi , Zhengyi Xiao

In this paper, we study a generalized finite element method for solving second-order elliptic partial differential equations with rough coefficients. The method uses local approximation spaces computed by solving eigenvalue problems on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-17 Christian Alber , Peter Bastian , Moritz Hauck , Robert Scheichl

This paper is devoted to analyze of nonconforming finite volume methods (FVMs), whose trial spaces are chosen as the nonconforming finite element (FE) spaces, for solving the second order elliptic boundary value problems. We formulate the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-10-31 Yuanyuan Zhang , Zhongying Chen

In this paper, we propose an unfitted finite element method to solve PDE-constrained shape optimization problems via shape gradient flow. The shape gradient flow system consists of the state equation, the adjoint equation, the velocity…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-13 Wei Gong , Chuwen Ma , Ziyi Zhang

Elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs) with discontinuous diffusion coefficients occur in application domains such as diffusions through porous media, electro-magnetic field propagation on heterogeneous media, and diffusion…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-01-20 Andrea Bonito , Ronald A. DeVore , Ricardo H. Nochetto

A finite element method for elliptic problems with discontinuous coefficients is presented. The discontinuity is assumed to take place along a closed smooth curve. The proposed method allows to deal with meshes that are not adapted to the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-07-12 Gunther H. Peichl , Rachid Touzani