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We describe a compatible finite element discretisation for the shallow water equations on the rotating sphere, concentrating on integrating consistent upwind stabilisation into the framework. Although the prognostic variables are velocity…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-17 J. Shipton , T. H. Gibson , C. J. Cotter

Two local discontinuous Galerkin (LDG) methods using some non-standard numerical fluxes are developed for the Helmholtz equation with the first order absorbing boundary condition in the high frequency regime. It is shown that the proposed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-10-25 Xiaobing Feng , Yulong Xing

For a well-posed non-selfadjoint indefinite second-order linear elliptic PDE with general coefficients $\mathbf A, \mathbf b,\gamma$ in $L^\infty$ and symmetric and uniformly positive definite coefficient matrix $\mathbf A$, this paper…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-10 C. Carstensen , Neela Nataraj , Amiya K. Pani

We establish the well-posedness of the Helmholtz equation with rough and compactly supported coefficients in Rd under sharp regularity assumptions. Using a paraproduct calculus in rescaled weighted Besov spaces, we rigorously define the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-11 Peijun Li , Yichun Zhu

We develop a sparse hierarchical $hp$-finite element method ($hp$-FEM) for the Helmholtz equation with variable coefficients posed on a two-dimensional disk or annulus. The mesh is an inner disk cell (omitted if on an annulus domain) and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-10 Ioannis P. A. Papadopoulos , Sheehan Olver

In this work we consider the computational approximation of a unique continuation problem for the Helmholtz equation using a stabilized finite element method. First conditional stability estimates are derived for which, under a convexity…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-29 Erik Burman , Mihai Nechita , Lauri Oksanen

A new, coercive formulation of the Helmholtz equation was introduced in [Moiola, Spence, SIAM Rev. 2014]. In this paper we investigate $h$-version Galerkin discretisations of this formulation, and the iterative solution of the resulting…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-29 Ganesh C. Diwan , Andrea Moiola , Euan A. Spence

This manuscript presents an efficient solver for the linear system that arises from the Hierarchical Poincar\'e-Steklov (HPS) discretization of three dimensional variable coefficient Helmholtz problems. Previous work on the HPS method has…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-18 José Pablo Lucero Lorca , Natalie Beams , Damien Beecroft , Adrianna Gillman

In this paper we propose a new method to stabilise non-symmetric indefinite problems. The idea is to solve a forward and an adjoint problem simultaneously using a suitable stabilised finite element method. Both stabilisation of the element…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-08-05 Erik Burman

Using uniform global Carleman estimates for discrete elliptic and semi-discrete hyperbolic equations, we study Lipschitz and logarithmic stability for the inverse problem of recovering a potential in a semi-discrete wave equation,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-09-29 Lucie Baudouin , Sylvain Ervedoza , Axel Osses

The singularities that arise in elliptic boundary value problems are treated locally by a singular function boundary integral method. This method extracts the leading singular coefficients from a series expansion that describes the local…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-06-21 George Pashos , Athanasios G. Papathanasiou , Andreas G. Boudouvis

We prove well-posedness results and a priori bounds on the solution of the Helmholtz equation $\nabla\cdot(A\nabla u) + k^2 n u = -f$, posed either in $\mathbb{R}^d$ or in the exterior of a star-shaped Lipschitz obstacle, for a class of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-05-19 O. R. Pembery , E. A. Spence

It is well known that the quasi-optimality of the Galerkin finite element method for the Helmholtz equation is dependent on the mesh size and the wave-number. In the literature, different criteria have been proposed to ensure uniform…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-31 Tim van Beeck , Umberto Zerbinati

We apply the local discontinuous Galerkin (LDG for short) method to solve a mixed boundary value problems for the Helmholtz equation in bounded polygonal domain in 2D. Under some assumptions on regularity of the solution of an adjoint…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-10-11 T. P. Barrios , R. Bustinza , V. Dominguez

This paper develops and analyzes some interior penalty discontinuous Galerkin methods using piecewise linear polynomials for the Helmholtz equation with the first order absorbing boundary condition in the two and three dimensions. It is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2008-10-09 Xiaobing Feng , Haijun Wu

In this paper, we consider a class of systems of nonlinear equations, which arise in discretized mixed formulations of problems in solid mechanics by $hp$-finite elements. We introduce a semismooth Newton solver for this specific class and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-24 Patrick Bammer , Lothar Banz , Miriam Schönauer , Andreas Schröder

We develop a classical well-posedness and regularity theory on a finite connected weighted graph for an extended mean field game system, its associated master equation, and a Hamilton-Jacobi- Bellman equation on the probability simplex, all…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-08 Wilfrid Gangbo , Sebastian Munoz , Jeremy Wu , Zhaoyu Zhang

Over the last ten years, results from [Melenk-Sauter, 2010], [Melenk-Sauter, 2011], [Esterhazy-Melenk, 2012], and [Melenk-Parsania-Sauter, 2013] decomposing high-frequency Helmholtz solutions into "low"- and "high"-frequency components have…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-08-02 Jeffrey Galkowski , David Lafontaine , Euan A. Spence , Jared Wunsch

This work is about a new two-level solver for Helmholtz equations discretized by finite elements. The method is inspired by two-grid methods for finite-difference Helmholtz problems as well as by previous work on two-level…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-23 Christiaan C. Stolk

In the analysis of the $h$-version of the finite-element method (FEM), with fixed polynomial degree $p$, applied to the Helmholtz equation with wavenumber $k\gg 1$, the $\textit{asymptotic regime}$ is when $(hk)^p C_{\rm sol}$ is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-05 Jeffrey Galkowski , Euan A. Spence