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The rigorous convergence analysis of adaptive finite element methods for regularized variational models of quasi-static brittle fracture in strain-limiting elastic solids is presented. This work introduces two novel adaptive mesh refinement…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-19 Ram Manohar , S. M. Mallikarjunaiah

We develop numerical methods for elliptic systems governed by partial segregation constraints, in which three nonnegative components are required to have a vanishing pointwise product throughout the domain. This constraint enforces that at…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-09 Farid Bozorgnia , Avetik Arakelyan , Vyacheslav Kungurtsev , Jan Valdman

We present an arbitrary order discontinuous Galerkin finite element method for solving the biharmonic interface problem on the unfitted mesh. The approximation space is constructed by a patch reconstruction process with at most one degree…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-08 Yan Chen , Ruo Li , Qicheng Liu

Penalty methods are a well known class of algorithms for constrained optimization. They transform a constrained problem into a sequence of unconstrained \emph{penalized} problems in the hope that approximate solutions of the latter converge…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-01 Youssef Diouane , Maxence Gollier , Dominique Orban

This paper investigates energy-minimization finite-element approaches for the computation of nematic liquid crystal equilibrium configurations. We compare the performance of these methods when the necessary unit-length constraint is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-12-31 J. H. Adler , D. B. Emerson , S. P. MacLachlan , T. A. Manteuffel

We propose an unfitted interface penalty Discontinuous Galerkin-Finite Element Method (UIPDG-FEM) for elliptic interface problems. This hybrid method combines the interior penalty discontinuous Galerkin (IPDG) terms near the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-27 Juan Han , Haijun Wu , Yuanming Xiao

Penalty methods have proven to be particularly effective for achieving the required $C^1$-continuity in the context of multi-patch isogeometric Kirchhoff-Love shells. Due to their conceptual simplicity, these algorithms are readily…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-10-13 Luca Coradello , Josef Kiendl , Annalisa Buffa

We present a convergence analysis of the penalty method applied to unilateral contact problems in two and three space dimensions. We first consider, under various regularity assumptions on the exact solution to the unilateral contact…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-05-28 Franz Chouly , Hild Patrick

A new exact projective penalty method is proposed for the equivalent reduction of constrained optimization problems to nonsmooth unconstrained ones. In the method, the original objective function is extended to infeasible points by summing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-05 Vladimir Norkin

We introduce the cut finite element method in the language of finite element exterior calculus, by formulating a stabilisation -- for any form degree -- that makes the method robust with respect to the position of the interface relative to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-17 Daniele Di Pietro , Jérôme Droniou , Erik Nilsson

We reformulate the zero-norm minimization problem as an equivalent mathematical program with equilibrium constraints and establish that its penalty problem, induced by adding the complementarity constraint to the objective, is exact. Then,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-12-16 Shujun Bi , Xiaolan Liu , Shaohua Pan

We analyze a non-symmetric coupling of interior penalty discontinuous Galerkin and boundary element methods in two and three dimensions. Main results are discrete coercivity of the method, and thus unique solvability, and quasi-optimal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-11-11 Norbert Heuer , Francisco-Javier Sayas

We develop novel stabilized cut discontinuous Galerkin (CutDG) methods for advection-reaction problems. The domain of interest is embedded into a structured, unfitted background mesh in $\mathbb{R}^d$ where the domain boundary can cut…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-05-12 Ceren Gürkan , Simon Sticko , André Massing

In this paper we consider the convergence analysis of adaptive finite element method for elliptic optimal control problems with pointwise control constraints. We use variational discretization concept to discretize the control variable and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-31 Wei Gong , Ningning Yan

In this work, we bridge standard adaptive mesh refinement and coarsening on scalable octree background meshes and robust unfitted finite element formulations for the automatic and efficient solution of large-scale nonlinear solid mechanics…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-01 Santiago Badia , Manuel Caicedo , Alberto F. Martín , Javier Principe

In this article, we prove convergence of the weakly penalized adaptive discontinuous Galerkin methods. Unlike other works, we derive the contraction property for various discontinuous Galerkin methods only assuming the stabilizing…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Thirupathi Gudi , Johnny Guzmán

We derive a priori error estimates for Nitsche's method applied to elliptic problems on approximate domains. Such approximations arise, for example, in unfitted finite element methods, data-driven simulations, and evolving domain problems,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-02 Mats G. Larson , Karl Larsson , Shantiram Mahata

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

We prove the convergence of adaptive discontinuous Galerkin and $C^0$-interior penalty methods for fully nonlinear second-order elliptic Hamilton--Jacobi--Bellman and Isaacs equations with Cordes coefficients. We consider a broad family of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-23 Ellya L. Kawecki , Iain Smears

We construct a finite element approximation of a strain-limiting elastic model on a bounded open domain in $\mathbb{R}^d$, $d \in \{2,3\}$. The sequence of finite element approximations is shown to exhibit strong convergence to the unique…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-02 Andrea Bonito , Vivette Girault , Endre Süli