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In this article we prove convergence of adaptive finite element methods for second order elliptic eigenvalue problems. We consider Lagrange finite elements of any degree and prove convergence for simple as well as multiple eigenvalues under…

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We consider an elliptic partial differential equation in non-divergence form with a random diffusion matrix and random forcing term. To address this, we propose a mixed-type continuous finite element discretization in the physical domain,…

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The numerical analysis for the small amplitude motion of an elastic beam with internal damping is investigated in domain with moving ends. An efficient numerical method is constructed to solve this moving boundary problem. The stability and…

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In this article we study adaptive finite element methods (AFEM) with inexact solvers for a class of semilinear elliptic interface problems. We are particularly interested in nonlinear problems with discontinuous diffusion coefficients, such…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-24 Michael Holst , Ryan Szypowski , Yunrong Zhu

The regularity of the solution of elliptic partial differential equa- tions in a polygonal domain with re-entrant corners is, in general, reduced compared to the one on a smooth convex domain. This results in a best approximation property…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-04-20 Thomas Horger , Petra Pustejovska , Barbara Wohlmuth

We consider an interface problem often arising in transport problems: a coupled system of partial differential equations with one (elliptic) transport equation on a bounded domain and one equation (in this case the Laplace problem) on the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-05-24 Christoph Erath , Robert Schorr

The dual continuum model serves as a powerful tool in the modeling of subsurface applications. It allows a systematic coupling of various components of the solutions. The system is of multiscale nature as it involves high heterogeneous and…

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This letter aims at resolving the issues raised in the recent short communication [1] and answered by [2] by proposing a systematic approximation scheme based on non-mapped shape functions, which both allows to fully exploit the unique…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2011-07-20 Stephane PA Bordas , Sundararajan Natarajan

In this paper, a direct finite element method is proposed for solving interface problems on unfitted meshes. This new method treats the two interface conditions as an $H^{\frac12}(\Gamma)\times H^{-\frac12}(\Gamma)$ pair for the mutual…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-19 Jun Hu , Limin Ma

The convergence and optimality of adaptive mixed finite element methods for the Poisson equation are established in this paper. The main difficulty for mixed finite element methods is the lack of minimization principle and thus the failure…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-01-12 Long Chen , Michael Holst , Jinchao Xu

We introduce an adaptive superconvergent finite element method for a class of mixed formulations to solve partial differential equations involving a diffusion term. It combines a superconvergent postprocessing technique for the primal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-03 Ignacio Muga , Sergio Rojas , Patrick Vega

This article presents an error analysis of the recently introduced Frenet immersed finite element (IFE) method. The Frenet IFE space employed in this method is constructed to be locally conforming to the function space of the associated…

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This work introduces and analyzes a finite element scheme for evolution problems involving fractional-in-time and in-space differentiation operators up to order two. The left-sided fractional-order derivative in time we consider is employed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-17 Gabriel Acosta , Francisco M. Bersetche , Juan Pablo Borthagaray

Optimal convergence rates of adaptive finite element methods are well understood in terms of the axioms of adaptivity. One key ingredient is the discrete reliability of a residual-based a posteriori error estimator, which controls the error…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-11-06 Carsten Carstensen , Sophie Puttkammer

We formulate a cut finite element method for linear elasticity based on higher order elements on a fixed background mesh. Key to the method is a stabilization term which provides control of the jumps in the derivatives of the finite element…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-05 Peter Hansbo , Mats G. Larson , Karl Larsson

We show that the central finite difference formula for the first and the second derivative of a function can be derived, in the context of quantum mechanics, as matrix elements of the momentum and kinetic energy operators using, as a basis…

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We consider the approximation properties of finite element spaces on quadrilateral meshes. The finite element spaces are constructed starting with a given finite dimensional space of functions on a square reference element, which is then…

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We summarise three applications of the obstacle problem to membrane contact, elastoplastic torsion and cavitation modelling, and show how the resulting models can be solved using mixed finite elements. It is challenging to construct fixed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-28 Tom Gustafsson

This article is a review on basic concepts and tools devoted to a posteriori error estimation for problems solved with the Finite Element Method. For the sake of simplicity and clarity, we mostly focus on linear elliptic diffusion problems,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-10-06 Ludovic Chamoin , Frederic Legoll

In this work, we analyze the finite element method with arbitrary but fixed polynomial degree for the nonlinear Helmholtz equation with impedance boundary conditions. We show well-posedness and error estimates of the finite element solution…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-07 Barbara Verfürth