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In this article, we present a three-dimensional anisotropic $hp$-mesh refinement strategy for ultraweak discontinuous Petrov--Galerkin (DPG) formulations with optimal test functions. The refinement strategy utilizes the built-in…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Ankit Chakraborty , Stefan Henneking , Leszek Demkowicz

We consider the discontinuous Petrov-Galerkin (DPG) method, wher the test space is normed by a modified graph norm. The modificatio scales one of the terms in the graph norm by an arbitrary positive scaling parameter. Studying the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-16 Jay Gopalakrishnan , Ignacio Muga , Nicole Olivares

A discontinuous Petrov-Galerkin (DPG) method is used to solve the time-harmonic equations of linear viscoelasticity. It is based on a "broken" primal variational formulation, which is very similar to the classical primal variational…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-09-26 Federico Fuentes , Leszek Demkowicz , Aleta Wilder

We explore a vexing benchmark problem for viscoelastic fluid flows with the discontinuous Petrov-Galerkin (DPG) finite element method of Demkowicz and Gopalakrishnan [1,2]. In our analysis, we develop an intrinsic a posteriori error…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-24 Brendan Keith , Philipp Knechtges , Nathan V. Roberts , Stefanie Elgeti , Marek Behr , Leszek Demkowicz

In this paper, we continue the development of the Direct Meshless Local Petrov-Galerkin (DMLPG) method for elasto-static problems. This method is based on the generalized moving least squares approximation. The computational efficiency is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-01-21 Davoud Mirzaei

In this work, we propose a new quasi-optimal test norm for a discontinuous Petrov-Galerkin (DPG) discretization of the ultra-weak formulation of the convection-diffusion equation. We prove theoretically that the proposed test norm leads to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-13 Stephen Metcalfe , Siva Nadarajah

We propose and analyze a discretization scheme that combines the discontinuous Petrov-Galerkin and finite element methods. The underlying model problem is of general diffusion-advection-reaction type on bounded domains, with decomposition…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-04-26 Thomas Führer , Norbert Heuer , Michael Karkulik , Rodolfo Rodríguez

We propose and analyze a numerical method to solve an elliptic transmission problem in full space. The method consists of a variational formulation involving standard boundary integral operators on the coupling interface and an ultra-weak…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-12-16 Norbert Heuer , Michael Karkulik

We present a simplified model consisting on two linear elliptic boundary-value problems that represent a single step and single fixed-point iteration in an electrochemical battery model. The main variables are the concentration and the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-11 Jaime Mora-Paz

We develop and analyze an ultraweak formulation of linear PDEs in nondivergence form where the coefficients satisfy the Cordes condition. Based on the ultraweak formulation we propose discontinuous Petrov--Galerkin (DPG) methods. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-08-27 Thomas Führer

We present an error analysis for the discontinuous Galerkin method applied to the discrete-ordinate discretization of the steady-state radiative transfer equation. Under some mild assumptions, we show that the DG method converges uniformly…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-25 Qiwei Sheng , Cory D. Hauck

We introduce a new level-set shape optimization approach based on polytopic (i.e., polygonal in two and polyhedral in three spatial dimensions) discontinuous Galerkin methods. The approach benefits from the geometric mesh flexibility of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-05 Raphael S. Fernandes , Emmanuil H. Georgoulis , Alberto Paganini

We develop and analyze strategies to couple the discontinuous Petrov-Galerkin method with optimal test functions to (i) least-squares boundary elements and (ii) various variants of standard Galerkin boundary elements. Essential feature of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-08-05 Thomas Führer , Norbert Heuer , Michael Karkulik

We introduce and analyze a discontinuous Petrov-Galerkin method with optimal test functions for the heat equation. The scheme is based on the backward Euler time stepping and uses an ultra-weak variational formulation at each time step. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-07-04 Thomas Führer , Norbert Heuer , Jhuma Sen Gupta

We investigate the application of the discontinuous Petrov-Galerkin (DPG) finite element framework to stationary convection-diffusion problems. In particular, we demonstrate how the quasi-optimal test space norm can be utilized to improve…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-01-10 Antti H. Niemi , Nathaniel O. Collier , Victor M. Calo

The discontinuous Petrov-Galerkin (DPG) methodology of Demkowicz and Gopalakrishnan [15,17] guarantees the optimality of the solution in an energy norm, and provides several features facilitating adaptive schemes. A key question that has…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-09 Nathan V. Roberts , Jesse Chan

We propose an adaptive multigrid preconditioning technology for solving linear systems arising from Discontinuous Petrov-Galerkin (DPG) discretizations. Unlike standard multigrid techniques, this preconditioner involves only trace spaces…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-15 Socratis Petrides , Leszek Demkowicz

Discontinuous Petrov Galerkin (DPG) methods are made easily implementable using `broken' test spaces, i.e., spaces of functions with no continuity constraints across mesh element interfaces. Broken spaces derivable from a standard exact…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-07-10 C. Carstensen , L. Demkowicz , J. Gopalakrishnan

We propose a least-squares penalization as a means to extend the discontinuous Petrov-Galerkin (DPG) method with optimal test functions to a class of semilinear elliptic problems. The nonlinear contributions are replaced with independent…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-01 Carlos García Vera , Norbert Heuer , Dirk Praetorius

Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods are extensions of the usual Galerkin finite element methods. Although there are vast amount of studies on DG methods, most of them have assumed shape-regularity conditions on meshes for both theoretical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-18 Takahito Kashiwabara , Takuya Tsuchiya