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This paper addresses the issue of structure-preserving discretization of open distributed-parameter systems with Hamiltonian dynamics. Employing the formalism of discrete exterior calculus, we introduce a simplicial Dirac structure as a…
In this article, we propose and analyze an effective Hessian recovery strategy for the Lagrangian finite element of arbitrary order $k$. We prove that the proposed Hessian recovery preserves polynomials of degree $k+1$ on general…
We prove convergence and stability of the discrete exterior calculus (DEC) solutions for the Hodge-Laplace problems in two dimensions for families of meshes that are non-degenerate Delaunay and shape regular. We do this by relating the DEC…
We introduce a high-order spline geometric approach for the initial boundary value problem for Maxwell's equations. The method is geometric in the sense that it discretizes in structure preserving fashion the two de Rham sequences of…
In this paper we present a new Eulerian finite element method for the discretization of scalar partial differential equations on evolving surfaces. In this method we use the restriction of standard space-time finite element spaces on a…
This paper presents a brand new methodology to deal with isotopic fine structure calculations. By using the Poisson approximation in an entirely novel way, we introduce mathematical elegance into the discussion on the trade-off between…
We review different (reduced) models for thin structures using bending as principal mechanism to undergo large deformations. Each model consists in the minimization of a fourth order energy, potentially subject to a nonconvex constraint.…
We derive a reformulation of the linearized Arnowitt-Deser-Misner (ADM) equations as a Hodge-Dirac wave system with the divdiv complex, addressing challenges in numerical relativity such as gauge fixing, constraint propagation, and tensor…
We present a new compatible finite element advection scheme for the compressible Euler equations. Unlike the discretisations described in Cotter and Kuzmin (2016) and Shipton et al (2018), the discretisation uses the lowest-order family of…
Discrete exterior calculus (DEC) is a framework for constructing discrete versions of exterior differential calculus objects, and is widely used in computer graphics, computational topology, and discretizations of the Hodge-Laplace operator…
In this paper, we introduce a comprehensive axiomatization of structure-preserving discretization through the framework of commutative diagrams. By establishing a formal language that captures the essential properties of discretization…
We discuss structure-preserving numerical discretizations for repulsive and attractive Euler-Poisson equations that find applications in fluid-plasma and self-gravitation modeling. The scheme is fully discrete and structure preserving in…
For the Hodge--Laplace equation in finite element exterior calculus, we introduce several families of discontinuous Galerkin methods in the extended Galerkin framework. For contractible domains, this framework utilizes seven fields and…
We construct finite element de~Rham complexes of higher and possibly non-uniform polynomial order in finite element exterior calculus (FEEC). Starting from the finite element differential complex of lowest-order, known as the complex of…
We propose a finite element discretisation approach for the incompressible Euler equations which mimics their geometric structure and their variational derivation. In particular, we derive a finite element method that arises from a…
This paper develops and analyzes a fully discrete finite element method for a class of semilinear stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs) with multiplicative noise. The nonlinearity in the diffusion term of the SPDEs is assumed to…
Finite difference/element/volume methods of discretising PDEs impose a subgrid scale interpolation on the dynamics. In contrast, the holistic discretisation approach developed herein constructs a natural subgrid scale field adapted to the…
We introduce a finite element method for numerical upscaling of second order elliptic equations with highly heterogeneous coefficients. The method is based on a mixed formulation of the problem and the concepts of the domain decomposition…
In this work we propose a new, arbitrary order space-time finite element discretisation for Hamiltonian PDEs in multisymplectic formulation. We show that the new method which is obtained by using both continuous and discontinuous…
Simplicial, piecewise-flat discretizations of manifolds provide a clear path towards curvature analysis on discrete geometries and for solutions of PDE's on manifolds of complex topologies. In this manuscript we review and expand on…