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We develop a cut finite element method (CutFEM) for convection-diffusion problems posed on mixed-dimensional domains, i.e., unions of manifolds of different dimensions arranged in a hierarchical structure where lower-dimensional components…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-09 Erik Burman , Peter Hansbo , Mats G. Larson , Karl Larsson , Shantiram Mahata

We study the regularity and finite element approximation of the axisymmetric Stokes problem on a polygonal domain $\Omega$. In particular, taking into account the singular coefficients in the equation and non-smoothness of the domain, we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-06-21 Young Ju Lee , Hengguang Li

We present a high order, Fourier penalty method for the Maxwell's equations in the vicinity of perfect electric conductor boundary conditions. The approach relies on extending the smooth non-periodic domain of the equations to a periodic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-01-20 Ryan Galagusz , David Shirokoff , Jean-Christophe Nave

We consider finite element approximations of ill-posed elliptic problems with conditional stability. The notion of {\emph{optimal error estimates}} is defined including both convergence with respect to mesh parameter and perturbations in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-25 Erik Burman , Mihai Nechita , Lauri Oksanen

In this paper we focus on high order finite element approximations of the electric field combined with suitable preconditioners, to solve the time-harmonic Maxwell's equations in waveguide configurations.The implementation of high order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-23 Marcella Bonazzoli , Victorita Dolean , Frédéric Hecht , Francesca Rapetti

We develop a cut finite element method (CutFEM) for the convection problem in a so called fractured domain which is a union of manifolds of different dimensions such that a $d$ dimensional component always resides on the boundary of a $d+1$…

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

In this paper error analysis for finite element discretizations of Dirichlet boundary control problems is developed. For the first time, optimal discretization error estimates are established in the case of three dimensional polyhedral and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-05 Johannes Pfefferer , Boris Vexler

Motivated by problems where the response is needed at select localized regions in a large computational domain, we devise a novel finite element discretization that results in exponential convergence at pre-selected points. The two key…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-03 Murthy N. Guddati , Vladimir Druskin , Ali Vaziri Astaneh

In this work we present an extension of the Virtual Element Method with curved edges for the numerical approximation of the second order wave equation in a bidimensional setting. Curved elements are used to describe the domain boundary, as…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-14 Franco Dassi , Alessio Fumagalli , Ilario Mazzieri , Anna Scotti , Giuseppe Vacca

We design a cut finite element method for the incompressible Stokes equations on curved domains. The cut finite element method allows for the domain boundary to cut through the elements of the computational mesh in a very general fashion.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-01-24 Erik Burman , Peter Hansbo , Mats G. Larson

We consider a mixed dimensional elliptic partial differential equation posed in a bulk domain with a large number of embedded interfaces. In particular, we study well-posedness of the problem and regularity of the solution. We also propose…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-02 Fredrik Hellman , Axel Målqvist , Malin Mosquera

We obtain approximate convexity principles for solutions to some classes of nonlinear elliptic partial differential equations in convex domains involving approximately concave nonlinearities. Furthermore, we provide some applications to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-02-19 Claudia Bucur , Marco Squassina

An initial-boundary value problem for the time-fractional diffusion equation is discretized in space using continuous piecewise-linear finite elements on a polygonal domain with a re-entrant corner. Known error bounds for the case of a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-21 Kim Ngan Le , William McLean , Bishnu Lamichhane

Motivated by many applications in complex domains with boundaries exposed to large topological changes or deformations, fictitious domain methods regard the actual domain of interest as being embedded in a fixed Cartesian background. This…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-17 Georgios Katsouleas , Efthymios N. Karatzas , Fotios Travlopanos

We prove best approximation error estimates for discontinuous piecewise polynomial approximation in fractional Sobolev spaces on non-Lipschitz meshes of non-Lipschitz domains. In particular, the boundary of the domain, and the boundaries of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-12 D P Hewett

We propose a multiscale method for elliptic problems on complex domains, e.g. domains with cracks or complicated boundary. For local singularities this paper also offers a discrete alternative to enrichment techniques such as XFEM. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-01 Daniel Elfverson , Mats G. Larson , Axel Målqvist

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Douglas N. Arnold , Daniele Boffi , Richard S. Falk

Mixed dimensional partial differential equations (PDEs) are equations coupling unknown fields defined over domains of differing topological dimension. Such equations naturally arise in a wide range of scientific fields including geology,…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Cécile Daversin-Catty , Chris N. Richardson , Ada J. Ellingsrud , Marie E. Rognes

We revisit classical Virtual Element approximations on polygonal and polyhedral decompositions. We also recall the treatment proposed for dealing with decompositions into polygons with curved edges. In the second part of the paper we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-15 Franco Brezzi , L. Donatella Marini