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We present a class of discretisation spaces and H(div)-conformal elements that can be built on any polytope. Bridging the flexibility of the Virtual Element spaces towards the element's shape with the divergence properties of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-23 Rémi Abgrall , Élise Le Mélédo , Philipp Öffner

Compatible discretizations, such as finite element exterior calculus, provide a discretization framework that respect the cohomological structure of the de Rham complex, which can be used to systematically construct stable mixed finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-30 Brian Tran , Melvin Leok

We present a class of discretisation spaces and H(div)-conformal elements that can be built on any polytope. Bridging the flexibility of the Virtual Element spaces towards the element's shape with the divergence properties of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-17 Rémi Abgrall , Élise Le Mélédo , Philipp Öffner

We prove global and local versions of the so-called div-curl-lemma, a crucial result in the homogenization theory of partial differential equations, for mixed boundary conditions on bounded weak Lipschitz domains in 3D with weak Lipschitz…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-12-12 Dirk Pauly

The purpose of this work is to introduce and analyze a numerical scheme to efficiently solve boundary value problems involving the spectral fractional Laplacian. The approach is based on a reformulation of the problem posed on a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-17 Dominik Meidner , Johannes Pfefferer , Klemens Schürholz , Boris Vexler

New low-order $H(\textrm{div})$-conforming finite elements for symmetric tensors are constructed in arbitrary dimension. The space of shape functions is defined by enriching the symmetric quadratic polynomial space with the $(d+1)$-order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-22 Xuehai Huang , Chao Zhang , Yaqian Zhou , Yangxing Zhu

We present a local construction of H(curl)-conforming piecewise polynomials satisfying a prescribed curl constraint. We start from a piecewise polynomial not contained in the H(curl) space but satisfying a suitable orthogonality property.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-23 Théophile Chaumont-Frelet , Martin Vohralík

We construct several smooth finite element spaces defined on three--dimensional Worsey--Farin splits. In particular, we construct $C^1$, $H^1(\curl)$, and $H^1$-conforming finite element spaces and show the discrete spaces satisfy local…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-12 Johnny Guzman , Anna Lischke , Michael Neilan

Discretizing variational principles, as opposed to discretizing differential equations, leads to discrete-time analogues of mechanics, and, systematically, to geometric numerical integrators. The phase space of such variational…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Charles Cuell , George W. Patrick

In this paper, we develop two fully nonconforming (both H(grad curl)-nonconforming and H(curl)-nonconforming) finite elements on cubical meshes which can fit into the Stokes complex. The newly proposed elements have 24 and 36 degrees of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-16 Lixiu Wang , Mingyan Zhang , Qian Zhang

In this work we construct novel $H(\mathrm{sym} \mathrm{Curl})$-conforming finite elements for the recently introduced relaxed micromorphic sequence, which can be considered as the completion of the $\mathrm{div} \mathrm{Div}$-sequence with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-16 Adam Sky , Michael Neunteufel , Peter Lewintan , Andreas Zilian , Patrizio Neff

In this work, merging ideas from compatible discretisations and polyhedral methods, we construct novel fully discrete polynomial de Rham sequences of arbitrary degree on polygons and polyhedra. The spaces and operators that appear in these…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-18 Daniele A. Di Pietro , Jérôme Droniou , Francesca Rapetti

We propose a novel formulation for parametric finite element methods to simulate surface diffusion of closed curves, which is also called as the curve diffusion. Several high-order temporal discretizations are proposed based on this new…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-27 Harald Garcke , Wei Jiang , Chunmei Su , Ganghui Zhang

The tensor product of two differential forms of degree $p$ and $q$ is a multilinear form that is alternating in its first $p$ arguments and alternating in its last $q$ arguments. These forms, which are known as double forms or…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-26 Yakov Berchenko-Kogan , Evan S. Gawlik

We employ surface differential calculus to derive models for Kirchhoff plates including in-plane membrane deformations. We also extend our formulation to structures of plates. For solving the resulting set of partial differential equations,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-02-15 Peter Hansbo , Mats G. Larson

In this study, two-dimensional finite element complexes with various levels of smoothness, including the de Rham complex, the curldiv complex, the elasticity complex, and the divdiv complex, are systematically constructed. Smooth scalar…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-23 Long Chen , Xuehai Huang

We develop a method to compute $H^2$-conforming finite element approximations in both two and three space dimensions using readily available finite element spaces. This is accomplished by deriving a novel, equivalent mixed variational…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-06-04 Mark Ainsworth , Charles Parker

An algebraic multilevel iteration method for solving system of linear algebraic equations arising in $H(\mathrm{curl})$ and $H(\mathrm{div})$ spaces are presented. The algorithm is developed for the discrete problem obtained by using the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-12-02 S. K. Tomar

We devise and analyze hybrid polyhedral methods of arbitrary order for the approximation of div-curl systems on three-dimensional domains featuring non-trivial topology. The div-curl systems we are interested in stem from magnetostatics,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-25 Jérémy Dalphin , Jean-Pierre Ducreux , Simon Lemaire , Silvano Pitassi

We consider finite element approximations of the Maxwell eigenvalue problem in two dimensions. We prove, in certain settings, convergence of the discrete eigenvalues using Lagrange finite elements. In particular, we prove convergence in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-17 Daniele Boffi , Johnny Guzman , Michael Neilan