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We consider a vector-Laplace problem posed on a 2D surface embedded in a 3D domain, which results from the modeling of surface fluids based on exterior Cartesian differential operators. The main topic of this paper is the development and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-09-05 Sven Groß , Thomas Jankuhn , Maxim A. Olshanskii , Arnold Reusken

We develop an unfitted compatible finite element discretisation for the Darcy problem based on $H(\mathrm{div})$-conforming flux spaces and discontinuous pressure spaces. The method is designed to preserve pointwise discrete mass…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-30 Santiago Badia , Anne Boschman , Alberto F. Martín , Erik Nilsson , Ricardo Ruiz-Baier , Sara Zahedi

This paper presents the first family of conforming finite element divdiv complexes on tetrahedral grids in three dimensions. In these complexes, finite element spaces of $H(\text{divdiv},\Omega;\mathbb{S})$ are from a current preprint [Chen…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-02 Jun Hu , Yizhou Liang , Rui Ma

The objective of this work is to establish a systematic study of boundary value problems within the framework of differential forms and variable exponent spaces. Specifically, we investigate the Hodge Laplacian and related first order…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-30 Anna Balci , Swarnendu Sil , Mikhail Surnachev

We construct finite element approximations of the Levi-Civita connection and its curvature on triangulations of oriented two-dimensional manifolds. Our construction relies on the Regge finite elements, which are piecewise polynomial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-22 Yakov Berchenko-Kogan , Evan S. Gawlik

Although Regge finite element functions are not continuous, useful generalizations of nonlinear derivatives like the curvature, can be defined using them. This paper is devoted to studying the convergence of the finite element lifting of a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-05 Jay Gopalakrishnan , Michael Neunteufel , Joachim Schöberl , Max Wardetzky

We discuss the construction of finite element spaces of differential forms which satisfy the crucial assumptions of the finite element exterior calculus, namely that they can be assembled into subcomplexes of the de Rham complex which admit…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-01-29 Douglas N. Arnold

In this work, we present a nonhomogeneous version of the classical div-curl type estimates in the setup of elliptic system of complex vector fields with constant coefficients on local Hardy space $h^1$. As an application, we obtain a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-01 Catarina Machado , Tiago Picon

Edge (or N\'ed\'elec) finite elements are theoretically sound and widely used by the computational electromagnetics community. However, its implementation, specially for high order methods, is not trivial, since it involves many…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-03-20 Marc Olm , Santiago Badia , Alberto F. Martín

Some hyperbolic systems are known to include implicit preservation of differential constraints: these are for example the time conservation of the curl or the divergence of a vector that appear as an implicit constraint. In this article, we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-15 Vincent Perrier

We consider solutions of Lagrangian variational problems with linear constraints on the derivative. These solutions are given by curves $\gamma$ in a differentiable manifold $M$ that are everywhere tangent to a smooth distribution $\mathcal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Paolo Piccione , Daniel V. Tausk

We present a new set of basis functions for H(curl)-conforming, H(div)-conforming, and L2 -conforming finite elements of arbitrary order on a tetrahedron. The basis functions are expressed in terms of Bernstein polynomials and augment the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-01 Mark Ainsworth , Guosheng Fu

We develop a theory of Finite Element Systems, for the purpose of discretizing sections of vector bundles, in particular those arizing in the theory of elasticity. In the presence of curvature we prove a discrete Bianchi identity. In the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-02 Snorre H. Christiansen , Kaibo Hu

This work proposes two nodal type nonconforming finite elements over convex quadrilaterals, which are parts of a finite element exact sequence. Both elements are of 12 degrees of freedom (DoFs) with polynomial shape function spaces…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-16 Xinchen Zhou , Zhaoliang Meng , Xin Fan , Zhongxuan Luo

The Tangential-Displacement Normal-Normal-Stress (TDNNS) method is a finite element method for mixed elasticity. As the name suggests, the tangential component of the displacement vector as well as the normal-normal component of the stress…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-07-31 Astrid S. Pechstein , Joachim Schöberl

This paper presents a numerical study on multigrid algorithms of $V$-cycle type for problems posed in the Hilbert space $H(\mathbf{curl})$ in three dimensions. The multigrid methods are designed for discrete problems originated from the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-07 Duk-Soon Oh

We study the Hadamard finite part of divergent integrals of differential forms with singularities on submanifolds. We give formulae for the dependence of the finite part on the choice of regularization and express them in terms of a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-11-17 Giovanni Felder , David Kazhdan

We develop a unified theory for continuous in time finite element discretisations of partial differential equations posed in evolving domains including the consideration of equations posed on evolving surfaces and bulk domains as well…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-21 Charles M. Elliott , Thomas Ranner

This paper is concerned with fully discrete finite element methods for approximating variational solutions of nonlinear stochastic elastic wave equations with multiplicative noise. A detailed analysis of the properties of the weak solution…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-04 Xiaobing Feng , Yukun Li , Yujian Lin

Spline functions have long been used in numerically solving differential equations. Recently it revives as isogeometric analysis, which uses NURBS for both parametrization and element functions. In this paper, we introduce some multivariate…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-06-27 Guohui Zhao