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We comment on the discretization of the Dirac equation using finite element spaces of differential forms. In order to treat perturbations by low order terms, such as those arizing from electromagnetic fields, we develop some abstract…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-09-19 Snorre H. Christiansen

We propose an unified algebraic approach for static condensation and hybridization, two popular techniques in finite element discretizations. The algebraic approach is supported by the construction of scalable solvers for problems involving…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-01-29 Veselin A. Dobrev , Tzanio V. Kolev , Chak S. Lee , Vladimir Z. Tomov , Panayot S. Vassilevski

This work develops polynomial-degree-robust (p-robust) equilibrated a posteriori error estimates for $H(\rm curl)$, $H(\rm div)$ and $H(\rm divdiv)$ problems, based on $H^1$ auxiliary space decomposition. The proposed framework employs…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-14 Yuwen Li

This paper develops the theory of discrete Dirac reduction of discrete Lagrange-Dirac systems with an abelian symmetry group acting on the configuration space. We begin with the linear theory and, then, we extend it to the nonlinear setting…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-03-10 Álvaro Rodríguez Abella , Melvin Leok

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-22 Xiaobing Feng , Yukun Li , Yi Zhang

The Hodge decomposition provides a very powerful mathematical method for the analysis of 2D and 3D vector fields. It states roughly that any vector field can be $L^2$-orthogonally decomposed into a curl-free, divergence-free, and a harmonic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-17 Faniry H. Razafindrazaka , Konstantin Poelke , Konrad Polthier , Leonid Goubergrits

In this paper, we propose an $H(\text{curl}^2)$-conforming quadrilateral spectral element method to solve quad-curl problems. Starting with generalized Jacobi polynomials, we first introduce quasi-orthogonal polynomial systems for vector…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-17 Lixiu Wang , Weikun Shan , Huiyuan Li , Zhimin Zhang

In this note we give a very short proof of the div-curl lemma in the limit conjugate case $\mathcal M-L^\infty$, where $\mathcal{M}$ is the set of Radon measures on $\mathbb{R}^d$. The proof follows the classical approach by defining here…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-22 Valeria Banica , Nicolas Burq

In [6], it was shown that the linear Lagrange element space on criss-cross meshes and its divergence exhibit spurious eigenvalues when applied in the mixed formulation of the Laplace eigenvalue problem, despite satisfying both the inf-sup…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-22 Kaibo Hu , Jiguang Sun , Qian Zhang

We introduce a new class of mixed finite element methods for 2D and 3D compressible nonlinear elasticity. The independent unknowns of these conformal methods are displacement, displacement gradient, and the first Piola-Kirchhoff stress…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-22 Arzhang Angoshtari , Ali Gerami Matin

We present high-order variational Lagrangian finite element methods for compressible fluids using a discrete energetic variational approach. Our spatial discretization is mass/momentum/energy conserving and entropy stable. Fully implicit…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-16 Guosheng Fu , Chun Liu

Several div-conforming and divdiv-conforming finite elements for symmetric tensors on simplexes in arbitrary dimension are constructed in this work. The shape function space is first split as the trace space and the bubble space. The later…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-31 Long Chen , Xuehai Huang

This work introduces two 11-node triangular prism elements for 3D elliptic problems. The degrees of freedom (DoFs) of both elements are at the vertices and face centroids of a prism cell. The first element is $H^1$-nonconforming and works…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-20 Xinchen Zhou , Zhaoliang Meng , Xin Fan , Zhongxuan Luo

We propose a linear finite-element discretization of Dirichlet problems for static Hamilton-Jacobi equations on unstructured triangulations. The discretization is based on simplified localized Dirichlet problems that are solved by a local…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Folkmar Bornemann , Christian Rasch

Finite element representations of Maxwell's equations pose unusual challenges inherent to the variational representation of the `curl-curl' equation for the fields. We present a variational formulation based on classical field theory.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-04-02 Alysson Gold , Sami Tantawi

We introduce and analyze a robust nonconforming finite element method for a three dimensional singularly perturbed quad-curl model problem. For the solution of the model problem, we derive proper a priori bounds, based on which, we prove…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-27 Baiju Zhang , Zhimin Zhang

We present an arbitrary order discontinuous Galerkin finite element method for solving the fourth-order curl problem using a reconstructed discontinuous approximation method. It is based on an arbitrarily high-order approximation space with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-06-11 Ruo Li , Qicheng Liu , Shuhai Zhao

In this article we apply a discrete action principle for the Vlasov--Maxwell equations in a structure-preserving particle-field discretization framework. In this framework the finite-dimensional electromagnetic potentials and fields are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-27 Martin Campos Pinto , Katharina Kormann , Eric Sonnendrücker

A recent paper of Arnold, Falk, and Winther [Bull AMS, 47 (2010)] showed that a large class of mixed finite element methods can be formulated naturally on Hilbert complexes, where using a Galerkin-like approach, one solves a variational…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-08-01 Michael Holst , Ari Stern

We present a low order virtual element discretization for time dependent Maxwell's equations, which allow for the use of general polyhedral meshes. Both the semi- and fully-discrete schemes are considered. We derive optimal a priori…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-26 L. Beirão da Veiga , F. Dassi , G. Manzini , L. Mascotto