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We present new finite elements for solving the Riesz maps of the de Rham complex on triangular and tetrahedral meshes at high order. The finite elements discretize the same spaces as usual, but with different basis functions, so that the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-18 Pablo D. Brubeck , Patrick E. Farrell , Robert C. Kirby , Charles Parker

We study a conservative 5-point cell-centered finite volume discretization of the high-contrast diffusion equation. We aim to construct preconditioners that are robust with respect to the magnitude of the coefficient contrast and the mesh…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2009-04-14 Burak Aksoylu , Zuhal Yeter

We present a new high order finite element method for the discretization of partial differential equations on stationary smooth surfaces which are implicitly described as the zero level of a level set function. The discretization is based…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-04-17 Jörg Grande , Christoph Lehrenfeld , Arnold Reusken

We introduce a preconditioner based on a hierarchical low-rank compression scheme of Schur complements. The construction is inspired by standard nested dissection, and relies on the assumption that the Schur complements can be approximated,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-09-01 Paolo Gatto , Jan S. Hesthaven

In this work we derive equivalence relations between mimetic finite difference schemes on simplicial grids and modified N\'ed\'elec-Raviart-Thomas finite element methods for model problems in $\mathbf{H}(\operatorname{\mathbf{curl}})$ and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-17 Carmen Rodrigo , Francisco Gaspar , Xiaozhe Hu , Ludmil Zikatanov

In the present work, we investigate the computational efficiency afforded by higher-order finite-element discretization of the saddle-point formulation of orbital-free density functional theory. We first investigate the robustness of viable…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Phani Motamarri , Mrinal Iyer , Jaroslaw Knap , Vikram Gavini

This paper presents and studies an approach for constructing auxiliary space preconditioners for finite element problems using a constrained nonconforming reformulation, that is based on a proposed modified version of the mortar method. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-09 Delyan Z. Kalchev , Panayot S. Vassilevski

This paper provides the first provable $\mathcal{O}(N \log N)$ algorithms for the linear system arising from the direct finite element discretization of the fourth-order equation with different boundary conditions on unstructured grids of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-03-06 Shuo Zhang , Jinchao Xu

We consider the finite element discretization and the iterative solution of singularly perturbed elliptic reaction-diffusion equations in three-dimensional computational domains. These equations arise from the optimality conditions for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-09 Ulrich Langer , Olaf Steinbach , Huidong Yang

In this paper, we consider an efficient iterative approach to the solution of the discrete Helmholtz equation with Dirichlet, Neumann and Sommerfeld-like boundary conditions based on a compact sixth order approximation scheme and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-12-07 Yury Gryazin

A finite-element discretization of such an equation yields a linear system whose conditioning worsens as the variations in the values of PDE coefficients becomes large. This paper introduces a procedure by which the discrete system obtained…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-01-08 Yuliya Gorb , Daria Kurzanova , Yuri Kuznetsov

In this paper we present an overview of recent progress on the development and analysis of domain decomposition preconditioners for discretised Helmholtz problems, where the preconditioner is constructed from the corresponding problem with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-06-24 I. G. Graham , E. A. Spence , E. Vainikko

Ill-conditioning of the system matrix is a well-known complication in immersed finite element methods and trimmed isogeometric analysis. Elements with small intersections with the physical domain yield problematic eigenvalues in the system…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-17 F. de Prenter , C. V. Verhoosel , E. H. van Brummelen , J. A. Evans , C. Messe , J. Benzaken , K. Maute

This article surveys research on the application of compatible finite element methods to large scale atmosphere and ocean simulation. Compatible finite element methods extend Arakawa's C-grid finite difference scheme to the finite element…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-14 Colin J. Cotter

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 2017-05-16 Marcella Bonazzoli , Victorita Dolean , Frédéric Hecht , Francesca Rapetti

This paper combines the use of high order finite element methods with parallel preconditioners of domain decomposition type for solving electromagnetic problems arising from brain microwave imaging. The numerical algorithms involved in such…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-03-23 M. Bonazzoli , V. Dolean , F. Rapetti , P. -H. Tournier

In this paper we design, analyse and test domain decomposition methods for linear systems of equations arising from conforming finite element discretisations of positive Maxwell-type equations, namely for $\mathbf{H}(\mathbf{curl})$…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Niall Bootland , Victorita Dolean , Frédéric Nataf , Pierre-Henri Tournier

We present a new line-based discontinuous Galerkin (DG) discretization scheme for first- and second-order systems of partial differential equations. The scheme is based on fully unstructured meshes of quadrilateral or hexahedral elements,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-04 Per-Olof Persson

This article reports on the confluence of two streams of research, one emanating from the fields of numerical analysis and scientific computation, the other from topology and geometry. In it we consider the numerical discretization of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-01-29 Douglas N. Arnold , Richard S. Falk , Ragnar Winther

In contrast with the diffusion equation which smoothens the initial data to $C^\infty$ for $t>0$ (away from the corners/edges of the domain), the subdiffusion equation only exhibits limited spatial regularity. As a result, one generally…

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