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A discrete analysis of the phase and dissipation errors of an explicit, semi-Lagrangian spectral element method is performed. The semi-Lagrangian method advects the Lagrange interpolant according the Lagrangian form of the transport…
We consider singularly perturbed boundary value problems with a simple interior turning point whose solutions exhibit an interior layer. These problems are discretised using higher order finite elements on layer-adapted piecewise…
A finite element method of any order is applied on a Bakhvalov-type mesh to solve a singularly perturbed convection--diffusion equation in 2D, whose solution exhibits exponential boundary layers. A uniform convergence of (almost) optimal…
This paper develops a smoothing-based postprocessing method for superconvergence in finite element methods. The method applies a few smoothing iterations, such as damped Jacobi, Gauss-Seidel, or conjugate gradient, with initial guess being…
In this paper we consider the finite element approximation of Maxwell's problem and analyse the prescription of essential boundary conditions in a weak sense using Nitsche's method. To avoid indefiniteness of the problem, the original…
The augmented Lagrange method is employed to address the optimal control problem involving pointwise state constraints in parabolic equations. The strong convergence of the primal variables and the weak convergence of the dual variables are…
Methods for solving Maxwell's equations are integral part of optical metrology and computational lithography setups. Applications require accurate geometrical resolution, high numerical accuracy and/or low computation times. We present a…
We show that optimal $L^2$-convergence in the finite element method on quasi-uniform meshes can be achieved if, for some $s_0 > 1/2$, the boundary value problem has the mapping property $H^{-1+s} \rightarrow H^{1+s}$ for $s \in [0,s_0]$.…
In this article we prove that it is possible to construct, using newest-vertex bisection, meshes that equidistribute the error in $H^1$-norm, whenever the function to approximate can be decomposed as a sum of a regular part plus a singular…
The Hanson-Wright inequality establishes exponential concentration for quadratic forms $X^T M X$, where $X$ is a vector with independent sub-Gaussian entries and with parameters depending on the Frobenius and operator norms of $M$. The most…
In this paper we present a methodology for increasing the accuracy and accelerating the convergence of numerical methods for solution of Maxwell's equations in the frequency domain by taking into account the be-havior of the electromagnetic…
In this paper, we propose a new approach -- the Tempered Finite Element Method (TFEM) -- that extends the Finite Element Method (FEM) to classes of meshes that include zero-measure or nearly degenerate elements for which standard FEM…
In this paper, new unfitted mixed finite elements are presented for elliptic interface problems with jump coefficients. Our model is based on a fictitious domain formulation with distributed Lagrange multiplier. The relevance of our…
We present a solution of the quantum mechanics problem of the allowable energy levels of a bound particle in a one-dimensional finite square well. The method is a geometric-analytic technique utilizing the conformal mapping $w \to z = w…
The goal of this paper is to develop numerical methods computing a few smallest elastic interior transmission eigenvalues, which are of practical importance in inverse elastic scattering theory. The problem is challenging since it is…
In this paper, we propose an adaptive multilevel preconditioned Helmholtz-Jacobi-Davidson (PHJD) method for the Maxwell eigenvalue problem with singularities. The key idea in this work is to employ the local multilevel method for…
With the development of multi-layer elastic systems in the field of engineering mechanics, the corresponding variational inequality theory and algorithm design have received more attention and research. In this study, a class of equivalent…
A proof of convergence is given for a novel evolving surface finite element semi-discretization of Willmore flow of closed two-dimensional surfaces, and also of surface diffusion flow. The numerical method proposed and studied here…
The paper presents a generalization of Arnold-Falk-Winther elements for three dimensional linear elasticity, to meshes with elements of variable order. The generalization is straightforward but the stability analysis involves a non-trivial…
If a finite element mesh contains concave elements, it is said to tangled. Tangled meshes can occur during mesh generation, mesh optimization, and large deformation simulations, and will lead to erroneous results during finite element…