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We develop an efficient $hp$-finite element method for piecewise-smooth differential equations with periodic boundary conditions, using orthogonal polynomials defined on circular arcs. The operators derived from this basis are banded and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-23 Daniel VandenHeuvel , Sheehan Olver

In the analysis of the $h$-version of the finite-element method (FEM), with fixed polynomial degree $p$, applied to the Helmholtz equation with wavenumber $k\gg 1$, the $\textit{asymptotic regime}$ is when $(hk)^p C_{\rm sol}$ is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-05 Jeffrey Galkowski , Euan A. Spence

We propose a Bernoulli phase-fitted (BPF) finite difference method for the Helmholtz equation on the interval $(0, L)$ with impedance boundary conditions. The scheme is derived from a complexified Scharfetter--Gummel discretization of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-21 Ansgar Jüngel , Panchi Li , Zhiwei Sun , Zhiwen Zhang

We review the stability properties of several discretizations of the Helmholtz equation at large wavenumbers. For a model problem in a polygon, a complete $k$-explicit stability (including $k$-explicit stability of the continuous problem)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-31 Sofi Esterhazy , Jens Markus Melenk

In this paper, a generalized finite element method (GFEM) with optimal local approximation spaces for solving high-frequency heterogeneous Helmholtz problems is systematically studied. The local spaces are built from selected eigenvectors…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-15 Chupeng Ma , Christian Alber , Robert Scheichl

In this work we consider the computational approximation of a unique continuation problem for the Helmholtz equation using a stabilized finite element method. First conditional stability estimates are derived for which, under a convexity…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-29 Erik Burman , Mihai Nechita , Lauri Oksanen

We design an adaptive unfitted finite element method on the Cartesian mesh with hanging nodes. We derive an hp-reliable and efficient residual type a posteriori error estimate on K-meshes. A key ingredient is a novel hp-domain inverse…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-10-12 Zhiming Chen , Ke Li , Xueshuang Xiang

In this paper, we propose a novel high order unfitted finite element method on Cartesian meshes for solving the acoustic wave equation with discontinuous coefficients having complex interface geometry. The unfitted finite element method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-06 Zhiming Chen , Yong Liu , Xueshuang Xiang

In this paper, we present a multiscale framework for solving the Helmholtz equation in heterogeneous media without scale separation and in the high frequency regime where the wavenumber $k$ can be large. The main innovation is that our…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-21 Yifan Chen , Thomas Y. Hou , Yixuan Wang

In this work, we investigate the numerical approximation of the second order non-autonomous semilnear parabolic partial differential equation (PDE) using the finite element method. To the best of our knowledge, only the linear case is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-27 Antoine Tambue , Jean Daniel Mukam

We introduce an arbitrary order, stabilized finite element method for solving a unique continuation problem subject to the time-harmonic elastic wave equation with variable coefficients. Based on conditional stability estimates we prove…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-04-25 Erik Burman , Janosch Preuss

We consider the time-harmonic Maxwell equations with impedance boundary conditions on a bounded Lipschitz domain $\Omega$ with analytic boundary $\Gamma$. We suppose that $\Omega$ consists of multiple subdomains, and that the permeability…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-19 Jens Markus Melenk , David Wörgötter

We propose a new fictitious domain finite element method, well suited for elliptic problems posed in a domain given by a level-set function without requiring a mesh fitting the boundary. To impose the Dirichlet boundary conditions, we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-09 Michel Duprez , Alexei Lozinski

In this paper we propose a new method to stabilise non-symmetric indefinite problems. The idea is to solve a forward and an adjoint problem simultaneously using a suitable stabilised finite element method. Both stabilisation of the element…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-08-05 Erik Burman

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

We propose a new practical adaptive refinement strategy for $hp$-finite element approximations of elliptic problems. Following recent theoretical developments in polynomial-degree-robust a posteriori error analysis, we solve two types of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-17 Patrik Daniel , Alexandre Ern , Iain Smears , Martin Vohralík

This paper presents an $hp$ a posteriori error analysis for the 2D Helmholtz equation that is robust in the polynomial degree $p$ and the wave number $k$. For the discretization, we consider a discontinuous Galerkin formulation that is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-01-31 Scott Congreve , Joscha Gedicke , Ilaria Perugia

A finite element method for elliptic problems with discontinuous coefficients is presented. The discontinuity is assumed to take place along a closed smooth curve. The proposed method allows to deal with meshes that are not adapted to the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-07-12 Gunther H. Peichl , Rachid Touzani

In this paper we develop a plane wave type method for discretization of homogeneous Helmholtz equations with variable wave numbers. In the proposed method, local basis functions (on each element) are constructed by the geometric optics…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-22 Qiya Hu , Zezhong Wang

We present a first order system least squares (FOSLS) method for the Helmholtz equation at high wave number k, which always deduces Hermitian positive definite algebraic system. By utilizing a non-trivial solution decomposition to the dual…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-10-13 Huangxin Chen , Weifeng Qiu