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We design a discrete Bernstein--Gelfand--Gelfand (BGG) diagram on polygonal meshes based on the DDR framework; the diagram is made of a discrete Stokes polygonal complex and a tensorised Discrete De Rham complex, and the BGG construction…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-24 Daniele A. Di Pietro , Jérôme Droniou , Kaibo Hu , Arax Leroy

A new $H(\textrm{divdiv})$-conforming finite element is presented, which avoids the need for super-smoothness by redistributing the degrees of freedom to edges and faces. This leads to a hybridizable mixed method with superconvergence for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-18 Long Chen , Xuehai Huang

This paper is a generalization of the previous work (Yang et.al, J. Comput. Phys. 330 (2017), 863-883) to the 3-D irregular convex domains. The analytical calculation formula of fractional derivatives of finite element basis functions are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-09-10 Zongze Yang , Zhanbin Yuan , Yufeng Nie , Jungang Wang

In this paper, the first family of conforming finite element divdiv complexes on cuboid grids in three dimensions is constructed. Besides, a new family of conforming finite element divdiv complexes with enhanced smoothness on tetrahedral…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-19 Jun Hu , Yizhou Liang , Rui Ma , Min Zhang

We construct finite element subspaces of the space of symmetric tensors with square-integrable divergence on a three-dimensional domain. These spaces can be used to approximate the stress field in the classical Hellinger--Reissner mixed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-01-29 Douglas N. Arnold , Gerard Awanou , Ragnar Winther

In this work, following the Discrete de Rham (DDR) paradigm, we develop an arbitrary-order discrete divdiv complex on general polyhedral meshes. The construction rests 1) on discrete spaces that are spanned by vectors of polynomials whose…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-13 Daniele A. Di Pietro , Marien-Lorenzo Hanot

A low-order nonconforming finite element discretization of a smooth de Rham complex starting from the $H^2$ space in three dimensions is proposed, involving an $H^2$-nonconforming finite element space, a new tangentially continuous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-05 Xuewei Cui , Xuehai Huang

We survey recent contributions to finite element exterior calculus on manifolds and surfaces within a comprehensive formalism for the error analysis of vector-valued partial differential equations on manifolds. Our primary focus is on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-02 Martin W. Licht

A family of conforming virtual element Hessian complexes on tetrahedral meshes are constructed based on decompositions of polynomial tensor spaces. They are applied to discretize the linearized time-independent Einstein-Bianchi system with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-10 Long Chen , Xuehai Huang

This paper constructs two conforming finite element grad grad and elasticity complexes on the cuboid meshes. For the finite element grad grad complex, an $H^2$ conforming finite element space, an $\boldsymbol{H}(\operatorname{curl};…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-09 Jun Hu , Yizhou Liang , Ting Lin

We investigate some Bernstein-Gelfand-Gelfand (BGG) complexes on bounded Lipschitz domains in $\mathbb{R}^n$ consisting of Sobolev spaces. In particular, we compute the cohomology of the conformal deformation complex and the conformal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-14 Andreas Čap , Kaibo Hu

Two de Rham complex sequences of the finite element spaces are introduced for weak finite element functions and weak derivatives developed in the weak Galerkin (WG) finite element methods on general polyhedral elements. One of the sequences…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-30 Chunmei Wang , Junping Wang , Xiu Ye , Shangyou Zhang

New low-order $H(\textrm{div})$-conforming finite elements for symmetric tensors are constructed in arbitrary dimension. The space of shape functions is defined by enriching the symmetric quadratic polynomial space with the $(d+1)$-order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-22 Xuehai Huang , Chao Zhang , Yaqian Zhou , Yangxing Zhu

Differential complexes such as the de Rham complex have recently come to play an important role in the design and analysis of numerical methods for partial differential equations. The design of stable discretizations of systems of partial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Douglas N. Arnold

We study the two primary families of spaces of finite element differential forms with respect to a simplicial mesh in any number of space dimensions. These spaces are generalizations of the classical finite element spaces for vector fields,…

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

In the analysis of composite materials with heterogeneous microstructures, full resolution of the heterogeneities using classical numerical approaches can be computationally prohibitive. This paper presents a micromechanics-enhanced finite…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-11-08 J. Novák , Ł. Kaczmarczyk , P. Grassl , J. Zeman , C. J. Pearce

We investigate the Hilbert complex of elasticity involving spaces of symmetric tensor fields. For the involved tensor fields and operators we show closed ranges, Friedrichs/Poincare type estimates, Helmholtz type decompositions, regular…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-08-17 Dirk Pauly , Walter Zulehner

We construct conforming finite element elasticity complexes on Worsey-Farin splits in three dimensions. Spaces for displacement, strain, stress, and the load are connected in the elasticity complex through the differential operators…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-22 Sining Gong , Jay Gopalakrishnan , Johnny Guzmán , Michael Neilan

In this paper, we develop a gradient recovery based linear (GRBL) finite element method (FEM) and a Hessian recovery based linear (HRBL) FEM for second order elliptic equations in non-divergence form. The elliptic equation is casted into a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-09 Minqiang Xu , Runchang Lin , Qingsong Zou

The paper addresses the challenge of constructing finite element curl div complexes in three dimensions. Tangential-normal continuity is introduced in order to develop distributional finite element curl div complexes. The spaces constructed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-06 Long Chen , Xuehai Huang , Chao Zhang