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This paper develops a discrete data-driven approach for solving the inverse source problem of the wave equation with final time measurements. Focusing on the $L^2$-Tikhonov regularization method, we analyze its convergence under two…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-01 Qiling Gu , Wenlong Zhang , Zhidong Zhang

This work presents a Virtual Element Method (VEM) formulation tailored for two-dimensional axisymmetric problems in linear elasticity. By exploiting the rotational symmetry of the geometry and loading conditions, the problem is reduced to a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-20 Paulo Akira F. Enabe , Rodrigo Provasi

We present a finite element analysis of electrical impedance tomography for reconstructing the conductivity distribution from electrode voltage measurements by means of Tikhonov regularization. Two popular choices of the penalty term, i.e.,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-18 Matthias Gehre , Bangti Jin , Xiliang Lu

Electrokinetic phenomena in nanopore sensors and microfluidic devices require accurate simulation of coupled fluid-electrostatic interactions in geometrically complex domains with irregular boundaries and adaptive mesh refinement. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-19 Sudheer Mishra , Sundararajan Natarajan , E. Natarajan , Gianmarco Manzini

In this paper we analyze a conforming virtual element method to approximate the eigenfunctions and eigenvalues of the two dimensional Oseen eigenvalue problem. We consider the classic velocity-pressure formulation which allows us to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-24 Danilo Amigo , Felipe Lepe , Nitesh Verma

In this work we develop and analyze an adaptive finite element method for efficiently solving electrical impedance tomography -- a severely ill-posed nonlinear inverse problem for recovering the conductivity from boundary voltage…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-05-16 Bangti Jin , Yifeng Xu , Jun Zou

The Morley finite element method (FEM) is attractive for semilinear problems with the biharmonic operator as a leading term in the stream function vorticity formulation of 2D Navier-Stokes problem and in the von K\'{a}rm\'{a}n equations.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-19 Carsten Carstensen , Gouranga Mallik , Neela Nataraj

The virtual element method (VEM) allows discretization of elasticity and plasticity problems with polygons in 2D and polyhedrals in 3D. The polygons (and polyhedrals) can have an arbitrary number of sides and can be concave or convex. These…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-05 Louie L. Yaw

We consider the solution of a second order elliptic PDE with inhomogeneous Dirichlet data by means of adaptive lowest-order FEM. As is usually done in practice, the given Dirichlet data are discretized by nodal interpolation. As model…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-03-14 Michael Feischl , Marcus Page , Dirk Praetorius

We derive an anisotropic a posteriori error estimate for the adaptive conforming Virtual Element approximation of a paradigmatic two-dimensional elliptic problem. In particular, we introduce a quasi-interpolant operator and exploit its…

The state-of-the art proof of a global inf-sup condition on mixed finite element schemes does not allow for an analysis of truly indefinite, second-order linear elliptic PDEs. This paper, therefore, first analyses a nonconforming finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-01-21 Carsten Carstensen , Asha K. Dond , Neela Nataraj , Amiya K. Pani

We consider the approximation of Poisson type problems where the source is given by a singular measure and the domain is a convex polygonal or polyhedral domain. First, we prove the well-posedness of the Poisson problem when the source…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-09-12 Irene Drelichman , Ricardo Durán , Ignacio Ojea

We devise a posteriori error estimators for quasi-optimal nonconforming finite element methods approximating symmetric elliptic problems of second and fourth order. These estimators are defined for all source terms that are admissible to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-05 Christian Kreuzer , Matthias Rott , Andreas Veeser , Pietro Zanotti

This paper presents the design and analysis of a Hybrid High-Order (HHO) approximation for a distributed optimal control problem governed by the Poisson equation. We propose three distinct schemes to address unconstrained control problems…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-14 Gouranga Mallik , Ramesh Chandra Sau

A widely used electrostatics model in the biomolecular modeling community, the nonlinear Poisson-Boltzmann equation, along with its finite element approximation, are analyzed in this paper. A regularized Poisson-Boltzmann equation is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-01-12 Long Chen , Michael Holst , Jinchao Xu

The very weak solution of the Poisson equation with $L^2$ boundary data is defined by the method of transposition. The finite element solution with regularized boundary data converges in the $L^2(\Omega)$-norm with order $1/2$ in convex…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-02-18 Thomas Apel , Serge Nicaise , Johannes Pfefferer

In this article we develop a convergence theory for goal-oriented adaptive finite element algorithms designed for a class of second-order semilinear elliptic equations. We briefly discuss the target problem class, and introduce several…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-04-24 Michael Holst , Sara Pollock , Yunrong Zhu

In this work we present a novel bulk-surface virtual element method (BSVEM) for the numerical approximation of elliptic bulk-surface partial differential equations (BSPDEs) in three space dimensions. The BSVEM is based on the discretisation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-24 Massimo Frittelli , Anotida Madzvamuse , Ivonne Sgura

We consider the solution of second order elliptic PDEs in $\R^d$ with inhomogeneous Dirichlet data by means of an $h$-adaptive FEM with fixed polynomial order $p\in\N$. As model example serves the Poisson equation with mixed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-03-14 Markus Aurada , Michael Feischl , Josef Kemetmüller , Marcus Page , Dirk Praetorius

We present numerical tests of the Virtual Element Method (VEM) tailored for the discretization of a three dimensional Poisson problem with high-order "polynomial" degree (up to $p=10$). Besides, we discuss possible reasons for which the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-09-14 Lorenzo Mascotto , Franco Dassi