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We prove the convergence of meshfree method for solving the elliptic Monge-Ampere equation with Dirichlet boundary on the bounded domain. L2 error is obtained based on the kernel-based trial spaces generated by the compactly supported…

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We consider an elliptic partial differential equation in non-divergence form with a random diffusion matrix and random forcing term. To address this, we propose a mixed-type continuous finite element discretization in the physical domain,…

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