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The novel idea of weak Galerkin (WG) finite element methods is on the use of weak functions and their weak derivatives defined as distributions. Weak functions and weak derivatives can be approximated by polynomials with various degrees.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-04-25 Lin Mu , Junping Wang , Xiu Ye

This paper develops and analyzes a class of semi-discrete and fully discrete weak Galerkin finite element methods for unsteady incompressible convective Brinkman-Forchheimer equations. For the spatial discretization, the methods adopt the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-30 Xiaojuan Wang , Jihong Xiao , Xiaoping Xie , Shiquan Zhang

We perform a posteriori error analysis in the supremum norm for the quadratic discontinuous Galerkin method for the elliptic obstacle problem. We define two discrete sets (motivated by Gaddam, Gudi and Kamana [1]), one set having integral…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-13 Rohit Khandelwal , Kamana Porwal , Ritesh Singla

We address the error control of Galerkin discretization (in space) of linear second order hyperbolic problems. More specifically, we derive a posteriori error bounds in the L\infty(L2)-norm for finite element methods for the linear wave…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-05-17 Emmanuil H. Georgoulis , Omar Lakkis , Charalambos Makridakis

The recent work [Kurz et al., Numer. Math., 147 (2021)] proposed functional a posteriori error estimates for boundary element methods (BEMs) together with a related adaptive mesh-refinement strategy. Unlike most a posteriori BEM error…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-13 Alexander Freiszlinger , Dirk Pauly , Dirk Praetorius

Finite difference approximation, in addition to Taylor truncation errors, introduces numerical dispersion-and-dissipation errors into numerical solutions of partial differential equations. We analyze a class of finite difference schemes…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-09-12 Yi-Hung Kuo , Long Lee , Gregory Lyng

A new weak Galerkin (WG) finite element method for solving the biharmonic equation in two or three dimensional spaces by using polynomials of reduced order is introduced and analyzed. The WG method is on the use of weak functions and their…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-01-27 Ran Zhang , Qilong Zhai

Nonlinear two-point boundary value problems arise in numerous areas of application. The existence and number of solutions for various cases has been studied from a theoretical standpoint. These results generally rely upon growth conditions…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 E. L. Allgower , D. J. Bates , A. J. Sommese , C. W. Wampler

We present a high-order accurate fully discrete numerical scheme for solving Initial Boundary Value Problems (IBVPs) within the Continuous Galerkin (CG)-based Finite Element framework. Both the spatial and time approximation in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-01-09 Mrityunjoy Mandal , Jan Nordström , Arnaud G Malan

Numerical methods for stochastic partial differential equations typically estimate moments of the solution from sampled paths. Instead, we shall directly target the deterministic equations satisfied by the first and second moments, as well…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-17 Kristin Kirchner

We study the high-order local discontinuous Galerkin (LDG) method for the $p$-Laplace equation. We reformulate our spatial discretization as an equivalent convex minimization problem and use a preconditioned gradient descent method as the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-16 Yue Wu , Yan Xu

An adaptive direct collocation method is developed for solving optimal control problems constrained by parabolic partial differential equations. The partial differential equation is first reformulated in a variational setting, where the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-18 Alexander M. Davies , Sara Pollock , Miriam E. Dennis , Anil V. Rao

Inverse problems are in many cases solved with optimization techniques. When the underlying model is linear, first-order gradient methods are usually sufficient. With nonlinear models, due to nonconvexity, one must often resort to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-15 Arttu Arjas , Mikko J. Sillanpää , Andreas Hauptmann

This article concerns the weak Galerkin mixed finite element method (WG-MFEM) for second order elliptic equations on 2D domains with curved boundary. The Neumann boundary condition is considered since it becomes the essential boundary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-09 Yi Liu , Wenbin Chen , Yanqiu Wang

In this work, we establish that discontinuous Galerkin methods are capable of producing reliable approximations for a broad class of nonlinear variational problems. In particular, we demonstrate that these schemes provide essential…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-22 Georgios Grekas , Konstantinos Koumatos , Charalambos Makridakis , Andreas Vikelis

This paper analyzes the convergence rate of a deep Galerkin method for the weak solution (DGMW) of second-order elliptic partial differential equations on $\mathbb{R}^d$ with Dirichlet, Neumann, and Robin boundary conditions, respectively.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-07 Yuling Jiao , Yanming Lai , Yang Wang , Haizhao Yang , Yunfei Yang

Time fractional advection-dispersion equations arise as generalizations of classical integer order advection-dispersion equations and are increasingly used to model fluid flow problems through porous media. In this paper we develop an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-05-16 Carlos E. Mejía , Alejandro Piedrahita

In this paper we consider the numerical approximation of the two-phase membrane (obstacle) problem by finite difference method. First, we introduce the notion of viscosity solution for the problem and construct certain discrete nonlinear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-07-04 Avetik Arakelyan , Rafayel Barkhudaryan , Michael Poghosyan

A posteriori error estimators are studied for discontinuous Galerkin methods for solving a frictional contact problem, which is a representative elliptic variational inequality of the second kind. The estimators are derived by relating the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-01-21 Fei Wang , Weimin Han

We consider the Galerkin boundary element method (BEM) for weakly-singular integral equations of the first-kind in 2D. We analyze some residual-type a posteriori error estimator which provides a lower as well as an upper bound for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-04-24 Michael Feischl , Gregor Gantner , Dirk Praetorius