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This paper introduces a numerical scheme for time harmonic Maxwell's equations by using weak Galerkin (WG) finite element methods. The WG finite element method is based on two operators: discrete weak curl and discrete weak gradient, with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-12-10 Lin Mu , Junping Wang , Xiu Ye , Shangyou Zhang

We propose and analyze a discretization scheme that combines the discontinuous Petrov-Galerkin and finite element methods. The underlying model problem is of general diffusion-advection-reaction type on bounded domains, with decomposition…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-04-26 Thomas Führer , Norbert Heuer , Michael Karkulik , Rodolfo Rodríguez

We study the systematic numerical approximation of a class of Allen-Cahn type problems modeling the motion of phase interfaces. The common feature of these models is an underlying gradient flow structure which gives rise to a decay of an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-03-09 Anke Böttcher , Herbert Egger

This article develops a weak Galerkin least-squares (WG--LS) finite element method for first-order linear convection equations in non-divergence form. The method is formulated using discontinuous finite element functions and does not…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-05 Chunmei Wang , Shangyou Zhang

We develop a general convergence theory for adaptive discontinuous Galerkin methods for elliptic PDEs covering the popular SIPG, NIPG and LDG schemes as well as all practically relevant marking strategies. Another key feature of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-07 Christian Kreuzer , Emmanuil H. Georgoulis

A general analysis framework is presented in this paper for many different types of finite element methods (including various discontinuous Galerkin methods). For second order elliptic equation, this framework employs $4$ different…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-03 Qingguo Hong , Shuonan Wu , Jinchao Xu

We propose and study discontinuous Galerkin methods for strongly degenerate convection-diffusion equations perturbed by a fractional diffusion (L\'evy) operator. We prove various stability estimates along with convergence results toward…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-11-29 Simone Cifani , Espen R. Jakobsen , Kenneth H. Karlsen

We combine continuous and discontinuous Galerkin methods in the setting of a model diffusion problem. Starting from a hybrid discontinuous formulation, we replace element interiors by more general subsets of the computational domain -…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-11-30 Martin Vymazal , David Moxey , Chris Cantwell , Spencer Sherwin , Robert M. Kirby

This work is devoted to the study of a posteriori error estimation and adaptivity in parabolic problems with a particular focus on spatial discontinuous Galerkin (dG) discretisations. We begin by deriving an a posteriori error estimator for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-04-13 Stephen Arthur Metcalfe

In this paper, we derive a theoretical analysis of an interior penalty discontinuous Galerkin methods for solving the Cahn-Hilliard-Navier-Stokes model problem. We prove unconditional unique solvability of the discrete system, obtain…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-16 Chen Liu , Beatrice Riviere

We prove in an abstract setting that standard (continuous) Galerkin finite element approximations are the limit of interior penalty discontinuous Galerkin approximations as the penalty parameter tends to infinity. We apply this result to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-05-28 Andrea Cangiani , John Chapman , Emmanuil H. Georgoulis , Max Jensen

This paper develops an enhanced finite element method for approximating a class of variational problems which exhibit the \textit{Lavrentiev gap phenomenon} in the sense that the minimum values of the energy functional have a nontrivial gap…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-10-12 Xiaobing Feng , Stefan Schnake

We study the numerical approximation by space-time finite element methods of a multi-physics system coupling hyperbolic elastodynamics with parabolic transport and modeling poro- and thermoelasticity. The equations are rewritten as a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-14 Markus Bause , Mathias Anselmann , Uwe Köcher , Florin A. Radu

We present a continuous/discontinuous Galerkin method for approximating solutions to a fourth order elliptic PDE on a surface embedded in $\mathbb{R}^3$. A priori error estimates, taking both the approximation of the surface and the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-06-23 Karl Larsson , Mats G. Larson

The interior penalty discontinuous Galerkin method is applied to solve elliptic equations on either networks of segments or networks of planar surfaces, with arbitrary but fixed number of bifurcations. Stability is obtained by proving a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-15 Miroslav Kuchta , Rami Masri , Beatrice Riviere

A numerical method for approximating weak solutions of an aggregation equation with degenerate diffusion is introduced. The numerical method consists of a stabilized finite element method together with a mass lumping technique and an extra…

The aim of this paper is the numerical study of a class of nonlinear nonlocal degenerate parabolic equations. The convergence and error bounds of the solutions are proved for a linearized Crank-Nicolson-Galerkin finite element method with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-10-01 Rui M. P. Almeida , Stanislav N. Antontsev , José C. M. Duque

We study an approximation method for the one-dimensional nonlinear filtering problem, with discrete time and continuous time observation. We first present the method applied to the Fokker-Planck equation. The convergence of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-29 Fabien F. Campillo

Motivated by applications to numerical simulation of flows in highly heterogeneous porous media, we develop multiscale finite element methods for second order elliptic equations. We discuss a multiscale model reduction technique in the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-15 Y. Efendiev , J. Galvis , R. Lazarov , M. Moon , M. Sarkis

This paper considers weak Galerkin finite element approximations for a quasistatic Maxwell viscoelastic model. The spatial discretization uses piecewise polynomials of degree $k \ (k\geq 1)$ for the stress approximation, degree $k+1$ for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-22 Jihong Xiao , Zimo Zhu , Xiaoping Xie