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By using the Onsager principle as an approximation tool, we give a novel derivation for the moving finite element method for gradient flow equations. We show that the discretized problem has the same energy dissipation structure as the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-04 Xianmin Xu

We combine the newly-constructed Galerkin difference basis with the energy-based discontinuous Galerkin method for wave equations in second order form. The approximation properties of the resulting method are excellent and the allowable…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-06 Lu Zhang , Daniel Appelö , Thomas Hagstrom

We present and analyse a new conforming space-time Galerkin discretisation of a semi-linear wave equation, based on a variational formulation derived from De Giorgi's elliptic regularisation viewpoint of the wave equation in second-order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-22 Lehel Banjai , Emmanuil H. Georgoulis , Brian Hennessy

This paper analyzes a time-stepping discontinuous Galerkin method for fractional diffusion-wave problems. This method uses piecewise constant functions in the temporal discretization and continuous piecewise linear functions in the spatial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-08-27 Binjie Li , Tao Wang , Xiaoping Xie

This paper aims to employ the weak Galerkin method to solve a class of nonlinear eigenvalue problems. We proved the weak Galerkin scheme produces lower bound for the energy. Moreover, by the post-processing technique, we obtain lower bound…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-29 Wei Lu , Qilong Zhai

We develop the general form of the variational multiscale method in a discontinuous Galerkin framework. Our method is based on the decomposition of the true solution into discontinuous coarse-scale and discontinuous fine-scale parts. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-09-20 Stein K. F. Stoter , Sergio R. Turteltaub , Steven J. Hulshoff , Dominik Schillinger

This article introduces a simple weak Galerkin (WG) finite element method for solving convection-diffusion-reaction equation. The proposed method offers significant flexibility by supporting discontinuous approximating functions on general…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-06 Chunmei Wang , Shangyou Zhang

This paper proposes and analyzes a class of new weak Galerkin (WG) finite element methods for 2- and 3-dimensional linear elasticity problems. The methods use discontinuous piecewise-polynomial approximations of degrees $k(\geq 0)$ for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-10-24 Gang Chen , Xiaoping Xie

We introduce a new weak Galerkin finite element method whose weak functions on interior neighboring edges are double-valued for parabolic problems. Based on $(P_k(T), P_{k}(e), RT_k(T))$ element, a fully discrete approach is formulated with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-12-04 Wenya Qi

We present and analyze a weak Galerkin finite element method for solving the transport-reaction equation in $d$ space dimensions. This method is highly flexible by allowing the use of discontinuous finite element on general meshes…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-25 Tie Zhang , Shangyou Zhang

This paper is devoted to the numerical analysis of a control constrained distributed optimal control problem subject to a time fractional diffusion equation with non-smooth initial data. The solutions of state and co-state are decomposed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-06 Tao Wang , Binjie Li , Xiaoping Xie

We consider the Weak Galerkin finite element approximation of the Singularly Perturbed Biharmonic elliptic problem on a unit square domain with clamped boundary conditions. Shishkin mesh is used for domain discretization as the solution…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-12 Aayushman Raina , Srinivasan Natesan , Şuayip Toprakseven

We propose a multiscale spectral generalized finite element method (MS-GFEM) for discontinuous Galerkin (DG) discretizations. The method builds local approximations on overlapping subdomains as the sum of a local source solution and a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-15 Christian Alber , Lukas Holbach

A mathematical analysis is established for the weak Galerkin finite element methods for the Poisson equation with Dirichlet boundary value when the curved elements are involved on the interior edges of the finite element partition or/and on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-01 Dan Li , Chunmei Wang , Junping Wang

In this article we study the numerical approximation of incompressible miscible displacement problems with a linearised Crank-Nicolson time discretisation, combined with a mixed finite element and discontinuous Galerkin method. At the heart…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-11-28 Max Jensen , Ruediger Mueller

This paper develops a discontinuous Galerkin (DG) finite element differential calculus theory for approximating weak derivatives of Sobolev functions and piecewise Sobolev functions. By introducing numerical one-sided derivatives as…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-03-06 Xiaobing Feng , Thomas Lewis , Michael Neilan

We use a concept of weak asymptotic solution for homogeneous as well as non-homogeneous fractional advection dispersion type equations. Using Legendre scaling functions as basis, a numerical method based on Galerkin approximation is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-01 Harendra Singh , Manas Ranjan Sahoo , Om Prakash Singh

The numerical solution of strain gradient-dependent continuum problems has been dogged by continuity demands on the basis functions. For most commonly accepted models, solutions using the finite element method demand $C^{1}$ continuity of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 G. N. Wells , K. Garikipati , L. Molari

Upper bound limit analysis allows one to evaluate directly the ultimate load of structures without performing a cumbersome incremental analysis. In order to numerically apply this method to thin plates in bending, several authors have…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-10-02 Jérémy Bleyer , Guillaume Carlier , Vincent Duval , Jean-Marie Mirebeau , Gabriel Peyré

This paper is concerned with numerical solutions of time-fractional nonlinear parabolic problems by a class of $L1$-Galerkin finite element methods. The analysis of $L1$ methods for time-fractional nonlinear problems is limited mainly due…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-03-19 Dongfang Li , Hong-lin Liao , Weiwei Sun , Jilu Wang , Jiwei Zhang