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A finite element approach for approximating the solution of a mathematical model for the response of a penetrable, bounded object (obstacle) to the excitation by an external electromagnetic field is presented and investigated. The model…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-16 Lutz Angermann

In this paper we present a nonconforming finite element method for solving fourth order curl equations in three dimensions arising from magnetohydrodynamics models. We show that the method has an optimal error estimate for a model problem…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-02-02 Bin Zheng , Qiya Hu , Jinchao Xu

This paper develops a posteriori error estimates of residual type for conforming and mixed finite element approximations of the fourth order Cahn-Hilliard equation $u_t+\De\bigl(\eps \De u-\eps^{-1} f(u)\bigr)=0$. It is shown that the {\it…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-08-17 Xiaobing Feng , Haijun Wu

In this paper, we discuss adaptive approximations of an elliptic eigenvalue optimization problem in a phase-field setting by a conforming finite element method. An adaptive algorithm is proposed and implemented in several two dimensional…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-10 Jing Li , Yifeng Xu , Shengfeng Zhu

We present a finite element (FE) scheme for the numerical approximation of the solution to a non-local Poisson equation involving the one-dimensional fractional Laplacian $(-d_x^2)^s$ on the interval $(-L,L)$. In particular, we include the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-07-24 Umberto Biccari , Víctor Hernández-Santamaría

A priori and a posteriori error analysis of $hp$ finite element method for elliptic control problem with Robin boundary condition and boundary observation are presented. are presented. Through the Cl\'ement-type approach and the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-29 Xingyuan Lin , Xiuxiu Lin , Xuesong Chen

Finite element approximation to a decoupled formulation for the quad--curl problem is studied in this paper. The difficulty of constructing elements with certain conformity to the quad--curl problems has been greatly reduced. For convex…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-09 Shuhao Cao , Long Chen , Xuehai Huang

We solve elliptic systems of equations posed on highly heterogeneous materials. Examples of this class of problems are composite structures and geological processes. We focus on a model problem which is a second-order elliptic equation with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-12-11 Leonardo A. Poveda , Sebastian Huepo , Victor M. Calo , Juan Galvis

We develop a cut finite element method for a second order elliptic coupled bulk-surface model problem. We prove a priori estimates for the energy and $L^2$ norms of the error. Using stabilization terms we show that the resulting algebraic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-03-27 Erik Burman , Peter Hansbo , Mats G. Larson , Sara Zahedi

This paper studies formulations of second-order elliptic partial differential equations in nondivergence form on convex domains as equivalent variational problems. The first formulation is that of Smears \& S\"uli [SIAM J.\ Numer.\ Anal.\…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-01-17 Dietmar Gallistl

This work presents a novel matrix-based method for constructing an approximation Hessian using only function evaluations. The method requires less computational power than interpolation-based methods and is easy to implement in matrix-based…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-04-07 W. Hare , G. Jarry-Bolduc , C. Planiden

We summarise three applications of the obstacle problem to membrane contact, elastoplastic torsion and cavitation modelling, and show how the resulting models can be solved using mixed finite elements. It is challenging to construct fixed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-28 Tom Gustafsson

We consider the efficient numerical approximation of acoustic wave propagation in time domain by a finite element method with mass lumping. In the presence of internal damping, the problem can be reduced to a second order formulation in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-17 Herbert Egger , Bogdan Radu

We propose a new nonconforming \(P_1\) finite element method for elliptic interface problems. The method is constructed on a locally anisotropic mixed mesh, which is generated by fitting the interface through a simple connection of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-08 Chenchen Geng , Hua Wang , Qichen Zhang

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

We construct a finite element approximation of a strain-limiting elastic model on a bounded open domain in $\mathbb{R}^d$, $d \in \{2,3\}$. The sequence of finite element approximations is shown to exhibit strong convergence to the unique…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-02 Andrea Bonito , Vivette Girault , Endre Süli

We propose a new fictitious domain finite element method, well suited for elliptic problems posed in a domain given by a level-set function without requiring a mesh fitting the boundary. To impose the Dirichlet boundary conditions, we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-09 Michel Duprez , Alexei Lozinski

This paper studies the nonconforming Morley finite element approximation of the eigenvalues of the biharmonic operator. A new $C^1$ conforming companion operator leads to an $L^2$ error estimate for the Morley finite element method which…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-10-28 Dietmar Gallistl

We study a finite element approximation of a coupled fluid-structure interaction consisting of a three-dimensional incompressible viscous fluid governed by the unsteady Stokes equations and a two-dimensional elastic plate. To avoid the use…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Lander Besabe , Hyesuk Lee

In this paper, a direct finite element method is proposed for solving interface problems on unfitted meshes. This new method treats the two interface conditions as an $H^{\frac12}(\Gamma)\times H^{-\frac12}(\Gamma)$ pair for the mutual…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-19 Jun Hu , Limin Ma