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We present a continuous and a discontinuous linear Finite Element method based on a predictor-corrector scheme for the numerical approximation of the Ericksen-Leslie equations, a model for nematic liquid crystal flow including a non-convex…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-13 Maximilian E. V. Reiter

A finite element discretization using a method of lines approached is proposed for approximately solving the Poisson-Nernst-Planck (PNP) equations. This discretization scheme enforces positivity of the computed solutions, corresponding to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-17 Chun Liu , Maximilian Metti , Jinchao Xu

In this paper, we introduce a discontinuous Finite Element formulation on simplicial unstructured meshes for the study of free surface flows based on the fully nonlinear and weakly dispersive Green-Naghdi equations. Working with a new class…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-04-19 Arnaud Duran , Fabien Marche

An $hp$-adaptive continuous Galerkin finite element method is developed to analyze a static anti-plane shear crack embedded in a nonlinear, strain-limiting elastic body. The geometrically linear material is described by a constitutive law…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-01 S. M. Mallikarjunaiah , Pavithra Venkatachalapthy

We present a cut finite element method for the heat equation on two overlapping meshes: a stationary background mesh and an overlapping mesh that moves around inside/"on top" of it. Here the overlapping mesh is prescribed a simple…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-02 Mats G. Larson , Anders Logg , Carl Lundholm

In this paper, we propose a linearized finite element method (FEM) for solving the cubic nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation with wave operator. In this method, a modified leap-frog scheme is applied for time discretization and a Galerkin…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-25 Wentao Cai , Dongdong He , Kejia Pan

A Galerkin finite element method for the membrane elasticity problem on a meshed surface is constructed by using two-dimensional elements extended into three dimensions. The membrane finite element model is established using the intrinsic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-03-16 Peter Hansbo , Mats G. Larson

This paper outlines an energy-minimization finite-element approach to the modeling of equilibrium configurations for nematic liquid crystals in the presence of internal and external electric fields. The method targets minimization of system…

Computational Physics · Physics 2014-07-14 J. H. Adler , T. J. Atherton , T. R. Benson , D. B. Emerson , S. P. MacLachlan

In this work, we propose a local multiscale model reduction approach for the time-domain scalar wave equation in a heterogenous media. A fine mesh is used to capture the heterogeneities of the coefficient field, and the equation is solved…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-03 Siu Wun Cheung , Eric T. Chung , Yalchin Efendiev , Wing Tat Leung

We consider the numerical discretization of the time-domain Maxwell's equations with an energy-conserving discontinuous Galerkin finite element formulation. This particular formulation allows for higher order approximations of the electric…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-01-10 Christoph Koutschan , Christoph Lehrenfeld , Joachim Schoeberl

We propose an $hp$-adaptive discontinuous Galerkin finite element method (DGFEM) to approximate the solution of a static crack boundary value problem. The mathematical model describes the behavior of a geometrically linear strain-limiting…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-04 Ram Manohar , S. M. Mallikarjunaiah

The article addresses the mathematical modeling of the folding of a thin elastic sheet along a prescribed curved arc. A rigorous model reduction from a general hyperelastic material description is carried out under appropriate scaling…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-09 Sören Bartels , Andrea Bonito , Peter Hornung

We consider the initial/boundary value problem for a diffusion equation involving multiple time-fractional derivatives on a bounded convex polyhedral domain. We analyze a space semidiscrete scheme based on the standard Galerkin finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-18 Bangti Jin , Raytcho Lazarov , Yikan Liu , Zhi Zhou

We propose and analyze a space-time finite element method for Westervelt's quasilinear model of ultrasound waves in second-order formulation. The method combines conforming finite element spatial discretizations with a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-19 Sergio Gómez , Vanja Nikolić

This paper generalizes the earlier work on the energy-based discontinuous Galerkin method for second-order wave equations to fourth-order semilinear wave equations. We first rewrite the problem into a system with a second-order spatial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-25 Lu Zhang

We generalize the energy-based discontinuous Galerkin method proposed in [SIAM J. Num. Anal., 53(6):2705-2726, 2015.] to second-order semilinear wave equations. A stability and convergence analysis is presented along with numerical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-15 Daniel Appelo , Thomas Hagstrom , Qi Wang , Lu Zhang

We design a finite element method (FEM) for a membrane model of liquid crystal polymer networks (LCNs). This model consists of a minimization problem of a non-convex stretching energy. We discuss properties of this energy functional such as…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-26 Lucas Bouck , Ricardo H. Nochetto , Shuo Yang

We present and analyze a discontinuous Galerkin method for the numerical modelling of the non-linear fully-coupled thermo-poroelastic problem. For the spatial discretization, we design a high-order discontinuous Galerkin method on polygonal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-05-27 Paola F. Antonietti , Stefano Bonetti , Michele Botti

We study the discrete-to-continuum limit of ferromagnetic spin systems when the lattice spacing tends to zero. We assume that the atoms are part of a (maybe) non-periodic lattice close to a flat set in a lower dimensional space, typically a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-03-16 Andrea Braides , Marco Cicalese , Matthias Ruf

In this paper, we propose and analyze a finite element discretization for the computation of fractional minimal graphs of order~$s \in (0,1/2)$ on a bounded domain $\Omega$. Such a Plateau problem of order $s$ can be reinterpreted as a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-26 Juan Pablo Borthagaray , Wenbo Li , Ricardo H. Nochetto