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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

Many problems in physics are inherently of multi-scale nature. The issues of MHD turbulence or magnetic reconnection, namely in the hot and sparse, almost collision-less astrophysical plasmas, can stand as clear examples. The Finite Element…

Computational Physics · Physics 2012-06-14 Jan Skala , Miroslav Barta

This paper is concerned with mixed finite element method (FEM) for solving the two-dimensional, nonlinear fourth-order active fluid equations. By introducing an auxiliary variable $w=-\Delta u$, the original fourth problem is transformed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-30 Nan Zheng , Xu Guo , Wenlong Pei , Wenju Zhao

We prove exponential convergence in the energy norm of $hp$ finite element discretizations for the integral fractional diffusion operator of order $2s\in (0,2)$ subject to homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions in bounded polygonal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-27 Markus Faustmann , Carlo Marcati , Jens Markus Melenk , Christoph Schwab

We design and analyze several Finite Element Methods (FEMs) applied to the Caffarelli-Silvestre extension that localizes the fractional powers of symmetric, coercive, linear elliptic operators in bounded domains with Dirichlet boundary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-07 Lehel Banjai , Jens M. Melenk , Ricardo H. Nochetto , Enrique Otarola , Abner J. Salgado , Christoph Schwab

In this paper, a generalized finite element method (GFEM) with optimal local approximation spaces for solving high-frequency heterogeneous Helmholtz problems is systematically studied. The local spaces are built from selected eigenvectors…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-15 Chupeng Ma , Christian Alber , Robert Scheichl

We present a finite element scheme for fractional diffusion problems with varying diffusivity and fractional order. We consider a symmetric integral form of these nonlocal equations defined on general geometries and in arbitrary bounded…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-28 Wenyu Lei , George Turkiyyah , Omar Knio

The dynamic Laplace operator arises from extending problems of isoperimetry from fixed manifolds to manifolds evolved by general nonlinear dynamics. Eigenfunctions of this operator are used to identify and track finite-time coherent sets,…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-06-19 Nathanael Schilling , Gary Froyland , Oliver Junge

In this paper, we propose an accurate finite difference method to discretize the $d$-dimensional (for $d\ge 1$) tempered integral fractional Laplacian and apply it to study the tempered effects on the solution of problems arising in various…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-30 Siwei Duo , Yanzhi Zhang

We propose, analyze mathematically, and study numerically a novel approach for the finite element approximation of the spectrum of second-order elliptic operators. The main idea is to reduce the stiffness of the problem by subtracting a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-09 Quanling Deng , Alexandre Ern

We develop all of the components needed to construct an adaptive finite element code that can be used to approximate fractional partial differential equations, on non-trivial domains in $d\geq 1$ dimensions. Our main approach consists of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-02-14 Mark Ainsworth , Christian Glusa

A nonlinear Helmholtz (NLH) equation with high frequencies and corner singularities is discretized by the linear finite element method (FEM). After deriving some wave-number-explicit stability estimates and the singularity decomposition for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-28 Run Jiang , Haijun Wu , Yifeng Xu , Jun Zou

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

We consider a randomised implementation of the finite element method (FEM) for elliptic partial differential equations on high-dimensional models. This is motivated by applications where model predictions are essential for real-time process…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-30 Yue Wu , Dimitris Kamilis , Nick Polydorides

For the singular integral definition of the fractional Laplacian, we consider an adaptive finite element method steered by two-level error indicators. For this algorithm, we show linear convergence in two and three space dimensions as well…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-28 Markus Faustmann , Ernst Peter Stephan , David Wörgötter

Functional error estimates are well-established tools for a posteriori error estimation and related adaptive mesh-refinement for the finite element method (FEM). The present work proposes a first functional error estimate for the boundary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-29 Stefan Kurz , Dirk Pauly , Dirk Praetorius , Sergey Repin , Daniel Sebastian

In this paper we consider approximations of Neumann problems for the integral fractional Laplacian by continuous, piecewise linear finite elements. We analyze the weak formulation of such problems, including their well-posedness and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-29 Francisco M. Bersetche , Juan Pablo Borthagaray

In this paper, we present numerical procedures to compute solutions of partial differential equations posed on fractals. In particular, we consider the strong form of the equation using standard graph Laplacian matrices and also weak forms…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-05-20 Fernando Contreras , Juan Galvis

In recent works, the authors of this chapter have shown with co-authors how a basis consisting of dilated and shifted $\text{sinc}$-functions can be used to solve fractional partial differential equations. As a model problem, the fractional…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-16 Patrick Dondl , Ludwig Striet

The Finite Element Method (FEM) is the gold standard for spatial discretization in numerical simulations for a wide spectrum of real-world engineering problems. Prototypical areas of interest include linear heat transfer and linear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-10 Marcelo Forets , Daniel Freire Caporale , Jorge M. Pérez Zerpa