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The solution of partial differential equations (PDEs) on complex domains often presents a significant computational challenge by requiring the generation of fitted meshes. The Diffuse Domain Method (DDM) is an alternative which reformulates…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Luke Benfield , Andreas Dedner

The Finite Element Method (FEM) is widely used to solve discrete Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) in engineering and graphics applications. The popularity of FEM led to the development of a large family of variants, most of which…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Teseo Schneider , Yixin Hu , Xifeng Gao , Jeremie Dumas , Denis Zorin , Daniele Panozzo

The isogeometric formulation of Boundary Element Method (BEM) is investigated within the adaptivity framework. Suitable weighted quadrature rules to evaluate integrals appearing in the Galerkin BEM formulation of 2D Laplace model problems…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-05-06 Antonella Falini , Carlotta Giannelli , Tadej Kanduc , Maria Lucia Sampoli , Alessandra Sestini

Three different displacement based finite element formulations over arbitrary polygons are studied in this paper. The formulations considered are: the conventional polygonal finite element method (FEM) with Laplace interpolants, the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-09-06 Sundararajan Natarajan , Ean Tat Ooi , Irene Chiong , Chongmin Song

In this paper, we are concerned with the numerical treatment of boundary integral equations by means of the adaptive wavelet boundary element method (BEM). In particular, we consider the second kind Fredholm integral equation for the double…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-10-10 Stephan Dahlke , Helmut Harbrecht , Manuela Utzinger , Markus Weimar

We prove the existence, uniqueness, and sharp bilateral pointwise estimates for positive bounded solutions to the Lane--Emden type problem \[ \begin{cases} L u = \sum\limits_{i=1}^{m}\sigma_{i} u^{q_{i}}+\sigma_0, \quad u\geq0 & \text{in }…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-11 Toe Toe Shwe , Kentaro Hirata , Adisak Seesanea

We consider boundary element methods where the Calder\'on projector is used for the system matrix and boundary conditions are weakly imposed using a particular variational boundary operator designed using techniques from augmented…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-15 Timo Betcke , Erik Burman , Matthew W. Scroggs

We present a simple discretization by radial basis functions for the Poisson equation with Dirichlet boundary condition. A Lagrangian multiplier using piecewise polynomials is used to accommodate the boundary condition. This simplifies…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-02-11 Norbert Heuer , Thanh Tran

The finite element method (FEM) and the boundary element method (BEM) can numerically solve the Helmholtz system for acoustic wave propagation. When an object with heterogeneous wave speed or density is embedded in an unbounded exterior…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-11-29 Elwin van 't Wout

In this contribution we develop a cut finite element method with boundary value correction of the type originally proposed by Bramble, Dupont, and Thomee. The cut finite element method is a fictitious domain method with Nitsche type…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-07-14 Erik Burman , Peter Hansbo , Mats G. Larson

We construct a finite element method for the numerical solution of a fractional porous medium equation on a bounded open Lipschitz polytopal domain $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^{d}$, where $d = 2$ or $3$. The pressure in the model is defined…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-03 José A. Carrillo , Stefano Fronzoni , Endre Süli

We present and analyze a Virtual Element Method (VEM) of arbitrary polynomial order $k\in\mathbb{N}$ for the Laplace-Beltrami equation on a surface in $\mathbb{R}^3$. The method combines the Surface Finite Element Method (SFEM) [Dziuk,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-20 Massimo Frittelli , Ivonne Sgura

We study the numerical approximation of linear-quadratic optimal control problems subject to the fractional Laplace equation with its spectral definition. We compute an approximation of the state equation using a discretization of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-09-28 Stefan Dohr , Christian Kahle , Sergejs Rogovs , Piotr Swierczynski

For shape optimization problems, governed by elliptic equations with Dirichlet boundary condition and random coefficients, we utilize a penalization technique to get the approximate problem. We consider that uncertainties exists in the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-26 Xiaowei Pang

We consider solving the Laplace-Beltrami problem on a smooth two dimensional surface embedded into a three dimensional space meshed with tetrahedra. The mesh does not respect the surface and thus the surface cuts through the elements. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-08-20 Erik Burman , Peter Hansbo , Mats G. Larson

Engineering structures are increasingly designed using numerical optimisation. However, traditional optimisation methods can be challenging with multiple objectives and many parameters. In machine learning, stable training of artificial…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-04-24 James Hipperson , Jonathan Hargreaves , Trevor Cox

This paper is concerned with the analysis of a new stable space-time finite element method (FEM) for the numerical solution of parabolic evolution problems in moving spatial computational domains. The discrete bilinear form is elliptic on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-14 Stephen Edward Moore

The shifted boundary method (SBM) is an approximate domain method for boundary value problems, in the broader class of unfitted/embedded/immersed methods. It has proven to be quite efficient in handling problems with complex geometries,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-02 Nabil M. Atallah , Claudio Canuto , Guglielmo Scovazzi

This paper introduces a new variational formulation for Dirichlet boundary control problem of elliptic partial differential equations, based on observations that the state and adjoint state are related through the control on the boundary of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-04-23 Shaohong Du , Zhiqiang Cai

We present a preconditioning method for the linear systems arising from the boundary element discretization of the Laplace hypersingular equation on a $2$-dimensional triangulated surface $\Gamma$ in $\mathbb{R}^3$. We allow $\Gamma$ to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-16 Martin Averseng , Xavier Claeys , Ralf Hiptmair