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The Galerkin difference (GD) basis is a set of continuous, piecewise polynomials defined using a finite difference like grid of degrees of freedom. The one dimensional GD basis functions are naturally extended to multiple dimensions using…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-03 Jeremy E. Kozdon , Lucas C. Wilcox , Thomas Hagstrom , Jeffrey W. Banks

In this paper, we explore the use of the Virtual Element Method concepts to solve scalar and system hyperbolic problems on general polygonal grids. The new schemes stem from the active flux approach \cite{AF1}, which combines the usage of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-07 Rémi Abgrall , Yongle Liu , Walter Boscheri

A brief summary of direct solution approaches for finite element methods (FEM) in computational electromagnetics (CEM) is given along with an alternative direct solution based on domain decomposition (DD). Unlike recent trends in…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-02-13 Javad Moshfegh , Marinos N. Vouvakis

Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods for the numerical solution of partial differential equations have enjoyed considerable success because they are both flexible and robust: They allow arbitrary unstructured geometries and easy control of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2009-11-18 Andreas Klöckner , Tim Warburton , Jeffrey Bridge , Jan S. Hesthaven

This paper presents a space-time finite element method (FEM) based on an unfitted mesh for solving parabolic problems on moving domains. Unlike other unfitted space-time finite element approaches that commonly employ the discontinuous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-03 Ruizhi Wang , Weibing Deng

Boundary element methods (BEM) reduce a partial differential equation in a domain to an integral equation on the domain's boundary. They are particularly attractive for solving problems on unbounded domains, but handling the dense matrices…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-30 Steffen Börm

A stabilizing/penalty term is often used in finite element methods with discontinuous approximations to enforce connection of discontinuous functions across element boundaries. Removing stabilizers from discontinuous finite element methods…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-15 Xiu Ye , Shangyou Zhang

We present a full-vector finite element method (FEM) mode solver for dielectric waveguides based on a mixed Nedelec-Lagrange discretization of Maxwell's curl equations in the frequency domain. The formulation combines edge elements for…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-15 Ergun Simsek

In order to learn distributed port-Hamiltonian systems (dPHS) using Gaussian processes (GPs), the partitioned finite element method (PFEM) is combined with the Gp-dPHS method. By following a late lumping approach, the discretization of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-28 Florian Courteville , Iain Henderson , Denis Matignon , Sylvain Dubreuil

Partition of unity methods, such as the extended finite element method (XFEM) allow discontinuities to be simulated independently of the mesh [1]. This eliminates the need for the mesh to be aligned with the discontinuity or cumbersome…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-07-26 Sundararajan Natarajan , D. Roy Mahapatra , Stephane PA Bordas

The finite element method (FEM) is a cornerstone numerical technique for solving partial differential equations (PDEs). Here, we present $\textbf{Qu-FEM}$, a fault-tolerant era quantum algorithm for the finite element method. In contrast to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-22 Ahmad M. Alkadri , Tyler D. Kharazi , K. Birgitta Whaley , Kranthi K. Mandadapu

In this paper, we use the first-order virtual element method (VEM) to investigate the effect of shape quality of polyhedra in the estimation of the critical time step for explicit three-dimensional elastodynamic finite element (FE)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-01 N. Sukumar , Michael R. Tupek

Piezoelectric Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers (PMUTs) are essential for next-generation ultrasonic sensing and imaging due to their bidirectional electromechanical behavior, compact design, and compatibility with low-voltage…

In this paper, a moving mesh discontinuous Galerkin (dG) method is developed for nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs) with traveling wave solutions. The moving mesh strategy for one dimensional PDEs is based on the rezoning…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-11 Murat Uzunca , Bülent Karasözen , Tuğba Küçükseyhan

In this paper, we employ the linear virtual element spaces to discretize the semilinear sine-Gordon equation in two dimensions. The salient features of the virtual element method (VEM) are: (a) it does not require explicit form of the shape…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-12 Dibyendu Adak , Sundararajan Natarajan

We develop a hybrid spatial discretization for the wave equation in second order form, based on high-order accurate finite difference methods and discontinuous Galerkin methods. The hybridization combines computational efficiency of finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-26 Siyang Wang , Gunilla Kreiss

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

Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods are widely adopted to discretize the radiation transport equation (RTE) with diffusive scalings. One of the most important advantages of the DG methods for RTE is their asymptotic preserving (AP)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-17 Cory D. Hauck , Qiwei Sheng , Yulong Xing

We present a time-explicit discontinuous Galerkin (DG) solver for the time-domain acoustic wave equation on hybrid meshes containing vertex-mapped hexahedral, wedge, pyramidal and tetrahedral elements. Discretely energy-stable formulations…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-06-22 Jesse Chan , Zheng Wang , Axel Modave , Jean-Francois Remacle , T. Warburton

In this paper, we discuss the application of Generalized Multiscale Finite Element Method (GMsFEM) to elasticity equation in heterogeneous media. Our applications are motivated by elastic wave propagation in subsurface where the subsurface…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-08-27 Eric T. Chung , Yalchin Efendiev , Shubin Fu