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A semidiscrete Galerkin finite element method applied to time-fractional diffusion equations with time-space dependent diffusivity on bounded convex spatial domains will be studied. The main focus is on achieving optimal error results with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-12 Kassem Mustapha

We propose and analyse a numerical method for time-harmonic acoustic scattering in $\mathbb{R}^n$, $n=2,3$, by a class of inhomogeneities (penetrable scatterers) with fractal boundary. Our method is based on a Galerkin discretisation of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-06 Joshua Bannister , David P. Hewett , Andrew Gibbs

The presence of corners in the computational domain, in general, reduces the regularity of solutions of parabolic problems and diminishes the convergence properties of the finite element approximation introducing a so-called "pollution…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-03-19 Piotr Swierczynski , Barbara Wohlmuth

We consider the scalar Helmholtz equation with variable, discontinuous coefficients, modelling transmission of acoustic waves through an anisotropic penetrable obstacle. We first prove a well-posedness result and a frequency-explicit bound…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-09-20 Théophile Chaumont-Frelet , Euan A. Spence

We study iterative finite element approximations for the numerical approximation of semilinear elliptic boundary value problems with monotone nonlinear reactions of subcritical growth. The focus of our contribution is on an optimal a priori…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-18 Florian Spicher , Thomas P. Wihler

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

Exponential decay estimates of a general linear weakly damped wave equation are studied with decay rate lying in a range. Based on the $C^0$-conforming finite element method to discretize spatial variables keeping temporal variable…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-06-07 P. Danumjaya , Anil Kumar , Amiya K. Pani

In this paper, we aim to develop a hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin (HDG) method for the indefinite time-harmonic Maxwell equations with the perfectly conducting boundary in the three-dimensional space. First, we derive the wavenumber…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-26 Gang Chen , Haijun Wu , Liwei Xu

This paper derives some discrete maximum principles for $P1$-conforming finite element approximations for quasi-linear second order elliptic equations. The results are extensions of the classical maximum principles in the theory of partial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-05-01 Junping Wang , Ran Zhang

A symmetric boundary integral formulation for the transient scattering of acoustic waves off homogeneous and isotropic elastic obstacles is analyzed. Both the acoustic scattered field and the elastodynamic excited field are represented…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-19 Tonatiuh Sánchez-Vizuet

The Helmholtz scattering problem with high wave number is truncated by the perfectly matched layer (PML) technique and then discretized by the linear continuous interior penalty finite element method (CIP-FEM). It is proved that the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-26 Yonglin Li , Haijun Wu

We derive an equilibrated a posteriori error estimator for the space (semi) discretization of the scalar wave equation by finite elements. In the idealized setting where time discretization is ignored and the simulation time is large, we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-05-30 T. Chaumont-Frelet

We present a fully discrete finite element method for the interior null controllability problem subject to the wave equation. For the numerical scheme, piece-wise affine continuous elements in space and finite differences in time are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-10 Erik Burman , Ali Feizmohammadi , Lauri Oksanen

We describe a fourth-order accurate finite-difference time-domain scheme for solving dispersive Maxwell's equations with nonlinear multi-level carrier kinetics models. The scheme is based on an efficient single-step three time-level…

In this work, we analyze the finite element method with arbitrary but fixed polynomial degree for the nonlinear Helmholtz equation with impedance boundary conditions. We show well-posedness and error estimates of the finite element solution…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-07 Barbara Verfürth

The high-frequency Helmholtz equation on the entire space is truncated into a bounded domain using the perfectly matched layer (PML) technique and subsequently, discretized by the higher-order finite element method (FEM) and the continuous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-06 Yonglin Li , Haijun Wu

We address the spatial discretization of an evolution problem arising from the coupling of viscoelastic and acoustic wave propagation phenomena by employing a discontinuous Galerkin scheme on polygonal and polyhedral meshes. The coupled…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-12-11 Paola F. Antonietti , Francesco Bonaldi , Ilario Mazzieri

Motivated by the discrete dipole approximation (DDA) for the scattering of electromagnetic waves by a dielectric obstacle that can be considered as a simple discretization of a Lippmann-Schwinger style volume integral equation for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-01 Martin Costabel , Monique Dauge , Khadijeh Nedaiasl

In this paper, a time-domain discontinuous Galerkin (TDdG) finite element method for the full system of Maxwell's equations in optics and photonics is investigated, including a complete proof of a semi-discrete error estimate. The new…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-04 Asad Anees , Lutz Angermann

In this paper, we consider the finite element approximation to a parabolic Dirichlet boundary control problem and establish new a priori error estimates. In the temporal semi-discretization we apply the DG(0) method for the state and the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-29 Dongdong Liang , Wei Gong , Xiaoping Xie