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We introduce a general, analytical framework to express and to approximate partial differential equations (PDEs) numerically on graphs and networks of surfaces---generalized by the term hypergraphs. To this end, we consider PDEs on…

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We have recently presented an extension of the standard variational calculus to include the presence of deformed derivatives in the Lagrangian of a system of particles and in the Lagrangian density of field-theoretic models. Classical…

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Semi-Lagrangian methods are numerical methods designed to find approximate solutions to particular time-dependent partial differential equations (PDEs) that describe the advection process. We propose semi-Lagrangian one-step methods for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-03-07 Nikolai D. Lipscomb , Daniel X. Guo

We present a novel Galerkin method for solving partial differential equations on the sphere. The problem is discretized by a highly localized basis which is easily constructed. The stiffness matrix entries are computed by a recently…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-02-17 F. J. Narcowich , Stephen T. Rowe , Joseph D. Ward

We introduce a family of proximal discontinuous Galerkin methods for variational inequalities, focusing on the obstacle problem as a didactic example. Each member of this family is born from applying a different well-known nonconforming…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-23 Alexandre Ern , Brendan Keith , Dohyun Kim , Rami Masri , Beatrice Riviere

In this article we develop a new primal dual variational formulation suitable for a large class of non-convex problems in the calculus of variations. The results are obtained through basic tools of convex analysis, duality theory, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-05 Fabio Botelho

We investigate an ultraweak variational formulation for (parameterized) linear differential-algebraic equations (DAEs) w.r.t. the time variable which yields an optimally stable system. This is used within a Petrov-Galerkin method to derive…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-28 Emil Beurer , Moritz Feuerle , Niklas Reich , Karsten Urban

We study gradient flows of general functionals with linear growth with very weak assumptions. Classical results concerning characterisation of solutions require differentiability of the Lagrangian, as for the time-dependent minimal surface…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-19 Wojciech Górny , José M. Mazón

This article establishes a discrete maximum principle (DMP) for the approximate solution of convection-diffusion-reaction problems obtained from the weak Galerkin finite element method on nonuniform rectangular partitions. The DMP analysis…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-09-11 Yujie Liu , Junping Wang

We investigate the relation between pluri-Lagrangian hierarchies of $2$-dimensional partial differential equations and their variational symmetries. The aim is to generalize to the case of partial differential equations the recent findings…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2020-12-17 Matteo Petrera , Mats Vermeeren

At present, deep learning based methods are being employed to resolve the computational challenges of high-dimensional partial differential equations (PDEs). But the computation of the high order derivatives of neural networks is costly,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-17 Quanhui Zhu , Jiang Yang

This paper focuses on the design, analysis and implementation of a new preconditioning concept for linear second order partial differential equations, including the convection-diffusion-reaction problems discretized by Galerkin or…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-04-27 Liya Gaynutdinova , Martin Ladecký , Ivana Pultarová , Miloslav Vlasák , Jan Zeman

We introduce a new family of discontinuous Galerkin (DG) finite element schemes for the discretization of first order systems of hyperbolic partial differential equations (PDE) on unstructured simplex meshes in two and three space…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-20 R. Abgrall , M. Dumbser , P. H. Maire

This paper develops a discontinuous Galerkin (DG) finite element differential calculus theory for approximating weak derivatives of Sobolev functions and piecewise Sobolev functions. By introducing numerical one-sided derivatives as…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-03-06 Xiaobing Feng , Thomas Lewis , Michael Neilan

We present a new analytical and numerical framework for solution of Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) that is based on an exact transformation that moves the boundary constraints into the dynamics of the corresponding governing…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-14 Yulia T. Peet , Matthew M. Peet

We provide a mathematical framework for studying different versions of discontinuous Galerkin (DG) approaches for solving 2D Riemann-Liouville fractional elliptic problems on a finite domain. The boundedness and stability analysis of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-19 Tarek Aboelenen

Discretizing variational principles, as opposed to discretizing differential equations, leads to discrete-time analogues of mechanics, and, systematically, to geometric numerical integrators. The phase space of such variational…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Charles Cuell , George W. Patrick

Multiscale and multiphysics problems need novel numerical methods in order for them to be solved correctly and predictively. To that end, we develop a wavelet based technique to solve a coupled system of nonlinear partial differential…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-22 Cale Harnish , Luke Dalessandro , Karel Matous , Daniel Livescu

We present a new approach to using neural networks to approximate the solutions of variational equations, based on the adaptive construction of a sequence of finite-dimensional subspaces whose basis functions are realizations of a sequence…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Mark Ainsworth , Justin Dong

We propose a new arbitrary high order accurate semi-implicit space-time discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method for the solution of the two and three dimensional compressible Euler and Navier-Stokes equations on staggered unstructured curved…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-05-24 Maurizio Tavelli , Michael Dumbser