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In this article, mixed finite element methods are discussed for a class of hyperbolic integro-differential equations (HIDEs). Based on a modification of the nonstandard energy formulation of Baker, both semidiscrete and completely discrete…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-01-22 Samir Karaa , Amiya K. Pani

This paper establishes optimal error estimates in the $L^2$ for the non-symmetric Nitsche method in an unfitted interface finite element setting. Extending our earlier work, we give a complete analysis for the Poisson interface model and,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-15 Gang Chen , Chaoran Liu , Yangwen Zhang

We introduce a framework for the design of finite element methods for two-dimensional moving boundary problems with prescribed boundary evolution that have arbitrarily high order of accuracy, both in space and in time. At the core of our…

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We show, in one dimension, that an $hp$-Finite Element Method ($hp$-FEM) discretisation can be solved in optimal complexity because the discretisation has a special sparsity structure that ensures that the reverse Cholesky factorisation…

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We present a stability and convergence analysis of the space-time continuous finite element method for the Hamiltonian formulation of the wave equation. More precisely, we prove a continuous dependence of the discrete solution on the data…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-18 Sergio Gómez

This work investigates finite element approximations for a general class of elliptic hemivariational inequalities arising in semipermeable media. The proposed model incorporates non-isotropic and heterogeneous diffusion coefficients,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Ban Li , Bangmin Wu

For a family of systems of linear elasticity with rapidly oscillating periodic coefficients, we establish sharp boundary estimates with either Dirichlet or Neumann conditions, uniform down to the microscopic scale, without smoothness…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-07-23 Zhongwei Shen

In this article we study adaptive finite element methods (AFEM) with inexact solvers for a class of semilinear elliptic interface problems. We are particularly interested in nonlinear problems with discontinuous diffusion coefficients, such…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-24 Michael Holst , Ryan Szypowski , Yunrong Zhu

We consider an initial/boundary value problem for one-dimensional fractional-order parabolic equations with a space fractional derivative of Riemann-Liouville type and order $\alpha\in (1,2)$. We study a spatial semidiscrete scheme with the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-10-02 Bangti Jin , Raytcho Lazarov , Joseph Pasciak , Zhi Zhou

We propose an unfitted finite element method for numerically solving the time-harmonic Maxwell equations on a smooth domain. The model problem involves a Lagrangian multiplier to relax the divergence constraint of the vector unknown. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-13 Fanyi Yang , Xiaoping Xie

We consider finite element approximations of ill-posed elliptic problems with conditional stability. The notion of {\emph{optimal error estimates}} is defined including both convergence with respect to mesh parameter and perturbations in…

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This paper concerns the inclusion of Newton's method into an adaptive finite element method (FEM) for the solution of nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs). It features an adaptive choice of the damping parameter in the Newton…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-23 Philipp Bringmann , Maximilian Brunner , Dirk Praetorius

The oversampling multiscale finite element method (MsFEM) is one of the most popular methods for simulating composite materials and flows in porous media which may have many scales. But the method may be inapplicable or inefficient in some…

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A refined a priori error analysis of the lowest order (linear) Virtual Element Method (VEM) is developed for approximating a model two dimensional Poisson problem. A set of new geometric assumptions is proposed on shape regularity of…

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A finite element method (FEM) for solving the complex valued k({\omega}) vs. {\omega} dispersion curve of a 3D metamaterial/photonic crystal system is presented. This 3D method is a generalization of a previously reported 2D eigenvalue…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-28 Chris Fietz , Yaroslav Urzhumov , Gennady Shvets

A generalized finite element method is proposed for solving a heterogeneous reaction-diffusion equation with a singular perturbation parameter $\varepsilon$, based on locally approximating the solution on each subdomain by solution of a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-25 Chupeng Ma , Jens Markus Melenk

We consider scalar semilinear elliptic PDEs, where the nonlinearity is strongly monotone, but only locally Lipschitz continuous. To linearize the arising discrete nonlinear problem, we employ a damped Zarantonello iteration, which leads to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-13 Maximilian Brunner , Dirk Praetorius , Julian Streitberger

The paper develops and analyzes a higher-order unfitted finite element method for the incompressible Stokes equations, which yields a strongly divergence-free velocity field up to the physical boundary. The method combines an isoparametric…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Michael Neilan , Maxim Olshanskii , Henry von Wahl

In this paper, the generalized finite element method (GFEM) for solving second order elliptic equations with rough coefficients is studied. New optimal local approximation spaces for GFEMs based on local eigenvalue problems involving a…

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