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The paper introduces an adaptive version of the stabilized Trace Finite Element Method (TraceFEM) designed to solve low-regularity elliptic problems on level-set surfaces using a shape-regular bulk mesh in the embedding space. Two…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-21 Timo Heister , Maxim A. Olshanskii , Vladimir Yushutin

We consider linear reaction-diffusion equations posed on unbounded domains, and discretized by adaptive Lagrange finite elements. To obtain finite-dimensional spaces, it is necessary to introduce a truncation boundary, whereby only a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-13 Théophile Chaumont-Frelet , Gregor Gantner

In this paper we propose a nonconforming finite element method for the solution of the ill-posed elliptic Cauchy problem. We prove error estimates using continuous dependence estimates in the $L^2$-norm. The effect of perturbations in data…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-06-18 Erik Burman

We construct four variants of space-time finite element discretizations based on linear tensor-product and simplex-type finite elements. The resulting discretizations are continuous in space, and continuous or discontinuous in time. In a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-05 Max von Danwitz , Igor Voulis , Norbert Hosters , Marek Behr

We consider a prototypical parabolic SPDE with finite-dimensional multiplicative noise, which, subject to a nonnegative initial datum, has a unique nonnegative solution. Inspired by well-established techniques in the deterministic case, we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-10 Ana Djurdjevac , Claude Le Bris , Endre Süli

In the present work, we derive functional upper bounds for the potential error arising from finite-element boundary-element coupling formulations for a nonlinear Poisson-type transmission problem. The proposed a posteriori error estimates…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Alexander Freiszlinger , Dirk Pauly , Dirk Praetorius , Michael Schomburg

In this paper, we present a novel framework for deriving the evolution equation of the level set function in topology optimization, departing from conventional Hamilton-Jacobi based formulations. The key idea is the introduction of an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-09 Jan Oellerich , Takayuki Yamada

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

We construct a space-time parallel method for solving parabolic partial differential equations by coupling the Parareal algorithm in time with overlapping domain decomposition in space. The goal is to obtain a discretization consisting of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-17 Jehanzeb Chaudhry , Donald Estep , Simon Tavener

This work presents and analyzes space-time finite element methods on fully unstructured simplicial space-time meshes for the numerical solution of parabolic optimal control problems. Using Babu\v{s}ka's theorem, we show well-posedness of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-07 Ulrich Langer , Olaf Steinbach , Fredi Tröltzsch , Huidong Yang

The paper studies a higher order unfitted finite element method for the Stokes system posed on a surface in three-dimensional space. The method employs generalized Taylor-Hood finite element pairs on tetrahedral bulk mesh to discretize the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-17 Thomas Jankuhn , Maxim A. Olshanskii , Arnold Reusken , Alexander Zhiliakov

We present a new high order finite element method for the discretization of partial differential equations on stationary smooth surfaces which are implicitly described as the zero level of a level set function. The discretization is based…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-04-17 Jörg Grande , Christoph Lehrenfeld , Arnold Reusken

In this work, we mainly present the optimal convergence rates of the temporally second-order finite element scheme for solving the electrohydrodynamic equation. Suffering from the highly coupled nonlinearity, the convergence analysis of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-06 Shengfeng Wang , Zeyu Xia , Maojun Li

We introduce an arbitrary order, stabilized finite element method for solving a unique continuation problem subject to the time-harmonic elastic wave equation with variable coefficients. Based on conditional stability estimates we prove…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-04-25 Erik Burman , Janosch Preuss

We consider convection-diffusion problems in time-dependent domains and present a space-time finite element method based on quadrature in time which is simple to implement and avoids remeshing procedures as the domain is moving. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-07-25 Sara Zahedi

In this work we develop and analyze an adaptive finite element method for efficiently solving electrical impedance tomography -- a severely ill-posed nonlinear inverse problem for recovering the conductivity from boundary voltage…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-05-16 Bangti Jin , Yifeng Xu , Jun Zou

We consider the harmonic map heat flow problem for a corotational case. For discretization of this problem we apply a $H^1$-conforming finite element method in space combined with a semi-implicit Euler time stepping. The semi-implicit Euler…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-22 Nam Anh Nguyen , Arnold Reusken

This paper aims first at a simultaneous axiomatic presentation of the proof of optimal convergence rates for adaptive finite element methods and second at some refinements of particular questions like the avoidance of (discrete) lower…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-03-14 Carsten Carstensen , Michael Feischl , Marcus Page , Dirk Praetorius

This paper deals with bounding the error on the estimation of quantities of interest obtained by finite element and domain decomposition methods. The proposed bounds are written in order to separate the two errors involved in the resolution…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-02-11 Valentine Rey , Pierre Gosselet , Christian Rey

PDE-constrained optimal control problems require regularisation to ensure well-posedness, introducing small perturbations that make the solutions challenging to approximate accurately. We propose a finite element approach that couples both…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-17 Jenny Power , Tristan Pryer