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The MFEM (Modular Finite Element Methods) library is a high-performance C++ library for finite element discretizations. MFEM supports numerous types of finite element methods and is the discretization engine powering many computational…

We consider the application of finite element exterior calculus (FEEC) methods to a class of canonical Hamiltonian PDE systems involving differential forms. Solutions to these systems satisfy a local multisymplectic conservation law, which…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-02 Ari Stern , Enrico Zampa

We develop a family of finite element spaces of differential forms defined on cubical meshes in any number of dimensions. The family contains elements of all polynomial degrees and all form degrees. In two dimensions, these include the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-13 Douglas N. Arnold , Gerard Awanou

Finite element methods provide accurate and efficient methods for the numerical solution of partial differential equations by means of restricting variational problems to finite-dimensional approximating spaces. However, they do not…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-24 Robert C. Kirby , John D. Stephens

We present a framework to solve non-linear eigenvalue problems suitable for a Finite Element discretization. The implementation is based on the open-source finite element software GetDP and the open-source library SLEPc. As template…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-12-24 Guillaume Demésy , André Nicolet , Boris Gralak , Christophe Geuzaine , Carmen Campos , Jose E. Roman

We revise the finite element formulation for Lagrange, Raviart- Thomas, and Taylor-Hood finite element spaces. We solve Laplace equation in first and second order formulation, and compare the solutions obtained with Lagrange and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-01 Felipe Cruz

We are interested in the numerical reconstruction of a vector field with prescribed divergence and curl in a general domain of R 3 or R 2 , not necessarily contractible. To this aim, we introduce some basic concepts of finite element…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-19 Pascal Azerad , Marien-Lorenzo Hanot

This document summarizes the main concepts of the finite element (FE) theory and constitutive relations as implemented in the open-source code phase-field multiphysics materials simulator PHIMATS https://github.com/ahcomat/PHIMATS. PHIMATS…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-15 Abdelrahman Hussein

We discuss the construction of finite element spaces of differential forms which satisfy the crucial assumptions of the finite element exterior calculus, namely that they can be assembled into subcomplexes of the de Rham complex which admit…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-01-29 Douglas N. Arnold

In a 1988 article, Dziuk introduced a nodal finite element method for the Laplace-Beltrami equation on 2-surfaces approximated by a piecewise-linear triangulation, initiating a line of research into surface finite element methods (SFEM).…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-04-09 Michael Holst , Adam Mihalik , Ryan Szypowski

We introduce \texttt{featom}, an open source code that implements a high-order finite element solver for the radial Schr\"odinger, Dirac, and Kohn-Sham equations. The formulation accommodates various mesh types, such as uniform or…

We prove convergence and stability of the discrete exterior calculus (DEC) solutions for the Hodge-Laplace problems in two dimensions for families of meshes that are non-degenerate Delaunay and shape regular. We do this by relating the DEC…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Chengbin Zhu , Snorre H. Christiansen , Kaibo Hu , Anil N. Hirani

The finite element method can be viewed as a machine that automates the discretization of differential equations, taking as input a variational problem, a finite element and a mesh, and producing as output a system of discrete equations.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-12-05 Anders Logg

In 2006, Arnold, Falk, and Winther developed finite element exterior calculus, using the language of differential forms to generalize the Lagrange, Raviart--Thomas, Brezzi--Douglas--Marini, and N\'ed\'elec finite element spaces for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-24 Yakov Berchenko-Kogan

In this paper, we propose a new ensemble of rateless forward error correction (FEC) codes. The proposed codes are serially concatenated codes with Reed-Solomon (RS) codes as outer codes and Kite codes as inner codes. The inner Kite codes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-04-27 Xiao Ma , Kai Zhang , Baoming Bai , Xiaoyi Zhang

We introduce the cut finite element method in the language of finite element exterior calculus, by formulating a stabilisation -- for any form degree -- that makes the method robust with respect to the position of the interface relative to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-17 Daniele Di Pietro , Jérôme Droniou , Erik Nilsson

Irksome is a library based on the Unified Form Language (UFL) that automates the application of Runge-Kutta time-stepping methods for finite element spatial discretizations of partial differential equations (PDEs). This paper describes…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-29 Robert C. Kirby , Scott P. MacLachlan , Pablo D. Brubeck

Partial differential equations (PDEs) are used to describe a variety of physical phenomena. Often these equations do not have analytical solutions and numerical approximations are used instead. One of the common methods to solve PDEs is the…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Ivan Yashchuk

We show how the high order finite element spaces of differential forms due to Raviart-Thomas-N\'edelec-Hiptmair fit into the framework of finite element systems, in an elaboration of the finite element exterior calculus of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-07-01 Snorre Harald Christiansen , Francesca Rapetti

Conventionally, piecewise polynomials have been used in the boundary elements method (BEM) to approximate unknown boundary values. Since infinitely smooth radial basis functions (RBFs) are more stable and accurate than the polynomials for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-13 Hossein Hosseinzadeh , Zeinab Sedaghatjoo