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This paper analyzes a space-time finite element method for fractional wave problems. The method uses a Petrov-Galerkin type time-stepping scheme to discretize the time fractional derivative of order $ \gamma $ ($1<\gamma<2$). We establish…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-03-12 Binjie Li , Hao Luo , Xiaoping Xie

In this paper we study the finite element approximation of systems of second-order nonlinear hyperbolic equations. The proposed numerical method combines a $hp$-version discontinuous Galerkin finite element approximation in the time…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-02 Aili Shao

A new finite element method with discontinuous approximation is introduced for solving second order elliptic problem. Since this method combines the features of both conforming finite element method and discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-04-09 Xiu Ye , Shangyou Zhang

In this work, we introduce a new space-time variational formulation of the second-order wave equation, where integration by parts is also applied with respect to the time variable, and a modified Hilbert transformation is used. For this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-09 Richard Löscher , Olaf Steinbach , Marco Zank

This paper generalizes the earlier work on the energy-based discontinuous Galerkin method for second-order wave equations to fourth-order semilinear wave equations. We first rewrite the problem into a system with a second-order spatial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-25 Lu Zhang

This paper presents a fully discrete numerical scheme for one-dimensional nonlocal wave equations and provides a rigorous theoretical analysis. To facilitate the spatial discretization, we introduce an auxiliary variable analogous to the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-15 Qiang Du , Kui Ren , Lu Zhang , Yin Zhou

A novel space-time discretization for the (linear) scalar-valued dissipative wave equation is presented. It is a structured approach, namely, the discretization space is obtained tensorizing the Virtual Element (VE) discretization in space…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-31 Paola Francesca Antonietti , Francesca Bonizzoni , Marco Verani

Time-dependent Maxwell's equations govern electromagnetics. Under certain conditions, we can rewrite these equations into a partial differential equation of second order, which in this case is the vectorial wave equation. For the vectorial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-27 Julia I. M. Hauser , Marco Zank

A discontinuous Galerkin (DG) scheme for solving semilinear elliptic problem is developed and analyzed in this paper. The DG finite element discretizations are established, and the corresponding existence and uniqueness theorem is proved by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-27 Jiajun Zhan , Liuqiang Zhong , Jie Peng

We study a space-time finite element approach for the nonhomogeneous wave equation using a continuous time Galerkin method. We present fully implicit examples in 1+1, 2+1, and 3+1 dimensions using linear quadrilateral, hexahedral, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Matthew Anderson , Jung-Han Kimn

We consider a system of second order non-linear elliptic partial differential equations that models the equilibrium configurations of a two dimensional planar bistable nematic liquid crystal device. Discontinuous Galerkin finite element…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-05-29 Ruma Rani Maity , Apala Majumdar , Neela Nataraj

This work introduces finite element methods for a class of elliptic fully nonlinear partial differential equations. They are based on a minimal residual principle that builds upon the Alexandrov--Bakelman--Pucci estimate. Under rather…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-03 Dietmar Gallistl , Ngoc Tien Tran

We consider the Serre system of equations which is a nonlinear dispersive system that models two-way propagation of long waves of not necessarily small amplitude on the surface of an ideal fluid in a channel. We discretize in space the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-01-04 Dimitrios Antonopoulos , Vassilios Dougalis , Dimitrios Mitsotakis

We introduce and analyze a post-processing for a family of variational space-time approximations to wave problems. The discretization in space and time is based on continuous finite element methods. The post-processing lifts the fully…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-03-09 Markus Bause , Uwe Köcher , Florin A. Radu , Friedhelm Schieweck

We develop a convergence theory of space-time discretizations for the linear, 2nd-order wave equation in polygonal domains $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^2$, possibly occupied by piecewise homogeneous media with different propagation speeds.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-29 Pratyuksh Bansal , Andrea Moiola , Ilaria Perugia , Christoph Schwab

We consider the initial/boundary value problem for a diffusion equation involving multiple time-fractional derivatives on a bounded convex polyhedral domain. We analyze a space semidiscrete scheme based on the standard Galerkin finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-18 Bangti Jin , Raytcho Lazarov , Yikan Liu , Zhi Zhou

We propose a novel non-iterative domain decomposition time integrator for acoustic wave equations using a discontinuous Galerkin discretization in space. It is based on a local Crank-Nicolson approximation combined with a suitable local…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-10 Tim Buchholz , Marlis Hochbruck

This article presents a new primal-dual weak Galerkin method for second order elliptic equations in non-divergence form. The new method is devised as a constrained $L^p$-optimization problem with constraints that mimic the second order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-08 Waixiang Cao , Junping Wang , Yuesheng Xu

The classical arguments employed when obtaining error estimates of Finite Element (FE) discretisations of elliptic problems lead to more restrictive assumptions on the regularity of the exact solution when applied to non-conforming methods.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-25 J. Blechta , P. A. Gazca-Orozco , A. Kaltenbach , M. Růžička

We develop and study a time-space discrete discontinuous Galerkin finite elements method to approximate the solution of one-dimensional nonlinear wave equations. We show that the numerical scheme is stable if a nonuniform time mesh is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-04-07 Asma Azaiez , Mondher Benjemaa , Aida Jrajria , Hatem Zaag