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We propose a numerical method to approximate the solution of second order elliptic problems in nonvariational form. The method is of Galerkin type using conforming finite elements and applied directly to the nonvariational (nondivergence)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-05-19 Omar Lakkis , Tristan Pryer

We describe a compatible finite element discretisation for the shallow water equations on the rotating sphere, concentrating on integrating consistent upwind stabilisation into the framework. Although the prognostic variables are velocity…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-17 J. Shipton , T. H. Gibson , C. J. Cotter

The semilinear stochastic wave equation on the sphere driven by multiplicative Gaussian noise is discretized by a stochastic trigonometric integrator in time and a spectral Galerkin approximation in space based on the spherical harmonic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-03 David Cohen , Stefano Di Giovacchino , Annika Lang

We present improved $L^2$-error estimates on the time-integrated primal variable for the wave equation in its first-order formulation. The space discretization relies on a hybrid nonconforming method, such as the hybridizable discontinuous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Bernardo Cockburn , Alexandre Ern , Rekha Khot

Error estimates are proved for finite element approximations to the solution of second-order hyperbolic partial differential equations with coefficients varying in both space and time. Optimal rates of convergence in the energy norm are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Oussama Al Jarroudi , Marcus J. Grote

We consider a simple initial-boundary-value problem for the shallow water equations in one space dimension, and also the analogous problem for a symmetric variant of the system. Assuming smoothness of solutions, we discretize these problems…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-11-26 D. C. Antonopoulos , V. A. Dougalis

We generalize the energy-based discontinuous Galerkin method proposed in [SIAM J. Num. Anal., 53(6):2705-2726, 2015.] to second-order semilinear wave equations. A stability and convergence analysis is presented along with numerical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-15 Daniel Appelo , Thomas Hagstrom , Qi Wang , Lu Zhang

In this work, we present a new high order Discontinuous Galerkin time integration scheme for second-order (in time) differential systems that typically arise from the space discretization of the elastodynamics equation. By rewriting the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-06 Paola F. Antonietti , Ilario Mazzieri , Francesco Migliorini

We consider a semilinear parabolic equation with a large class of nonlinearities without any growth conditions. We discretize the problem with a discontinuous Galerkin scheme dG(0) in time (which is a variant of the implicit Euler scheme)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-17 Dominik Meidner , Boris Vexler

We propose a meshless conservative Galerkin method for solving Hamiltonian wave equations. We first discretize the equation in space using radial basis functions in a Galerkin-type formulation. Differ from the traditional RBF Galerkin…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-20 Zhengjie Sun , Leevan Ling

In this paper, we use an implicit two-derivative deferred correction time discretization approach and combine it with a spatial discretization of the discontinuous Galerkin spectral element method to solve (non-)linear PDEs. The resulting…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-13 Jonas Zeifang , Jochen Schuetz

We present a full space-time numerical solution of the advection-diffusion equation using a continuous Galerkin finite element method on conforming meshes. The Galerkin/least-square method is employed to ensure stability of the discrete…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-25 Biswajit Khara , Kumar Saurabh , Robert Dyja , Anupam Sharma , Baskar Ganapathysubramanian

A general analysis framework is presented in this paper for many different types of finite element methods (including various discontinuous Galerkin methods). For second order elliptic equation, this framework employs $4$ different…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-03 Qingguo Hong , Shuonan Wu , Jinchao Xu

A wide variety of (fixed-point) iterative methods for the solution of nonlinear equations (in Hilbert spaces) exists. In many cases, such schemes can be interpreted as iterative local linearization methods, which, as will be shown, can be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-16 Pascal Heid , Thomas P. Wihler

In this paper, we consider a semi-linear stochastic strongly damped wave equation driven by additive Gaussian noise. Following a semigroup framework, we establish existence, uniqueness and space-time regularity of a mild solution to such…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-10 Ruisheng Qi , Xiaojie Wang

This paper introduces new discretization schemes for time-harmonic Maxwell equations in a connected domain by using the weak Galerkin (WG) finite element method. The corresponding WG algorithms are analyzed for their stability and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-10-17 Chunmei Wang

We analyze Galerkin discretizations of a new well-posed mixed space-time variational formulation of parabolic PDEs. For suitable pairs of finite element trial spaces, the resulting Galerkin operators are shown to be uniformly stable. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-07 Rob Stevenson , Jan Westerdiep

This article proposes a new numerical algorithm for second order elliptic equations in non-divergence form. The new method is based on a discrete weak Hessian operator locally constructed by following the weak Galerkin strategy. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-10-14 Chunmei Wang , Junping Wang

Certain energy-conservative Galerkin discretizations for nonlinear dispersive wave equations have revealed an unusual convergence behavior: optimal convergence is attained when continuous Lagrange finite element spaces of odd polynomial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-25 Dimitrios Antonopoulos , Dimitrios Mitsotakis

In this paper we investigate a priori error estimates for the space-time Galerkin finite element discretization of an optimal control problem governed by a simplified linear gradient enhanced damage model. The model equations are of a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-10 Marita Holtmannspötter , Arnd Rösch , Boris Vexler