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This paper introduces an auto-stabilized weak Galerkin (WG) finite element method for biharmonic equations with built-in stabilizers. Unlike existing stabilizer-free WG methods limited to convex elements in finite element partitions, our…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-11 Chunmei Wang

This paper presents a novel Stabilizer-Free weak Galerkin (WG) finite element method for solving the Brinkman equations without the need for conventional stabilization techniques. The Brinkman model, which mathematically blends features of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-28 Chunmei Wang , Shangyou Zhang

The weak Galerkin (WG) methods have been introduced in the references [11, 16] for solving the biharmonic equation. The purpose of this paper is to develop an algorithm to implement the WG methods effectively. This can be achieved by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-03-01 Lin Mu , Junping Wang , Xiu Ye

This paper introduces and rigorously analyzes a least-squares weak Galerkin (LS-WG) finite element method for the severely ill-posed Cauchy problem associated with the Helmholtz equation. By utilizing a weak Laplacian operator defined on a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-21 Chunmei Wang , Shangyou Zhang

In this work, the authors introduce a generalized weak Galerkin (gWG) finite element method for the time-dependent Oseen equation. The generalized weak Galerkin method is based on a new framework for approximating the gradient operator.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-14 Wenya Qi , Padmanabhan Seshaiyer , Junping Wang

We propose a novel parameter-free and locking-free enriched Galerkin (EG) method for solving the linear elasticity problem in both two and three dimensions. Unlike existing locking-free EG methods, our method enriches the first-order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-26 Shuai Su , Xiurong Yan , Qian Zhang

A new weak Galerkin (WG) finite element method is introduced and analyzed in this paper for the biharmonic equation in its primary form. This method is highly robust and flexible in the element construction by using discontinuous piecewise…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-03-06 Lin Mu , Junping Wang , Xiu Ye

A new primal-dual weak Galerkin (PDWG) finite element method is introduced and analyzed for the ill-posed elliptic Cauchy problems with ultra-low regularity assumptions on the exact solution. The Euler-Lagrange formulation resulting from…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-26 Chunmei Wang

A weak Galerkin (WG) finite element method for solving the stationary Stokes equations in two- or three- dimensional spaces by using discontinuous piecewise polynomials is developed and analyzed. The variational form we considered is based…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-01-22 Ruishu Wang , Xiaoshen Wang , Qilong Zhai , Ran Zhang

This paper introduces a novel weak Galerkin (WG) finite element method for the numerical solution of the Brinkman equations. The Brinkman model, which seamlessly integrates characteristics of both the Stokes and Darcy equations, is employed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-09 Chunmei Wang , Shangyou Zhang

In this paper, authors shall introduce a finite element method by using a weakly defined gradient operator over discontinuous functions with heterogeneous properties. The use of weak gradients and their approximations results in a new…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-11-14 Junping Wang , Xiu Ye

A C^0-weak Galerkin (WG) method is introduced and analyzed for solving the biharmonic equation in 2D and 3D. A weak Laplacian is defined for C^0 functions in the new weak formulation. This WG finite element formulation is symmetric,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-12-04 Lin Mu , Junping Wang , Xiu Ye , Shangyou Zhang

In this article, a weak Galerkin method is firstly presented and analyzed for the quasi-linear elliptic problem of non-monotone type. By using Brouwer's fixed point technique, the existence of WG solution and error estimates in both the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-07 Peng Zhu , Shenglan Xie

In this paper, we extend the work of Brenner and Sung [Math. Comp. 59, 321--338 (1992)] and present a regularity estimate for the elastic equations in concave domains. Based on the regularity estimate we prove that the constants in the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-21 Hai Bi , Xuqing Zhang , Yidu Yang

Weak Galerkin (WG) refers to general finite element methods for partial differential equations in which differential operators are approximated by weak forms through the usual integration by parts. In particular, WG methods allow the use of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-11-04 Lin Mu , Junping Wang , Xiu Ye , Shan Zhao

In this paper we propose a penalized Crouzeix-Raviart element method for eigenvalue problems of second order elliptic operators. The key idea is to add a penalty term to tune the local approximation property and the global continuity…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-16 Jun Hu , Limin Ma

This article introduces a simple weak Galerkin (WG) finite element method for solving convection-diffusion-reaction equation. The proposed method offers significant flexibility by supporting discontinuous approximating functions on general…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-06 Chunmei Wang , Shangyou Zhang

This article develops a weak Galerkin least-squares (WG--LS) finite element method for first-order linear convection equations in non-divergence form. The method is formulated using discontinuous finite element functions and does not…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-05 Chunmei Wang , Shangyou Zhang

In this article a simplified weak Galerkin finite element method is developed for the Dirichlet boundary value problem of convection-diffusion-reaction equations. The simplified weak Galerkin method utilizes only the degrees of freedom on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-29 Yujie Liu , Junping Wang

Weak Galerkin methods refer to general finite element methods for PDEs in which differential operators are approximated by their weak forms as distributions. Such weak forms give rise to desirable flexibilities in enforcing boundary and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-06-10 Lin Mu , Junping Wang , Guowei Wei , Xiu Ye , Shan Zhao