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Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-18 Diego S. Rodrigues , Roberto F. Ausas , Fernando Mut , Gustavo C. Buscaglia

A method for the analytical evaluation of layer potentials arising in the collocation boundary element method for the Laplace and Helmholtz equation is developed for piecewise flat boundary elements with polynomial shape functions. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-07 Shoken Kaneko , Nail A. Gumerov , Ramani Duraiswami

We introduce a novel spectral element method based on the ultraspherical spectral method and the hierarchical Poincar\'{e}-Steklov scheme for solving second-order linear partial differential equations on polygonal domains with unstructured…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-19 Daniel Fortunato , Nicholas Hale , Alex Townsend

In recent papers the author introduced a simple alternative to isoparametric finite elements of the n-simplex type, to enhance the accuracy of approximations of second-order boundary value problems with Dirichlet conditions, posed in smooth…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-25 Vitoriano Ruas

Multivariate piecewise polynomial functions (or splines) on polyhedral complexes have been extensively studied over the past decades and find applications in diverse areas of applied mathematics including numerical analysis, approximation…

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A finite element approach for approximating the solution of a mathematical model for the response of a penetrable, bounded object (obstacle) to the excitation by an external electromagnetic field is presented and investigated. The model…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-16 Lutz Angermann

A Galerkin finite element method for the membrane elasticity problem on a meshed surface is constructed by using two-dimensional elements extended into three dimensions. The membrane finite element model is established using the intrinsic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-03-16 Peter Hansbo , Mats G. Larson

This paper is part of a series developing $C^0$ finite element methods for fourth-order elliptic equations on polygonal domains. Here, we investigate how boundary conditions influence the design of effective $C^0$ schemes, specifically…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-05 Xihao Zhang , Hengguang Li , Nianyu Yi , Peimeng Yin

This paper is concerned with finite element approximations of $W^{2,p}$ strong solutions of second-order linear elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs) in non-divergence form with continuous coefficients. A nonstandard (primal)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-13 Xiaobing Feng , Lauren Hennings , Michael Neilan

We propose a novel cut finite element method for the numerical solution of the Biot system of poroelasticity. The Biot system couples elastic deformation of a porous solid with viscous fluid flow and commonly arises on domains with complex…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Nanna Berre , Kent-Andre Mardal , André Massing , Ivan Yotov

A novel finite element framework is proposed for the numerical simulation of two phase flows with surface tension. The Level-Set (LS) method with piece-wise quadratic (P2) interpolation for the liquid-gas interface is used in order to reach…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Modesar Shakoor , Chung Hae Park

The convergence of an adaptive mixed finite element method for general second order linear elliptic problems defined on simply connected bounded polygonal domains is analyzed in this paper. The main difficulties in the analysis are posed by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-02-14 Asha K. Dond , Neela Nataraj , Amiya K. Pani

With the development of multi-layer elastic systems in the field of engineering mechanics, the corresponding variational inequality theory and algorithm design have received more attention and research. In this study, a class of equivalent…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-11 Zhizhuo Zhang , Mikaël Barboteu , Xiaobing Nie , Serge Dumont , Mahmoud Abdel-Aty , Jinde Cao

The paper develops a finite element method for partial differential equations posed on hypersurfaces in $\mathbb{R}^N$, $N=2,3$. The method uses traces of bulk finite element functions on a surface embedded in a volumetric domain. The bulk…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-19 Alexey Y. Chernyshenko , Maxim A. Olshanskii

We study some numerical methods for solving second order elliptic problem with interface. We introduce an immersed interface finite element method based on the `broken' $P_1$-nonconforming piecewise linear polynomials on interface…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2009-11-26 Do Y. Kwak , K. T. Wee

The Reynolds equation, combined with the Elrod algorithm for including the effect of cavitation, resembles a nonlinear convection-diffusion-reaction (CDR) equation. Its solution by finite elements is prone to oscillations in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-12 Hauke Gravenkamp , Simon Pfeil , Ramon Codina

We propose a new three-dimensional formulation based on the mixed Tangential-Displacement Normal-Normal-Stress (TDNNS) method for elasticity. In elastic TDNNS elements, the tangential component of the displacement field and the normal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-28 Astrid Pechstein , Martin Meindlhumer , Alexander Humer

This paper presents a novel spline-based meshing technique that allows for usage of boundary-conforming meshes for unsteady flow and temperature simulations in co-rotating twin-screw extruders. Spline-based descriptions of arbitrary screw…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-19 Jochen Hinz , Jan Helmig , Matthias Möller , Stefanie Elgeti

In [Bonito et al., J. Comput. Phys. (2022)], a local discontinuous Galerkin method was proposed for approximating the large bending of prestrained plates, and in [Bonito et al., IMA J. Numer. Anal. (2023)] the numerical properties of this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-30 Andrea Bonito , Diane Guignard , Angelique Morvant

A family of continuous piecewise linear finite elements for thin plate problems is presented. We use standard linear interpolation of the deflection field to reconstruct a discontinuous piecewise quadratic deflection field. This allows us…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-24 Karl Larsson , Mats G. Larson