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We present a new approach for boundary integral equations for the wave equation with zero initial conditions. Unlike previous attempts, our mathematical formulation allows us to prove that the associated boundary integral operators are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-17 Olaf Steinbach , Carolina Urzúa-Torres

Acoustic emission or scattering problems naturally involve uncertainties about the sound sources or boundary conditions. This article initiates the study of time domain boundary elements for such stochastic boundary problems for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-23 Heiko Gimperlein , Fabian Meyer , Ceyhun Özdemir

We consider finite element discretizations of Maxwell's equations coupled with a non-local hydrodynamic Drude model that accurately accounts for electron motions in metallic nanostructures. Specifically, we focus on a posteriori error…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-08-04 T. Chaumont-Frelet , S. Lanteri , P. Vega

This paper details the development and application of an $h$-adaptive finite element method for the numerical solution of the \textit{Falkner-Skan equation}. A posteriori error estimation governs the adaptivity of the mesh, specifically the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-06 B. Veena S. N. Rao

We propose and analyze a general framework for space-time finite element methods that is based on least-squares finite element methods for solving a first-order reformulation of the thick parabolic obstacle problem. Discretizations based on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-12 José Joaquín Carvajal , Davood Damircheli , Thomas Führer , Francisco Fuica , Michael Karkulik

Algorithms that promise to leverage resources of quantum computers efficiently to accelerate the finite element method have emerged. However, the finite element method is usually incorporated into a high-level numerical scheme which allows…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-03 Elise Fressart , Michel Nowak , Nicole Spillane

The use of adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) techniques is crucial for accurate and efficient simulation of higher dimensional spacetimes. In this work we develop an adaptive algorithm tailored to the integration of finite difference…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Frans Pretorius , Luis Lehner

While the exterior Helmholtz problem with Dirichlet boundary conditions is always well-posed, the associated standard boundary integral equations are not if the squared wavenumber agrees with an eigenvalue of the interior Dirichlet problem.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-19 Théophile Chaumont-Frelet , Gregor Gantner

This article is concerned with the numerical solution of convex variational problems. More precisely, we develop an iterative minimisation technique which allows for the successive enrichment of an underlying discrete approximation space in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-07-07 Paul Houston , Thomas P. Wihler

We consider an interface problem often arising in transport problems: a coupled system of partial differential equations with one (elliptic) transport equation on a bounded domain and one equation (in this case the Laplace problem) on the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-05-24 Christoph Erath , Robert Schorr

A posteriori upper and lower bounds are derived for the linear finite element method (FEM) for the Helmholtz equation with large wave number. It is proved rigorously that the standard residual type error estimator seriously underestimates…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-10-25 Songyao Duan , Haijun Wu

In this paper, we recast the variational formulation corresponding to the single layer boundary integral operator $\operatorname{V}$ for the wave equation as a minimization problem in $L^2(\Sigma)$, where $\Sigma := \partial \Omega \times…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-21 Daniel Hoonhout , Richard Löscher , Olaf Steinbach , Carolina Urzúa-Torres

This is a study of certain finite element methods designed for convection-dominated, time-dependent partial differential equations. Specifically, we analyze high order space-time tensor product finite element discretizations, used in a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-10-30 Randolph E. Bank , Maximilian S. Metti

Acoustic wave propagation through a homogeneous material embedded in an unbounded medium can be formulated as a boundary integral equation and accurately solved with the boundary element method. The computational efficiency deteriorates at…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-21 Elwin van 't Wout

A fully implicit numerical approach based on the space-time finite element method is implemented for the semilinear wave equation in 1(space) + 1(time) and 2 + 1 dimensions to explore critical collapse and search for self-similar solutions.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-05-19 Hyun Lim , Matthew Anderson , Jung-Han Kimn

We present a space-time virtual element method for the discretization of the heat equation, which is defined on general prismatic meshes and variable degrees of accuracy. Strategies to handle efficiently the space-time mesh structure are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-13 Sergio Gómez , Lorenzo Mascotto , Ilaria Perugia

$L^2$ norm error estimates of semi- and full discretisations, using bulk--surface finite elements and Runge--Kutta methods, of wave equations with dynamic boundary conditions are studied. The analysis resides on an abstract formulation and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-06-28 David Hipp , Balázs Kovács

We present a novel energy-based numerical analysis of semilinear diffusion-reaction boundary value problems. Based on a suitable variational setting, the proposed computational scheme can be seen as an energy minimisation approach. More…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-16 Mario Amrein , Pascal Heid , Thomas P. Wihler

The paper presents a numerical study for the finite element method with anisotropic meshes. We compare the accuracy of the numerical solutions on quasi-uniform, isotropic, and anisotropic meshes for a test problem which combines several…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-11-20 Weizhang Huang , Lennard Kamenski , Jens Lang

In this paper, we present the numerical solution of two-phase flow problems of engineering significance with a space-time finite element method that allows for local temporal refinement. Our basis is the method presented in [3], which…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2019-03-22 Violeta Karyofylli , Markus Frings , Stefanie Elgeti , Marek Behr