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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 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

This paper is concerned with the development of weak Galerkin (WG) finite element method for optimal control problems governed by second order elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs). It is advantageous to use discontinuous finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-03 Chunmei Wang , Junping Wang , Shangyou Zhang

This paper introduces a numerical scheme for time harmonic Maxwell's equations by using weak Galerkin (WG) finite element methods. The WG finite element method is based on two operators: discrete weak curl and discrete weak gradient, with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-12-10 Lin Mu , Junping Wang , Xiu Ye , Shangyou Zhang

This paper introduces a weak Galerkin (WG) finite element method for the Stokes equations in the primary velocity-pressure formulation. This WG method is equipped with stable finite elements consisting of usual polynomials of degree $k\ge…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-02-13 Junping Wang , Xiu Ye

This paper presents a weak Galerkin (WG) finite element method for linear elasticity on general polygonal and polyhedral meshes, free from convexity constraints, by leveraging bubble functions as central analytical tools. The proposed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-28 Chunmei Wang , Shangyou Zhang

This paper introduces an auto-stabilized weak Galerkin (WG) finite element method with a built-in stabilizer for Poisson equations. By utilizing bubble functions as a key analytical tool, our method extends to both convex and non-convex…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-23 Chunmei Wang

In this paper, we present and analyze a weak Galerkin finite element (WG) method for solving the symmetric hyperbolic systems. This method is highly flexible by allowing the use of discontinuous finite elements on element and its boundary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-24 Tie Zhang , Shangyou Zhang

This article introduces a weak Galerkin (WG) finite element method for quad-curl problems in three dimensions. It is proved that the proposed WG method is stable and accurate in an optimal order of error estimates for the exact solution in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-01 Chunmei Wang , Junping Wang , Shangyou Zhang

A stabilizing/penalty term is often used in finite element methods with discontinuous approximations to enforce connection of discontinuous functions across element boundaries. Removing stabilizers from discontinuous finite element methods…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-15 Xiu Ye , Shangyou Zhang

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 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

We present a weak finite element method for elliptic problems in one space dimension. Our analysis shows that this method has more advantages than the known weak Galerkin method proposed for multi-dimensional problems, for example, it has…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-06-29 Tie Zhang , Yanli Chen

A new stabilizer free weak Galerkin (WG) method is introduced and analyzed for the biharmonic equation. Stabilizing/penalty terms are often necessary in the finite element formulations with discontinuous approximations to ensure the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-23 Xiu Ye , 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

We propose a boundary-corrected weak Galerkin mixed finite element method for solving elliptic interface problems in 2D domains with curved interfaces. The method is formulated on body-fitted polygonal meshes, where interface edges are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-06 Yongli Hou , Yi Liu , Yanqiu Wang

This paper presents an efficient weak Galerkin (WG) finite element method with reduced stabilizers for solving the time-harmonic Maxwell equations on both convex and non-convex polyhedral meshes. By employing bubble functions as a critical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-29 Chunmei Wang , Shangyou Zhang

This paper presents a generalized weak Galerkin (gWG) finite element method for linear elasticity problems on general polygonal and polyhedral meshes. The proposed framework is flexible and efficient, allowing for the use of nonpolynomial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Junping Wang , Yue Wang

In this paper, the weak Galerkin finite element method for second order elliptic problems employing polygonal or polyhedral meshes with arbitrary small edges or faces was analyzed. With the shape regular assumptions, optimal convergence…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-07-24 Qingguang Guan

This article proposes a novel least-squares weak Galerkin (LS-WG) method for second-order elliptic equations in non-divergence form. The approach leverages a locally defined discrete weak Hessian operator constructed within the weak…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Chunmei Wang , Shangyou Zhang