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We study a model of scalar quantum field theory in which space-time is a discrete set of points obtained by repeatedly subdividing a triangle into three triangles at the centroid. By integrating out the field variable at the centroid we get…

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We study a higher-order surface finite element (SFEM) penalty-based discretization of the tangential surface Stokes problem. Several discrete formulations are investigated which are equivalent in the continuous setting. The impact of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-11 Hanne Hardering , Simon Praetorius

This paper addresses the analysis and numerical assessment of a computational method for solving the Cahn--Hilliard equation defined on a surface. The proposed approach combines the stabilized trace finite element method for spatial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-27 Deepika Garg , Maxim Olshanskii

We introduce and analyse a fully discrete approximation for a mathematical model for the solidification and liquidation of materials of negligible specific heat. The model is a two-sided Mullins--Sekerka problem. The discretization uses…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-06 Robert Nürnberg

In this work, we consider unfitted finite element methods for the numerical approximation of the Stokes problem. It is well-known that this kind of methods lead to arbitrarily ill-conditioned systems. In order to solve this issue, we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-30 Santiago Badia , Alberto F. Martín , Francesc Verdugo

We consider an inverse problem for the linear one-dimensional wave equation with variable coefficients consisting in determining an unknown source term from a boundary observation. A method to obtain approximations of this inverse problem…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-22 Carlos Castro , Sorin Micu

A family of implicit-in-time mixed finite element schemes is presented for the numerical approximation of the acoustic wave equation. The mixed space discretization is based on the displacement form of the wave equation and the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-04-17 Samir Karaa

This article takes the form of a tutorial on the use of a particular class of mixed finite element methods, which can be thought of as the finite element extension of the C-grid staggered finite difference method. The class is often…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-01-06 C. J. Cotter , A. T. T. McRae

As fractional diffusion equations can describe the early breakthrough and the heavy-tail decay features observed in anomalous transport of contaminants in groundwater and porous soil, they have been commonly employed in the related…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-04-11 HongGuang Sun , Wen Chen , K. Y. Sze

We consider the numerical approximation of a continuum model of antiferromagnetic and ferrimagnetic materials. The state of the material is described in terms of two unit-length vector fields, which can be interpreted as the magnetizations…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-11 Hywel Normington , Michele Ruggeri

We present a new high order finite element method for the discretization of partial differential equations on stationary smooth surfaces which are implicitly described as the zero level of a level set function. The discretization is based…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-04-17 Jörg Grande , Christoph Lehrenfeld , Arnold Reusken

Methods for discretizing port-Hamiltonian systems are of interest both for simulation and control purposes. Despite the large literature on mixed finite elements, no rigorous analysis of the connections between mixed elements and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-09 Andrea Brugnoli , Daniel Alazard , Valérie Pommier-Budinger , Denis Matignon

A finite element methodology for large classes of variational boundary value problems is defined which involves discretizing two linear operators: (1) the differential operator defining the spatial boundary value problem; and (2) a Riesz…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-08 Brendan Keith , Socratis Petrides , Federico Fuentes , Leszek Demkowicz

We derive and analyze a broad class of finite element methods for numerically simulating the stationary, low Reynolds number flow of concentrated mixtures of several distinct chemical species in a common thermodynamic phase. The underlying…

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A mass-conservative high-order unfitted finite element method for convection-diffusion equations in evolving domains is proposed. The space-time method presented in [P. Hansbo, M. G. Larson, S. Zahedi, Comput. Methods Appl. Mech. Engrg. 307…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-01 Sebastian Myrbäck , Sara Zahedi

High-order spatial discretisations and full discretisations of parabolic partial differential equations on evolving surfaces are studied. We prove convergence of the high-order evolving surface finite element method, by showing high-order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-06-24 Balázs Kovács

Finite Element discretizations of coupled multi-physics partial differential equation models require the handling of composed function spaces. In this paper we discuss software concepts and abstractions to handle the composition of function…

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In this paper, we review and systematically compare three finite element discretization methods for a harmonic map heat flow problem from the unit disk in $\mathbb{R}^2$ to the unit sphere in $\mathbb{R}^3$ in an unified framework.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-29 Nam Anh Nguyen , Arnold Reusken

The Finite Element Method (FEM) is the gold standard for spatial discretization in numerical simulations for a wide spectrum of real-world engineering problems. Prototypical areas of interest include linear heat transfer and linear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-10 Marcelo Forets , Daniel Freire Caporale , Jorge M. Pérez Zerpa

This paper is concerned with the finite element discretization of the data driven approach according to arXiv:1510.04232 for the solution of PDEs with a material law arising from measurement data. To simplify the setting, we focus on a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-13 Christian Meyer , Annika Müller