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We propose a parametric finite element method (PFEM) for efficiently solving the morphological evolution of solid-state dewetting of thin films on a flat rigid substrate in three dimensions (3D). The interface evolution of the dewetting…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-03-03 Quan Zhao , Wei Jiang , Weizhu Bao

In this paper, we propose and analyze a numerically stable and convergent scheme for a convection-diffusion-reaction equation in the convection-dominated regime. Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods are considered since standard finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-10 Satyajith Bommana Boyana , Thomas Lewis , Sijing Liu , Yi Zhang

The development and application of the Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method have attracted great attention in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) com- munity in the past decades. The underlying reason for such an intensive investigation is due…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-01-20 Kun Xu , Chang Liu , Xiaodong Ren

In this paper, a time-domain discontinuous Galerkin (TDdG) finite element method for the full system of Maxwell's equations in optics and photonics is investigated, including a complete proof of a semi-discrete error estimate. The new…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-04 Asad Anees , Lutz Angermann

This work discusses the application of an affine reconstructed nodal DG method for unstructured grids of triangles. Solving the diffusion terms in the DG method is non-trivial due to the solution representations being piecewise continuous.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-04-20 Yang Song , Bhuvana Srinivasan

In this work, we propose an accurate, robust, and stable discretization of the gamma-based compressible multicomponent model by Shyue [J. Comput. Phys., 142 (1998), 208-242] where each component follows a stiffened gas equation of state…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-10 Rémi Abgrall , Pratik Rai , Florent Renac

We present a new $hp$-version space-time discontinuous Galerkin (dG) finite element method for the numerical approximation of parabolic evolution equations on general spatial meshes consisting of polygonal/polyhedral (polytopic) elements,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-07 Andrea Cangiani , Zhaonan Dong , Emmanuil H. Georgoulis

In order to perform electroencephalography (EEG) source reconstruction, i.e., to localize the sources underlying a measured EEG, the electric potential distribution at the electrodes generated by a dipolar current source in the brain has to…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2016-11-16 Christian Engwer , Johannes Vorwerk , Jakob Ludewig , Carsten H. Wolters

I formulate a general finite element method (FEM) for self-gravitating stellar systems. I split the configuration space to finite elements, and express the potential and density functions over each element in terms of their nodal values and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Mir Abbas Jalali

$H^1$-conforming Galerkin methods on polygonal meshes such as VEM, BEM-FEM and Trefftz-FEM employ local finite element functions that are implicitly defined as solutions of Poisson problems having polynomial source and boundary data.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-03 Jeffrey Ovall , Samuel Reynolds

In this work we compare crucial parameters for efficiency of different finite element methods for solving partial differential equations (PDEs) on polytopal meshes. We consider the Virtual Element Method (VEM) and different Discontinuous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-28 Christoph Lehrenfeld , Paul Stocker , Maximilian Zienecker

The study performs large-eddy simulations of supersonic free jet flows using the Discontinuous Galerkin Spectral Element Method (DGSEM). The main objective of the present work is to assess the resolution requirements for adequate simulation…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-03-22 Diego F. Abreu , João Luiz F. Azevedo , Carlos Junqueira-Junior

Discontinuous Galerkin Finite Element (DGFE) methods offer a mathematically beautiful, computationally efficient, and efficiently parallelizable way to solve hyperbolic partial differential equations. These properties make them highly…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-12-12 Jonah M. Miller , Erik Schnetter

We present here a new hybrid scheme that combines a discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method with compact finite volume (FV) and finite difference (FD) methods. The computational mesh is divided into smaller elements that touch but do not…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-02 Ananya Adhikari , Wolfgang Tichy , Liwei Ji , Amit Poudel

In this paper, we describe a stable finite element formulation for advection-diffusion-reaction problems that allows for robust automatic adaptive strategies to be easily implemented. We consider locally vanishing, heterogeneous, and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-01 Roberto J. Cier , Sergio Rojas , Victor M. Calo

High-order discontinuous Galerkin spectral element methods (DGSEM) have received growing attention and development, especially in the regime of computational fluid dynamics in recent years. The inherent flexibility of the discontinuous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-22 Boyang Xia , David Moxey

This paper develops a discontinuous Galerkin (DG) finite element differential calculus theory for approximating weak derivatives of Sobolev functions and piecewise Sobolev functions. By introducing numerical one-sided derivatives as…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-03-06 Xiaobing Feng , Thomas Lewis , Michael Neilan

The discrete fracture model (DFM) has been widely used in the simulation of fluid flow in fractured porous media. Traditional DFM uses the so-called hybrid-dimensional approach to treat fractures explicitly as low-dimensional entries (e.g.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-01 Ziyao Xu , Yang Yang

We extend the applicability of the popular interior-penalty discontinuous Galerkin (dG) method discretizing advection-diffusion-reaction problems to meshes comprising extremely general, essentially arbitrarily-shaped element shapes. In…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-11 Andrea Cangiani , Zhaonan Dong , Emmanuil H. Georgoulis

In this work, we develop variational formulations of Petrov-Galerkin type for one-dimensional fractional boundary value problems involving either a Riemann-Liouville or Caputo derivative of order $\alpha\in(3/2, 2)$ in the leading term and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-12-18 Bangti Jin , Raytcho Lazarov , Zhi Zhou