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In this article, we employ discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods for the finite element approximation of the frictionless unilateral contact problem using quadratic finite elements over simplicial triangulation. We first establish an optimal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-05 Kamana Porwal , Tanvi Wadhawan

For convection dominated problems, the streamline upwind Petrov--Galerkin method (SUPG), also named streamline diffusion finite element method (SDFEM), ensures a stable finite element solution. Based on robust a posteriori error estimators,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-17 Christoph Erath , Dirk Praetorius

Elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs) with discontinuous diffusion coefficients occur in application domains such as diffusions through porous media, electro-magnetic field propagation on heterogeneous media, and diffusion…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-01-20 Andrea Bonito , Ronald A. DeVore , Ricardo H. Nochetto

The finite element method (FEM) has several computational steps to numerically solve a particular problem, to which many efforts have been directed to accelerate the solution stage of the linear system of equations. However, the finite…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2015-01-21 Francisco Javier Ramírez-Gil , Marcos de Sales Guerra Tsuzuki , Wilfredo Montealegre-Rubio

This work examines the distributed optimal control of generalized Oseen equations with non-constant viscosity. We propose and analyze a new conforming augmented mixed finite element method and a Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-18 Harpal Singh , Arbaz Khan

We consider the discontinuous Galerkin method for hyperbolic conservation laws, with some particular attention to the linear acoustic equation, using Bernstein polynomials as local bases. Adapting existing techniques leads to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-04-16 Robert C. Kirby

This paper considers the discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods for solving the Vlasov-Maxwell (VM) system, a fundamental model for collisionless magnetized plasma. The DG methods provide accurate numerical description with conservation and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-17 Andrés Galindo-Olarte , Juntao Huang , Jennifer K. Ryan , Yingda Cheng

We describe and analyze a quasi-Trefftz DG method for solving boundary value problems for the homogeneous diffusion-advection-reaction equation with piecewise-smooth coefficients. Trefftz schemes are high-order Galerkin methods whose…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-18 Chiara Perinati

In this paper, we propose a new approach -- the Tempered Finite Element Method (TFEM) -- that extends the Finite Element Method (FEM) to classes of meshes that include zero-measure or nearly degenerate elements for which standard FEM…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-27 Antoine Quiriny , Václav Kučera , Jonathan Lambrechts , Nicolas Moës , Jean-François Remacle

In this article we consider the widely used immersed finite element method (IFEM), in both explicit and implicit form, and its relationship to our more recent one-field fictitious domain method (FDM). We review and extend the formulation of…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Yongxing Wang , Peter K. Jimack , Mark A. Walkley

The tempered fractional diffusion equation could be recognized as the generalization of the classic fractional diffusion equation that the truncation effects are included in the bounded domains. This paper focuses on designing the high…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-03 Leilei Wei , Yinnian He

We design a novel provably stable discontinuous Galerkin spectral element (DGSEM) approximation to solve systems of conservation laws on moving domains. To incorporate the motion of the domain, we use an arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-11-02 David A. Kopriva , Andrew R. Winters , Marvin Bohm , Gregor J. Gassner

Atomic diffusion affects the properties of various engineering materials, which predominantly occur in the polycrystalline state. A rigorous description of polycrystalline diffusion must therefore account for crystallographic defects,…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-21 Lena Scholz , Yongliang Ou , Blazej Grabowski , Felix Fritzen

This paper presents a space-time finite element method (FEM) based on an unfitted mesh for solving parabolic problems on moving domains. Unlike other unfitted space-time finite element approaches that commonly employ the discontinuous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-03 Ruizhi Wang , Weibing Deng

In this paper, we study the stability and convergence of a decoupled and linearized mixed finite element method (FEM) for incompressible miscible displacement in a porous media whose permeability and porosity are discontinuous across some…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-06-18 Buyang Li , Hongxing Rui , Chaoxia Yang

We construct a cut finite element method for the membrane elasticity problem on an embedded mesh using tangential differential calculus. Both free membranes and membranes coupled to 3D elasticity are considered. The discretization comes…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-24 Mirza Cenanovic , Peter Hansbo , Mats G. Larson

In the context of Discontinuous Galerkin methods, we study approximations of nonlinear variational problems associated with convex energies. We propose element-wise nonconforming finite element methods to discretize the continuous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-05 Georgios Grekas , Konstantinos Koumatos , Charalambos Makridakis , Andreas Vikelis

The paper studies a finite element method for computing transport and diffusion along evolving surfaces. The method does not require a parametrization of a surface or an extension of a PDE from a surface into a bulk outer domain. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-03-04 Joerg Grande , Maxim Olshanskii , Arnold Reusken

Spacetime discontinuous Galerkin (SDG) finite element methods are used to solve such PDEs involving space and time variables arising from wave propagation phenomena in important applications in science and engineering. To support an…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2008-04-08 Shripad Thite

The accuracy and stability of the least squares finite element method (LSFEM) and the Galerkin finite element method (GFEM) for solving radiative transfer in homogeneous and inhomogeneous media are studied theoretically via a frequency…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 J. M. Zhao , J. Y. Tan , L. H. Liu