This paper presents a locally conservative finite element method based on enriching the approximation space of the continuous Galerkin method with elementwise constant functions. The proposed method has a smaller number of degrees of freedom than the discontinuous Galerkin method. Numerical examples on coupled flow and transport in porous media are provided to illustrate the advantages of this ...

A theoretical framework for the analysis of discontinuous Galerkin approximations of the Maxwell eigenproblem with discontinuous coefficients is presented. Necessary and sufficient conditions for a spurious-free approximation are established, and it is shown that, at least on conformal meshes, basically all the discontinuous Galerkin methods in the literature actually fit into this framework. R...

In this study we propose a space and time-accurate numerical method for Korteweg– de Vries equation. In deriving the computational scheme, Taylor generalized Euler time discretization is performed prior to wavelet based Galerkin spatial approximation. This leads to the implicit system which can also be solved by explicit algorithms. Korteweg– de Vries equation is also solved by a operator split...

The application of a new nonlinear robust control strategy to the design of missile autopilots is presented. The control approach described and demonstrated here is based upon the numerical solution of the Hamilton-Jacobi-Isaacs equation by Successive Galerkin Approximation. Using this approach, feedback controllers are computed by an iterative application of a numerical Galerkin-type PDE solve...

In this paper a duality-based a posteriori error analysis is developed for the conforming hp Galerkin finite element approximation of second-order elliptic problems. Duality arguments combined with Galerkin orthogonalty yield representations of the error in arbitrary quantities of interest. From these error estimates, criteria are derived for the simultaneous adaptation of the mesh size h and t...

Numerical solutions obtained by the Meshless Local Petrov-Galerkin (MLPG) method are presented for two dimensional steady-state heat conduction problems. The MLPG method is a truly meshless approach, and neither the nodal connectivity nor the background mesh is required for solving the initial-boundary-value problem. The penalty method is adopted to efficiently enforce the essential boundary co...

The convergence and optimality theory of adaptive Galerkin methods is almost exclusively based on the Dörfler marking. This entails a fixed parameter and leads to a contraction constant bounded below away from zero. For spectral Galerkin methods this is a severe limitation which affects performance. We present a dynamic marking strategy that allows for a superlinear relation between consecutive...

Uniformly stable semidiscrete approximation schemes are desirable for constructing approximate solutions of certain optimal control problems for distributed parameter systems. We discuss construction of uniformly stable spline-based approximation schemes for a scalar delay equation. A method is used which employs an equivalent inner product. Convergence is established via a `hybrid' Trotter-Kat...

A method is presented to accelerate numerical simulations on parabolic problems using a numerical code and a Galerkin system (obtained vía POD plus Galerkin projection) on a sequence of interspersed intervals. The lengths of these intervals are chosen according to several basic ideas that include an a priori estímate of the error of the Galerkin approximation. Several improvements are introduce...