In this paper, we discuss a family of multipoint flux mixed finite element (MFMFE) methods on simplicial, quadrilateral, hexahedral, and triangular-prismatic grids. The MFMFE methods are locally conservative with continuous normal fluxes, since they are developed within a variational framework as mixed finite element methods with special approximating spaces and quadrature rules. The latter all...

We address the problem of computing IMSE-optimal designs for random field interpolation models. A spectral representation of the IMSE criterion is obtained from the eigendecomposition of the integral operator defined by the covariance kernel of the random field and integration measure considered. The IMSE can then be approximated by spectral truncation and bounds on the error induced by this tr...

We investigate a Gaussian quadrature rule and the corresponding orthogonal polynomials for the oscillatory weight function ei!x on the interval [ 1, 1]. We show that such a rule attains high asymptotic order, in the sense that the quadrature error quickly decreases as a function of the frequency !. However, accuracy is maintained for all values of ! and in particular the rule elegantly reduces ...

This paper considers the problem of approximation of a continuous function on the unit sphere S ⊆ IR by a spherical polynomial from the space IPn of all spherical polynomials of degree ≤ n. For r = 3 it was shown in [16] that the hyperinterpolation approximation Lnf (which is the linear projection obtained by approximating the Fourier coefficients in the exact L2 orthogonal projection by a posi...

Nowadays, the design of so-called consistent time-stepping schemes that basically feature a physically correct time integration, is still a state-of-the-art topic in the area of numerical mechanics. Within the proposed framework for finite elastoplasto-dynamics, the spatial as well as the time discretisation rely both on a Finite Element approach and the resulting algorithmic conservation prope...

A quadrature-rule type method is presented to approximate the quasicontinuum method for atomistic mechanics. For both the short-range and long-range interaction cases, the complexity of this method depends on the number of representative particles but not on the total number of particles. Simple analysis and numerical experiments are provided to illustrate the accuracy and performance of the me...

In this paper, we propose a natural collocation method with exact imposition of mixed boundary conditions based on a generalized Gauss-Lobatto-Legendre-Birhoff quadrature rule that builds in the underlying boundary data. We provide a direct construction of the quadrature rule, and show that the collocation method can be implemented as efficiently as the usual collocation scheme for PDEs with Di...

In the last ten years, the traditional Simpson quadrature rule for numerical integration has been improved to an optimal 3-point quadrature formula and a modified Simpson rule that takes additionally the first derivative of the approximated integrand at the two end-points of integration into account. The impact of the improved quadrature rules on the fast Fourier transform (FFT) approximation o...

In this paper, the computation of numerical integration using arithmetic mean (AMDCNC), geometric mean (GMDCNC) and harmonic mean (HMDCNC) derivativebased closed Newton cotes quadrature rules are compared with the existing closed Newton cotes quadrature rule (CNC). The comparison shows that, arithmetic mean-based rule gives better solution than the other two rules. This set of quadrature rules ...