Publications and Preprints

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Much of this material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under grants DMS-0303378, DMS-0713770, DMS-1016094, DMS-1318652/1518925, DMS-1720369, and DMS-2012326. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

Book Chapters:


1.  A. Bonito, A. Demlow, and R.H. Nochetto, Finite element methods for the Laplace-Beltrami operator.  Handbook of Numerical Analysis, Volume XXI:  Geometric PDEs-, Part I, (eds) A. Bonito and R.H. Nochetto, 1-103, 2020. 


arXiv preprint

Preprints:



arXiv preprint 


Refereed Publications:


29.  A. Demlow and M. Neilan.  A tangential and penalty-free finite element method for the surface Stokes problem.    SIAM J. Numer. Anal., accepted.

   arXiv preprint


28.  A. Demlow, S. Franz, and N. Kopteva.  Maximum norm a posteriori error estimates for convection-diffusion problems.  IMA J. Numer. Anal., published electronically February 2023.


     Final version (published under Open Access)


 27.  A. Bonito, A. Demlow, and M. Licht, A divergence-conforming finite element method for the surface Stokes equation.  SIAM J. Numer. Anal. 58 (2020), 2764-2698.


     arXiv preprint


 26.  A. Bonito and A. Demlow, A posteriori error estimates for the Laplace-Beltrami operator on parametric C2 surfaces, SIAM J. Numer. Anal. 57 (2019), 973-996. 


    arXiv preprint 


25.  A. Bonito, A. Demlow, and J. Owen, A priori error estimates for finite element approximations to eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of the Laplace-Beltrami operator, SIAM J. Numer. Anal. 56 (2018), 2693-2988. 


    arXiv preprint


24.  A. Demlow, Convergence and quasi-optimality of adaptive finite element methods for harmonic forms, Numer. Math. 136 (2017), 941-971. 


arXiv preprint


23.  A. Bonito and A. Demlow, Convergence and optimality of higher-order adaptive finite element methods for eigenvalue clusters, SIAM J. Numer. Anal. 54 (2016), 2379-2388.


arXiv preprint


22.  A. Demlow. Quasi-optimality of adaptive finite element methods for controlling local energy errors, Numer. Math. 134 (2016), 27-60.  


    Preprint (PDF)


21.  B. Cockburn and A. Demlow, Hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin methods and mixed finite element methods for elliptic problems on surfaces, Math. Comp. 85 (2016), 2609-2638.


Preprint (PDF, 7/15)        


20.  A. Demlow and N. Kopteva.  Maximum-norm a posteriori error estimates for singularly perturbed elliptic reaction-diffusion problems, Numer. Math. 133 (2016), 707-742.


Preprint (PDF, updated 7/15)


19.  F. Camacho and A. Demlow, $L_2$ and pointwise a posteriori error estimates for FEM for elliptic PDEs on surfaces, IMA J. Numer. Anal. 35 (2015), 1199-1227. 


Preprint (PDF, substantial revisions 3/14)


18.  A. Demlow and A. Hirani, A posteriori error estimates for finite element exterior calculus: The de Rham complex, Found. Comput. Math. 14 (2014), 1337-1371.   


arXiv preprint 


17.  A. Demlow and S. Larsson, Local pointwise a posteriori gradient error bounds for the Stokes equation, Math. Comp. 82 (2013), 625--649.


Preprint (PDF, updated 9/11)


16.  A. Demlow and E. Georgoulis, Pointwise a posteriori error control for discontinuous Galerkin methods for elliptic problems, SIAM. J. Numer. Anal., SIAM J. Numer. Anal. 50 (2012), 2159-2181.


Preprint (PDF; minor revisions 5/12)


15.  A. Demlow and M. Olshanskii, An adaptive surface finite element method based on volume meshes, SIAM. J. Numer. Anal. 50 (2012), 1624-1647.


Preprint (PDF, minor revisions 2/12)


14. A. Demlow, D. Leykekhman, A.H. Schatz, and L.B. Wahlbin, Best approximation property in the $W_\infty^1$ norm on graded meshes, Math. Comp. 81 (2012), 743-764.


Preprint (PDF, updated 6/11)


13.  A. Demlow and R.P. Stevenson, Convergence and quasi-optimality of an adaptive finite element method for controlling $L_2$ errors, Numer. Math. 177 (2011), 125-218.


Preprint (PDF; updated 6/11)


12.  A. Demlow, Convergence of an adaptive finite element method for controlling local energy errors, SIAM J. Numer. Anal. 48 (2010), 470-497.


Preprint (PDF; submitted 11/08, revised version 10/09.)


11.  A. Demlow and C. Makridakis, Sharply local pointwise a posteriori error estimates for parabolic problems, Math. Comp. 79 (2010), 1233-1262.


Preprint (PDF)


10.  A. Demlow, J. Guzmán, and A.H. Schatz, Local energy estimates for the finite element method on sharply varying grids, Math. Comp. 80 (2011), 1-9.


arXiv preprint


9.  A. Demlow, O. Lakkis, and C. Makridakis, A posteriori error estimates in the maximum norm for parabolic problems, SIAM J. Numer. Anal. 47 (2009), 2157-2176.


arXiv preprint 


8.  A. Demlow, Higher-order finite element methods and pointwise error estimates for elliptic problems on surfaces, SIAM J. Numer. Anal. 47 (2009), 805-827.


Preprint (PDF)


7.  A. Demlow, Sharply localized pointwise and $W_\infty^{-1}$ estimates for finite element methods for quasilinear problems, Math. Comp. 76 (2007), 1725-1741.


Preprint (PDF)


6.  A. Demlow and G. Dziuk, An adaptive finite element method for the Laplace-Beltrami operator on surfaces, SIAM J. Numer. Anal. 45 (2007), 421-442.


Preprint (PDF)


5.  A. Demlow, Local a posteriori estimates for pointwise gradient errors in finite element methods for elliptic problems, Math. Comp. 76 (2007), 19-42.


Preprint (PDF)


4.  A. Demlow, Localized pointwise a posteriori error estimates for gradients of piecewise linear

finite element approximations to second-order quasilinear elliptic problems, SIAM J. Numer. Anal. 44 (2006), no. 2, 494-514.


Article (PDF; copyright held by SIAM, distributed with permission)


3.  A. Demlow, Piecewise linear finite element methods are not localized, Math. Comp. 73 (2004), no. 247, 1195-1201.


Preprint (PDF)


2.  A. Demlow, Localized pointwise error estimates for mixed finite element methods, Math. Comp. 73 (2004), no. 248, 1623-1653.


Preprint (PDF)


1.  A. Demlow, Suboptimal and optimal convergence in mixed finite element methods, SIAM J. Numer. Anal 39 (2002), no. 6, 1938--1953.


Article (PDF, copyright held by SIAM, distributed with permission)

Unpublished lecture notes:


In spring 2016 I taught a seminar course on singular solutions to elliptic PDEs and their approximation by standard and adaptive finite element methods.  I provided the students with lecture notes as part of the course.  These are included below.  They are not highly edited and are distributed as-is.


Lecture notes