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We give a unified statement and proof of a class of wellknown mean value inequalities for nonnegative functions with a nonlinear bound on the Laplacian. We generalize these to domains with boundary, requiring a (possibly nonlinear) bound on…
We propose a stronger formulation of the precedence constraints and the station limits for the simple assembly line balancing problem. The linear relaxation of the improved integer program theoretically dominates all previous formulations…
The local Casimir energy is investigated for a wedge with and without a circular outer boundary due to the confinement of a massless scalar field with general curvature coupling parameter and satisfying the Dirichlet boundary conditions.…
In this work, we consider the three-dimensional solid-state dewetting with strongly anisotropic surface energy, assuming an axisymmetric morphology of the thin film. However, when surface energy exhibits strong anisotropy, certain…
We develop a computational framework for identifying bounds to light-matter interactions, originating from polarization-current-based formulations of local conservation laws embedded in Maxwell's equations. We propose an iterative method…
Interior-point methods for linear programming problems require the repeated solution of a linear system of equations. Solving these linear systems is non-trivial due to the severe ill-conditioning of the matrices towards convergence. This…
Extended formulations are an important tool in polyhedral combinatorics. Many combinatorial optimization problems require an exponential number of inequalities when modeled as a linear program in the natural space of variables. However, by…
In his deep and prolific investigations of heat diffusion, Lam\'e was led to the investigation of the eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of the Laplace operator in an equilateral triangle. In particular he derived explicit results for the…
We present a robust computational framework for advective-diffusive-reactive systems that satisfies maximum principles, the non-negative constraint, and element-wise species balance property. The proposed methodology is valid on general…
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A new method is introduced for studying boundary value problems for a class of linear PDEs with {\it variable} coefficients. This method is based on ideas recently introduced by the author for the study of boundary value problems for PDEs…
We present a coordinate ascent method for a class of semidefinite programming problems that arise in non-convex quadratic integer optimization. These semidefinite programs are characterized by a small total number of active constraints and…
We propose a unified framework to address a family of classical mixed-integer optimization problems with logically constrained decision variables, including network design, facility location, unit commitment, sparse portfolio selection,…
This paper investigates two related optimal input selection problems for fixed (non-switched) and switched structured systems. More precisely, we consider selecting the minimum cost of inputs from a prior set of inputs, and selecting the…
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Combining sum factorization, weighted quadrature, and row-based assembly enables efficient higher-order computations for tensor product splines. We aim to transfer these concepts to immersed boundary methods, which perform simulations on a…
In this article, we study a boundary value problem of a class of singular linear discrete time systems whose coefficients are non-square constant matrices or square with a matrix pencil which has an identically zero determinant. By taking…
A variational time discretization of anisotropic Willmore flow combined with a spatial discretization via piecewise affine finite elements is presented. Here, both the energy and the metric underlying the gradient flow are anisotropic,…