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In the first part of the paper, we propose and rigorously analyze a mixed finite element method for the approximation of the periodic strong solution to the fully nonlinear second-order Hamilton--Jacobi--Bellman equation with coefficients…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-18 Dietmar Gallistl , Timo Sprekeler , Endre Süli

This paper is concerned with the adaptive numerical treatment of stochastic partial differential equations. Our method of choice is Rothe's method. We use the implicit Euler scheme for the time discretization. Consequently, in each step, an…

In this paper we study homogenization of a class of control problems in a stationary and ergodic random environment. This problem has been mostly studied in the calculus of variations setting in connection to the homogenization of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-06-21 Alexander Van-Brunt

For shape optimization problems, governed by elliptic equations with Dirichlet boundary condition and random coefficients, we utilize a penalization technique to get the approximate problem. We consider that uncertainties exists in the…

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In this work numerical methods for solving Einstein's equations are developed and applied to the study of inhomogeneous cosmological models. A two-dimensional computer code is described which implements two advanced numerical methods:…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Simon D. Hern

We consider divergence form elliptic operators in dimension $n\geq 2$ with $L^\infty$ coefficients. Although solutions of these operators are only H\"{o}lder continuous, we show that they are differentiable ($C^{1,\alpha}$) with respect to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2009-09-29 Houman Owhadi , Lei Zhang

We consider homogeneous open quantum random walks on a lattice with finite dimensional local Hilbert space and we study in particular the position process of the quantum trajectories of the walk. We prove that the properly rescaled position…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-06-08 Raffaella Carbone , Federico Girotti , Anderson Melchor Hernandez

We present a new numerical method for solving the elliptic homogenization problem. The main idea is that the missing effective matrix is reconstructed by solving the local least-squares in an offline stage, which shall be served as the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-26 Yufang Huang , Pingbing Ming , Siqi Song

This paper analyzes the random fluctuations obtained by a heterogeneous multi-scale first-order finite element method applied to solve elliptic equations with a random potential. We show that the random fluctuations of such solutions are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Guillaume Bal , Wenjia Jing

This paper investigates numerical methods for solving stochastic linear quadratic (SLQ) optimal control problems governed by stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs). Two distinct approaches, the open-loop and closed-loop ones, are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-19 Andreas Prohl , Yanqing Wang

We consider a sequence of elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs) with different but similar rapidly varying coefficients. Such sequences appear, for example, in splitting schemes for time-dependent problems (with one coefficient per…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-05 Fredrik Hellman , Axel Målqvist

This paper concerns the convex optimal control problem governed by multiscale elliptic equations with arbitrarily rough $L^\infty$ coefficients, which has important applications in composite materials and geophysics. We use one of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Yanping Chen , Jiaoyan Zeng , Xinliang Liu , Lei Zhang

Global dynamics in nonlinear stochastic systems is often difficult to analyze rigorously. Yet, many excellent numerical methods exist to approximate these systems. In this work, we propose a method to bridge the gap between computation and…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-01-07 Maxime Breden , Christian Kuehn

This paper presents two new approaches for finding the homogenized coefficients of multiscale elliptic PDEs. Standard approaches for computing the homogenized coefficients suffer from the so-called resonance error, originating from a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Assyr Abdulle , Doghonay Arjmand , Edoardo Paganoni

We prove stochastic homogenization for a class of non-convex and non-coercive first-order Hamilton-Jacobi equations in a finite-range-dependence environment for Hamiltonians that can be expressed by a max-min formula. Exploiting the…

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We present an efficient method for the computation of homogenized coefficients of divergence-form operators with random coefficients. The approach is based on a multiscale representation of the homogenized coefficients. We then implement…

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We study quantitative homogenization of the eigenvalues for elliptic systems with periodically distributed inclusions, where the conductivity of inclusions are strongly contrast to that of the matrix. We propose a quantitative version of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-19 Xin Fu

As an alternative to the well-known methods of "chaining" and "bracketing" that have been developed in the study of random fields, a new method, which is based on a stochastic maximal inequality derived by using It\^o's formula and on a new…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-02-12 Yoichi Nishiyama

We introduce a set of techniques that allow for efficiently generating many independent random walks in the Massive Parallel Computation (MPC) model with space per machine strongly sublinear in the number of vertices. In this…

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