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We investigate a finite element discretization of an elastic bending-plate model with an effective prestrain. The model has been obtained via homogenization and dimension reduction by B\"onlein at al. (2023). Its energy functional is the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-13 Klaus Böhnlein , Stefan Neukamm , Oliver Sander

Finite volume methods for problems involving second order operators with full diffusion matrix can be used thanks to the definition of a discrete gradient for piecewise constant functions on unstructured meshes satisfying an orthogonality…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-16 Robert Eymard , Thierry Gallouët , Raphaèle Herbin

We describe a `discretize-then-relax' strategy to globally minimize integral functionals over functions $u$ in a Sobolev space subject to Dirichlet boundary conditions. The strategy applies whenever the integral functional depends…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-04 Giovanni Fantuzzi , Federico Fuentes

For unconstrained control problems, a local convergence rate is established for an $hp$-method based on collocation at the Radau quadrature points in each mesh interval of the discretization. If the continuous problem has a sufficiently…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-20 William W. Hager , Hongyan Hou , Subhashree Mohapatra , Anil V. Rao

In this work, we develop a discretisation method for the mixed formulation of the magnetostatic problem supporting arbitrary orders and polyhedral meshes. The method is based on a global discrete de Rham (DDR) sequence, obtained by patching…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-12 Daniele A. Di Pietro , Jérôme Droniou

We prove in this paper the weak consistency of a general finite volume convection operator acting on discrete functions which are possibly not piecewise-constant over the cells of the mesh and over the time steps. It yields an extension of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-18 T Gallouët , R Herbin , J. -C Latché

We discuss several optimization procedures to solve finite element approximations of linear-quadratic Dirichlet optimal control problems governed by an elliptic partial differential equation posed on a 2D or 3D Lipschitz domain. The control…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-25 Mariano Mateos

A singularly perturbed linear system of second order ordinary differential equations of reaction-diffusion type with given boundary conditions is considered. The leading term of each equation is multiplied by a small positive parameter.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-04-06 M. Paramasivam , S. Valarmathi , J. J. H. Miller

Maximization and minimization problems of the principle eigenvalue for divergence form second order elliptic operators with the Dirichlet boundary condition are considered. The principal eigen map of such elliptic operators is introduced…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-28 Hongwei Lou , Jiongmin Yong

This paper aims to study the convergence of adaptive finite element method for control constrained elliptic optimal control problems under $L^2$-norm. We prove the contraction property and quasi-optimal complexity for the $L^2$-norm errors…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-16 Wei Gong , Ningning Yan , Zhaojie Zhou

In this paper we present a finite element method for the direct transcription of constrained non-linear optimal control problems. We prove that our method converges of high order under mild assumptions. Our analysis uses a regularized…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-22 Martin Peter Neuenhofen

We develop two adaptive discretization algorithms for convex semi-infinite optimization, which terminate after finitely many iterations at approximate solutions of arbitrary precision. In particular, they terminate at a feasible point of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-14 Jochen Schmid , Miltiadis Poursanidis

The heart of the a priori and a posteriori error control in convex minimization problems is the sharp control of the differences of discrete and exact minimal energy. Conforming finite element discretizations for p-Laplace type minimization…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-23 Carsten Carstensen , Ngoc Tien Tran

We consider the minimization of submodular functions subject to ordering constraints. We show that this optimization problem can be cast as a convex optimization problem on a space of uni-dimensional measures, with ordering constraints…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-07-31 Francis Bach

This paper explores a fully discrete approximation for a nonlinear hyperbolic PDE-constrained optimization problem (P) with applications in acoustic full waveform inversion. The optimization problem is primarily complicated by the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-22 Luis Ammann , Irwin Yousept

We consider the finite element discretization and the iterative solution of singularly perturbed elliptic reaction-diffusion equations in three-dimensional computational domains. These equations arise from the optimality conditions for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-09 Ulrich Langer , Olaf Steinbach , Huidong Yang

The de Rham complex arises naturally when studying problems in electromagnetism and fluid mechanics. Stable numerical methods to solve these problems can be obtained by using a discrete de Rham complex that preserves the structure of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Diogo C. Cabanas , Kendrick M. Shepherd , Deepesh Toshniwal , Rafael Vázquez

We present a general technique for the analysis of first-order methods. The technique relies on the construction of a duality gap for an appropriate approximation of the objective function, where the function approximation improves as the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-12 Jelena Diakonikolas , Lorenzo Orecchia

We present a new approach to discretizing shape optimization problems that generalizes standard moving mesh methods to higher-order mesh deformations and that is naturally compatible with higher-order finite element discretizations of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-06-13 A. Paganini , F. Wechsung , P. E. Farrell

We consider the finite element discretization of an optimal Dirichlet boundary control problem for the Laplacian, where the control is considered in $H^{1/2}(\Gamma)$. To avoid computing the latter norm numerically, we realize it using the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-26 Michael Karkulik