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We address the spatial discretization of an evolution problem arising from the coupling of viscoelastic and acoustic wave propagation phenomena by employing a discontinuous Galerkin scheme on polygonal and polyhedral meshes. The coupled…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-12-11 Paola F. Antonietti , Francesco Bonaldi , Ilario Mazzieri

In this paper, we consider control constrained $L^2-$Dirichlet boundary control of a convection-diffusion equation on a two dimensional convex polygonal domain. We discretize the control problem based on the local discontinuous Galerkin…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-28 Peter Benner , Michael Hinze , Hamdullah Yücel

This paper first presents necessary and sufficient conditions for the solvability of discrete time, mean-field, stochastic linear-quadratic optimal control problems. Then, by introducing several sequences of bounded linear operators, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-07-25 Robert. J Elliott , Xun Li , Yuan-Hua Ni

This paper focuses on the discrete-time backward stochastic linear quadratic (BSLQ) optimal control problem with nonhomogeneous system terms and cost function cross terms. The terminal constraint of such systems distinguishes it from…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Hu Ligui , Meng Qingxin , Tang Maoning

A novel framework for resolving discontinuous solutions of conservation laws, e.g., contact lines, shock waves, and interfaces, using implicit tracking and a high-order discontinuous Galerkin (DG) discretization was introduced in [38].…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-22 Matthew J. Zahr , Andrew Shi , Per-Olof Persson

We introduce a meshless method for solving both continuous and discrete variational formulations of a volume constrained, nonlocal diffusion problem. We use the discrete solution to approximate the continuous solution. Our method is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-01-13 Richard B. Lehoucq , Francis J. Narcowich , Stephen T. Rowe , Joseph D. Ward

This paper deals with a stochastic optimal feedback control problem for the controlled stochastic partial differential equations. More precisely, we establish the existence of stochastic optimal feedback control for the controlled…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-01-07 Gaofeng Zong

A method is presented for the numerical solution of optimal boundary control problems governed by parabolic partial differential equations. The continuous space-time optimal control problem is transcribed into a sparse nonlinear programming…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Alexander M. Davies , Sara Pollock , Miriam E. Dennis , Anil V. Rao

In this survey we present the near-optimal stochastic control problem according to some recent tools in the literature. In particular, we focus on the approach of a discretization of the noise values instead of the canonical…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-06-30 Lourival Lima , Paulo Ruffino , Francys Souza

We consider a semilinear parabolic equation with a large class of nonlinearities without any growth conditions. We discretize the problem with a discontinuous Galerkin scheme dG(0) in time (which is a variant of the implicit Euler scheme)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-17 Dominik Meidner , Boris Vexler

In this article we obtain an optimal best approximation type result for fully discrete approximations of the transient Stokes problem. For the time discretization we use the discontinuous Galerkin method and for the spatial discretization…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-26 Niklas Behringer , Dmitriy Leykekhman , Boris Vexler

Stochastic Galerkin methods offer unexplored potential for the numerical simulation of parabolic problems with random variables, in particular if they are combined with variational discretizations of the space and time variables. Due to the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-21 Moataz Dawor , Nils Margenberg , Markus Bause

This paper discusses the computation of derivatives for optimization problems governed by linear hyperbolic systems of partial differential equations (PDEs) that are discretized by the discontinuous Galerkin (dG) method. An efficient and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-11-28 Lucas C. Wilcox , Georg Stadler , Tan Bui-Thanh , Omar Ghattas

This paper is dedicated to the investigation of a new numerical method to approximate the optimal stopping problem for a discrete-time continuous state space Markov chain under partial observations. It is based on a two-step discretization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-02-16 Benoîte de Saporta , François Dufour , Christophe Nivot

In this work, we propose and investigate stable high-order collocation-type discretisations of the discontinuous Galerkin method on equidistant and scattered collocation points. We do so by incorporating the concept of discrete least…

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We consider a space-time finite element method on fully unstructured simplicial meshes for optimal sparse control of semilinear parabolic equations. The objective is a combination of a standard quadratic tracking-type functional including a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-01 Ulrich Langer , Olaf Steinbach , Fredi Tröltzsch , Huidong Yang

The aim of this paper is to analyze a mixed discontinuous Galerkin discretization of the time-harmonic elasticity problem. The symmetry of the Cauchy stress tensor is imposed weakly, as in the traditional dual-mixed setting. We show that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-10-07 Antonio Márquez , Salim Meddahi , Thanh Tran

We propose and analyze a new discretization technique for a linear-quadratic optimal control problem involving the fractional powers of a symmetric and uniformly elliptic second oder operator; control constraints are considered. Since these…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-07-08 Enrique Otarola

We present a new line-based discontinuous Galerkin (DG) discretization scheme for first- and second-order systems of partial differential equations. The scheme is based on fully unstructured meshes of quadrilateral or hexahedral elements,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-04 Per-Olof Persson