English
Related papers

Related papers: Axioms of Adaptivity

200 papers

We shall establish the convergence of an adaptive conforming finite element method for the reconstruction of the distributed flux in a diffusion system. The adaptive method is based on a posteriori error estimators for the distributed flux,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-09-10 Yifeng Xu , Jun Zou

This paper reviews the state of the art and discusses very recent mathematical developments in the field of adaptive boundary element methods. This includes an overview of available a posteriori error estimates as well as a state-of-the-art…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-07-03 Michael Feischl , Thomas Führer , Norbert Heuer , Michael Karkulik , Dirk Praetorius

This paper is concerned with the analysis and implementation of robust finite element approximation methods for mixed formulations of linear elasticity problems where the elastic solid is almost incompressible. Several novel a posteriori…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-15 Arbaz Khan , Catherine E. Powell , David J. Silvester

Based on a quantitative version of the inverse function theorem and an appropriate saddle-point formulation we derive a quasi-optimal error estimate for the finite element approximation of harmonic maps into spheres with a nodal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-27 Sören Bartels , Christian Palus , Zhangxian Wang

For the planar Navier--Lam\'e equation in mixed form with symmetric stress tensors, we prove the uniform quasi-optimal convergence of an adaptive method based on the hybridized mixed finite element proposed in [Gong, Wu, and Xu:…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-30 Yuwen Li

The problem of developing an adaptive isogeometric method (AIGM) for solving elliptic second-order partial differential equations with truncated hierarchical B-splines of arbitrary degree and different order of continuity is addressed. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-04-21 Annalisa Buffa , Carlotta Giannelli

In this work, we investigate the numerical reconstruction of inclusions in a semilinear elliptic equation arising in the mathematical modeling of cardiac ischemia. We propose an adaptive finite element method for the resulting constrained…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-07 Bangti Jin , Fengru Wang , Yifeng Xu

In this paper we prove the optimal convergence of a standard adaptive scheme based on edge finite elements for the approximation of the solutions of the eigenvalue problem associated with Maxwell's equations. The proof uses the known…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-09 Daniele Boffi , Lucia Gastaldi

We consider an adaptive algorithm for finite element methods for the isogeometric analysis (IGAFEM) of elliptic (possibly non-symmetric) second-order partial differential equations. We employ analysis-suitable T-splines of arbitrary odd…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-07 Gregor Gantner , Dirk Praetorius

The recent work [Kurz et al., Numer. Math., 147 (2021)] proposed functional a posteriori error estimates for boundary element methods (BEMs) together with a related adaptive mesh-refinement strategy. Unlike most a posteriori BEM error…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-13 Alexander Freiszlinger , Dirk Pauly , Dirk Praetorius

The convergence analysis for least-squares finite element methods led to various adaptive mesh-refinement strategies: Collective marking algorithms driven by the built-in a posteriori error estimator or an alternative explicit…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-18 Philipp Bringmann

We consider an elliptic linear-quadratic parameter estimation problem with a finite number of parameters. A novel a priori bound for the parameter error is proved and, based on this bound, an adaptive finite element method driven by an a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-05 Roland Becker , Michael Innerberger , Dirk Praetorius

In the empirical study of evolutionary algorithms, the solution quality is evaluated by either the fitness value or approximation error. The latter measures the fitness difference between an approximation solution and the optimal solution.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Jun He , Yu Chen , Yuren Zhou

We study problem-dependent rates, i.e., generalization errors that scale near-optimally with the variance, the effective loss, or the gradient norms evaluated at the "best hypothesis." We introduce a principled framework dubbed "uniform…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-12-25 Yunbei Xu , Assaf Zeevi

Mixed finite element methods with flux errors in $H(div)$-norms and div-least-squares finite element methods require a separate marking strategy in obligatory adaptive mesh-refining. The refinement indicator $\sigma^2(\mathcal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-06-08 Carsten Carstensen , Hella Rabus

We present a novel method for convex unconstrained optimization that, without any modifications, ensures: (i) accelerated convergence rate for smooth objectives, (ii) standard convergence rate in the general (non-smooth) setting, and (iii)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Kfir Y. Levy , Alp Yurtsever , Volkan Cevher

This paper is concerned with a posteriori error bounds for linear transport equations and related questions of contriving corresponding adaptive solution strategies in the context of Discontinuous-Petrov-Galerkin schemes. After indicating…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-22 W. Dahmen , R. P. Stevenson

We use the ideas of goal-oriented error estimation and adaptivity to design and implement an efficient adaptive algorithm for approximating linear quantities of interest derived from solutions to elliptic partial differential equations…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-03-21 Alex Bespalov , Dirk Praetorius , Leonardo Rocchi , Michele Ruggeri

Although adaptive optimization algorithms have been successful in many applications, there are still some mysteries in terms of convergence analysis that have not been unraveled. This paper provides a novel non-convex analysis of adaptive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-08 Zhishuai Guo , Yi Xu , Wotao Yin , Rong Jin , Tianbao Yang

In this work we present an adaptive Newton-type method to solve nonlinear constrained optimization problems in which the constraint is a system of partial differential equations discretized by the finite element method. The adaptive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-06-05 Thomas Carraro , Simon Dörsam , Stefan Frei , Daniel Schwarz