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Nonequilibrium physics encompasses a broad range of natural and synthetic small-scale systems. Optimizing transitions of such systems will be crucial for the development of nanoscale technologies and may reveal the physical principles…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-09-23 Patrick R. Zulkowski , Michael R. DeWeese

In this paper, optimal control problems governed by diffusion equations with Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions are investigated in the framework of the gradient discretisation method. Gradient schemes are defined for the optimality…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-09 Jerome Droniou , Neela Nataraj , Devika Shylaja

We consider the problem of optimal distribution of a limited amount of conductive material in systems governed by local and non-local scalar diffusion laws. Of particular interest for these problems is the study of the limiting case, which…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-13 Anton Evgrafov , José C. Bellido

We study a linear-quadratic optimal control problem involving a parabolic equation with fractional diffusion and Caputo fractional time derivative of orders $s \in (0,1)$ and $\gamma \in (0,1]$, respectively. The spatial fractional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-04-02 Harbir Antil , Enrique Otarola , Abner J. Salgado

In this paper, a two-phase quasi-Newton scheme is proposed for solving an unconstrained optimization problem. The global convergence property of the scheme is provided under mild assumptions. The superlinear rate of the scheme is also…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-16 Suvra Kanti Chakraborty , Geetanjali Panda

In this work, we propose a hybrid model that combines drift-kinetic electrons with fully kinetic ions under the quasi-neutrality assumption, discretized using a geometric particle-in-cell framework on dual-grids. The model advances the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-05-25 Guo Meng , Nishant Narechania , Eric Sonnendrücker

We present a novel energy-based numerical analysis of semilinear diffusion-reaction boundary value problems. Based on a suitable variational setting, the proposed computational scheme can be seen as an energy minimisation approach. More…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-16 Mario Amrein , Pascal Heid , Thomas P. Wihler

We present new convergence analyses for parallel subspace correction methods for unconstrained semicoercive and nearly semicoercive convex optimization problems, generalizing the theory of singular and nearly singular linear problems to a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-03 Young-Ju Lee , Jongho Park

We investigate the three-dimensional compressible Euler-Maxwell system, a model for simulating the transport of electrons interacting with propagating electromagnetic waves in semiconductor devices. First, we show the global well-posedness…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-02 Timothée Crin-Barat , Yue-Jun Peng , Ling-Yun Shou , Jiang Xu

We construct a time-optimal quasi-solution of the firing mob synchronisation problem over finite, connected, and undirected multigraphs whose maximum degrees are uniformly bounded by a constant. It is only a quasi-solution because its…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-20 Simon Wacker

Semidiscrete optimal transport is a challenging generalization of the classical transportation problem in linear programming. The goal is to design a joint distribution for two random variables (one continuous, one discrete) with fixed…

Econometrics · Economics 2026-01-22 Yinchu Zhu , Ilya O. Ryzhov

In this work, we explore the maximum-margin bias of quasi-homogeneous neural networks trained with gradient flow on an exponential loss and past a point of separability. We introduce the class of quasi-homogeneous models, which is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-20 Daniel Kunin , Atsushi Yamamura , Chao Ma , Surya Ganguli

In this paper we study optimal control problems for nonholonomic systems defined on Lie algebroids by using quasi-velocities. We consider both kinematic, i.e. systems whose cost functional depends only on position and velocities, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-05-27 L. Abrunheiro , M. Camarinha , J. F. Cariñena , J. Clemente-Gallardo , E. Martínez , P. Santos

We analyze the Ericksen--Leslie system equipped with the Oseen--Frank energy in three space dimensions. Recently, the author introduced the concept of dissipative solutions. These solutions show several advantages in comparison to the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-07 Robert Lasarzik

In this work, we study the quasineutral limit of the one-dimensional Vlasov-Poisson equation for ions with massless thermalized electrons. We prove new weak-strong stability estimates in the Wasserstein metric that allow us to extend and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-12-15 Daniel Han-Kwan , Mikaela Iacobelli

We consider the homogenization of a semilinear heat equation with vanishing viscosity and with oscillating positive potential depending on $u/\varepsilon$. According to the rate between the frequency of oscillations in the potential and the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-07-12 Annalisa Cesaroni , Nicolas Dirr , Matteo Novaga

We study the quasineutral limit of a Vlasov-Poisson system that describes the dynamics of ions in a plasma. We handle data with Sobolev regularity under the sharp assumption that the profile of the initial data in the velocity variable…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-09-01 Daniel Han-Kwan , Frédéric Rousset

The paper is to study the asymptotic dynamics in nonmonotone comparable almost periodic reaction-diffusion system with Dirichlet boundary condition, which is comparable with uniformly stable strongly order-preserving system. By appealing to…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2013-11-20 Feng Cao , Yelai Fu

Exciton diffusion length plays a vital role in the function of opto-electronic devices. Oftentimes, the domain occupied by an organic semiconductor is subject to surface measurement error. In many experiments, photoluminescence over the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-15 Jingrun Chen , Ling Lin , Zhiwen Zhang , Xiang Zhou

The paper addresses the study of a class of evolutionary quasi-variational inequalities of the parabolic type arising in the formation and growth models of granular and cohensionless materials. Such models and their mathematical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-02 Harbir Antil , Rafael Arndt , Boris S. Mordukhovich , Dao Nguyen , Carlos N. Rautenberg