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An adaptive direct collocation method is developed for solving optimal control problems constrained by parabolic partial differential equations. The partial differential equation is first reformulated in a variational setting, where the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-18 Alexander M. Davies , Sara Pollock , Miriam E. Dennis , Anil V. Rao

Solving optimal control problems to determine a stabilizing controller involves a significant computational effort. Time-varying optimal control provides a remedy by designing a tracking system, given as an ordinary differential equation,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-16 Patrick Schmidt , Stefan Streif

We present an a posteriori error estimate based on equilibrated stress reconstructions for the finite element approximation of a unilateral contact problem with weak enforcement of the contact conditions. We start by proving a guaranteed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-27 Daniele Antonio Di Pietro , Ilaria Fontana , Kyrylo Kazymyrenko

Optimal convergence rates of adaptive finite element methods are well understood in terms of the axioms of adaptivity. One key ingredient is the discrete reliability of a residual-based a posteriori error estimator, which controls the error…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-11-06 Carsten Carstensen , Sophie Puttkammer

The aim of this paper is to propose an efficient adaptive finite element method for eigenvalue problems based on the multilevel correction scheme and inverse power method. This method involves solving associated boundary value problems on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-25 Qichen Hong , Hehu Xie , Fei Xu

We present a new error analysis for finite element methods for a linear-quadratic elliptic optimal control problem with Neumann boundary control and pointwise control constraints. It can be applied to standard finite element methods when…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-05 Susanne C. Brenner , Li-yeng Sung

This paper derives a posteriori error estimators for the nonlinear first-order optimality conditions associated with the Frank-Oseen elastic free-energy model of nematic and cholesteric liquid crystals, where the required unit-length…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-09-20 D. B. Emerson

In this paper, we derive a novel recovery type a posteriori error estimation of the Crank-Nicolson finite element method for the Cahn--Hilliard equation. To achieve this, we employ both the elliptic reconstruction technique and a time…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-03 Yaoyao Chen , Yunqing Huang , Nianyu Yi , Peimeng Yin

This paper develops and discusses a residual-based a posteriori error estimator for parabolic surface partial differential equations on closed stationary surfaces. The full discretization uses the surface finite element method in space and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Balázs Kovács , Michael Lantelme

We show how a posteriori goal oriented error estimation can be used to efficiently solve the subproblems occurring in a Model Predictive Control (MPC) algorithm. In MPC, only an initial part of a computed solution is implemented as a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-02 Lars Grüne , Manuel Schaller , Anton Schiela

In this contribution we develop an efficient reduced order model for solving parametrized linear-quadratic optimal control problems with linear time-varying state system. The fully reduced model combines reduced basis approximations of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-29 Hendrik Kleikamp , Lukas Renelt

In this paper, we develop an adaptive finite element method for the nonlinear steady-state Poisson-Nernst-Planck equations, where the spatial adaptivity for geometrical singularities and boundary layer effects are mainly considered. As a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-21 Tingting Hao , Manman Ma , Xuejun Xu

In this paper we propose a new finite element method for solving elliptic optimal control problems with pointwise state constraints, including the distributed controls and the Dirichlet or Neumann boundary controls. The main idea is to use…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-07 Wei Gong , Zhiyu Tan

We introduce quantitative and robust tools to control the numerical accuracy in simulations performed using the Multiscale Finite Element Method (MsFEM). First, we propose a guaranteed and fully computable a posteriori error estimate for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-09 Ludovic Chamoin , Frederic Legoll

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

In this paper, error estimates are presented for a certain class of optimal control problems with elliptic PDE-constraints. It is assumed that in the cost functional the state is measured in terms of the energy norm generated by the state…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-10-31 Olli Mali

We consider in this paper, a new a posteriori residual type error estimator of a conforming mixed finite element method for the coupling of fluid flow with porous media flow on isotropic meshes. Flows are governed by the Navier-Stokes and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-03-07 Koffi Wilfrid Houedanou , Jamal Adetola , Bernardin Ahounou

We establish rigorous \emph{a posteriori} error bounds for a space-time finite element method of arbitrary order discretising linear wave problems in second order formulation. The method combines standard finite elements in space and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-24 Zhaonan Dong , Emmanuil H. Georgoulis , Lorenzo Mascotto , Zuodong Wang

In this paper, a residual-type a posteriori error estimator is proposed and analyzed for a modified weak Galerkin finite element method solving linear elasticity problems. The estimator is proven to be both reliable and efficient because it…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-21 Liu Chunmei , Zhong Liuqiang , Xie Yingying Xie , Zhou Liping

This paper presents a reliable and efficient residual-based a posteriori error analysis for the symmetric $H(\operatorname{div}\operatorname{div})$ mixed finite element method for the Kirchhoff-Love plate bending problem with mixed boundary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-13 Jun Hu , Rui Ma , Min Zhang
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