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We suggest and implement an approach for the bottom-up description of systems undergoing large-scale structural changes and chemical transformations from dynamic atomically resolved imaging data, where only partial or uncertain data on…

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We consider the primal and dual forms of the optimality conditions for PDE-contrained optimization problems arising in Data-Driven Computational Mechanics when specialized to the reaction-diffusion context. Starting with the continuous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-24 Ramon Codina , Roberto Federico Ausas , Pedro Balbão Bazon , Cristian Guillermo Gebhardt

Motivated by problems in machine learning, we study a class of variational problems characterized by nonlocal operators. These operators are characterized by power-type weights, which are singular at a portion of the boundary. We identify a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-24 Qiang Du , James M. Scott

We present a Bayesian non-parametric way of inferring stochastic differential equations for both regression tasks and continuous-time dynamical modelling. The work has high emphasis on the stochastic part of the differential equation, also…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-06-29 Martin Jørgensen , Marc Peter Deisenroth , Hugh Salimbeni

This paper presents a pure complementary energy variational method for solving anti-plane shear problem in finite elasticity. Based on the canonical duality-triality theory developed by the author, the nonlinear/nonconex partial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-05-06 David Y Gao

The ability of widely used sampling methods, such as molecular dynamics or Monte Carlo, to explore complex free energy landscapes is severely hampered by the presence of kinetic bottlenecks. A large number of solutions have been proposed to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-08-29 Omar Valsson , Michele Parrinello

In this article, we establish radial symmetry for positive weak solutions of a class of mixed local-nonlocal equations with possibly singular nonlinearity via the moving plane method. Furthermore, we provide a quantitative version of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Sanjit Biswas

This paper presents an online algorithm for identification of partial differential equations (PDEs) based on the weak-form sparse identification of nonlinear dynamics algorithm (WSINDy). The algorithm is online in a sense that if performs…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-09 Daniel A. Messenger , Emiliano Dall'Anese , David M. Bortz

Duality methods are used to generate explicit solutions to nonlinear Hodge systems, demonstrate the well-posedness of boundary value problems, and reveal, via the Hodge-B\"acklund transformation, underlying symmetries among superficially…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-05 Antonella Marini , Thomas H. Otway

This paper considers parameter estimation for nonlinear state-space models, which is an important but challenging problem. We address this challenge by employing a variational inference (VI) approach, which is a principled method that has…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-09-15 Jarrad Courts , Adrian Wills , Thomas Schön , Brett Ninness

Stochastic differential equations (SDEs) are popular tools to analyse time series data in many areas, such as mathematical finance, physics, and biology. They provide a mechanistic description of the phenomeon of interest, and their…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-02-01 Théo Michelot , Richard Glennie , Catriona Harris , Len Thomas

We present numerical solutions to the extended Doering-Constantin variational principle for upper bounds on the energy dissipation rate in turbulent plane Couette flow. Using the compound matrix technique in order to reformulate this…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Rolf Nicodemus , Siegfried Grossmann , Martin Holthaus

In this article we prove new results regarding the existence and the uniqueness of global variational solutions to Neumann initial-boundary value problems for a class of non-autonomous stochastic parabolic partial differential equations.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-06-29 Marco Dozzi , Rim Touibi , Pierre-A Vuillermot

Variational inequalities play a pivotal role in a wide array of scientific and engineering applications. This project presents two techniques for adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) in the context of variational inequalities, with a specific…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-21 Giuliano Stefano Fochesatto

We discuss the behavior of solitary wave solutions of the nonlinear Schr{\"o}dinger equation (NLSE) as they interact with complex potentials, using a four parameter variational approximation based on a dissipation functional formulation of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-09-21 Franz G. Mertens , Fred Cooper , Edward Arevalo , Avinash Khare , Avadh Saxena , A. R. Bishop

Initially introduced in the framework of quantum control, the so-called "monotonic algorithms" have demonstrated excellent numerical performance when dealing with bilinear optimal control problems. This paper presents a unified formulation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-11-11 Julien Salomon , Gabriel Turinici

We study entire bounded solutions to the equation $\Delta u - u + u^3 = 0$ in $\mathbb R^2$. Our approach is purely variational and is based on concentration arguments and symmetry considerations. This method allows us to construct in a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-11-09 L. M. Lerman , P. E. Naryshkin , A. I. Nazarov

One method for the numerical treatment of future null-infinity is to decouple coordinates from the tensor basis and choose each in a careful manner. This dual-frame approach is hampered by logarithmically divergent terms that appear in a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-01-29 Edgar Gasperin , Shalabh Gautam , David Hilditch , Alex Vañó-Viñuales

We present a collection of algorithms which utilize dimensional reduction to perform mesh refinement and study possibly singular solutions of time-dependent partial differential equations. The algorithms are inspired by constructions used…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-06-21 Panagiotis Stinis

The electromagnetic two-body problem has \emph{neutral differential delay} equations of motion that, for generic boundary data, can have solutions with \emph{discontinuous} derivatives. If one wants to use these neutral differential delay…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-02-02 Jayme De Luca