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We resolve a longstanding open problem in the computational modeling of nonlinear plates by introducing a numerical method that exactly enforces the isometry constraint, namely, that the first fundamental form of the mid-surface coincides…
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)…
The scope of this paper is the analysis and approximation of an optimal control problem related to the Allen-Cahn equation. A tracking functional is minimized subject to the Allen-Cahn equation using distributed controls that satisfy…
This paper deals with the optimal control of systems governed by nonlinear systems of conservation laws at junctions. The applications considered range from gas compressors in pipelines to open channels management. The existence of an…
A wide variety of (fixed-point) iterative methods for the solution of nonlinear equations (in Hilbert spaces) exists. In many cases, such schemes can be interpreted as iterative local linearization methods, which, as will be shown, can be…
We consider the discretization of a semilinear damped wave equation arising, for instance, in the modeling of gas transport in pipeline networks. For time invariant boundary data, the solutions of the problem are shown to converge…
This paper extends the theory of regular solutions ($C^1$ in a suitable sense) for a class of semilinear elliptic equations in Hilbert spaces. The notion of regularity is based on the concept of $G$-derivative, which is introduced and…
The conforming finite element Galerkin method is applied to discretise in the spatial direction for a class of strongly nonlinear parabolic problems. Using elliptic projection of the associated linearised stationary problem with Gronwall…
We consider the problem of the numerical approximation of the linear controllability of waves. All our experiments are done in a bounded domain \Omega of the plane, with Dirichlet boundary conditions and internal control. We use a Galerkin…
We propose a novel Galerkin discretization scheme for stochastic optimal control problems on an indefinite time horizon. The control problems are linear-quadratic in the controls, but possibly nonlinear in the state variables, and the…
In this paper, a quadratic optimal control problem is considered for second-order parabolic PDEs with homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions, in which the "point" control function (depending only on time) constitutes a source term. These…
These lecture notes introduce the Galerkin method to approximate solutions to partial differential and integral equations. We begin with some analysis background to introduce this method in a Hilbert Space setting, and subsequently…
The aim of this paper is to develop stable and accurate numerical schemes for boundary integral formulations of the heat equation with Dirichlet boundary conditions. The accuracy of Galerkin discretisations for the resulting boundary…
In this manuscript we present an approach to analyze the discontinuous Galerkin solution for general quasilinear elliptic problems. This approach is sufficiently general to extend most of the well-known discretization schemes, including…
Optimal control of harvested population at the edge of extinction in an unprotected area, is considered. The underlying population dynamics is governed by a Kolmogorov-Petrovsky-Piskunov equation with a harvesting term and space-dependent…
Existence and uniqueness for semilinear stochastic evolution equations with additive noise by means of finite dimensional Galerkin approximations is established and the convergence rate of the Galerkin approximations to the solution of the…
This work establishes a general stochastic maximum principle for partially observed optimal control of semi-linear stochastic partial differential equations in a nonconvex control domain. The state evolves in a Hilbert space driven by a…
The aim of this paper is to establish a theory of Galerkin approximations to the space of convex and compact subsets of $\R^d$ with favorable properties, both from a theoretical and from a computational perspective. These Galerkin spaces…
The analyses of interior penalty discontinuous Galerkin methods of any order k for solving elliptic and parabolic problems with Dirac line sources are presented. For the steady state case, we prove convergence of the method by deriving a…
This paper investigates a space-time interface-fitted approximation of a moving-interface optimal control problem with energy regularization. We reformulate the optimality conditions into a variational problem involving both the state and…