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A new discretization approach is presented for the simulation of flow in complex poro-fractured media described by means of the Discrete Fracture and Matrix Model. The method is based on the numerical optimization of a properly defined…

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We devise and evaluate numerically a Hybrid High-Order (HHO) method for incremental associative plasticity with small deformations. The HHO method uses as discrete unknowns piecewise polynomials of order $k\ge1$ on the mesh skeleton,…

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We investigate an optimization problem governed by an elliptic partial differential equation with uncertain parameters. We introduce a robust optimization framework that accounts for uncertain model parameters. The resulting non-linear…

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Optimal transport problems pose many challenges when considering their numerical treatment. We investigate the solution of a PDE-constrained optimisation problem subject to a particular transport equation arising from the modelling of image…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-01-15 Roland Herzog , John W. Pearson , Martin Stoll

A low-order nonconforming finite element discretization of a smooth de Rham complex starting from the $H^2$ space in three dimensions is proposed, involving an $H^2$-nonconforming finite element space, a new tangentially continuous…

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This paper describes a class of shape optimization problems for optical metamaterials comprised of periodic microscale inclusions composed of a dielectric, low-dimensional material suspended in a non-magnetic bulk dielectric. The shape…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-08 Manaswinee Bezbaruah , Matthias Maier , Winnifried Wollner

We present a one-dimensional high-order moving-mesh finite element method for moving boundary problems where the boundary velocity depends implicitly on the solution in the interior of the domain. The method employs a conservative arbitrary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-05 Matthew E Hubbard , Thomas J Radley

The dynamic formulation of optimal transport has attracted growing interests in scientific computing and machine learning, and its computation requires to solve a PDE-constrained optimization problem. The classical Eulerian discretization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Wei Wan , Yuejin Zhang , Chenglong Bao , Bin Dong , Zuoqiang Shi

We present a novel shape-approximating anisotropic re-meshing algorithm as a geometric generalization of the adaptive moving mesh method. Conventional moving mesh methods reduce the interpolation error of a mesh that discretizes a given…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Nicolas Nebel , Albert Chern

A variational framework, initially developed for high-order mesh optimisation, is being extended for r-adaptation. The method is based on the minimisation of a functional of the mesh deformation. To achieve adaptation, elements of the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-01-07 Julian Marcon , Michael Turner , David Moxey , Spencer J. Sherwin , Joaquim Peiró

In this paper, we propose a unified framework, the Hessian discretisation method (HDM), which is based on four discrete elements (called altogether a Hessian discretisation) and a few intrinsic indicators of accuracy, independent of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-28 Jérôme Droniou , Bishnu P. Lamichhane , Devika Shylaja

Recent progress in PDE constrained optimization on shape manifolds is based on the Hadamard form of shape derivatives, i.e., in the form of integrals at the boundary of the shape under investigation, as well as on intrinsic shape metrics.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-01-03 Volker Schulz , Martin Siebenborn , Kathrin Welker

When solving a PDE problem numerically, a certain mesh-refinement process is always implicit, and very classically, mesh adaptivity is a very effective means to accelerate grid convergence. Similarly, when optimizing a shape by means of an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-09-11 Badr Abou El Majd

Since shape optimization methods have been proven useful for identifying interfaces in models governed by partial differential equations, we show how shape optimization techniques can also be applied to an interface identification problem…

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This work deals with shape optimization for contact mechanics. More specifically, the linear elasticity model is considered under the small deformations hypothesis, and the elastic body is assumed to be in contact (sliding or with Tresca…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-30 Bastien Chaudet-Dumas

We consider general shape optimization problems governed by Dirichlet boundary value problems. The proposed approach may be extended to other boundary conditions as well. It is based on a recent representation result for implicitly defined…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-27 Cornel Marius Murea , Dan Tiba

In this paper, the elliptic PDE-constrained optimization problem with box constraints on the control is studied. To numerically solve the problem, we apply the 'optimize-discretize-optimize' strategy. Specifically, the alternating direction…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-14 Xiaotong Chen , Xiaoliang Song , Zixuan Chen , Bo Yu

We introduce a novel representation and optimization framework for discrete geodesics on triangle meshes that reduces artifacts of linear methods on uneven and coarse discretizations. Our method computes squared geodesic distances from…

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We introduce the concept of data-driven finite element methods. These are finite-element discretizations of partial differential equations (PDEs) that resolve quantities of interest with striking accuracy, regardless of the underlying mesh…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-15 Ignacio Brevis , Ignacio Muga , Kristoffer G. van der Zee

We introduce a family of hybrid discretisations for the numerical approximation of optimal control problems governed by the equations of immiscible displacement in porous media. The proposed schemes are based on mixed and discontinuous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-05-02 S. Kumar , R. Ruiz Baier , R. Sandilya