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We consider second-order PDE problems set in unbounded domains and discretized by Lagrange finite elements on a finite mesh, thus introducing an artificial boundary in the discretization. Specifically, we consider the reaction diffusion…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-31 T. Chaumont-Frelet

The state-of-the art proof of a global inf-sup condition on mixed finite element schemes does not allow for an analysis of truly indefinite, second-order linear elliptic PDEs. This paper, therefore, first analyses a nonconforming finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-01-21 Carsten Carstensen , Asha K. Dond , Neela Nataraj , Amiya K. Pani

In this paper we present a finite element method for the direct transcription of constrained non-linear optimal control problems. We prove that our method converges of high order under mild assumptions. Our analysis uses a regularized…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-22 Martin Peter Neuenhofen

We develop a parametric cut finite element method for elliptic boundary value problems with corner singularities where we have weighted control of higher order derivatives of the solution to a neighborhood of a point at the boundary. Our…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-06-04 Tobias Jonsson , Mats G. Larson , Karl Larsson

Finite element approximations of minimal surface are not always precise. They can even sometimes completely collapse. In this paper, we provide a simple and inexpensive method, in terms of computational cost, to improve finite element…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-18 Aymeric Grodet , Takuya Tsuchiya

A general adaptive refinement strategy for solving linear elliptic partial differential equation with random data is proposed and analysed herein. The adaptive strategy extends the a posteriori error estimation framework introduced by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-23 Alex Bespalov , David Silvester , Feng Xu

In this paper a new hp-adaptive strategy for elliptic problems based on refinement history is proposed, which chooses h-, p- or hp-refinement on individual elements according to a posteriori error estimate, as well as smoothness estimate of…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2017-01-25 Hui Liu , Tao Cui , Wei Leng , Linbo Zhang

This paper studies an optimal control problem governed by a semilinear elliptic equation, in which the control acts in a multiplicative or bilinear way as the reaction coefficient of the equation. We focus on the numerical discretization of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-25 Eduardo Casas , Konstantinos Chrysafinos , Mariano Mateos

While much attention of neural network methods is devoted to high-dimensional PDE problems, in this work we consider methods designed to work for elliptic problems on domains $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R} ^d, $ $d=1,2,3$ in association with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-06 Georgios Grekas , Charalambos G. Makridakis

This article firstly develops a proximal explicit approach for the generalized method of lines. In such a method, the domain of the PDE in question is discretized in lines and the equation solution is written on these lines as functions of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-05-08 Fabio Botelho

The construction of finite element approximations in $\mathbf{H}(\mbox{div}, {\Omega})$ usually requires the Piola transformation to map vector polynomials from a master element to vector fields in the elements of a partition of the region…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-13 Philippe R. B. Devloo , Agnaldo M. Farias , Sônia M. Gomes

The convergence of an adaptive mixed finite element method for general second order linear elliptic problems defined on simply connected bounded polygonal domains is analyzed in this paper. The main difficulties in the analysis are posed by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-02-14 Asha K. Dond , Neela Nataraj , Amiya K. Pani

We present a fully iterative adaptive algorithm for the numerical minimization of strongly convex energy functionals in Hilbert spaces. The proposed approach, which we first present in abstract form, generates a hierarchical sequence of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-26 Raphael Leu , Thomas P. Wihler

We present useful connections between the finite difference and the finite element methods for a model boundary value problem. We start from the observation that, in the finite element context, the interpolant of the solution in one…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-16 Cristina Bacuta , Constantin Bacuta

Nonlinear two-point boundary value problems arise in numerous areas of application. The existence and number of solutions for various cases has been studied from a theoretical standpoint. These results generally rely upon growth conditions…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 E. L. Allgower , D. J. Bates , A. J. Sommese , C. W. Wampler

An inexact framework for high-order adaptive regularization methods is presented, in which approximations may be used for the $p$th-order tensor, based on lower-order derivatives. Between each recalculation of the $p$th-order derivative…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-10 Coralia Cartis , Sadok Jerad

We introduce a novel mesh-free and direct method for computing the shape derivative in PDE-constrained shape optimization problems. Our approach is based on a probabilistic representation of the shape derivative and is applicable for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Luka Schlegel , Volker Schulz , Frank T. Seifried , Maximilian Würschmidt

We present a numerical approximation method for linear diffusion-reaction problems with possibly discontinuous Dirichlet boundary conditions. The solution of such problems can be represented as a linear combination of explicitly known…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-07-05 Ramona Baumann , Thomas P. Wihler

The paper deals with finite element approximations of elliptic Dirichlet boundary control problems posed on two-dimensional polygonal domains. Error estimates are derived for the approximation of the control and the state variables. Special…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-01-28 Thomas Apel , Mariano Mateos , Johannes Pfefferer , Arnd Rösch

We study an inverse problem for nonlinear elliptic equations modelled after the p-Laplacian. It is proved that the boundary values of a conductivity coefficient are uniquely determined from boundary measurements given by a nonlinear…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-06-22 Mikko Salo , Xiao Zhong