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This article shows that a large class of posterior measures that are absolutely continuous with respect to a Gaussian prior have strong maximum a posteriori estimators in the sense of Dashti et al. (2013). This result holds in any separable…

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In this paper, we study a modified residual-based a posteriori error estimator for the nonconforming linear finite element approximation to the interface problem. The reliability of the estimator is analyzed by a new and direct approach…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-23 Zhiqiang Cai , Cuiyu He , Shun Zhang

The estimation of the covariance matrix is an initial step in many multivariate statistical methods such as principal components analysis and factor analysis, but in many practical applications the dimensionality of the sample space is…

Methodology · Statistics 2012-06-12 Søren Feodor Nielsen , Jon Sporring

We derive a maximum a posteriori estimator for the linear observation model, where the signal and noise covariance matrices are both uncertain. The uncertainties are treated probabilistically by modeling the covariance matrices with prior…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-03-12 Dave Zachariah , Nafiseh Shariati , Mats Bengtsson , Magnus Jansson , Saikat Chatterjee

The a posteriori error estimator using the least-squares functional can be used for adaptive mesh refinement and error control even if the numerical approximations are not obtained from the corresponding least-squares method. This suggests…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-19 Ziyan Li , Shun Zhang

This work is concerned with optimal control problems where the objective functional consists of a tracking-type functional and an additional "multibang" regularization functional that promotes optimal control taking values from a given…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-14 Christian Clason , Thi Bich Tram Do , Frank Pörner

We propose a novel a posteriori error estimator for conforming finite element discretizations of two- and three-dimensional Helmholtz problems. The estimator is based on an equilibrated flux that is computed by solving patchwise mixed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-05 T. Chaumont-Frelet , A. Ern , M. Vohralík

This paper is concerned with the two--phase obstacle problem, a type of a variational free boundary problem. We recall the basic estimates of Repin and Valdman (2015) and verify them numerically on two examples in two space dimensions. A…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-06-06 Farid Bozorgnia , Jan Valdman

This work studies a posteriori error estimates and their use for time-dependent acoustic scattering problems, formulated as a time-dependent boundary integral equation based on a single-layer ansatz. The integral equation is discretized by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-05 Théophile Chaumont-Frelet , Heiko Gimperlein , Ignacio Labarca-Figueroa , Jörg Nick

We investigate the application of a posteriori error estimates to a fractional optimal control problem with pointwise control constraints. Specifically, we address a problem in which the state equation is formulated as an integral form of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-10 Fangyuan Wang , Qiming Wang , Zhaojie Zhou

In certain applications involving the solution of a Bayesian inverse problem, it may not be possible or desirable to evaluate the full posterior, e.g. due to the high computational cost of doing so. This problem motivates the use of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-02-27 Han Cheng Lie , T. J. Sullivan , Aretha Teckentrup

Residual-based a~posteriori error estimators are derived for the modified Morley FEM, proposed by Wang, Xu, Hu [J. Comput. Math, 24(2), 2006], for the singularly perturbed biharmonic equation and the nonlinear von K\'arm\'an equations. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-17 A. K. Dond , D. Gallistl , S. Nayak , M. Schedensack

We propose a new heuristic goal-oriented a posteriori error estimator that connects the dual weighted residual method with equilibrated a posteriori error estimation. Our numerical experiments demonstrate the practical reliability of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-08-01 Martin Licht , Matthias Maier

This work deals with the a posteriori error estimates for the Darcy-Forchheimer problem. We introduce the corresponding variational formulation and discretize it by using the finite-element method. A posteriori error estimate with two types…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-24 Georges Semaan , Toni Sayah , Faouzi Triki

The a posteriori error estimates are studied for a class of nonlinear stead-state Poisson-Nernst-Planck equations, which are a coupled system consisting of the Nernst-Planck equation and the Poisson equation. Both the global upper bounds…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-10 Ying Yang , Ruigang Shen , Mingjuan Fang , Shi Shu

We verify functional a posteriori error estimate for obstacle problem proposed by Repin. Simplification into 1D allows for the construction of a nonlinear benchmark for which an exact solution of the obstacle problem can be derived. Quality…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-04 Petr Harasim , Jan Valdman

Lower a posteriori error bounds obtained using the standard bubble function approach are reviewed in the context of anisotropic meshes. A numerical example is given that clearly demonstrates that the short-edge jump residual terms in such…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-03 Natalia Kopteva

This study is aimed at answering the famous question of how the approximation errors at each iteration of Approximate Dynamic Programming (ADP) affect the quality of the final results considering the fact that errors at each iteration…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-05-18 Ali Heydari

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

We consider a general linear control system and a general quadratic cost, where the state evolves continuously in time and the control is sampled, i.e., is piecewise constant over a subdivision of the time interval. This is the framework of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-04-22 Loïc Bourdin , Emmanuel Trélat