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This paper investigates a shape optimization problem involving the Signorini unilateral conditions in a linear elastic model, without any penalization procedure. The shape sensitivity analysis is performed using tools from convex and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-25 Aymeric Jacob de Cordemoy

In recent years, a number of finite element methods have been formulated for the solution of partial differential equations on complex geometries based on non-matching or overlapping meshes. Examples of such methods include the fictitious…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-10-29 André Massing , Mats G. Larson , Anders Logg

In this paper, we propose a stabilised finite element method for the numerical solution of contact between a small deformation elastic membrane and a rigid obstacle. We limit ourselves to friction--free contact, but the formulation is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-11-15 Erik Burman , Peter Hansbo , Mats G. Larson

We demonstrate that a small modification of the multiplicative, additive and restricted additive Schwarz preconditioner at the algebraic level, motivated by optimized Schwarz methods defined at the continuous level, leads to a significant…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Amik St-Cyr , Martin J. Gander , Stephen J. Thomas

We propose a posteriori error estimators for classical low-order inf-sup stable and stabilized finite element approximations of the Stokes problem with singular sources in two and three dimensional Lipschitz, but not necessarily convex,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-01-30 Alejandro Allendes , Enrique Otarola , Abner J. Salgado

We prove quasi-optimal a priori error estimates for finite element approximations of boundary normal fluxes in the $L^2$-norm. Our results are valid for a variety of different schemes for weakly enforcing Dirichlet boundary conditions…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-01-28 Mats G. Larson , Andre Massing

Consider the elastic scattering of an incident wave by a rigid obstacle in three dimensions, which is formulated as an exterior problem for the Navier equation. By constructing a Dirichlet-to-Neumann (DtN) operator and introducing a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-18 Gang Bao , Peijun Li , Xiaokai Yuan

A numerical scheme is presented to solve the one source near field refractor problem to arbitrary precision and it is proved that the scheme terminates in a finite number of iterations. The convergence of the algorithm depends upon proving…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-04-26 Cristian E. Gutiérrez , Henok Mawi

We present a distributed Lagrange multiplier formulation of the Finite Element Immersed Boundary Method to couple incompressible fluids with compressible solids. This is a generalization of the formulation presented in Heltai and Costanzo…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-08 Daniele Boffi , Lucia Gastaldi , Luca Heltai

We consider nodal-based Lagrangian interpolations for the finite element approximation of the Maxwell eigenvalue problem. The first approach introduced is a standard Galerkin method on Powell-Sabin meshes, which has recently been shown to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-04-04 Daniele Boffi , Ramon Codina , Önder Türk

In this paper we present an abstract nonsmooth optimization problem for which we recall existence and uniqueness results. We show a numerical scheme to approximate its solution. The theory is later applied to a sample static contact problem…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-19 Anna Ochal , Michal Jureczka , Piotr Bartman

In this article, we derive \textit{a posteriori} error estimates for the Dirichlet boundary control problem governed by Stokes equation. An energy-based method has been deployed to solve the Dirichlet boundary control problem. We employ an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-30 Thirupathi Gudi , Ramesh Chandra Sau

We present a stable and convergent method for solving initial value problems based on the use of differentiation matrices obtained by Lagrange interpolation. This implicit multistep-like method is easy-to-use and performs pretty well in the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2009-07-06 Rafael G. Campos , Francisco Dominguez Mota

We derive optimal order a posteriori error estimates for fully discrete approximations of linear Schr\"odinger-type equations, in the $L^\infty(L^2)-$norm. For the discretization in time we use the Crank-Nicolson method, while for the space…

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In this paper, we propose a general approach for explicit a posteriori error representation for convex minimization problems using basic convex duality relations. Exploiting discrete orthogonality relations in the space of element-wise…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-11 Sören Bartels , Alex Kaltenbach

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…

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We propose and analyze a reliable and efficient a posteriori error estimator for a constrained linear-quadratic optimal control problem involving Dirac measures; the control variable corresponds to the amplitude of forces modeled as point…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-09 Alejandro Allendes , Enrique Otarola , Richard Rankin , Abner J. Salgado

We propose a new finite element method for Helmholtz equation in the situation where an acoustically permeable interface is embedded in the computational domain. A variant of Nitsche's method, different from the standard one, weakly…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-03-01 Esubalewe Lakie Yedeg , Eddie Wadbro , Peter Hansbo , Mats G. Larson , Martin Berggren

Applying an original megaideal-based version of the algebraic method, we compute the point-symmetry pseudogroup of the dispersionless (potential symmetric) Nizhnik equation. This is the first example of this kind in the literature, where…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2024-02-27 Vyacheslav M. Boyko , Roman O. Popovych , Oleksandra O. Vinnichenko

We consider finite element solutions to optimization problems, where the state depends on the possibly constrained control through a linear partial differential equation. Basing upon a reduced and rescaled optimality system, we derive a…

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