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In this paper we present a hybrid approach to numerically solve two-dimensional electromagnetic inverse scattering problems, whereby the unknown scatterer is hosted by a possibly inhomogeneous background. The approach is `hybrid' in that it…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-10-22 G. Giorgi , M. Brignone , R. Aramini , M. Piana

With the development of multi-layer elastic systems in the field of engineering mechanics, the corresponding variational inequality theory and algorithm design have received more attention and research. In this study, a class of equivalent…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-11 Zhizhuo Zhang , Mikaël Barboteu , Xiaobing Nie , Serge Dumont , Mahmoud Abdel-Aty , Jinde Cao

We consider mixed finite element approximation of a singularly perturbed fourth-order elliptic problem with two different boundary conditions, and present a new measure of the error, whose components are balanced with respect to the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-09-16 Shaohong Du , Runchang Lin , Zhimin Zhang

We introduce an approximation method to solve an optimal control problem via the Lagrange dual of its weak formulation. It is based on a sum-of-squares representation of the Hamiltonian, and extends a previous method from polynomial…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-15 Eloïse Berthier , Justin Carpentier , Alessandro Rudi , Francis Bach

In this article, we aim to recover locally conservative and $H(div)$ conforming fluxes for the linear Cut Finite Element Solution with Nitsche's method for Poisson problems with Dirichlet boundary condition. The computation of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-07 Daniela Capatina , Cuiyu He

We present sharp estimates for the extremal eigenvalues of the Schur complements arising in saddle point problems. These estimates are derived using the auxiliary space theory, in which a given iterative method is interpreted as an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-03 Jongho Park

In this paper, new unfitted mixed finite elements are presented for elliptic interface problems with jump coefficients. Our model is based on a fictitious domain formulation with distributed Lagrange multiplier. The relevance of our…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-15 Najwa Alshehri , Daniele Boffi , Lucia Gastaldi

This paper proposes and analyzes an a posteriori error estimator for the finite element multi-scale discretization approximation of the Steklov eigenvalue problem. Based on the a posteriori error estimates, an adaptive algorithm of shifted…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-01-08 Hai Bi , Hao Li , Yidu Yang

An integro-differential equation of hyperbolic type, with mixed boundary conditions, is considered. A continuous space-time finite element method of degree one is formulated. A posteriori error representations based on space-time cells is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-11-16 Fardin Saedpanah

In this work, we develop a control-theoretic framework for constrained optimization problems with composite objective functions including non-differentiable terms. Building on the proximal augmented Lagrangian formulation, we construct a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-05 V. Cerone , S. M. Fosson , S. Pirrera , A. Re , D. Regruto

Immersed finite element methods have been developed as a means to circumvent the costly mesh generation required in conventional finite element analysis. However, the numerical ill-conditioning of the resultant linear system of equations in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-04 S. Saberi , G. Meschke , A. Vogel

We consider the existence and uniqueness of a minimizer of the extremal problem for weighted combined energy between two concentric annuli and obtain that the extremal mapping is a certain radial mapping. Meanwhile, this in turn implies a…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2024-01-19 Xiaogao Feng , Ruyue Tang , Ting Peng

The computational modeling of many engineering problems using the Finite Element method involves the modeling of two or more bodies that meet through an interface. The interface can be physical, as in multi-physics and contact problems, or…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2009-09-30 G. Haikal

This paper develops the proximal method of multipliers for a class of nonsmooth convex optimization. The method generates a sequence of minimization problems (subproblems). We show that the sequence of approximations to the solutions of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-14 Tomoya Takeuchi

We develop a Lagrange multiplier theory for nonconvex set-valued optimization problems under Lipschitz-type regularity conditions. Instead of classical continuous linear functionals, we introduce closed convex processes -- set-valued…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-09 Fernando García-Castaño , Miguel Ángel Melguizo-Padial

We propose and analyze a posteriori error estimates for a control-constrained optimal control problem with bang-bang solutions. We consider a solution strategy based on the variational approach, where the control variable is not…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-26 Francisco Fuica

We use the work of Milton, Seppecher, and Bouchitt\'{e} on variational principles for waves in lossy media to formulate a finite element method for solving the complex Helmholtz equation that is based entirely on minimization. In…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-08-02 Russell B. Richins , David C. Dobson

A posteriori error estimator is derived for an elliptic interface problem in the fictitious domain formulation with distributed Lagrange multiplier considering a discontinuous Lagrange multiplier finite element space. A posteriori error…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-02 Najwa Alshehri , Daniele Boffi , Lucia Gastaldi

A novel finite element formulation for gradient-regularized damage models is presented which allows for the robust, efficient, and mesh-independent simulation of damage phenomena in engineering and biological materials. The paper presents a…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Johannes Riesselmann , Daniel Balzani

We consider a mixed finite element method for a biharmonic equation with clamped boundary conditions based on biorthogonal systems with weakly imposed Dirichlet boundary condition. We show that the weak imposition of the boundary condition…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-18 Bishnu P Lamichhane