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Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-10-03 Ed Clark , Nikos Katzourakis

We develop new multilevel Monte Carlo (MLMC) methods to estimate the expectation of the smallest eigenvalue of a stochastic convection-diffusion operator with random coefficients. The MLMC method is based on a sequence of finite element…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-13 Tiangang Cui , Hans De Sterck , Alexander D. Gilbert , Stanislav Polishchuk , Robert Scheichl

The Convex Envelope of a given function was recently characterized as the solution of a fully nonlinear Partial Differential Equation (PDE). In this article we study a modified problem: the Dirichlet problem for the underlying PDE. The main…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-07-07 Luis Silvestre , Adam M. Oberman

In this paper, we apply quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) methods with an initial preintegration step to estimate cumulative distribution functions and probability density functions in uncertainty quantification (UQ). The distribution and density…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-01 Alexander D. Gilbert , Frances Y. Kuo , Abirami Srikumar

We analyse and implement a quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) finite element method (FEM) for the forward problem of uncertainty quantification (UQ) for the Helmholtz equation with random coefficients, both in the second-order and zero-order terms of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Ivan G. Graham , Frances Y. Kuo , Dirk Nuyens , Ian H. Sloan , Euan A. Spence

This paper considers the problem of optimizing the average tracking error for an elliptic partial differential equation with an uncertain lognormal diffusion coefficient. In particular, the application of the multilevel quasi-Monte Carlo…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-30 Philipp A. Guth , Andreas Van Barel

The Dirichlet forms methods, in order to represent errors and their propagation, are particularly powerful in infinite dimensional problems such as models involving stochastic analysis encountered in finance or physics, cf. [5]. Now, coming…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-11-04 Nicolas Bouleau

We develop a higher regularity theory for general quasilinear elliptic equations and systems in divergence form with random coefficients. The main result is a large-scale $L^\infty$-type estimate for the gradient of a solution. The estimate…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-01-27 Scott N. Armstrong , Jean-Christophe Mourrat

In recent work of Hairer, Hutzenthaler and Jentzen, see [9], a stochastic differential equation (SDE) with infinitely often differentiable and bounded coefficients was constructed such that the Monte Carlo Euler method for approximation of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-03-30 Thomas Müller-Gronbach , Larisa Yaroslavtseva

In this paper we establish new renormalized oscillation theorems for discrete symplectic eigenvalue problems with Dirichlet boundary conditions. These theorems present the number of finite eigenvalues of the problem in arbitrary interval…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-07-06 Julia Elyseeva

The theoretical development of quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) methods for uncertainty quantification of partial differential equations (PDEs) is typically centered around simplified model problems such as elliptic PDEs subject to homogeneous zero…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-26 Laura Bazahica , Vesa Kaarnioja , Lassi Roininen

We study the application of a tailored quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) method to a class of optimal control problems subject to parabolic partial differential equation (PDE) constraints under uncertainty: the state in our setting is the solution of…

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This paper analyses the finite element component of the error when using preintegration to approximate the cdf and pdf for uncertainty quantification (UQ) problems involving elliptic PDEs with random inputs. It is a follow up to Gilbert,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Alexander D. Gilbert

The efficient approximation of quantity of interest derived from PDEs with lognormal diffusivity is a central challenge in uncertainty quantification. In this study, we propose a multilevel quasi-Monte Carlo framework to approximate…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-06 Joakim Beck , Yang Liu , Erik von Schwerin , Raúl Tempone

In this paper, we prove that there exists a unique solution to the Dirichlet boundary value problem for a general class of semilinear second order elliptic partial differential equations. Our approach is probabilistic. The theory of…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-11-19 Tusheng Zhang

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

This paper is concerned with the P1 finite element approximation of the eigenvalue problem of second-order elliptic operators subject to the Dirichlet boundary condition. The focus is on the preservation of basic properties of the principal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-06-23 Weizhang Huang

We investigate error bounds for numerical solutions of divergence structure linear elliptic PDEs on compact manifolds without boundary. Our focus is on a class of monotone finite difference approximations, which provide a strong form of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-05 Brittany Froese Hamfeldt , Axel G. R. Turnquist

We consider the probabilistic numerical scheme for fully nonlinear PDEs suggested in \cite{cstv}, and show that it can be introduced naturally as a combination of Monte Carlo and finite differences scheme without appealing to the theory of…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-08-26 Arash Fahim , Nizar Touzi , Xavier Warin

In this paper we consider multi-dimensional partial differential equations of parabolic type involving divergence form operators that possess a discontinuous coefficient matrix along some smooth interface. The solution of the equation is…

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