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This paper concerns the analysis of random second order linear differential equations. Usually, solving these equations consists of computing the first statistics of the response process, and that task has been an essential goal in the…

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In this paper, we consider the finite element approximation to a parabolic Dirichlet boundary control problem and establish new a priori error estimates. In the temporal semi-discretization we apply the DG(0) method for the state and the…

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We study the statistics of Dirichlet eigenvalues of the random Schr\"odinger operator $-\epsilon^{-2}\Delta^{(\text{d})}+\xi^{(\epsilon)}(x)$, with $\Delta^{(\text{d})}$ the discrete Laplacian on $\mathbb Z^d$ and $\xi^{(\epsilon)}(x)$…

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The probability density function (PDF) of a random variable associated with the solution of a partial differential equation (PDE) with random parameters is approximated using a truncated series expansion. The random PDE is solved using two…

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