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We extend the discontinuous Galerkin (DG) framework to a linear second-order elliptic problem on a compact smooth connected and oriented surface. An interior penalty (IP) method is introduced on a discrete surface and we derive a-priori…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-01-11 Andreas Dedner , Pravin Madhavan , Björn Stinner

We study the problem of computing an optimal policy of an infinite-horizon discounted constrained Markov decision process (constrained MDP). Despite the popularity of Lagrangian-based policy search methods used in practice, the oscillation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-18 Dongsheng Ding , Chen-Yu Wei , Kaiqing Zhang , Alejandro Ribeiro

We develop and analyze a discontinuous Petrov--Galerkin method with optimal test functions (DPG method) for a shallow shell model of Koiter type. It is based on a uniformly stable ultraweak formulation and thus converges robustly…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-19 Thomas Führer , Norbert Heuer , Antti H. Niemi

We introduce and analyze a discontinuous Petrov-Galerkin method with optimal test functions for the heat equation. The scheme is based on the backward Euler time stepping and uses an ultra-weak variational formulation at each time step. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-07-04 Thomas Führer , Norbert Heuer , Jhuma Sen Gupta

A port-Hamiltonian (pH) system formulation is a geometrical notion used to formulate conservation laws for various physical systems. The distributed parameter port-Hamiltonian formulation models infinite dimensional Hamiltonian dynamical…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-12-15 N. Kumar , J. J. W. van der Vegt , H. J. Zwart

Divergence-free discontinuous Galerkin (DG) finite element methods offer a suitable discretization for the pointwise divergence-free numerical solution of Borrvall and Petersson's model for the topology optimization of fluids in Stokes flow…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-22 Ioannis P. A. Papadopoulos

We present a unified analysis for a family of variational time discretization methods, including discontinuous Galerkin methods and continuous Galerkin-Petrov methods, applied to non-stiff initial value problems. Besides the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-17 Simon Becher , Gunar Matthies

In many applications of practical interest, solutions of partial differential equation models arise as critical points of an underlying (energy) functional. If such solutions are saddle points, rather than being maxima or minima, then the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-07 Pascal Heid , Thomas P. Wihler

Deterministic Policy Gradient (DPG) removes a level of randomness from standard randomized-action Policy Gradient (PG), and demonstrates substantial empirical success for tackling complex dynamic problems involving Markov decision…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Harshat Kumar , Dionysios S. Kalogerias , George J. Pappas , Alejandro Ribeiro

We present a new stability and error analysis of fully discrete approximation schemes for the transient Stokes equation. For the spatial discretization, we consider a wide class of Galerkin finite element methods which includes both inf-sup…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-12 Alessandro Contri , Balázs Kovács , André Massing

We propose and analyze a space-time finite element method for Westervelt's quasilinear model of ultrasound waves in second-order formulation. The method combines conforming finite element spatial discretizations with a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-19 Sergio Gómez , Vanja Nikolić

We present a stability and error analysis of an embedded-hybridized discontinuous Galerkin (EDG-HDG) finite element method for coupled Stokes--Darcy flow and transport. The flow problem, governed by the Stokes--Darcy equations, is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-07 Aycil Cesmelioglu , Sander Rhebergen

Deep neural networks are powerful tools for approximating functions, and they are applied to successfully solve various problems in many fields. In this paper, we propose a neural network-based numerical method to solve partial differential…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-01 Yong Shang , Fei Wang , Jingbo Sun

This study investigates the complex Landau equation, a reaction diffusion system with applications in nonlinear optics and fluid dynamics. The equation's nonlinear imaginary component introduces rich dynamics and significant computational…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-12 Dimitrios Kostas

We consider the finite element discretization of an optimal Dirichlet boundary control problem for the Laplacian, where the control is considered in $H^{1/2}(\Gamma)$. To avoid computing the latter norm numerically, we realize it using the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-26 Michael Karkulik

We construct a space-time parallel method for solving parabolic partial differential equations by coupling the Parareal algorithm in time with overlapping domain decomposition in space. The goal is to obtain a discretization consisting of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-17 Jehanzeb Chaudhry , Donald Estep , Simon Tavener

This paper introduces a discretization-accurate stopping criterion of symmetric iterative methods for solving systems of algebraic equations resulting from the finite element approximation. The stopping criterion consists of the evaluations…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-09-19 Zhiqiang Cai , Shuhao Cao , Robert D. Falgout

We consider a family of variational time discretizations that are generalizations of discontinuous Galerkin (dG) and continuous Galerkin-Petrov (cGP) methods. The family is characterized by two parameters. One describes the polynomial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-26 Simon Becher , Gunar Matthies

This paper presents and analyzes a parallelizable iterative procedure based on domain decomposition for primal-dual weak Galerkin (PDWG) finite element methods applied to the Poisson equation. The existence and uniqueness of the PDWG…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-02 Chunmei Wang , Junping Wang

A numerical method is proposed for a class of stochastic control problems including singular behavior. This method solves an infinite-dimensional linear program equivalent to the stochastic control problem using a finite element type…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-06-11 Martin G. Vieten , Richard H. Stockbridge