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The Stokes-Brinkman equations model flow in heterogeneous porous media by combining the Stokes and Darcy models of flow into a single system of equations. With suitable parameters, the equations can model either flow without detailed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-08-28 Kevin Williamson , Pavel Burda , Bedřich Sousedík

This paper is concerned with adaptive mesh refinement strategies for the spatial discretization of parabolic problems with dynamic boundary conditions. This includes the characterization of inf-sup stable discretization schemes for a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-12 Robert Altmann , Christoph Zimmer

In this work, we propose and analyze a pointwise a posteriori error estimator for simple eigenvalues of elliptic eigenvalue problems with adaptive finite element methods (AFEMs). We prove the reliability and efficiency of the residual-type…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Zhenglei Li , Qigang Liang , Xuejun Xu

We derive a residual-based a posteriori error estimator for the conforming hp-Adaptive Finite Element Method (hp-AFEM) for the steady state Stokes problem describing the slow motion of an incompressible fluid. This error estimator is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-16 Arezou Ghesmati , Wolfgang Bangerth , Bruno Turcksin

We shall develop a fully discrete space-time adaptive method for linear parabolic problems based on new reliable and efficient a posteriori analysis for higher order dG(s) finite element discretisations. The adaptive strategy is motivated…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-10-24 Fernando Gaspoz , Christian Kreuzer , Kunibert Siebert , Daniel Ziegler

We consider a pointwise tracking optimal control problem for a semilinear elliptic partial differential equation. We derive the existence of optimal solutions and analyze first and, necessary and sufficient, second order optimality…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-16 Alejandro Allendes , Francisco Fuica , Enrique Otarola

The core of the Model Predictive Control (MPC) method in every step of the algorithm consists in solving a time-dependent optimization problem on the prediction horizon of the MPC algorithm, and then to apply a portion of the optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-15 Alessandro Alla , Carmen Gräßle , Michael Hinze

This work develops user-friendly a posteriori error estimates of finite element methods, based on smoothers of linear iterative solvers. The proposed method employs simple smoothers, such as Jacobi or Gauss-Seidel iteration, on an auxiliary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Yuwen Li , Han Shui

In this work we present an adaptive Newton-type method to solve nonlinear constrained optimization problems in which the constraint is a system of partial differential equations discretized by the finite element method. The adaptive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-06-05 Thomas Carraro , Simon Dörsam , Stefan Frei , Daniel Schwarz

The aim of this paper is to analyze a mixed formulation for the two dimensional Stokes eigenvalue problem where the unknowns are the stress and the velocity, whereas the pressure can be recovered with a simple postprocess of the stress. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-03 Felipe Lepe , Gonzalo Rivera , Jesus Vellojin

We analyze a reliable and efficient max-norm a posteriori error estimator for a control-constrained, linear-quadratic optimal control problem. The estimator yields optimal experimental rates of convergence within an adaptive loop.

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-11-21 Alejandro Allendes , Enrique Otarola , Richard Rankin , Abner J. Salgado

We consider Poisson's equation with a finite number of weighted Dirac masses as a source term, together with its discretization by means of conforming finite elements. For the error in fractional Sobolev spaces, we propose residual-type a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-07-30 Fernando D. Gaspoz , Pedro Morin , Andreas Veeser

Time-fractional parabolic equations with a Caputo time derivative are considered. For such equations, we explore and further develop the new methodology of the a-posteriori error estimation and adaptive time stepping proposed in [7]. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-27 Sebastian Franz , Natalia Kopteva

The discretization of fluid-poromechanics systems is typically highly demanding in terms of computational effort. This is particularly true for models of multiphysics flows in the brain, due to the geometrical complexity of the cerebral…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-16 Ivan Fumagalli , Nicola Parolini , Marco Verani

We propose a new and simpler residual based a posteriori error estimator for finite element approximation of the elliptic obstacle problem. The results in the article are two fold. Firstly, we address the influence of the inhomogeneous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-10 Sharat Gaddam , Thirupathi Gudi

In this paper, for the Stokes eigenvalue problem in $d$-dimensional case $(d=2,3)$, we present an a posteriori error estimate of residual type of the mixed discontinuous Galerkin finite element method using $P_{k}-P_{k-1}$ element $(k\geq…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-14 L. L. Sun , H. Bi , Y. D. Yang

In this paper we analyze a posteriori error estimates for a mixed formulation of the linear elasticity eigenvalue problem. A posteriori estimators for the nearly and perfectly compressible elasticity spectral problems are proposed. With a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-12 Felipe Lepe , Gonzalo Rivera , Jesús Vellojín

In this paper we analyze the finite element approximation of the Stokes equations with non-smooth Dirichlet boundary data. To define the discrete solution, we first approximate the boundary datum by a smooth one and then apply a standard…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-12 Ricardo G. Durán , Lucia Gastaldi , Ariel L. Lombardi

We develop and analyse residual-based a posteriori error estimates for the virtual element discretisation of a nonlinear stress-assisted diffusion problem in two and three dimensions. The model problem involves a two-way coupling between…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-26 Franco Dassi , Rekha Khot , Andres E. Rubiano , Ricardo Ruiz-Baier

We analyze a pointwise tracking multiobjective optimal control problem subject to the Poisson problem and bilateral control constraints. To approximate Pareto optimal points and the Pareto front numerically, we consider two different finite…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-21 Francisco Fuica , Stefan Volkwein