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Numerical simulations are a valuable research and layout tool for fluid flow problems, yet repeated evaluations of parametrized problems, necessary to solve optimization problems, can be very costly. One option to speed up this process is…

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We study fractional variational problems of Herglotz type of variable order. Necessary optimality conditions, described by fractional differential equations depending on a combined Caputo fractional derivative of variable order, are proved.…

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Coupled 3D-1D problems arise in many practical applications, in an attempt to reduce the computational burden in simulations where cylindrical inclusions with a small section are embedded in a much larger domain. Nonetheless the resolution…

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PDE-constrained optimization aims at finding optimal setups for partial differential equations so that relevant quantities are minimized. Including sparsity promoting terms in the formulation of such problems results in more practically…

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Partial differential equation (PDE)-constrained optimization arises in many scientific and engineering domains, such as energy systems, fluid dynamics and material design. In these problems, the decision variables (e.g., control inputs or…

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We consider a time fractional differential equation of order $\alpha$, $0<\alpha<1$, $$ \frac{\partial c(x,t)}{\partial t}={}^C_0\mathcal{D}_t^{\alpha}[(Ac)(x,t)]+q(x,t) ,\quad x > 0, t > 0, \quad c(x,0)=f(x). $$ where…

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This paper presents a numerical method to solve a time-fractional Burgers equation, achieving order of convergence $(2-\alpha)$ in time, here $\alpha$ represents the order of the time derivative. The fractional derivative is modeled by…

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We study the regional controllability problem for delayed fractional control systems through the use of the standard Caputo derivative. First, we recall several fundamental results and introduce the family of fractional-order systems under…

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Partial differential equation (PDE)-constrained optimization, where an optimization problem is subject to PDE constraints, arises in various applications such as design, control, and inference. Solving such problems is computationally…

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In this paper, we investigate the inverse problem of determining the right-hand side of a subdiffusion equation with a Caputo time derivative, where the right-hand side depends on both time and certain spatial variables. Similar inverse…

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In this paper we introduce a new hierarchical model reduction framework for the Fokker-Planck equation. We reduce the dimension of the equation by a truncated basis expansion in the velocity variable, obtaining a hyperbolic system of…

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This work is on a user-friendly reduced basis method for solving a family of parametric PDEs by preconditioned Krylov subspace methods including the conjugate gradient method, generalized minimum residual method, and bi-conjugate gradient…

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Solving inverse and optimization problems over solutions of nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs) on complex spatial domains is a long-standing challenge. Here we introduce a method that parameterizes the solution using spectral…

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We consider a conflict-controlled dynamical system described by a nonlinear ordinary fractional differential equation with the Caputo derivative of an order $\alpha \in (0, 1).$ Basing on the finite-difference Gr\"{u}nwald-Letnikov…

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