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This paper develops and discusses a residual-based a posteriori error estimator for parabolic surface partial differential equations on closed stationary surfaces. The full discretization uses the surface finite element method in space and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Balázs Kovács , Michael Lantelme

A posteriori error estimators for the symmetric mixed finite element methods for linear elasticity problems of Dirichlet and mixed boundary conditions are proposed. Stability and efficiency of the estimators are proved. Finally, we provide…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-05-12 Long Chen , Jun Hu , Xuehai Huang , Hongying Man

This work establishes a general stochastic maximum principle for partially observed optimal control of semi-linear stochastic partial differential equations in a nonconvex control domain. The state evolves in a Hilbert space driven by a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-22 Yanzhao Cao , Hongjiang Qian , George Yin

In this paper, we investigate optimal control problems subject to a semilinear elliptic partial differential equations. The cost functional contains a term that measures the size of the support of the control, which is the so-called…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-13 Eduardo Casas , Daniel Wachsmuth

Within this article, we develop a residual type a posteriori error estimator for a time discrete quasi-static phase-field fracture model. Particular emphasize is given to the robustness of the error estimator for the variational inequality…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-21 Mirjam Walloth , Winnifried Wollner

We derive error estimates for a linear-quadratic elliptic distributed optimal control problem with pointwise control constraints that can be applied to standard finite element methods and multiscale finite element methods.

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-08 Susanne C. Brenner , Li-yeng Sung

We investigate the numerical approximation of an elliptic optimal control problem which involves a nonconvex local regularization of the $L^q$-quasinorm penalization (with $q\in(0,1)$) in the cost function. Our approach is based on the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-26 Pedro Merino , Alexander Nenjer

We consider finite element solutions to quadratic optimization problems, where the state depends on the control via a well-posed linear partial differential equation. Exploiting the structure of a suitably reduced optimality system, we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-03 Fernando Gaspoz , Christian Kreuzer , Andreas Veeser , Winnifried Wollner

In this paper, we investigate optimal control problems governed by semilinear elliptic variational inequalities involving constraints on the state, and more precisely the obstacle problem. Since we adopt a numerical point of view, we first…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-10 El Hassene Osmani , Mounir Haddou , Naceurdine Bensalem

We present an equilibration-based a posteriori error estimator for N\'ed\'elec element discretizations of the magnetostatic problem. The estimator is obtained by adding a gradient correction to the estimator for N\'ed\'elec elements of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-26 Joscha Gedicke , Sjoerd Geevers , Ilaria Perugia , Joachim Schöberl

In this paper we investigate a priori error estimates for the space-time Galerkin finite element discretization of an optimal control problem governed by a simplified linear gradient enhanced damage model. The model equations are of a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-10 Marita Holtmannspötter , Arnd Rösch , Boris Vexler

In this paper, we study two residual-based a posteriori error estimators for the $C^0$ interior penalty method in solving the biharmonic equation in a polygonal domain under a concentrated load. The first estimator is derived directly from…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-29 Huihui Cao , Yunqing Huang , Nianyu Yi , Peimeng Yin

This paper is dedicated to the stability analysis of the optimal solutions of a control problem associated with a semilinear elliptic equation. The linear differential operator of the equation is neither monotone nor coercive due to the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-20 Eduardo Casas , Alberto Domínguez Corella , Nicolai Jork

In this paper we present a simple method of deriving a posteriori error equalities and estimates for linear elliptic and parabolic partial differential equations. The error is measured in a combined norm taking into account both the primal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-11-16 Immanuel Anjam , Dirk Pauly

In this work, we derive a $\gamma$-robust a posteriori error estimator for finite element approximations of the Allen-Cahn equation with variable non-degenerate mobility. The estimator utilizes spectral estimates for the linearized steady…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-15 Aaron Brunk , Jan Giesselmann , Maria Lukacova-Medvidova

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

A posteriori error estimates are derived in the context of two-dimensional structural elastic shape optimization under the compliance objective. It is known that the optimal shape features are microstructures that can be constructed using…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-01-30 Benedict Geihe , Martin Rumpf

Optimal control problems involving hybrid binary-continuous control costs are challenging due to their lack of convexity and weak lower semicontinuity. Replacing such costs with their convex relaxation leads to a primal-dual optimality…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-02-27 Christian Clason , Kazufumi Ito , Karl Kunisch

We introduce quantitative and robust tools to control the numerical accuracy in simulations performed using the Multiscale Finite Element Method (MsFEM). First, we propose a guaranteed and fully computable a posteriori error estimate for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-09 Ludovic Chamoin , Frederic Legoll

This work is focused on the application of functional-type a posteriori error estimates and corresponding indicators to a class of time-dependent problems. We consider the algorithmic part of their derivation and implementation and also…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2017-05-25 Bärbel Holm , Svetlana Matculevich