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We study linear parabolic initial-value problems in a space-time variational formulation based on fractional calculus. This formulation uses "time derivatives of order one half" on the bi-infinite time axis. We show that for linear,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-01-20 Stig Larsson , Christoph Schwab

The main goal of the paper is to establish time semidiscrete and space-time fully discrete maximal parabolic regularity for the lowest order time discontinuous Galerkin solution of linear parabolic equations with time-dependent…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-20 Dmitriy Leykekhman , Boris Vexler

We consider a space-time variational formulation of parabolic initial-boundary value problems in anisotropic Sobolev spaces in combination with a Hilbert-type transformation. This variational setting is the starting point for the space-time…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-06 Ulrich Langer , Marco Zank

We consider a semilinear parabolic equation with a large class of nonlinearities without any growth conditions. We discretize the problem with a discontinuous Galerkin scheme dG(0) in time (which is a variant of the implicit Euler scheme)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-17 Dominik Meidner , Boris Vexler

The presence of corners in the computational domain, in general, reduces the regularity of solutions of parabolic problems and diminishes the convergence properties of the finite element approximation introducing a so-called "pollution…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-03-19 Piotr Swierczynski , Barbara Wohlmuth

The purpose of this work is the development of space-time discretization schemes for phase-field optimal control problems. Specifically in the optimal control minimization problem, a tracking-type cost functional is minimized to steer the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-14 Denis Khimin , Marc C. Steinbach , Thomas Wick

In this paper, we investigate optimal control problems governed by the parabolic interface equation, in which the control acts on the interface. The solution to this problem exhibits low global regularity due to the jump of the coefficient…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-15 Xindan Zhang , Jianping Zhao , Yanren Hou

In this paper we study the finite element approximation of systems of second-order nonlinear hyperbolic equations. The proposed numerical method combines a $hp$-version discontinuous Galerkin finite element approximation in the time…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-02 Aili Shao

An adaptive direct collocation method is developed for solving optimal control problems constrained by parabolic partial differential equations. The partial differential equation is first reformulated in a variational setting, where the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-18 Alexander M. Davies , Sara Pollock , Miriam E. Dennis , Anil V. Rao

We present recent finite element numerical results on a model convection-diffusion problem in the singular perturbed case when the convection term dominates the problem. We compare the standard Galerkin discretization using the linear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-16 Constantin Bacuta , Daniel Hayes , Tyler O'Grady

We develop a new spatial semidiscrete multiscale method based upon the edge multiscale methods to solve semilinear parabolic problems with heterogeneous coefficients and smooth initial data. This method allows for a cheap spatial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Leonardo A. Poveda , Shubin Fu , Guanglian Li , Eric Chung

In this paper we develop an adaptive procedure for the numerical solution of semilinear parabolic problems, with possible singular perturbations. Our approach combines a linearization technique using Newton's method with an adaptive…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-10-05 Mario Amrein , Thomas P. Wihler

In this paper we establish best approximation type error estimates for the fully discrete Galerkin solutions of the time-dependent Stokes problem using the stream-function formulation. For the time discretization we use the discontinuous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Dmitriy Leykekhman , Boris Vexler , Jakob Wagner

We present and analyse a new conforming space-time Galerkin discretisation of a semi-linear wave equation, based on a variational formulation derived from De Giorgi's elliptic regularisation viewpoint of the wave equation in second-order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-22 Lehel Banjai , Emmanuil H. Georgoulis , Brian Hennessy

In this paper we propose a new finite element method for solving elliptic optimal control problems with pointwise state constraints, including the distributed controls and the Dirichlet or Neumann boundary controls. The main idea is to use…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-07 Wei Gong , Zhiyu Tan

We consider a linear-quadratic pde constrained optimal control problem on an evolving surface with pointwise state constraints. We reformulate the optimization problem on a fixed surface and approximate the reformulated problem by a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-04-27 Michael Hinze , Heiko Kröner

We consider locally stabilized, conforming finite element schemes on completely unstructured simplicial space-time meshes for the numerical solution of parabolic initial-boundary value problems with variable, possibly discontinuous in space…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-23 Ulrich Langer , Andreas Schafelner

The present study investigates a linear-quadratic Dirichlet control problem governed by a non-coercive elliptic equation posed on a possibly non-convex polygonal domain. Tikhonov regularization is carried out in an energy seminorm. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Thomas Apel , Mariano Mateos , Arnd Rösch

This paper presents a novel space-time topology optimisation framework for time-dependent thermal conduction problems, aiming to significantly reduce the time-to-solution. By treating time as an additional spatial dimension, we discretise…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Joe Alexandersen , Magnus Appel

This paper aims to investigate a full numerical approximation of non-autonomous semilnear parabolic partial differential equations (PDEs) with nonsmooth initial data. Our main interest is on such PDEs where the nonlinear part is stronger…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-09-11 Antoine Tambue , Jean Daniel Mukam