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This paper is concerned with a blood flow problem coupled with a slow plaque growth at the artery wall. In the model, the micro (fast) system is the Navier-Stokes equation with a periodically applied force and the macro (slow) system is a…
We develop a continuous adjoint formulation and implementation for controlling the deformation of clean, neutrally buoyant droplets in Stokes flow through farfield velocity boundary conditions. The focus is on dynamics where surface tension…
We propose time-domain boundary integral and coupled boundary integral and variational formulations for acoustic scattering by linearly elastic obstacles. Well posedness along with stability and error bounds with explicit time dependence…
A new formulation of boundary value problems in gradient elasticity is presented in this work. The main outcome is the construction of partial differential systems of second order, which are typically equivalent with the well known fourth…
We introduce a novel primal-dual flow for affine constrained convex optimization problems. As a modification of the standard saddle-point system, our primal-dual flow is proved to possess the exponential decay property, in terms of a…
We use a recently developed method \cite{Costinetal}, \cite{Dubrovin} to find accurate analytic approximations with rigorous error bounds for the classic similarity solution of Blasius of the boundary layer equation in fluid mechanics, the…
We develop a model for steady, laminar boundary layers over small-scale textured surfaces. Although the texture is small relative to the boundary-layer thickness, it modifies the flow via a slip length. We use matched asymptotic expansions…
This paper studies formulations of second-order elliptic partial differential equations in nondivergence form on convex domains as equivalent variational problems. The first formulation is that of Smears \& S\"uli [SIAM J.\ Numer.\ Anal.\…
For a class of partial differential algebraic equations (PDAEs) of quasi-linear type which include nonlinear terms of convection type a possibility to determine a time and spatial index is considered. As a typical example we investigate an…
We consider the primal and dual forms of the optimality conditions for PDE-contrained optimization problems arising in Data-Driven Computational Mechanics when specialized to the reaction-diffusion context. Starting with the continuous…
In this paper we propose a randomized primal-dual proximal block coordinate updating framework for a general multi-block convex optimization model with coupled objective function and linear constraints. Assuming mere convexity, we establish…
The goal of this paper is to give a comprehensive and short review on how to compute the first and second order topological derivative and potentially higher order topological derivatives for PDE constrained shape functionals. We employ the…
The comparison principle for scalar second order parabolic PDEs on functions $u(t,x)$ admits a topological interpretation: pairs of solutions, $u^1(t,\cdot)$ and $u^2(t,\cdot)$, evolve so as to not increase the intersection number of their…
The first contribution of this paper is the extension of the non-iterative transformation method, proposed by T\"opfer more than a century ago and defined for the numerical solution of the Blasius problem, to a Blasius problem with extended…
We examine stability properties of primal-dual gradient flow dynamics for composite convex optimization problems with multiple, possibly nonsmooth, terms in the objective function under the generalized consensus constraint. The proposed…
Learning probabilistic surrogates for partial differential equations remains challenging in data-scarce regimes: neural operators require large amounts of high-fidelity data, while generative approaches typically sacrifice resolution…
The adjoint method, recently introduced by Evans, is used to study obstacle problems, weakly coupled systems, cell problems for weakly coupled systems of Hamilton-Jacobi equations, and weakly coupled systems of obstacle type. In particular,…
The method of characteristics is a classical method for gaining understanding in the solution of a partial differential equation. It has recently been applied to the adjoint equations of the 2D Euler equations and the first goal of this…