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The weak Galerkin (WG) finite element method is an effective and flexible general numerical technique for solving partial differential equations. It is a natural extension of the classic conforming finite element method for discontinuous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-29 Xiu Ye , Shangyou Zhang

Stochastic Galerkin methods offer unexplored potential for the numerical simulation of parabolic problems with random variables, in particular if they are combined with variational discretizations of the space and time variables. Due to the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-21 Moataz Dawor , Nils Margenberg , Markus Bause

Spatial light modulators are widely used to perform modulations of different properties of the electromagnetic field. In this work, a simple optimization method for general double-pass setups was developed. It takes into account the…

Optics · Physics 2022-02-09 Sebastián Bordakevich , Lorena Rebón , Silvia Ledesma

The problem of equilibrium of a plasma in a Tokamak is a free boundary problemdescribed by the Grad-Shafranov equation in axisymmetric configurations. The right hand side of this equation is a non linear source, which represents the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2009-09-10 Jacques Blum , Cédric Boulbe , Blaise Faugeras

In this work, we propose to efficiently solve time dependent parametrized optimal control problems governed by parabolic partial differential equations through the certified reduced basis method. In particular, we will exploit an error…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-10 Maria Strazzullo , Francesco Ballarin , Gianluigi Rozza

We introduce a new algorithm to solve a regularized spatial-spectral image estimation problem. Our approach is based on the linearized alternating directions method of multipliers (LADMM), which is a variation of the popular ADMM algorithm.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-25 Yunsong Liu , Debdut Mandal , Congyu Liao , Kawin Setsompop , Justin P. Haldar

Discrete variational methods show excellent performance in numerical simulations of different mechanical systems. In this paper, we introduce an iterative procedure for the solution of discrete variational equations for boundary value…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-22 Sebastián J. Ferraro , David Martín de Diego , Rodrigo Takuro Sato Martín de Almagro

We develop a method for calculating the equilibrium properties of the liquid-solid phase transition in a classical, ideal, multi-component plasma. Our method is a semi-analytic calculation that relies on extending the accurate fitting…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-07-31 Zach Medin , Andrew Cumming

We present a multiscale continuous Galerkin (MSCG) method for the fast and accurate stochastic simulation and optimization of time-harmonic wave propagation through photonic crystals. The MSCG method exploits repeated patterns in the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-30 Ferran Vidal-Codina , Joel Saa-Seoane , Ngoc-Cuong Nguyen , Jaime Peraire

We develop efficient hierarchical preconditioners for optimal control problems governed by partial differential equations with uncertain coefficients. Adopting a discretize-then-optimize framework that integrates finite element…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Zhendong Li , Akwum Onwunta , Bedřich Sousedík

Moment dynamics in stochastic chemical kinetics often involve an infinite chain of coupled equations, where lower-order moments depend on higher-order ones, making them analytically intractable. Moment bounding via semidefinite programming…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Tomoki Sadatoshi , Antonis Papachristodoulou , Yutaka Hori

Recently, multi-sensors fusion has achieved significant progress in the field of automobility to improve navigation and position performance. As the prerequisite of the fusion algorithm, the demand for the extrinsic calibration of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Hou lanhua

In our previous work [SIAM J. Sci. Comput. 43(3) (2021) B784-B810], an accurate hyper-singular boundary integral equation method for dynamic poroelasticity in two dimensions has been developed. This work is devoted to studying the more…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-10 Lu Zhang , Liwei Xu , Tao Yin

A new axisymmetric equilibrium solver has been written, called FEQIS (Flexible EQuIlibrium Solver), which purpose is to be used inside integrated modeling of tokamak plasmas. The FEQIS code solves the Grad-Shafranov equation and the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-05-07 E. Fable , G. Tardini , L. Giannone , the ASDEX Upgrade Team

Force-free magnetic fields are important in many astrophysical settings. Determining the properties of such force-free fields -- especially smoothness and stability properties -- is crucial to understanding many key phenomena in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-22 D. I. Pontin , G. Hornig , A. L. Wilmot-Smith , I. J. D. Craig

Nonlinear optimal control problems for trajectory planning with obstacle avoidance present several challenges. While general-purpose optimizers and dynamic programming methods struggle when adopted separately, their combination enabled by a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-09 Rebecca Richter , Alberto De Marchi , Matthias Gerdts

Translations or, more generally, coordinate transformations of scalar fields arise in several applications, such as weather, accretion disk and magnetized plasma turbulence modeling. In local studies of accretion disks and magnetized…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-10-07 Manaure Francisquez , Noah R. Mandell , Ammar Hakim , Gregory W. Hammett

In this contribution, we extend the hybridization framework for the Hodge Laplacian [Awanou et al., Hybridization and postprocessing in finite element exterior calculus, 2023] to port-Hamiltonian systems describing linear wave propagation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-25 Andrea Brugnoli , Ramy Rashad , Yi Zhang , Stefano Stramigioli

This paper presents a particle-based optimization method designed for addressing minimization problems with equality constraints, particularly in cases where the loss function exhibits non-differentiability or non-convexity. The proposed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-31 José A. Carrillo , Shi Jin , Haoyu Zhang , Yuhua Zhu

This paper outlines an energy-minimization finite-element approach to the modeling of equilibrium configurations for nematic liquid crystals in the presence of internal and external electric fields. The method targets minimization of system…

Computational Physics · Physics 2014-07-14 J. H. Adler , T. J. Atherton , T. R. Benson , D. B. Emerson , S. P. MacLachlan