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We consider some boundary value tracking optimal control problem constrained by a Neumann boundary value problem for some elliptic partial differential equation where the control acts as right-hand side. This optimal control problem can be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-12 Ulrich Langer , Richard Löscher , Olaf Steinbach , Huidong Yang

We develop an unfitted compatible finite element discretisation for the Darcy problem based on $H(\mathrm{div})$-conforming flux spaces and discontinuous pressure spaces. The method is designed to preserve pointwise discrete mass…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-30 Santiago Badia , Anne Boschman , Alberto F. Martín , Erik Nilsson , Ricardo Ruiz-Baier , Sara Zahedi

In [1] we consider an optimal control problem subject to a semilinear elliptic PDE together with its variational discretization, where we provide a condition which allows to decide whether a solution of the necessary first order conditions…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-04 Ahmad Ahmad Ali , Klaus Deckelnick , Michael Hinze

In this work, we formulate and analyze a geometric multigrid method for the iterative solution of the discrete systems arising from the finite element discretization of symmetric second-order linear elliptic diffusion problems. We show that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-17 Michael Innerberger , Ani Miraçi , Dirk Praetorius , Julian Streitberger

We present a new parallel computational framework for the efficient solution of a class of $L^2$/$L^1$-regularized optimal control problems governed by semi-linear elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs). The main difficulty in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-20 Gabriele Ciaramella , Michael Kartmann , Georg Müller

In this paper error analysis for finite element discretizations of Dirichlet boundary control problems is developed. For the first time, optimal discretization error estimates are established in the case of three dimensional polyhedral and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-05 Johannes Pfefferer , Boris Vexler

In this article a special class of nonlinear optimal control problems involving a bilinear term in the boundary condition is studied. These kind of problems arise for instance in the identification of an unknown space-dependent Robin…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Max Winkler

The aim of this paper is twofold. On the one hand, we test numerically the performance of mixed virtual elements in three dimensions for the first time in the literature to solve the mixed formulation of three-dimensional elliptic equations…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-20 F. Dassi , S. Scacchi

We prove that for compactly perturbed elliptic problems, where the corresponding bilinear form satisfies a Garding inequality, adaptive mesh-refinement is capable of overcoming the preasymptotic behavior and eventually leads to convergence…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-01-30 Alex Bespalov , Alexander Haberl , Dirk Praetorius

We present a numerical approximation method for linear diffusion-reaction problems with possibly discontinuous Dirichlet boundary conditions. The solution of such problems can be represented as a linear combination of explicitly known…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-07-05 Ramona Baumann , Thomas P. Wihler

In this paper we analyze an optimization problem with limited observation governed by a convection--diffusion--reaction equation. Motivated by a Schur complement approach, we arrive at continuous norms that enable analysis of well-posedness…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-25 Kent-Andre Mardal , Jarle Sogn , Stefan Takacs

We consider an elliptic partial differential equation in non-divergence form with a random diffusion matrix and random forcing term. To address this, we propose a mixed-type continuous finite element discretization in the physical domain,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-04 Amireh Mousavi

In this paper, optimal control problems governed by diffusion equations with Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions are investigated in the framework of the gradient discretisation method. Gradient schemes are defined for the optimality…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-09 Jerome Droniou , Neela Nataraj , Devika Shylaja

We consider the reaction diffusion problem and present efficient ways to discretize and precondition in the singular perturbed case when the reaction term dominates the equation. Using the concepts of optimal test norm and saddle point…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-26 Constantin Bacuta , Daniel Hayes , Jacob Jacavage

This paper is concerned with the discretization error analysis of semilinear Neumann boundary control problems in polygonal domains with pointwise inequality constraints on the control. The approximations of the control are piecewise…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-12 Johannes Pfefferer , Klaus Krumbiegel

This paper develops and analyses numerical approximation for linear-quadratic optimal control problem governed by elliptic interface equations. We adopt variational discretization concept to discretize optimal control problem, and apply an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-04 Chao Chao Yang , Tao Wang , Xiaoping Xie

We consider space-time tracking optimal control problems for linear para\-bo\-lic initial boundary value problems that are given in the space-time cylinder $Q = \Omega \times (0,T)$, and that are controlled by the right-hand side…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-15 Ulrich Langer , Olaf Steinbach , Huidong Yang

A low-order nonconforming finite element discretization of a smooth de Rham complex starting from the $H^2$ space in three dimensions is proposed, involving an $H^2$-nonconforming finite element space, a new tangentially continuous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-05 Xuewei Cui , Xuehai Huang

In the present work, we investigate the computational efficiency afforded by higher-order finite-element discretization of the saddle-point formulation of orbital-free density functional theory. We first investigate the robustness of viable…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Phani Motamarri , Mrinal Iyer , Jaroslaw Knap , Vikram Gavini

This work is motivated by the need to study the impact of data uncertainties and material imperfections on the solution to optimal control problems constrained by partial differential equations. We consider a pathwise optimal control…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-03-01 Ahmad Ahmad Ali , Elisabeth Ullmann , Michael Hinze