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This work presents and analyzes space-time finite element methods on fully unstructured simplicial space-time meshes for the numerical solution of parabolic optimal control problems. Using Babu\v{s}ka's theorem, we show well-posedness of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-07 Ulrich Langer , Olaf Steinbach , Fredi Tröltzsch , Huidong Yang

Newton-type methods are typically analyzed under Lipschitz continuity of the Hessian, an assumption that can fail for objectives with higher-order or polynomial growth. We introduce a class of nonlinearly preconditioned Newton methods that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-14 Alexander Bodard , Panagiotis Patrinos

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of the use of mass-lumping in the finite element discretization of the reduced first-order optimality system arising from a standard tracking-type, distributed elliptic optimal control…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-01 Ulrich Langer , Richard Löscher , Olaf Steinbach , Huidong Yang

We derive an extension of the sequential homotopy method that allows for the application of inexact solvers for the linear (double) saddle-point systems arising in the local semismooth Newton method for the homotopy subproblems. For the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-30 John W. Pearson , Andreas Potschka

We focus on finding sparse and least-$\ell_1$-norm solutions for unconstrained nonlinear optimal control problems. Such optimization problems are non-convex and non-smooth, nevertheless recent versions of Newton method for under-determined…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-28 Boris Polyak , Andrey Tremba

A numerical study of an optimal control formulation for a shape optimization problem governed by an elliptic variational inequality is performed. The shape optimization problem is reformulated as a boundary control problem in a fixed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-22 Raino A. E. Mäkinen

This paper is concerned with first- and second-order optimality conditions as well as the stability for non-smooth semilinear optimal control problems involving the $L^1$-norm of the control in the cost functional. In addition to the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-18 Vu Huu Nhu , Phan Quang Sang

The Helmholtz equation poses significant computational challenges due to its oscillatory solutions, particularly for large wavenumbers. Inspired by the Schur complement system for elliptic problems, this paper presents a novel…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-02 Yi Yu , Marcus Sarkis , Guanglian Li , Zhiwen Zhang

We study the convergence properties of an overlapping Schwarz decomposition algorithm for solving nonlinear optimal control problems (OCPs). The algorithm decomposes the time domain into a set of overlapping subdomains, and solves all…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-11 Sen Na , Sungho Shin , Mihai Anitescu , Victor M. Zavala

An optimal control problem for the linear wave equation with control cost chosen as the BV semi-norm in time is analyzed. This formulation enhances piecewise constant optimal controls and penalizes the number of jumps. Existence of optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-11 Sebastian Engel , Karl Kunisch

We prove that solution operators of elliptic obstacle-type variational inequalities (or, more generally, locally Lipschitz continuous functions possessing certain pointwise-a.e. convexity properties) are Newton differentiable when…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-09 Constantin Christof , Gerd Wachsmuth

We consider a bilinear optimal control problem with pointwise tracking for a semilinear elliptic PDE in two and three dimensions. The control variable enters the PDE as a (reaction) coefficient and the cost functional contains point…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Enrique Otarola , Daniel Quero , Matias Sasso

We study iterative finite element approximations for the numerical approximation of semilinear elliptic boundary value problems with monotone nonlinear reactions of subcritical growth. The focus of our contribution is on an optimal a priori…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-18 Florian Spicher , Thomas P. Wihler

We investigate the application of the additive overlapping Schwarz domain decomposition method as a preconditioner for the large sparse linear systems arising in graph-based nonlinear least-squares problems, specifically the pose-graph…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Stephan Köhler , Oliver Rheinbach , Yue Xiang Tee , Sebastian Zug

We demonstrate that a small modification of the multiplicative, additive and restricted additive Schwarz preconditioner at the algebraic level, motivated by optimized Schwarz methods defined at the continuous level, leads to a significant…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Amik St-Cyr , Martin J. Gander , Stephen J. Thomas

The recent approach based on Hamiltonian systems and the implicit parametri\-za\-tion theorem, provides a general fixed domain approximation method in shape optimization problems, using optimal control theory. In previous works, we have…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-03 Cornel Marius Murea , Dan Tiba

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

The Neumann--Neumann method is a commonly employed domain decomposition method for linear elliptic equations. However, the method exhibits slow convergence when applied to semilinear equations and does not seem to converge at all for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-19 Emil Engström , Eskil Hansen

This paper is concerned with an optimal control problem subject to the $H^1$-critical defocusing semilinear wave equation on a smooth and bounded domain in three spatial dimensions. Due to the criticality of the nonlinearity in the wave…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-08 Karl Kunisch , Hannes Meinlschmidt

Substructured domain decomposition (DD) methods have been extensively studied, and they are usually associated with nonoverlapping decompositions. We introduce here a substructured version of Restricted Additive Schwarz (RAS) which we call…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-01 Faycal Chaouqui , Martin J. Gander , Pratik M. Kumbhar , Tommaso Vanzan