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The paper studies a finite element method for computing transport and diffusion along evolving surfaces. The method does not require a parametrization of a surface or an extension of a PDE from a surface into a bulk outer domain. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-03-04 Joerg Grande , Maxim Olshanskii , Arnold Reusken

We employ the so-called tangent-point energy as Tikhonov regularizer for ill-conditioned inverse scattering problems in 3D. The tangent-point energy is a self-avoiding functional on the space of embedded surfaces that also penalizes surface…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-17 Henrik Schumacher , Jannik Rönsch , Thorsten Hohage , Max Wardetzky

Standard finite element discretizations of the Richards equation may violate the discrete minimum principle, producing unphysical negative saturations. While existing bound-preserving methods typically rely on computationally expensive…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Abderrahmane Benfanich , Yves Bourgault , Abdelaziz Beljadid

The proposed two-dimensional geometrically exact beam element extends our previous work by including the effects of shear distortion, and also of distributed forces and moments acting along the beam. The general flexibility-based…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-06 Milan Jirasek , Martin Horak , Emma La Malfa Ribolla , Chiara Bonvissuto

We introduce a new method, the Local Monge Parametrizations (LMP) method, to approximate tensor fields on general surfaces given by a collection of local parametrizations, e.g.~as in finite element or NURBS surface representations. Our goal…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-02-20 Alejandro Torres-Sánchez , Daniel Santos-Oliván , Marino Arroyo

We present first a brief review of the existing literature on shape optimization, stressing the recent use of Hamiltonian systems in topology optimization. In the second section, we collect some preliminaries on the implicit parametrization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-23 Cornel Marius Murea , Dan Tiba

We establish an in-in formalism for geodesic deviation as an alternative to Synge calculus, based on a covariant calculus of differential forms in tangent bundle. This derives the exact Lagrangian and equations governing the finite geodesic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-30 Joon-Hwi Kim

In this paper we study a system of advection-diffusion equations in a bulk domain coupled to an advection-diffusion equation on an embedded surface. Such systems of coupled partial differential equations arise in, for example, the modeling…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-12-09 Sven Gross , Maxim A. Olshanskii , Arnold Reusken

We consider the initial/boundary value problem for a diffusion equation involving multiple time-fractional derivatives on a bounded convex polyhedral domain. We analyze a space semidiscrete scheme based on the standard Galerkin finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-18 Bangti Jin , Raytcho Lazarov , Yikan Liu , Zhi Zhou

For a singular integral equation on an interval of the real line, we study the behavior of the error of a delta-delta discretization. We show that the convergence is non-uniform, between order $O(h^{2})$ in the interior of the interval and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-14 Martin Costabel

In this paper, we are dealing with constrained vector optimisation problems where the objective function acts between real linear-topological spaces. Our aim is to study the relationships between the sets of properly efficient solutions to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-29 Paul Schmölling , Christian Günther , Christiane Tammer , Elisabeth Köbis

A finite element (FE) discretization for the steady, incompressible, fully inhomogeneous, generalized Navier-Stokes equations is proposed. By the method of divergence reconstruction operators, the formulation is valid for all shear stress…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-08 Alex Kaltenbach , Julius Jeßberger

This paper introduces a novel tangential-normal ($t$-$n$) decomposition for finite element differential forms, presenting a new framework for constructing bases in finite element exterior calculus. The main contribution is the development…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Long Chen , Xuehai Huang

This article is a review on basic concepts and tools devoted to a posteriori error estimation for problems solved with the Finite Element Method. For the sake of simplicity and clarity, we mostly focus on linear elliptic diffusion problems,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-10-06 Ludovic Chamoin , Frederic Legoll

Minimizing a convex function of a measure with a sparsity-inducing penalty is a typical problem arising, e.g., in sparse spikes deconvolution or two-layer neural networks training. We show that this problem can be solved by discretizing the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-04 Lenaic Chizat

Due to the explosive growth of large-scale data sets, tensors have been a vital tool to analyze and process high-dimensional data. Different from the matrix case, tensor decomposition has been defined in various formats, which can be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-27 Rachel Grotheer , Shuang Li , Anna Ma , Deanna Needell , Jing Qin

In this paper, an important discovery has been found for nonconforming immersed finite element (IFE) methods using the integral values on edges as degrees of freedom for solving elliptic interface problems. We show that those IFE methods…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-17 Haifeng Ji , Feng Wang , Jinru Chen , Zhilin Li

This chapter studies the problem of decomposing a tensor into a sum of constituent rank one tensors. While tensor decompositions are very useful in designing learning algorithms and data analysis, they are NP-hard in the worst-case. We will…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-07-31 Aravindan Vijayaraghavan

This paper analyzes a space-time finite element method for fractional wave problems. The method uses a Petrov-Galerkin type time-stepping scheme to discretize the time fractional derivative of order $ \gamma $ ($1<\gamma<2$). We establish…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-03-12 Binjie Li , Hao Luo , Xiaoping Xie

We construct a soft thresholding operation for rank reduction of hierarchical tensors and subsequently consider its use in iterative thresholding methods, in particular for the solution of discretized high-dimensional elliptic problems. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-02-02 Markus Bachmayr , Reinhold Schneider