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We consider finite element approximations of unique continuation problems subject to elliptic equations in the case where the normal derivative of the exact solution is known to reside in some finite dimensional space. To give quantitative…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-13 Erik Burman , Lauri Oksanen , Ziyao Zhao

The paper introduces a new finite element numerical method for the solution of partial differential equations on evolving domains. The approach uses a completely Eulerian description of the domain motion. The physical domain is embedded in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-03 Christoph Lehrenfeld , Maxim A. Olshanskii

Time-dependent Maxwell's equations govern electromagnetics. Under certain conditions, we can rewrite these equations into a partial differential equation of second order, which in this case is the vectorial wave equation. For the vectorial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-27 Julia I. M. Hauser , Marco Zank

We study the propagation properties of the solutions of the finite-difference space semi-discrete wave equation on an uniform grid of the whole Euclidean space. We provide a construction of high frequency wave packets that propagate along…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-08-03 Aurora-Mihaela Marica , Enrique Zuazua

Our aim is to study the backward problem, i.e. recover the initial data from the terminal observation, of the subdiffusion with time dependent coefficients. First of all, by using the smoothing property of solution operators and a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-01 Zhengqi Zhang , Zhi Zhou

The purpose of this paper is to present a universal approach to the study of controllability/observability problems for infinite dimensional systems governed by some stochastic/deterministic partial differential equations. The crucial…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-03-31 Xu Zhang

This paper deals with a one-dimensional wave equation being subjected to a unilateral boundary condition. An approximation of this problem combining the finite element and mass redistribution methods is proposed. The mass redistribution…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-01-06 Farshid Dabaghi , Pavel Krejci , Adrien Petrov , Jérôme Pousin , Yves Renard

Results on the problem of stabilizing a nonlinear continuous-time system by a finite number of control or measurement values are presented. The basic tool is a discontinuous version of the so-called semi-global backstepping lemma. We derive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-04-13 C. De Persis

Introducing flexibility in the time-discretisation mesh can improve convergence and computational time when solving differential equations numerically, particularly when the solutions are discontinuous, as commonly found in control problems…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-27 Lucian Nita , Eduardo M. G. Vila , Marta A. Zagorowska , Eric C. Kerrigan , Yuanbo Nie , Ian McInerney , Paola Falugi

This paper introduces a new variational formulation for Dirichlet boundary control problem of elliptic partial differential equations, based on observations that the state and adjoint state are related through the control on the boundary of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-04-23 Shaohong Du , Zhiqiang Cai

This paper presents a space-time finite element method (FEM) based on an unfitted mesh for solving parabolic problems on moving domains. Unlike other unfitted space-time finite element approaches that commonly employ the discontinuous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-03 Ruizhi Wang , Weibing Deng

This paper presents a finite element method that preserves (at the degrees of freedom) the eigenvalue range of the solution of tensor-valued time-dependent convection--diffusion equations. Starting from a high-order spatial baseline…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-09 Abdolreza Amiri , Gabriel R. Barrenechea , Tristan Pryer

This paper presents novel controllers that yield finite-time stability for linear systems. We first present a sufficient condition for the origin of a scalar system to be finite-time stable. Then we present novel finite-time controllers…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-06-11 Kunal Garg , Dimitra Panagou

We present a finite element method for the incompressible Navier--Stokes problem that is locally conservative, energy-stable and pressure-robust on time-dependent domains. To achieve this, the space--time formulation of the Navier--Stokes…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-06 Tamas L. Horvath , Sander Rhebergen

A high order cut finite element method is formulated for solving the elastic wave equation. Both a single domain problem and an interface problem are treated. The boundary or interface are allowed to cut through the background mesh. To…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-03 Simon Sticko , Gustav Ludvigsson , Gunilla Kreiss

This paper analyzes an interface-unfitted numerical method for distributed optimal control problems governed by elliptic interface equations. We follow the variational discretization concept to discretize the optimal control problems, and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-05 Tao Wang , Chaochao Yang , Xiaoping Xie

We solve the reachability problem for a coupled wave-wave system with an integro-differential term. The control functions act on one side of the boundary. The estimates on the time is given in terms of the parameters of the problem and they…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-04-10 Paola Loreti , Daniela Sforza

A coupling approach is presented to combine a wave-based method to the standard finite element method. This coupling methodology is presented here for the Helmholtz equation but it can be applied to a wide range of wave propagation…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-01-16 Mathieu Gaborit , Olivier Dazel , Peter Göransson , Gwénaël Gabard

Solutions to optimal control problems can be discontinuous, even if all the functionals defining the problem are smooth. This can cause difficulties when numerically computing solutions to these problems. While conventional numerical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-21 Lucian Nita , Eric C. Kerrigan , Eduardo M. G. Vila , Yuanbo Nie

In this paper, we introduce a new finite element method for solving the Stokes equations in the primary velocity-pressure formulation. This method employs $H(div)$ finite elements to approximate velocity, which leads to two unique…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-23 Xiu Ye , Shangyou Zhang