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A new numerical method is devised and analyzed for a type of ill-posed elliptic Cauchy problems by using the primal-dual weak Galerkin finite element method. This new primal-dual weak Galerkin algorithm is robust and efficient in the sense…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-09-14 Chunmei Wang

We present a weak finite element method for elliptic problems in one space dimension. Our analysis shows that this method has more advantages than the known weak Galerkin method proposed for multi-dimensional problems, for example, it has…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-06-29 Tie Zhang , Yanli Chen

Weak Galerkin methods refer to general finite element methods for PDEs in which differential operators are approximated by their weak forms as distributions. Such weak forms give rise to desirable flexibilities in enforcing boundary and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-06-10 Lin Mu , Junping Wang , Guowei Wei , Xiu Ye , Shan Zhao

We adopt the integral definition of the fractional Laplace operator and analyze solution techniques for fractional, semilinear, and elliptic optimal control problems posed on Lipschitz polytopes. We consider two strategies of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-02 Enrique Otarola

We present and analyse a new conforming space-time Galerkin discretisation of a semi-linear wave equation, based on a variational formulation derived from De Giorgi's elliptic regularisation viewpoint of the wave equation in second-order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-22 Lehel Banjai , Emmanuil H. Georgoulis , Brian Hennessy

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 begin an investigation of hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin (HDG) methods for approximating the solution of Dirichlet boundary control problems governed by elliptic PDEs. These problems can involve atypical variational formulations,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-11 Weiwei Hu , Jiguang Shen , John R. Singler , Yangwen Zhang , Xiaobo Zheng

In this paper, we consider control constrained $L^2-$Dirichlet boundary control of a convection-diffusion equation on a two dimensional convex polygonal domain. We discretize the control problem based on the local discontinuous Galerkin…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-28 Peter Benner , Michael Hinze , Hamdullah Yücel

We consider a space-time finite element method on fully unstructured simplicial meshes for optimal sparse control of semilinear parabolic equations. The objective is a combination of a standard quadratic tracking-type functional including a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-01 Ulrich Langer , Olaf Steinbach , Fredi Tröltzsch , Huidong Yang

This article presents a new primal-dual weak Galerkin method for second order elliptic equations in non-divergence form. The new method is devised as a constrained $L^p$-optimization problem with constraints that mimic the second order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-08 Waixiang Cao , Junping Wang , Yuesheng Xu

We propose a locally conservative enriched Galerkin scheme that preserves the physical bounds for an elliptic problem. To this end, we use a substantial over-penalization of the discrete solution's jumps to obtain optimal convergence. To…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-19 Gabriel R. Barrenechea , Philip L. Lederer , Andreas Rupp

A general analysis framework is presented in this paper for many different types of finite element methods (including various discontinuous Galerkin methods). For second order elliptic equation, this framework employs $4$ different…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-03 Qingguo Hong , Shuonan Wu , Jinchao Xu

In this paper, elliptic control problems with integral constraint on the gradient of the state and box constraints on the control are considered. The optimal conditions of the problem are proved. To numerically solve the problem, we use the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-05 Zixuan Chen , Xiaoliang Song , Bo Yu , Xiaotong Chen

A continuous optimal control problem governed by an elliptic variational inequality was considered in Boukrouche-Tarzia, Comput. Optim. Appl., 53 (2012), 375-392 where the control variable is the internal energy $g$. It was proved the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-18 Mariela Olguín , Domingo A. Tarzia

Finite element methods for a model elliptic distributed optimal control problem with pointwise state constraints are considered from the perspective of fourth order boundary value problems.

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-20 Susanne C. Brenner

We consider an abstract framework for the numerical solution of optimal control problems (OCPs) subject to partial differential equations (PDEs). Examples include not only the distributed control of elliptic PDEs such as the Poisson…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-27 Ulrich Langer , Richard Löscher , Olaf Steinbach , Huidong Yang

We construct and analyze a multiscale finite element method for an elliptic distributed optimal control problem with pointwise control constraints, where the state equation has rough coefficients. We show that the performance of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-29 Susanne C. Brenner , Jose C. Garay , Li-yeng Sung

We discretize a risk-neutral optimal control problem governed by a linear elliptic partial differential equation with random inputs using a Monte Carlo sample-based approximation and a finite element discretization, yielding finite…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-10 Johannes Milz

In this paper we will consider distributed Linear-Quadratic Optimal Control Problems dealing with Advection-Diffusion PDEs for high values of the P\'eclet number. In this situation, computational instabilities occur, both for steady and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-03 Fabio Zoccolan , Maria Strazzullo , Gianluigi Rozza

We consider a pointwise tracking optimal control problem for a semilinear elliptic partial differential equation. We derive the existence of optimal solutions and analyze first and, necessary and sufficient, second order optimality…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-16 Alejandro Allendes , Francisco Fuica , Enrique Otarola