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Ion transport, often described by the Poisson--Nernst--Planck (PNP) equations, is ubiquitous in electrochemical devices and many biological processes of significance. In this work, we develop conservative, positivity-preserving, energy…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-15 Jie Ding , Zhongming Wang , Shenggao Zhou

The Traveling Salesman Problem is a fundamental combinatorial optimization problem widely studied in operations research. Despite its simple formulation, it remains computationally challenging due to the exponential growth of the search…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-28 Alessia Ciacco , Luigi Di Puglia Pugliese , Francesca Guerriero

In this paper, we establish the local superlinear convergence property of some polynomial-time interior-point methods for an important family of conic optimization problems. The main structural property used in our analysis is the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-12-08 Yu. Nesterov , Levent Tuncel

In this work, we propose and analyze a residual-minimization strategy for the numerical solution of nonlinear PDEs posed in Banach spaces. Given a finite-dimensional trial space and a suitably enriched discrete test space (of higher…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-02 Ignacio Muga , Jorge Perera , Sergio Rojas , Ricardo Ruiz-Baier

Algorithmic solutions for the motion planning problem have been investigated for five decades. Since the development of A* in 1969 many approaches have been investigated, traditionally classified as either grid decomposition, potential…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-27 Jim Mainprice , Nathan Ratliff , Marc Toussaint , Stefan Schaal

In this paper, we address the numerical solution of the Optimal Transport Problem on undirected weighted graphs, taking the shortest path distance as transport cost. The optimal solution is obtained from the long-time limit of the gradient…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-29 Enrico Facca , Michele Benzi

Computing the solution of linear systems of equations is invariably the most time consuming task in the numerical solutions of PDEs in many fields of computational science. In this study, we focus on the numerical simulation of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-01-24 Jongmin Seo , Daniele E. Schiavazzi , Alison L. Marsden

The block structure of double saddle-point problems has prompted extensive research into efficient preconditioners. This paper introduces a novel class of three-by-three block preconditioners tailored for such systems from the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-09 Achraf Badahmane

We consider the problem of time-optimal path planning for simple nonholonomic vehicles. In previous similar work, the vehicle has been simplified to a point mass and the obstacles have been stationary. Our formulation accounts for a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-22 Christian Parkinson , Madeline Ceccia

We study acceleration and preconditioning strategies for a class of Douglas-Rachford methods aiming at the solution of convex-concave saddle-point problems associated with Fenchel-Rockafellar duality. While the basic iteration converges…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-04-22 Kristian Bredies , Hongpeng Sun

This work analyzes the inverse optimal transport (IOT) problem under Bregman regularization. We establish well-posedness results, including existence, uniqueness (up to equivalence classes of solutions), and stability, under several…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-01 Chenglong Bao , Zanyu Li , Yunan Yang

The phase separation processes are typically modeled by Cahn-Hilliard equations. This equation was originally introduced to model phase separation in binary alloys, where phase stands for concentration of different components in alloy. When…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2016-01-14 Pawan Kumar

This paper presents a method and an open-source implementation, Bernstein/B\'ezier Optimal Trajectories (BeBOT), for the generation of trajectories for autonomous system operations. The proposed method is based on infinite dimensional…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Calvin Kielas-Jensen , Venanzio Cichella

This paper shows that the semi-dual formulation of the optimal transport problem has a degenerate saddle-point structure, and that its numerical solution is equivalent to solving a constrained optimization problem. We derive necessary and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Anton Selitskiy , David Millard

Model reduction methods often aim at an identification of slow invariant manifolds in the state space of dynamical systems modeled by ordinary differential equations. We present a predictor corrector method for a fast solution of an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-07-09 Dirk Lebiedz , Jochen Siehr

In this paper we propose an efficient distributed algorithm for solving loosely coupled convex optimization problems. The algorithm is based on a primal-dual interior-point method in which we use the alternating direction method of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-02-10 Mariette Annergren , Sina Khoshfetrat Pakazad , Anders Hansson , Bo Wahlberg

This paper presents a new efficient algorithm which guarantees a solution for a class of multi-agent trajectory planning problems in obstacle-dense environments. Our algorithm combines the advantages of both grid-based and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-10 Jungwon Park , Junha Kim , Inkyu Jang , H. Jin Kim

In this paper, we introduce a generalized dynamical unbalanced optimal transport framework by incorporating limited control input and mass dissipation, addressing limitations in conventional optimal transport for control applications. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-07 Dongjun Wu , Anders Rantzer

In this paper, we study a spline collocation method for a numerical solution to the optimal transport problem We mainly solve the \MAE with the second boundary condition numerically by proposing a center matching algorithm. We prove a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-27 Ming-Jun Lai , Jinsil Lee

Combinatorial optimization problems are typically formulated using Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (QUBO), where constraints are enforced through penalty terms that introduce auxiliary variables and rapidly increase Hamiltonian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-10 Shashank Sanjay Bhat , Peiyong Wang , Joseph West , Udaya Parampalli