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A time-stepping L1 scheme for subdiffusion equation with a Riemann--Liouville time-fractional derivative is developed and analyzed. This is the first paper to show that the L1 scheme for the model problem under consideration is second-order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-09-17 Kassem Mustapha

We propose a novel feasible-path algorithm to solve the optimal power flow (OPF) problem for real-time use cases. The method augments the seminal work of Dommel and Tinney with second-order derivatives to work directly in the reduced space…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-11 François Pacaud , Daniel Adrian Maldonado , Sungho Shin , Michel Schanen , Mihai Anitescu

We present a linear, second order fully discrete numerical scheme on a staggered grid for a thermodynamically consistent hydrodynamic phase field model of binary compressible fluid flow mixtures derived from the generalized Onsager…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-24 Xueping Zhao , Qi Wang

In this work, we propose a novel framework for the numerical solution of time-dependent conservation laws with implicit schemes via primal-dual hybrid gradient methods. We solve an initial value problem (IVP) for the partial differential…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-18 Siting Liu , Stanley Osher , Wuchen Li , Chi-Wang Shu

We prove first-order convergence of semi-discrete monotone finite difference schemes for Hamilton--Jacobi equations on the Wasserstein space over a finite graph. A central challenge is the boundary degeneracy of the Wasserstein simplex,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-22 Jianbo Cui , Tonghe Dang

This paper proposes an efficient numerical optimization approach for solving dynamic optimal transport (DOT) problems on general smooth surfaces, computing both the quadratic Wasserstein distance and the associated transportation path.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-11 Liang Chen , Youyicun Lin , Yuxuan Zhou

Within finite element models of fluids, vector-valued fields such as velocity or momentum variables are commonly discretised using the Raviart-Thomas elements. However, when using the lowest-order quadrilateral Raviart-Thomas elements,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-28 Thomas M Bendall , Golo A Wimmer

An algorithm for a family of self-starting high-order implicit time integration schemes with controllable numerical dissipation is proposed for both linear and nonlinear transient problems. This work builds on the previous works of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-23 Daniel O'Shea , Xiaoran Zhang , Shayan Mohammadian , Chongmin Song

In this paper, a high-order multi-dimensional gas-kinetic scheme is presented for both inviscid and viscous flows in arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE) formulation. Compared with the traditional ALE method, the flow variables are updated…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-07-15 Liang Pan , Fengxiang Zhao , Kun Xu

These notes focus on the minimization of convex functionals using first-order optimization methods, which are fundamental in many areas of applied mathematics and engineering. The primary goal of this document is to introduce and analyze…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-28 Charles Dossal , Samuel Hurault , Nicolas Papadakis

Implicit time integration schemes are widely used in computational fluid dynamics numerical codes to speed-up computations. Indeed, implicit schemes usually allow for less stringent time-step stability constraints than their explicit…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-10-23 François Fraysse , Richard Saurel

Following the seminal work of Nesterov, accelerated optimization methods have been used to powerfully boost the performance of first-order, gradient-based parameter estimation in scenarios where second-order optimization strategies are…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2017-11-28 Anthony Yezzi , Ganesh Sundaramoorthi

By using the Onsager principle as an approximation tool, we give a novel derivation for the moving finite element method for gradient flow equations. We show that the discretized problem has the same energy dissipation structure as the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-04 Xianmin Xu

We present an adaptive arbitrary-order accurate time-stepping numerical scheme for the flow of vesicles suspended in Stokesian fluids. Our scheme can be summarized as an approximate implicit spectral deferred correction (SDC) method.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-05-27 Bryan Quaife , George Biros

We present a novel cell-centered direct Arbitrary-Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE) finite volume scheme on unstructured triangular meshes that is high order accurate in space and time and that also allows for time-accurate local time stepping…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-22 Walter Boscheri , Michael Dumbser , Olindo Zanotti

We present a unified convergence analysis for first order convex optimization methods using the concept of strong Lyapunov conditions. Combining this with suitable time scaling factors, we are able to handle both convex and strong convex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-03 Long Chen , Hao Luo

A comprehensive methodology for establishing the existence of gradient flows for cross-diffusion systems with respect to suitable energies is proposed. The approach is based on the construction of piecewise-in-time constant approximations…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-03 Mathias Dus , Ansgar Jüngel

We present a computationally efficient framework, called $\texttt{FlowDRO}$, for solving flow-based distributionally robust optimization (DRO) problems with Wasserstein uncertainty sets while aiming to find continuous worst-case…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Chen Xu , Jonghyeok Lee , Xiuyuan Cheng , Yao Xie

We study finite-time performance of a recently proposed distributed dual subgradient (DDSG) method for convex constrained multi-agent optimization problems. The algorithm enjoys performance guarantees on the last primal iterate, as opposed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-28 Subhonmesh Bose , Hoa Dinh Nguyen , Haitian Liu , Ye Guo , Thinh T. Doan , Carolyn L. Beck

We develop in this paper an adaptive time-stepping approach for gradient flows with distinct treatments for conservative and non-conservative dynamics. For the non-conservative gradient flows in Lagrangian coordinates, we propose a modified…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-21 Qianqian Liu , Wenbin Chen , Jie Shen , Qing Cheng