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When solving the time-dependent radiative transport equation (RTE), implicit time discretization is often employed for its robustness and stability. This results in a sequence of steady-state RTEs with identical cross-sections but varying…
It was recently demonstrated that time-dependent PDE problems can numerically be solved with a fully pseudospectral scheme, i.e. using spectral expansions with respect to both spatial and time directions (Hennig and Ansorg, 2009 [15]). This…
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Global spectral methods offer the potential to compute solutions of partial differential equations numerically to very high accuracy. In this work, we develop a novel global spectral method for linear partial differential equations on cubes…
We propose a time domain decomposition approach to optimal control of partial differential equations (PDEs) based on semigroup theoretic methods. We formulate the optimality system consisting of two coupled forward-backward PDEs, the state…
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We consider the numerical approximation of general semilinear parabolic stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs) driven by additive space-time noise. In contrast to the standard time stepping methods which uses basic increments of…
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A spectral method is developed for the direct solution of linear ordinary differential equations with variable coefficients. The method leads to matrices which are almost banded, and a numerical solver is presented that takes O(m^2n)…
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We investigate an ultraweak variational formulation for (parameterized) linear differential-algebraic equations (DAEs) w.r.t. the time variable which yields an optimally stable system. This is used within a Petrov-Galerkin method to derive…