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The finite element method, finite difference method, finite volume method and spectral method have achieved great success in solving partial differential equations. However, the high accuracy of traditional numerical methods is at the cost…
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High-order accurate discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods have emerged as powerful tools for solving partial differential equations such as the compressible Navier-Stokes equations due to their excellent dispersion-dissipation properties and…
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This study focuses on using direct methods (first-discretize-then-optimize) to solve optimal control problems for a class of nonsmooth dynamical systems governed by differential variational inequalities (DVI), called optimal control…
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At present, deep learning based methods are being employed to resolve the computational challenges of high-dimensional partial differential equations (PDEs). But the computation of the high order derivatives of neural networks is costly,…
In this paper, we consider continuous-time stochastic optimal control problems where the cost is evaluated through a coherent risk measure. We provide an explicit gradient descent-ascent algorithm which applies to problems subject to…
We present a high-order discontinuous Galerkin (DG) solver of the compressible Navier-Stokes equations for cloud formation processes. The scheme exploits an underlying parallelized implementation of the ADER-DG method with dynamic adaptive…
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