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We propose a new and simpler residual based a posteriori error estimator for finite element approximation of the elliptic obstacle problem. The results in the article are two fold. Firstly, we address the influence of the inhomogeneous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-10 Sharat Gaddam , Thirupathi Gudi

In this paper we consider the numerical approximation of the two-phase membrane (obstacle) problem by finite difference method. First, we introduce the notion of viscosity solution for the problem and construct certain discrete nonlinear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-07-04 Avetik Arakelyan , Rafayel Barkhudaryan , Michael Poghosyan

Simulating the interaction of fluids with immersed moving solids is playing an important role for gaining a better quantitative understanding of how fluid dynamics is altered by the presence of obstacles and which forces are exerted on the…

Uncertain dynamic obstacles, such as pedestrians or vehicles, pose a major challenge for optimal robot navigation with safety guarantees. Previous work on motion planning has followed two main strategies to provide a safe bound on an…

We employ an adapted version of H\"ormander's asymptotic systems method to show heuristically that the standard good-bad-ugly model admits formal polyhomogeneous asymptotic solutions near null infinity. In a related earlier approach, our…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-24 Miguel Duarte , Justin C. Feng , Edgar Gasperín , David Hilditch

We prove optimal regularity for the double obstacle problem when obstacles are given by solutions to Hamilton-Jacobi equations that are not $C^2$. When the Hamilton-Jacobi equation is not $C^2$ then the standard Bernstein technique fails…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-03 John Andersson , Henrik Shahgholian , Georg S. Weiss

To approximate solutions of complex nonlinear partial differential equations remains a computational challenge, especially for sets of equations relevant in industry, such as Euler or Navier-Stokes equations. Even the most sophisticated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-25 Maximilian Mandelt Buxadé , Stefan Langer , Philipp Bekemeyer

This is a computational study of bottlenecks on algebraic varieties. The bottlenecks of a smooth variety $X \subseteq \mathbb{C}^n$ are the lines in $\mathbb{C}^n$ which are normal to $X$ at two distinct points. The main result is a…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2018-04-30 David Eklund

The aim of this paper is twofold: to prove, for L^1-data, the existence and uniqueness of an entropy solution to the obstacle problem for nonlinear elliptic equations with variable growth, and to show some convergence and stability…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-02-05 José Francisco Rodrigues , Manel Sanchón , José Miguel Urbano

Solving quaternion kinematical differential equations is one of the most significant problems in the automation, navigation, aerospace and aeronautics literatures. Most existing approaches for this problem neither preserve the norm of…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-10-26 Hong-Yan Zhang , Lu-Sha Zhou , Zi-Hao Wang , Long Ma , Yi-Fan Niu

We prove the existence and uniqueness of solution of the obstacle problem for quasilinear stochastic partial differential equations (OSPDEs for short) with Neumann boundary condition. Our method is based on the analytical technics coming…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-06-08 Yuchao Dong , Xue Yang , Jing Zhang

We analyze the inverse problem to reconstruct the shape of a three dimensional homogeneous dielectric obstacle from the knowledge of noisy far field data. The forward problem is solved by a system of second kind boundary integral equations.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-22 Thorsten Hohage , Frédérique Le Louër

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

We study two types of asymptotic problems whose common feature - and difficulty- is to exhibit oscillating Dirichlet boundary conditions : the main contribution of this article is to show how to recover the Dirichlet boundary condition for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-05-22 Guy Barles , Elisabeth Mironescu

We present a unified approach for constraint displacement problems in which a robot finds a feasible path by displacing constraints or obstacles. To this end, we propose a two stage process that returns locally optimal obstacle…

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The paper presents a method for solving hydraulic fracture problems accounting for the lag. The method consists in matching the outer (basic) solution neglecting the lag, with the inner (auxiliary) solution of the derived 1D integral…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-04-22 Alexander M. Linkov

We present two accurate and efficient algorithms for solving the incompressible, irrotational Euler equations with a free surface in two dimensions with background flow over a periodic, multiply-connected fluid domain that includes…

We study the obstacle problem with an elliptic operator in divergence form. We develop all of the basic theory of existence, uniqueness, optimal regularity, and nondegeneracy of the solutions. These results, in turn, allow us to begin the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-09-24 Ivan Blank , Zheng Hao

Optimal prediction (OP) methods compensate for a lack of resolution in the numerical solution of complex problems through the use of an invariant measure as a prior measure in the Bayesian sense. In first-order OP, unresolved information is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 John Bell , Alexandre J. Chorin , William Crutchfield

Free boundary problems are those described by PDEs that exhibit a priori unknown (free) interfaces or boundaries. These problems appear in Physics, Probability, Biology, Finance, or Industry, and the study of solutions and free boundaries…

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