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We prove the applicability of the Weighted Energy-Dissipation (WED) variational principle [50] to nonlinear parabolic stochastic partial differential equations in abstract form. The WED principle consists in the minimization of a…
This paper develops the so-called Weighted Energy-Dissipation (WED) variational approach for the analysis of gradient flows in metric spaces. This focuses on the minimization of the parameter-dependent global-in-time functional of…
We discuss a variational approach to doubly nonlinear wave equations of the form $\rho u_{tt} + g (u_t) - \Delta u + f (u)=0$. This approach hinges on the minimization of a parameter-dependent family of uniformly convex functionals over…
We advance a variational method to prove qualitative properties such as symmetries, monotonicity, upper and lower bounds, sign properties, and comparison principles for a large class of doubly-nonlinear evolutionary problems including…
The Energy-Dissipation Principle provides a variational tool for the analysis of parabolic evolution problems: solutions are characterized as so-called null-minimizers of a global functional on entire trajectories. This variational…
We investigate the Weighted Energy-Dissipation variational approach to semilinear gradient flows with state-dependent dissipation. A family of parameter-dependent functionals defined over entire trajectories is introduced and proved to…
In this paper, we propose a new approach to model reduction of parameterized partial differential equations (PDEs) based on the concept of adaptive reduced bases. The presented approach is particularly suited for large-scale nonlinear…
Shepard method is a fast algorithm that has been classically used to interpolate scattered data in several dimensions. This is an important and well-known technique in numerical analysis founded in the main idea that data that is far away…
We discuss a weighted variational integral approach for nonlocal linear diffusion models with forcing term, providing a selection principle for solutions of elliptic in time regularizations.
Alternative finite difference Weighted Essentially Non-Oscillatory (AFD-WENO) schemes allow us to very efficiently update hyperbolic systems even in complex geometries. Recent innovations in AFD-WENO methods allow us to treat hyperbolic…
The paper [Shi19] uses the Craig-Wayne-Bourgain method to construct solutions of an elliptic problem involving parameters. The results of [Shi19] include regularity assumptions on the perturbation and involve excluding parameters. The paper…
We establish a notion of universality for the parabolic Anderson model via an invariance principle for a wide family of parabolic stochastic partial differential equations. We then use this invariance principle in order to provide an…
We are concerned with the study of the well-posedness of a nonlinear diffusion equation with a monotonically increasing multivalued time-dependent nonlinearity derived from a convex continuous potential having a superlinear growth to…
We consider a rather general class of evolutionary PDEs involving dissipation (of possibly fractional order), which competes with quadratic nonlinearities on the regularity of the overall equation. This includes as prototype models,…
In this work we propose and analyze a weighted proper orthogonal decomposition method to solve elliptic partial differential equations depending on random input data, for stochastic problems that can be transformed into parametric systems.…
We consider a class of parameter-dependent optimal control problems of elliptic PDEs with constraints of general type on the control variable. Applying the concept of variational discretization, [4], together with techniques from the…
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We consider a general optimal control problem in the setting of gradient flows. Two approximations of the problem are presented, both relying on the variational reformulation of gradient-flow dynamics via the Weighted-Energy-Dissipation…
A dual variational principle is defined for the nonlinear system of PDE describing the dynamics of dislocations in elastic solids. The dual variational principle accounting for a specified set of initial and boundary conditions for a…
The numerical reconstruction of controls for nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs) remains a challenging and relatively underdeveloped problem, despite the extensive literature on controllability theory. In this work, we introduce…