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In the present work we introduce a novel refinement algorithm for two-dimensional elliptic partial differential equations discretized with Virtual Element Method (VEM). The algorithm improves the numerical solution accuracy and the mesh…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-18 Stefano Berrone , Fabio Vicini

Variational inequalities play a pivotal role in a wide array of scientific and engineering applications. This project presents two techniques for adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) in the context of variational inequalities, with a specific…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-21 Giuliano Stefano Fochesatto

We introduce a modeling framework for manipulation planning based on the formulation of the dynamics as a projected dynamical system. This method uses implicit signed distance functions and their gradients to formulate an equivalent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-22 Anton Pozharskiy , Armin Nurkanović , Moritz Diehl

This paper describes valuation-based systems for representing and solving discrete optimization problems. In valuation-based systems, we represent information in an optimization problem using variables, sample spaces of variables, a set of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-04-05 Prakash P. Shenoy , Glenn Shafer

We explore the recently-proposed Virtual Element Method (VEM) for numerical solution of boundary value problems on arbitrary polyhedral meshes. More specifically, we focus on the elasticity equations in three-dimensions and elaborate upon…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-07-22 Arun L. Gain , Cameron Talischi , Glaucio H. Paulino

We consider robust submodular maximization problems (RSMs), where given a set of $m$ monotone submodular objective functions, the robustness is with respect to the worst-case (scaled) objective function. The model we consider generalizes…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-12 Hsin-Yi Huang , Hao-Hsiang Wu , Simge Kucukyavuz

The Virtual Element Method (VEM) is a Galerkin approximation method that extends the Finite Element Method (FEM) to polytopal meshes. In this paper, we present a conforming formulation that generalizes the Scott-Vogelius finite element…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-28 Gianmarco Manzini , Annamaria Mazzia

We develop a new optimisation technique that combines multiresolution subdivision surfaces for boundary description with immersed finite elements for the discretisation of the primal and adjoint problems of optimisation. Similar to wavelets…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-01-20 Kosala Bandara , Thomas Rüberg , Fehmi Cirak

In the present contribution, we construct a virtual element (VE) discretization for the problem of miscible displacement of one incompressible fluid by another, described by a time-dependent coupled system of nonlinear partial differential…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-31 Lourenco Beirao da Veiga , Alexander Pichler , Giuseppe Vacca

We introduce a relaxed-projection splitting algorithm for solving variational inequalities in Hilbert spaces for the sum of nonsmooth maximal monotone operators, where the feasible set is defined by a nonlinear and nonsmooth continuous…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-12-31 J. Y. Bello Cruz , R. Diaz Millan

The finite element method can be viewed as a machine that automates the discretization of differential equations, taking as input a variational problem, a finite element and a mesh, and producing as output a system of discrete equations.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-12-05 Anders Logg

By combining concepts from particle-in-cell (PIC) and hybridized discontinuous Galerkin (HDG) methods, we present a particle-mesh scheme which allows for diffusion-free advection, satisfies mass and momentum conservation principles in a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-27 Jakob M. Maljaars , Robert Jan Labeur , Nathaniel Trask , Deborah Sulsky

Multi-material design optimization problems can, after discretization, be solved by the iterative solution of simpler sub-problems which approximate the original problem at an expansion point to first order. In particular, models…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-01 Peter Gangl , Nico Nees , Michael Stingl

The multimesh finite element method enables the solution of partial differential equations on a computational mesh composed by multiple arbitrarily overlapping meshes. The discretization is based on a continuous--discontinuous function…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-02 August Johansson , Mats G. Larson , Anders Logg

The article discusses the gradient discretisation method (GDM) for distributed optimal control problems governed by diffusion equation with pure Neumann boundary condition. Using the GDM framework enables to develop an analysis that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-09 Jerome Droniou , Neela Nataraj , Devika Shylaja

Inexact alternating direction multiplier methods (ADMMs) are developed for solving general separable convex optimization problems with a linear constraint and with an objective that is the sum of smooth and nonsmooth terms. The approach…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-04-12 William W. Hager , Hongchao Zhang

The virtual element method (VEM) allows discretization of the problem domain with polygons in 2D. The polygons can have an arbitrary number of sides and can be concave or convex. These features, among others, are attractive for meshing…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-06 L. L. Yaw

One remarkable feature of virtual element methods (VEMs) is their great flexibility and robustness when used on almost arbitrary polytopal meshes. This very feature makes it widely used in both fitted and unfitted mesh methods. Despite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-09 Ruchi Guo

In this paper, we introduce a new approach to solving the porous medium equation using a moving mesh finite element method that leverages the Onsager variational principle as an approximation tool. Both the continuous and discrete problems…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-01 Si Xiao , Xianmin Xu

This article performs a unified convergence analysis of a variety of numerical methods for a model of the miscible displacement of one incompressible fluid by another through a porous medium. The unified analysis is enabled through the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-03-07 Jérôme Droniou , Robert Eymard , Alain Prignet , Kyle S. Talbot