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In this work, we study the design and analysis of a novel hybrid high-order (HHO) method on unfitted meshes. HHO methods rely on a pair of unknowns, combining polynomials attached to the mesh faces and the mesh cells. In the unfitted…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-10 Erik Burman , Alexandre Ern , Romain Mottier

We devise and evaluate numerically a Hybrid High-Order (HHO) method for incremental associative plasticity with small deformations. The HHO method uses as discrete unknowns piecewise polynomials of order $k\ge1$ on the mesh skeleton,…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2019-02-20 Mickaël Abbas , Alexandre Ern , Nicolas Pignet

In this paper, we analyze the convergence of several discretize-then-optimize algorithms, based on either a second-order or a fourth-order finite difference discretization, for solving elliptic PDE-constrained optimization or optimal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-14 Jun Liu , Zhu Wang

We propose in this paper a multilevel correction method to solve optimal control problems constrained by elliptic equations with the finite element method. In this scheme, solving optimization problem on the finest finite element space is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-31 Wei Gong , Hehu Xie , Ningning Yan

This paper is concerned with the designing, analyzing and implementing linear and nonlinear discretization scheme for the distributed optimal control problem (OCP) with the Cahn-Hilliard (CH) equation as constrained. We propose three…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-19 Gobinda Garai , Bankim C. Mandal

We propose a novel Hybrid High-Order method for the Cahn-Hilliard problem with convection. The proposed method is valid in two and three space dimensions, and it supports arbitrary approximation orders on general meshes containing…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-02-28 Florent Chave , Daniele Di Pietro , Fabien Marche

This paper proposes a new hybrid high-order discretization for the biharmonic problem and the corresponding eigenvalue problem. The discrete ansatz space includes degrees of freedom in $n-2$ dimensional submanifolds (e.g., nodal values in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-06 Yizhou Liang , Ngoc Tien Tran

In the paper, we propose solving optimization problems (OPs) and understanding the Newton method from the optimal control view. We propose a new optimization algorithm based on the optimal control problem (OCP). The algorithm features…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-01 Huanshui Zhang , Hongxia Wang

Stochastic optimal principle leads to the resolution of a partial differential equation (PDE), namely the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation. In general, this equation cannot be solved analytically, thus numerical algorithms are the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-14 Christelle Dleuna Nyoumbi , Antoine Tambue

We devise and evaluate numerically a Hybrid High-Order (HHO) method for finite plasticity within a logarithmic strain framework. The HHO method uses as discrete unknowns piecewise polynomials of order $k\ge1$ on the mesh skeleton, together…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Mickaël Abbas , Alexandre Ern , Nicolas Pignet

We devise and analyze $C^0$-conforming hybrid high-order (HHO) methods to approximate biharmonic problems with either clamped or simply supported boundary conditions. $C^0$-conforming HHO methods hinge on cell unknowns which are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-14 Zhaonan Dong , Alexandre Ern

We design, analyse and implement an arbitrary order scheme applicable to generic meshes for a coupled elliptic-parabolic PDE system describing miscible displacement in porous media. The discretisation is based on several adaptations of the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2019-01-16 Daniel Anderson , Jerome Droniou

We propose an approach to trajectory optimization for piecewise polynomial systems based on the recently proposed graphs of convex sets framework. We instantiate the framework with a convex relaxation of optimal control based on occupation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-28 Etienne Buehrle , Ömer Şahin Taş , Christoph Stiller

In this paper, we investigate a sixth order elliptic equation with the simply supported boundary conditions in a polygonal domain. We propose a new method that decouples the sixth order problem into a system of second order equations.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Hengguang Li , Peimeng Yin

We consider a distributed optimal control problem subject to a parabolic evolution equation as constraint. The control will be considered in the energy norm of the anisotropic Sobolev space $[H_{0;,0}^{1,1/2}(Q)]^\ast$, such that the state…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-14 Richard Löscher , Michael Reichelt , Olaf Steinbach

We consider an optimal control problem governed by a one-dimensional elliptic equation that involves univariate functions of bounded variation as controls. For the discretization of the state equation we use linear finite elements and for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-18 Dominik Hafemeyer , Florian Mannel , Ira Neitzel , Boris Vexler

Tikhonov regularization is one of the most commonly used methods of regularization of ill-posed problems. In the setting of finite element solutions of elliptic partial differential control problems, Tikhonov regularization amounts to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-09-19 Erik Burman , Peter Hansbo , Mats Larson

The higher-order guaranteed lower eigenvalue bounds of the Laplacian in the recent work by Carstensen, Ern, and Puttkammer [Numer. Math. 149, 2021] require a parameter $C_{\mathrm{st},1}$ that is found $\textit{not}$ robust as the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-03 Carsten Carstensen , Benedikt Gräßle , Ngoc Tien Tran

We propose a high-order finite element method for linear fourth-order elliptic problems that is both nodally bound-preserving and mass-conservative, based on a variational inequality formulation. The method admits an equivalent strictly…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-25 Jie Shen , Zuodong Wang

Hybrid High-Order methods for elliptic diffusion problems have been originally formulated for loads in the Lebesgue space $L^2(\Omega)$. In this paper we devise and analyze a variant thereof, which is defined for any load in the dual…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-05-01 Alexandre Ern , Pietro Zanotti