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It is well known that via the augmented Lagrangian method, one can solve Stokes' system by solving the nearly incompressible linear elasticity equation. In this paper, we show that the converse holds, and approximate the inverse of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-04-04 James H Adler , Xiaozhe Hu , Yuwen Li , Ludmil T. Zikatanov

A stationary Stokes problem with a piecewise constant viscosity coefficient in multiple subdomains is considered in the paper. For standard finite element pairs, a robust inf-sup condition is required to show the robustness of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-22 Yuxiang Liang , Shun Zhang

We present preconditioning techniques to solve linear systems of equations with a block two-by-two and three-by-three structure arising from finite element discretizations of the fictitious domain method with Lagrange multipliers. In…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-09 Michele Benzi , Marco Feder , Luca Heltai , Federica Mugnaioni

Many physical problems involving heterogeneous spatial scales, such as the flow through fractured porous media, the study of fiber-reinforced materials, or the modeling of the small circulation in living tissues -- just to mention a few…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-02 Luca Heltai , Paolo Zunino

We address the solution of the distributed control problem for the steady, incompressible Navier--Stokes equations. We propose an inexact Newton linearization of the optimality conditions. Upon discretization by a finite element scheme, we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-16 Santolo Leveque , Michele Benzi , Patrick E. Farrell

We study the multi-stage stochastic unit commitment problem in which commitment and generation decisions can be made and adjusted in each time period. We formulate this problem as a Markov decision process, which is "weakly-coupled" in the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-25 Jagdish Ramakrishnan , James Luedtke

A finite-element discretization of such an equation yields a linear system whose conditioning worsens as the variations in the values of PDE coefficients becomes large. This paper introduces a procedure by which the discrete system obtained…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-01-08 Yuliya Gorb , Daria Kurzanova , Yuri Kuznetsov

A discretization method with non-matching grids is proposed for the coupled Stokes-Darcy problem that uses a mortar variable at the interface to couple the marker and cell (MAC) method in the Stokes domain with the Raviart-Thomas mixed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-19 Wietse M. Boon , Dennis Gläser , Rainer Helmig , Kilian Weishaupt , Ivan Yotov

We derive novel, fast, and parameter-robust preconditioned iterative methods for steady and time-dependent Navier--Stokes control problems. Our approach may be applied to time-dependent problems which are discretized using backward Euler or…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-08-03 Santolo Leveque , John W. Pearson

In this paper, we propose a new finite element solution approach to the multi-compartmental Darcy equations describing flow and interactions in a porous medium with multiple fluid compartments. We introduce a new numerical formulation and a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-24 Eleonora Piersanti , Marie E. Rognes , Kent-Andre Mardal

The aim of this paper is to propose a systematic way to obtain convergent finite element schemes for the Darcy-Stokes flow problem by combining well-known mixed finite elements that are separately convergent for Darcy and Stokes problems.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-03-22 Antonio Márquez , Salim Meddahi , Francisco-Javier Sayas

The aim of the present paper is to provide necessary and sufficient conditions to maintain a stochastic coupled system, with porous media components and gradient-type noise in a prescribed set of constraints by using internal controls. This…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-02-08 Ioana Ciotir , Dan Goreac , Ionut Munteanu

In this work we provide a first order sensitivity analysis of some parameterized stochastic optimal control problems. The parameters can be given by random processes. The main tool is the one-to-one correspondence between the adjoint states…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-04-07 Julio Backhoff , Francisco Silva

Projection stabilisation applied to general Lagrange multiplier finite element methods is introduced and analysed in an abstract framework. We then consider some applications of the stabilised methods: (i) the weak imposition of boundary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-08-05 Erik Burman

The preconditioned iterative solution of large-scale saddle-point systems is of great importance in numerous application areas, many of them involving partial differential equations. Robustness with respect to certain problem parameters is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-22 Roland Herzog

We consider the time-dependent Stokes-Darcy problem as a model case for the challenges involved in solving coupled systems. Keeping the model, its discretization, and the underlying numerics for the subproblems in the free-flow domain and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-08-31 Jenny Schmalfuss , Cedric Riethmüller , Mirco Altenbernd , Kilian Weishaupt , Dominik Göddeke

In this paper, we address the efficient numerical solution of linear and quadratic programming problems, often of large scale. With this aim, we devise an infeasible interior point method, blended with the proximal method of multipliers,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-18 Luca Bergamaschi , Jacek Gondzio , Ángeles Martínez , John W. Pearson , Spyridon Pougkakiotis

We consider the surface Stokes equation with Lagrange multiplier and approach it numerically. Using a Taylor-Hood surface finite element method, along with an appropriate estimate for the additional Lagrange multiplier, we derive a new…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-03 Charles M. Elliott , Achilleas Mavrakis

We provide a correction to the sufficient conditions under which closed-form expressions for the optimal Lagrange multiplier are provided in arXiv:2112.13138 [math.OC]. We first present a simple counterexample where the original conditions…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-13 Henri Lefebvre , Anirudh Subramanyam

We propose a parameter optimization method for achieving static equilibrium of discrete elastic rods. Our method simultaneously optimizes material stiffness and rest shape parameters under box constraints to exactly enforce zero net force…

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