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We develop a third-order conservative semi-Lagrangian discontinuous Galerkin (SLDG) scheme for solving linear transport equations on curvilinear unstructured triangular meshes, tailored for complex geometries. To ensure third-order spatial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-14 Xiaofeng Cai , Yibing Chen , Kunkai Fu , Liujun Pan

In the missing data literature, the Maximum Likelihood Estimator (MLE) is celebrated for its ignorability property under missing at random (MAR) data. However, its sensitivity to misspecification of the (complete) data model, even under…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-09-23 Badr-Eddine Chérief-Abdellatif , Jeffrey Näf

In this letter, we revisit the problem of maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) of parameters of Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) and show a new derivation for its parameters. The new derivation, unlike the classical approach employing the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-10 Nitesh Sahu , Prabhu Babu

Nonlinear hyperbolic conservation laws admit singular solutions such as shockwaves (discontinuities in conserved variables), rarefaction waves (discontinuities in derivatives), and vacuum states (loss of strong hyperbolicity). When…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-19 Camille Felton , Mariana Harris , Caleb Logemann , Stefan Nelson , Ian Pelakh , James A. Rossmanith

In this paper, we study the unconditional convergence and error estimates of a Galerkin-mixed FEM with the linearized semi-implicit Euler time-discrete scheme for the equations of incompressible miscible flow in porous media. We prove that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-10-01 Buyang Li , Weiwei Sun

The Vlasov-Poisson equations describe the evolution of a collisionless plasma, represented through a probability density function (PDF) that self-interacts via an electrostatic force. One of the main difficulties in numerically solving this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-20 J. A. Rossmanith , D. C. Seal

Maximum regularized likelihood estimators (MRLEs) are arguably the most established class of estimators in high-dimensional statistics. In this paper, we derive guarantees for MRLEs in Kullback-Leibler divergence, a general measure of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-10-18 Rui Zhuang , Johannes Lederer

We consider variational discretization of a parabolic optimal control problem governed by space-time measure controls. For the state discretization we use a Petrov-Galerkin method employing piecewise constant states and piecewise linear and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-25 Evelyn Herberg , Michael Hinze , Henrik Schumacher

We study statistical inference of the drift parameters for the Volterra Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process on R in the ergodic regime. For continuous-time observations, we derive the corresponding maximum likelihood estimators and show that they…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Mohamed Ben Alaya , Martin Friesen , Jonas Kremer

In this paper, a time-domain discontinuous Galerkin (TDdG) finite element method for the full system of Maxwell's equations in optics and photonics is investigated, including a complete proof of a semi-discrete error estimate. The new…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-04 Asad Anees , Lutz Angermann

In this paper we analyze the error as well for the semi-discretization as the full discretization of a time-dependent convection-diffusion problem. We use for the discretization in space the local discontinuous Galerkin (LDG) method on a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-08 Yao Cheng , Yanjie Mei , Hans-Goerg Roos

For linear transport and radiative heat transfer equations with random inputs, we develop new generalized polynomial chaos based Asymptotic-Preserving stochastic Galerkin schemes that allow efficient computation for the problems that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-03-14 Shi Jin , Hanqing Lu , Lorenzo Pareschi

We present a realizability-preserving numerical method for solving a spectral two-moment model to simulate the transport of massless, neutral particles interacting with a steady background material moving with relativistic velocities. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-14 Joseph Hunter , Eirik Endeve , M. Paul Laiu , Yulong Xing

We present a new algorithm for the discretization of the Vlasov-Maxwell system of equations for the study of plasmas in the kinetic regime. Using the discontinuous Galerkin finite element method for the spatial discretization, we obtain a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-11-22 J. Juno , A. Hakim , J. TenBarge , E. Shi , W. Dorland

Several researchers have proposed minimisation of maximum mean discrepancy (MMD) as a method to quantise probability measures, i.e., to approximate a target distribution by a representative point set. We consider sequential algorithms that…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-02-15 Onur Teymur , Jackson Gorham , Marina Riabiz , Chris. J. Oates

We study the numerical approximation by space-time finite element methods of a multi-physics system coupling hyperbolic elastodynamics with parabolic transport and modeling poro- and thermoelasticity. The equations are rewritten as a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-14 Markus Bause , Mathias Anselmann , Uwe Köcher , Florin A. Radu

The main goal of the paper is to establish time semidiscrete and space-time fully discrete maximal parabolic regularity for the time discontinuous Galerkin solution of linear parabolic equations. Such estimates have many applications. They…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-20 Dmitriy Leykekhman , Boris Vexler

Over the last few years there have been dramatic advances in our understanding of mathematical and computational models of complex systems in the presence of uncertainty. This has led to a growth in the area of uncertainty quantification as…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-06-05 Maziar Raissi , Padmanabhan Seshaiyer

We propose a hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin (HDG) method combined with convex-concave splitting for the temporal discretization of the convective Cahn-Hilliard equation. The convection term is discretized explicitly without…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-24 Gang Chen , Daozhi Han , Jiaxuan Liu , Yangwen Zhang , Dujin Zuo

We propose a piecewise-linear, time-stepping discontinuous Galerkin method to solve numerically a time fractional diffusion equation involving Caputo derivative of order $\mu\in (0,1)$ with variable coefficients. For the spatial…

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