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In this paper, optimal control problems governed by diffusion equations with Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions are investigated in the framework of the gradient discretisation method. Gradient schemes are defined for the optimality…

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In this paper, the insulated conductivity model with two touching or close-to-touching inclusions is considered in $\mathbb{R}^{d}$ with $d\geq3$. We establish the pointwise upper bounds on the gradient of the solution for the generalized…

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This report is dedicated to the construction and analysis of so-called Generalized Impedance Boundary Conditions (GIBCs) used in electromagnetic scattering problems from imperfect conductors as higher order approximations of a perfect…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-01-07 Houssem Haddar , Patrick Joly , Hoai Minh Nguyen

In this paper, we are concerned with the gradient estimate of the electric field due to two nearly touching dielectric inclusions, which is a central topic in the theory of composite materials. We derive accurate quantitative…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-07-30 Youjun Deng , Xiaoping Fang , Hongyu Liu

A simple finite element formulation of the outlet gradient boundary condition is presented in the general context of convective-diffusive transport processes. Basically, the method is based on an upstream evaluation of the dependent…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2011-11-15 Fabien Cornaton , Pierre Perrochet , Hans-Jörg Diersch

We study the least gradient problem in bounded regions with Lipschitz boundary in the plane. We provide a set of conditions for the existence of solutions in non-convex simply connected regions. We assume the boundary data is continuous and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-08-26 Samer Dweik , Piotr Rybka , Ahmad Sabra

Motivated by a wide variety of applications, ranging from stochastic optimization to dimension reduction through variable selection, the problem of estimating gradients accurately is of crucial importance in statistics and learning theory.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-29 Guillaume Ausset , Stephan Clémençon , François Portier

In this paper we prove uniform a priori estimates for transmission problems with constant coefficients on two subdomains, with a special emphasis for the case when the ratio between these coefficients is large. In the most part of the work,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-01 Gabriel Caloz , Monique Dauge , Victor Péron

We consider an optimal insulation problem of a given domain in $\mathbb R^N$. We study a model of heat trasfer determined by convection; this corresponds, before insulation, to a Robin boundary value problem. We deal with a prototype which…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-01 Francesco Della Pietra , Francescantonio Oliva

The least gradient problem (minimizing the total variation with given boundary data) is equivalent, in the plane, to the Beckmann minimal-flow problem with source and target measures located on the boundary of the domain, which is in turn…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-03 Filippo Santambrogio , Samer Dweik

The electric field increases toward infinity in the narrow region between closely adjacent perfect conductors as they approach each other. Much attention has been devoted to the blow-up estimate, especially in two dimensions, for the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-09-01 Mikyoung Lim , KiHyun Yun

In the perfect conductivity problem of composites, the electric field may become arbitrarily large as $\varepsilon$, the distance between the inclusions and the matrix boundary, tends to zero. The main contribution of this paper lies in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-02-25 Zhiwen Zhao

Conductivity of the defectless, perfect crystal graphene is found at the neutrality point at zero temperature and in the limit of large dielectric constant of the substrate. The steady state of the graphene with weak current is assumed to…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Kashuba

We derive logarithmic gradient estimate and universal boundedness estimate for semilinear elliptic equations on \RCD\, metric measure spaces, which contains the class of Riemannian manifolds with Ricci curvature bounded below. These…

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We study the quasi-neutral limit in an optimal semiconductor design problem constrained by a nonlinear, nonlocal Poisson equation modelling the drift diffusion equations in thermal equilibrium. While a broad knowledge on the asymptotic…

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Conductivity of a disorder-free intrinsic graphene is studied to the first order in the long-range Coulomb interaction and is found to be \sigma=\sigma_0(1+0.01 g), where 'g' is the dimensionless ("fine structure") coupling constant. The…

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In this paper, we present a Spectral-Galerkin Method to approximate the zero-index transmission eigenvalues with a conductive boundary condition. This is a new eigenvalue problem derived from the scalar inverse scattering problem for an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-27 Isaac Harris

In this paper, we study an insulation problem that seeks the optimal distribution of a fixed amount $m>0$ of insulating material coating an insulated boundary $\Gamma_I\subseteq \partial\Omega$ of a thermally conducting body…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-04 Harbir Antil , Alex Kaltenbach , Keegan L. A. Kirk

In this paper, we will use the maximum principle to give a new proof of the gradient estimates for mean curvature equations with some oblique derivative problems. Specially, we shall give a new proof for the capillary problem with zero…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-11-24 Jinju Xu

It is interesting to study the stress concentration between two adjacent stiff inclusions in composite materials, which can be modeled by the Lam\'e system with partially infinite coefficients. To overcome the difficulty from the lack of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-02-06 Yuanyuan Hou , Hongjie Ju , Haigang Li