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The aim of this work is to point out that the class of free boundary problems governed by second order autonomous ordinary differential equations can be transformed to initial value problems. Interest in the numerical solution of free…
The initial-values problem of the following nonlinear autonomous recursion of order p , z (s + p) = c product of [z (s + l)]^a_l ; with p an arbitrary positive integer, z (s) the dependent variable (possibly a complex number), s the…
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This paper is concerned with two examples on the application of the free boundary formulation to BVPs on a semi-infinite interval. In both cases we are able to provide the exact solution of both the BVP and its free boundary formulation.…
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In this paper, we study a class of initial boundary value problem (IBVP) of the Korteweg- de Vries equation posed on a finite interval with nonhomogeneous boundary conditions. The IBVP is known to be locally well-posed, but its global $L^2…
Well-conditioned boundary integral methods for the solution of elliptic boundary value problems (BVPs) are powerful tools for static and dynamic physical simulations. When there are many close-to-touching boundaries (eg, in complex fluids)…
We introduce a new approximate solution technique for first-order Markov decision processes (FOMDPs). Representing the value function linearly w.r.t. a set of first-order basis functions, we compute suitable weights by casting the…
We consider the problem of numerically approximating the solutions to a partial differential equation (PDE) when there is insufficient information to determine a unique solution. Our main example is the Poisson boundary value problem, when…
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We study initial-boundary value problems for linear evolution equations of arbitrary spatial order, subject to arbitrary linear boundary conditions and posed on a rectangular 1-space, 1-time domain. We give a new characterisation of the…
In this paper, a new implicit-explicit local method with an arbitrary order is produced for stiff initial value problems. Here, a general method for one-step time integrations has been created, considering a direction free approach for…
An iterative solution method for fully nonlinear boundary value problems governing self-similar flows with a free boundary is presented. Specifically, the method is developed for application to water entry problems, which can be studied…
We describe a strategy for solving nonlinear eigenproblems numerically. Our approach is based on the approximation of a vector-valued function, defined as solution of a non-homogeneous version of the eigenproblem. This approximation step is…
This paper presents a decomposition method for solving elliptic boundary value problems in one-dimension. The method is an improvement to an existing technique for approximating elliptic systems. It is demonstrated to be computationally…
We introduce a method for efficiently solving initial-boundary value problems (IBVPs) that uses Lie symmetries to enforce the associated partial differential equation (PDE) exactly by construction. By leveraging symmetry transformations,…
This paper is concerned with initial-boundary-value problems (IBVPs) for a class of nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations posed either on a half line $\mathbb{R}^+$ or on a bounded interval $(0, L)$ with nonhomogeneous boundary conditions. For…
An optimal control problem related to the probability of transition between stable states for a thermally driven Ginzburg-Landau equation is considered. The value function for the optimal control problem with a spatial discretization is…
In this note we consider the continuous Galerkin time stepping method of arbitrary order as a possible discretization scheme of nonlinear initial value problems. In addition, we develop and generalize a well known existing result for the…
We consider the first order autonomous differential equation (ODE) ${\bf x}'={\bf f}({\bf x})$ where ${\bf f}: {\mathbb R}^n\to{\mathbb R}^n$ is locally Lipschitz. For ${\bf x}_0\in{\mathbb R}^n$ and $h>0$, the initial value problem (IVP)…