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This paper is concerned with the theory, construction and application of variable-stepsize implicit Peer two-step methods that are super-convergent for variable stepsizes, i.e., preserve their classical order achieved for uniform stepsizes…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-12 Jens Lang , Bernhard A. Schmitt

The Poisson-Nernst-Planck equations with generalized Frumkin-Butler-Volmer boundary conditions (PNP-FBV) describe ion transport with Faradaic reactions and have applications in a wide variety of fields. Using an adaptive time-stepper based…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-24 M. C. Pugh , D. Yan , F. P. Dawson

Solutions to optimal control problems can be discontinuous, even if all the functionals defining the problem are smooth. This can cause difficulties when numerically computing solutions to these problems. While conventional numerical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-21 Lucian Nita , Eric C. Kerrigan , Eduardo M. G. Vila , Yuanbo Nie

The paper studies a time-nonlocal multiphysics finite element method with Crank-Nicolson scheme for poroelasticity model with secondary consolidation. For the case where the physical parameters $\lambda,\lambda^*$ and $c_0$ are all finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-09 Zhihao Ge , Yanan He

From optimal transport to robust dimensionality reduction, a plethora of machine learning applications can be cast into the min-max optimization problems over Riemannian manifolds. Though many min-max algorithms have been analyzed in the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-29 Michael I. Jordan , Tianyi Lin , Emmanouil-Vasileios Vlatakis-Gkaragkounis

Accurately solving PDEs with localised features requires refined meshes that adapt to the solution. Traditional numerical methods, such as finite elements, are linear in nature and often ineffective for such problems, as the mesh is not…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-27 Alexandre Magueresse , Santiago Badia

Cohesive fracture is among the few techniques able to model complex fracture nucleation and propagation with a sharp (nonsmeared) representation of the crack. Implicit time-stepping schemes are often favored in mechanics due to their…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-23 Stephen A. Vavasis , Katerina D. Papoulia , M. Reza Hirmand

This paper investigates a space-time interface-fitted approximation of a moving-interface optimal control problem with energy regularization. We reformulate the optimality conditions into a variational problem involving both the state and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-13 Quang Huy Nguyen , Phuong Cuc Hoang , Van Chien Le , Thi Thanh Mai Ta

Neural operator approximations of the gain kernels in PDE backstepping has emerged as a viable method for implementing controllers in real time. With such an approach, one approximates the gain kernel, which maps the plant coefficient into…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-02 Luke Bhan , Yuanyuan Shi , Miroslav Krstic

We propose an improved method for estimating partial differential equations and delay partial differential equations from data, using Bayesian optimization and the Bayesian information criterion to automatically find suitable…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-02-23 Oliver Mai , Tim W. Kroll , Uwe Thiele , Oliver Kamps

This paper proposes novel gradient-flow schemes that yield convergence to the optimal point of a convex optimization problem within a \textit{fixed} time from any given initial condition for unconstrained optimization, constrained…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-27 Kunal Garg , Dimitra Panagou

In this paper, we consider a formulation of nonlinear constrained optimization problems. We reformulate it as a time-varying optimization using continuous-time parametric functions and derive a dynamical system for tracking the optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-11 Mohsen Amidzadeh

We consider a time-stepping scheme of Crank-Nicolson type for the heat equation on a moving domain in Eulerian coordinates. As the spatial domain varies between subsequent time steps, an extension of the solution from the previous time step…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-01 Stefan Frei , Maneesh Kumar Singh

We consider solving equality-constrained nonlinear, nonconvex optimization problems. This class of problems appears widely in a variety of applications in machine learning and engineering, ranging from constrained deep neural networks, to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-31 Ilgee Hong , Sen Na , Michael W. Mahoney , Mladen Kolar

In this study, we evaluate the performance of feedback control-based time step adaptivity schemes for the nonlocal Cahn-Hilliard equation derived from the Ohta-Kawasaki free energy functional. The temporal adaptivity scheme is recast under…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Gabriel F. Barros , Adriano M. A. Côrtes , Alvaro L. G. A. Coutinho

This paper considers unconstrained convex optimization problems with time-varying objective functions. We propose algorithms with a discrete time-sampling scheme to find and track the solution trajectory based on prediction and correction…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-18 Andrea Simonetto , Aryan Mokhtari , Alec Koppel , Geert Leus , Alejandro Ribeiro

A class of semilinear parabolic reaction diffusion equations with multiple time delays is considered. These time delays and corresponding weights are to be optimized such that the associated solution of the delay equation is the best…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-19 Eduardo Casas , Mariano Mateos , Fredi Tröltzsch

We assess the applicability and efficiency of time-adaptive high-order splitting methods applied for the numerical solution of (systems of) nonlinear parabolic problems under periodic boundary conditions. We discuss in particular several…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-09-08 Winfried Auzinger , Othmar Koch , Michael Quell

The study of optimal control problems under uncertainty plays an important role in scientific numerical simulations. This class of optimization problems is strongly utilized in engineering, biology and finance. In this paper, a stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-06 Caroline Geiersbach , Teresa Scarinci