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Kernel-based approach to operator approximation for partial differential equations has been shown to be unconditionally stable for linear PDEs and numerically exhibit unconditional stability for non-linear PDEs. These methods have the same…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Andrew Christlieb , Sining Gong , Hyoseon Yang

Curvilinear, multiblock summation-by-parts finite difference operators with the simultaneous approximation term method provide a stable and accurate framework for solving the wave equation in second order form. That said, the standard…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-07 Brittany A Erickson , Jeremy E Kozdon , Tobias W Harvey

We develop a new finite difference method for the wave equation in second order form. The finite difference operators satisfy a summation-by-parts (SBP) property. With boundary conditions and material interface conditions imposed weakly by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-29 Siyang Wang , Daniel Appelö , Gunilla Kreiss

High-order numerical methods for conservation laws are highly sought after due to their potential efficiency. However, it is challenging to ensure their robustness, particularly for under-resolved flows. Baseline high-order methods often…

The Shifted Boundary Method (SBM) trades some part of the burden of body-fitted meshing for increased algebraic complexity. While the resulting linear systems retain the standard $\mathcal{O}(h^{-2})$ conditioning of second-order operators,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-16 Michał Wichrowski , Ajay Ajith

Unfitted boundary methods are widely used to numerically solve partial differential equations (PDEs) on irregular domains, avoiding the computational burden of generating boundary-conforming grids. In the finite-difference framework,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-20 Armando Coco , Alessandro Coclite , Stéphane Clain , Rui Miguel Pereira

We analyze the stability and functional superconvergence of discretizations of diffusion problems with the narrow-stencil second-derivative generalized summation-by-parts (SBP) operators coupled with simultaneous approximation terms (SATs).…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-21 Zelalem Arega Worku , David W. Zingg

In this paper, we consider finite difference approximations of the second order wave equation. We use finite difference operators satisfying the summation-by-parts property to discretize the equation in space. Boundary conditions and grid…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-09-04 Siyang Wang , Gunilla Kreiss

This paper presents a novel robust trajectory optimization method for constrained nonlinear dynamical systems subject to unknown bounded disturbances. In particular, we seek optimal control policies that remain robustly feasible with…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-08 Arshiya Taj Abdul , Augustinos D. Saravanos , Evangelos A. Theodorou

In this work we propose a simple but effective high order polynomial correction allowing to enhance the consistency of all kind of boundary conditions for the Euler equations (Dirichlet, characteristic far-field and slip-wall), both in 2D…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-30 Mirco Ciallella , Elena Gaburro , Marco Lorini , Mario Ricchiuto

We extend the internal model principle for systems with boundary control and boundary observation, and construct a robust controller for this class of systems. However, as a consequence of the internal model principle, any robust controller…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-16 Jukka-Pekka Humaloja , Mikael Kurula , Lassi Paunonen

We generalize the notion of Lagrangian subspaces to self-orthogonal subspaces with respect to a (skew-)symmetric form, thus characterizing (skew-)self-adjoint and unitary operators by means of self-ortho-gonal subspaces. By orthogonality…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2016-06-28 Carsten Schubert , Christian Seifert , Jürgen Voigt , Marcus Waurick

Gauss-Lobatto quadrature nodes and weights are optimal for closed summation-by-parts (SBP) formulations based on polynomial approximation spaces in the sense that for a prescribed function space they yield an SBP operator of minimal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Nicholas Hale , Charis Harley , Prince Nchupang , Jan Nordström

We consider optimal control problems for partial differential equations where the controls take binary values but vary over the time horizon, they can thus be seen as dynamic switches. The switching patterns may be subject to combinatorial…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-04 Christoph Buchheim , Alexandra Grütering , Christian Meyer

A computational PDE-constrained optimization approach is proposed for optimal trajectory planning under uncertainty by means of an associated Schroedinger Bridge Problem (SBP). The proposed SBP formulation is interpreted as the mean-field…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Dante Kalise , Wenxin Liu

Multidimensional diagonal-norm summation-by-parts (SBP) operators with collocated volume and facet nodes, known as diagonal-$ \mathsf{E} $ operators, are attractive for entropy-stable discretizations from an efficiency standpoint. However,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-28 Zelalem Arega Worku , Jason E. Hicken , David W. Zingg

This paper is concerned with the construction of high order schemes on irregular grids for balance laws, including a discussion of an a-posteriori error indicator based on the numerical entropy production. We also impose well-balancing on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-02-26 Gabriella Puppo , Matteo Semplice

In a refined Sobolev scale, we investigate an elliptic boundary-value problem with additional unknown functions in boundary conditions for which the maximum of orders of boundary operators is grater than or equal to the order of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-04-03 Tetiana Kasirenko , Iryna Chepurukhina

We study the robust output regulation of linear boundary control systems by constructing extended systems. The extended systems are established based on solving static differential equations under two new conditions. We first consider the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-19 Duy Phan , Lassi Paunonen