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Boltzmann transport problems often involve heavy streaming, where particles propagate long distance due to the dominance of advection over particle interaction. If an insufficiently refined non-rotationally invariant angular discretisation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-11-06 S. Dargaville , R. P. Smedley-Stevenson , P. N. Smith , C. C. Pain

We introduce a new $hp$-adaptive strategy for self-adjoint elliptic boundary value problems that does not rely on using classical a posteriori error estimators. Instead, our approach is based on a generally applicable prediction strategy…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-23 Patrick Bammer , Andreas Schröder , Thomas P. Wihler

In a dual weighted residual method based on the finite element framework, the Galerkin orthogonality is an issue that prevents solving the dual equation in the same space as the one for the primal equation. In the literature, there have…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-09 Chengyu Liu , Guanghui Hu

This article initiates the study of space-time adaptive mesh refinements for time-dependent boundary element formulations of wave equations. Based on error indicators of residual type, we formulate an adaptive boundary element procedure for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-07 Alessandra Aimi , Giulia Di Credico , Heiko Gimperlein , Chiara Guardasoni

In this work, we consider an optimal control problem subject to a nonlinear PDE constraint and apply it to the regularized $p$-Laplace equation. To this end, a reduced unconstrained optimization problem in terms of the control variable is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-29 Bernhard Endtmayer , Ulrich Langer , Ira Neitzel , Winnifried Wollner , Thomas Wick

Port-Hamiltonian systems provide a highly-structured framework for modeling of physical systems. By definition, they encode a balance equation relating energy changes to supplied and dissipated energy. Capturing this energy balance in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-15 Aashutosh Sharma , Andreas Bartel , Manuel Schaller

In this article, we present a three-dimensional anisotropic $hp$-mesh refinement strategy for ultraweak discontinuous Petrov--Galerkin (DPG) formulations with optimal test functions. The refinement strategy utilizes the built-in…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Ankit Chakraborty , Stefan Henneking , Leszek Demkowicz

We derive efficient and reliable goal-oriented error estimations, and devise adaptive mesh procedures for the finite element method that are based on the localization of a posteriori estimates. In our previous work [SIAM J. Sci. Comput.,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-23 Bernhard Endtmayer , Ulrich Langer , Thomas Wick

A robust $hp$-adaptive finite element framework is presented for the investigation of static cracks in materials characterized by complex, pointwise density variations. Within such heterogeneous media, the equilibrium equation governed by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-29 S. M. Mallikarjunaiah

In this work, the dual-weighted residual method is applied to a space-time formulation of nonstationary Stokes and Navier-Stokes flow. Tensor-product space-time finite elements are being used to discretize the variational formulation with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-07 Julian Roth , Jan Philipp Thiele , Uwe Köcher , Thomas Wick

In this work, the space-time MORe DWR (Model Order Reduction with Dual-Weighted Residual error estimates) framework is extended and further developed for single-phase flow problems in porous media. Specifically, our problem statement is the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-16 Hendrik Fischer , Julian Roth , Ludovic Chamoin , Amelie Fau , Mary F. Wheeler , Thomas Wick

To avoid ineffective collisions between the equilibrium states, the hybrid method with deviational particles (HDP) has been proposed to integrate the Vlasov-Poisson-Landau system, while leaving a new issue in sampling deviational particles…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-12-24 Zhengyang Lei , Sihong Shao

This paper proposes two convergent adaptive mesh-refining algorithms for the hybrid high-order method in convex minimization problems with two-sided p-growth. Examples include the p-Laplacian, an optimal design problem in topology…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-03 Carsten Carstensen , Ngoc Tien Tran

The simulation of complex nonlinear engineering systems such as compressible fluid flows may be targeted to make more efficient and accurate the approximation of a specific (scalar) quantity of interest of the system. Putting aside modeling…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-14 Jan Van Langenhove , Didier Lucor , Frédéric Alauzet , Anca Belme

An adaptive direct collocation method is developed for solving optimal control problems constrained by parabolic partial differential equations. The partial differential equation is first reformulated in a variational setting, where the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-18 Alexander M. Davies , Sara Pollock , Miriam E. Dennis , Anil V. Rao

Within the context of intelligent manufacturing, industrial robots have a pivotal function. Nonetheless, extended operational periods cause a decline in their absolute positioning accuracy, preventing them from meeting high precision. To…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Tinghui Chen , Shuai Li

Adaptive mesh refinement is central to the efficient solution of partial differential equations (PDEs) via the finite element method (FEM). Classical $r$-adaptivity optimizes vertex positions but requires solving expensive auxiliary PDEs…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Niccolò Grillo , James Rowbottom , Pietro Liò , Carola Bibiane Schönlieb , Stefania Fresca

Anisotropic mesh adaptation has been successfully applied to the numerical solution of partial differential equations but little considered for variational problems. In this paper, we investigate the use of a global hierarchical basis error…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-17 Weizhang Huang , Lennard Kamenski , Xianping Li

Port-Hamiltonian systems provide an energy-based modeling paradigm for dynamical input-state-output systems. At their core, they fulfill an energy balance relating stored, dissipated and supplied energy. To accurately resolve this energy…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-17 Andreas Bartel , Manuel Schaller

We present a fully iterative adaptive algorithm for the numerical minimization of strongly convex energy functionals in Hilbert spaces. The proposed approach, which we first present in abstract form, generates a hierarchical sequence of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-26 Raphael Leu , Thomas P. Wihler