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We propose a high-order finite element method for linear fourth-order elliptic problems that is both nodally bound-preserving and mass-conservative, based on a variational inequality formulation. The method admits an equivalent strictly…

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An $hp$-adaptive continuous Galerkin finite element method is developed to analyze a static anti-plane shear crack embedded in a nonlinear, strain-limiting elastic body. The geometrically linear material is described by a constitutive law…

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We present an adaptive multiresolution method for the numerical simulation of ideal magnetohydrodynamics in two space dimensions. The discretization uses a finite volume scheme based on a Cartesian mesh and an explicit compact Rung-Kutta…

We analyze a fully discrete scheme based on the discontinuous (in time) Galerkin approach, which is combined with conforming finite element subspaces in space, for the distributed optimal control problem of the three-dimensional…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-06-18 Cung The Anh , Tran Minh Nguyet

This paper presents a space-time finite element method (FEM) based on an unfitted mesh for solving parabolic problems on moving domains. Unlike other unfitted space-time finite element approaches that commonly employ the discontinuous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-03 Ruizhi Wang , Weibing Deng

We develop efficient hierarchical preconditioners for optimal control problems governed by partial differential equations with uncertain coefficients. Adopting a discretize-then-optimize framework that integrates finite element…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Zhendong Li , Akwum Onwunta , Bedřich Sousedík

Model Predictive Control (MPC) is a well-established approach to solve infinite horizon optimal control problems. Since optimization over an infinite time horizon is generally infeasible, MPC determines a suboptimal feedback control by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-26 Saskia Dietze , Martin A. Grepl

We consider Galerkin finite element methods for semilinear stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs) with multiplicative noise and Lipschitz continuous nonlinearities. We analyze the strong error of convergence for spatially…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-11-26 Raphael Kruse

This paper is concerned with the development of weak Galerkin (WG) finite element method for optimal control problems governed by second order elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs). It is advantageous to use discontinuous finite…

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We analyze a high order unfitted hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin (HDG) method for an optimal control problem governed by a convection-diffusion equation posed in a domain with piecewise-wise $\mathcal{C}^2$ boundary $\partial \Omega$.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-02 Esteban Henríquez , Manuel Solano

We consider a linear-quadratic pde constrained optimal control problem on an evolving surface with pointwise state constraints. We reformulate the optimization problem on a fixed surface and approximate the reformulated problem by a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-04-27 Michael Hinze , Heiko Kröner

This paper details a methodology to transcribe an optimal control problem into a nonlinear program for generation of the trajectories that optimize a given functional by approximating only the highest order derivatives of a given system's…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-09 Thomas L. Ahrens , Ian M. Down , Manoranjan Majji

This paper is concerned with the adaptive numerical treatment of stochastic partial differential equations. Our method of choice is Rothe's method. We use the implicit Euler scheme for the time discretization. Consequently, in each step, an…

Stochastic Galerkin methods offer unexplored potential for the numerical simulation of parabolic problems with random variables, in particular if they are combined with variational discretizations of the space and time variables. Due to the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-21 Moataz Dawor , Nils Margenberg , Markus Bause

We consider a semilinear parabolic equation with a large class of nonlinearities without any growth conditions. We discretize the problem with a discontinuous Galerkin scheme dG(0) in time (which is a variant of the implicit Euler scheme)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-17 Dominik Meidner , Boris Vexler

Convergence of an adaptive collocation method for the stationary parametric diffusion equation with finite-dimensional affine coefficient is shown. The adaptive algorithm relies on a recently introduced residual-based reliable a posteriori…

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This paper constructs a predictor-corrector technique with orthogonal spline collocation finite element method for simulating a FitzHugh-Nagumo system subject to suitable initial and boundary conditions. The developed computational…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Eric Ngondiep

In this work, we present numerical analysis for a distributed optimal control problem, with box constraint on the control, governed by a subdiffusion equation which involves a fractional derivative of order $\alpha\in(0,1)$ in time. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-22 Bangti Jin , Buyang Li , Zhi Zhou

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

The proximal Galerkin finite element method is a high-order, low-iteration complexity, nonlinear numerical method that preserves the geometric and algebraic structure of point-wise bound constraints in infinite-dimensional function spaces.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-18 Brendan Keith , Thomas M. Surowiec