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We investigate a two-state conformational conversion system and introduce a novel structure-preserving numerical scheme that couples a local discontinuous Galerkin space discretization with the backward Euler time-integration method. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Paola F. Antonietti , Mattia Corti , Sergio Gómez , Ilaria Perugia

A new conservative symmetry-preserving second-order time-accurate PISO-based pressure-velocity coupling for solving the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations on unstructured collocated grids is presented in this paper. This new method for…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-10-09 Ed M. J. Komen , Jannes A. Hopman , Edo M. A. Frederix , F. Xavi Trias , Roel W. C. P. Verstappen

We prove convergence of the proximal policy gradient method for a class of constrained stochastic control problems with control in both the drift and diffusion of the state process. The problem requires either the running or terminal cost…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-27 Ashley Davey , Harry Zheng

Optimization-based (OB) alternatives to traditional flux limiters couch preservation of properties such as local bounds and maximum principles into optimization problems, which impose these properties through inequality constraints. In this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-30 Falko Ruppenthal , Denis Ridzal , Dmitri Kuzmin , Pavel Bochev

This paper introduces a numerical scheme for time harmonic Maxwell's equations by using weak Galerkin (WG) finite element methods. The WG finite element method is based on two operators: discrete weak curl and discrete weak gradient, with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-12-10 Lin Mu , Junping Wang , Xiu Ye , Shangyou Zhang

In this work, we present a second-order numerical scheme to address the solution of optimal control problems constrained by the evolution of nonlinear Fokker-Planck equations arising from socio-economic dynamics. In order to design an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Giacomo Albi , Elisa Calzola

A finite element analysis of a Dirichlet boundary control problem governed by the linear parabolic equation is presented in this article. The Dirichlet control is considered in a closed and convex subset of the energy space $H^1(\Omega…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-11-04 Thirupathi Gudi , Gouranga Mallik , Ramesh Ch. Sau

This paper proposes a charge-conserving, variational, spatio-temporal discretization for the drift-kinetic Vlasov-Maxwell system, utilizing finite-elements for the electromagnetic fields and the particle-in-cell approach for the Vlasov…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-10-09 Eero Hirvijoki

The main purpose of this article is to disseminate among a wide audience of physicists a known result, which is available since a couple of years to the \emph{cognoscenti} of differential forms on manifolds; namely, that charge conservation…

Classical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. De Zela

We develop a Monte-Carlo based numerical method for solving discrete-time stochastic optimal control problems with inventory. These are optimal control problems in which the control affects only a deterministically evolving inventory…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-05 Alessandro Balata , Jan Palczewski

An extended Maxwell viscoelastic model with a relaxation parameter is studied from mathematical and numerical points of view. It is shown that the model has a gradient flow property with respect to a viscoelastic energy. Based on the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-22 Masato Kimura , Hirofumi Notsu , Yoshimi Tanaka , Hiroki Yamamoto

We consider a pressure correction temporal discretization for the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations in EMAC form. We prove stability and error estimates for the case of mixed finite element spatial discretization, and in particular…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-07 Sean Ingimarson , Monika Neda , Leo Rebholz , Jorge Reyes , An Vu

The paper concerns optimal control of discontinuous differential inclusions of the normal cone type governed by a generalized version of the Moreau sweeping process with control functions acting in both nonconvex moving sets and additive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-11-08 Tan H. Cao , B. S. Mordukhovich

Solving optimal control problems to determine a stabilizing controller involves a significant computational effort. Time-varying optimal control provides a remedy by designing a tracking system, given as an ordinary differential equation,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-16 Patrick Schmidt , Stefan Streif

Charges are everywhere because most atoms are charged. Chemical bonds are formed by electrons with their charge. Charges move and interact according to Maxwell's equations in space and in atoms where the equations of electrodynamics are…

Biological Physics · Physics 2016-10-03 Bob Eisenberg

We investigate the three-dimensional compressible Euler-Maxwell system, a model for simulating the transport of electrons interacting with propagating electromagnetic waves in semiconductor devices. First, we show the global well-posedness…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-02 Timothée Crin-Barat , Yue-Jun Peng , Ling-Yun Shou , Jiang Xu

We consider a system of partial differential equations describing mass transport in a multicomponent isothermal compressible fluid. The diffusion fluxes obey the Fick-Onsager or Maxwell-Stefan closure approach. Mechanical forces result into…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-27 Dieter Bothe , Pierre-Etienne Druet

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

We first prove local-in-time well-posedness for the Muskat problem, modeling fluid flow in a two-dimensional inhomogeneous porous media. The permeability of the porous medium is described by a step function, with a jump discontinuity across…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-11-21 Rafael Granero-Belinchón , Steve Shkoller

We investigate an optimization problem that arises when working within the paradigm of Data-Driven Computational Mechanics. In the context of the diffusion-reaction problem, such an optimization problem seeks for the continuous primal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-13 Pedro B. Bazon , Cristian G. Gebhardt , Gustavo C. Buscaglia , Roberto F. Ausas