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Replacing positivity constraints by an entropy barrier is popular to approximate solutions of linear programs. In the special case of the optimal transport problem, this technique dates back to the early work of Schr\"odinger. This approach…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-01-10 Guillaume Carlier , Vincent Duval , Gabriel Peyré , Bernhard Schmitzer

This article reviews the use of first order convex optimization schemes to solve the discretized dynamic optimal transport problem, initially proposed by Benamou and Brenier. We develop a staggered grid discretization that is well adapted…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-02-11 Nicolas Papadakis , Gabriel Peyré , Edouard Oudet

In the present article we describe a few simple and efficient finite volume type schemes on moving grids in one spatial dimension combined with appropriate predictor-corrector method to achieve higher resolution. The underlying finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-05-26 Gayaz Khakimzyanov , Denys Dutykh , Dimitrios Mitsotakis , Nina Shokina

This paper proposes and analyzes a finite difference method based on compact schemes for the Euler-Bernoulli beam equation with damping terms. The method achieves fourth-order accuracy in space and second-order accuracy in time, while…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-01 Wenjie Huang , Hao Wang , Shiquan Zhang , Qinyi Zhang

This paper investigates a category of constrained fractional optimization problems that emerge in various practical applications. The objective function for this category is characterized by the ratio of a numerator and denominator, both…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-28 Yizun Lin , Jian-Feng Cai , Zhao-Rong Lai , Cheng Li

In this paper, a high-order exponential scheme is developed to solve the 1D unsteady convection-diffusion equation with Neumann boundary conditions. The present method applies fourth-order compact exponential difference scheme in spatial…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-05-16 Yucheng Fu , Zhenfu Tian , Yang Liu

This paper proposes a novel general framework of Riemannian conjugate gradient methods, that is, conjugate gradient methods on Riemannian manifolds. The conjugate gradient methods are important first-order optimization algorithms both in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-21 Hiroyuki Sato

We describe high order accurate and stable fully-discrete finite difference schemes for the initial-boundary value problem associated with the magnetic induction equations. These equations model the evolution of a magnetic field due to a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-02-03 U. Koley

We consider the numerical construction of minimal Lagrangian graphs, which is related to recent applications in materials science, molecular engineering, and theoretical physics. It is known that this problem can be formulated as an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-01 Brittany Froese Hamfeldt , Jacob Lesniewski

Differential flatness serves as a powerful tool for controlling continuous time nonlinear systems in problems such as motion planning and trajectory tracking. A similar notion, called difference flatness, exists for discrete-time systems.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-17 Ashutosh Jindal , Florentina Nicolau , David Martin Diego , Ravi Banavar

Conventional finite-difference schemes for solving partial differential equations are based on approximating derivatives by finite-differences. In this work, an alternative theory is proposed which view finite-difference schemes as…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-09-23 Siu A. Chin

Bound propagation is an important Artificial Intelligence technique used in Constraint Programming tools to deal with numerical constraints. It is typically embedded within a search procedure ("branch and prune") and used at every node of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-01-17 Lucas Bordeaux , George Katsirelos , Nina Narodytska , Moshe Y. Vardi

Finite element methods provide accurate and efficient methods for the numerical solution of partial differential equations by means of restricting variational problems to finite-dimensional approximating spaces. However, they do not…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-24 Robert C. Kirby , John D. Stephens

In this work we derive equivalence relations between mimetic finite difference schemes on simplicial grids and modified N\'ed\'elec-Raviart-Thomas finite element methods for model problems in $\mathbf{H}(\operatorname{\mathbf{curl}})$ and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-17 Carmen Rodrigo , Francisco Gaspar , Xiaozhe Hu , Ludmil Zikatanov

In this paper, a gradient-free distributed algorithm is introduced to solve a set constrained optimization problem under a directed communication network. Specifically, at each time-step, the agents locally compute a so-called…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-06 Yipeng Pang , Guoqiang Hu

We discuss the numerical solution of nonlinear parabolic partial differential equations, exhibiting finite speed of propagation, via a strongly implicit finite-difference scheme with formal truncation error $\mathcal{O}\left[(\Delta x)^2 +…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-03-30 Aditya A. Ghodgaonkar , Ivan C. Christov

Monte Carlo approaches to radiation transport have several attractive properties such as simplicity of implementation, high accuracy, and good parallel scaling. Moreover, Monte Carlo methods can handle complicated geometries and are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Ernazar Abdikamalov , Adam Burrows , Christian D. Ott , Frank Löffler , Evan O'Connor , Joshua C. Dolence , Erik Schnetter

A key goal in the design of probabilistic inference algorithms is identifying and exploiting properties of the distribution that make inference tractable. Lifted inference algorithms identify symmetry as a property that enables efficient…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Steven Holtzen , Todd Millstein , Guy Van den Broeck

A nonlinear adaptive procedure for optimising both the schemes in time and space is proposed in view of increasing the numerical efficiency and reducing the computational time. The method is based on a four-parameter family of schemes we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-05 Maria T. Malheiro , Gaspar J. Machado , Stéphane Clain

Most of numerical methods for deterministic simulations of rarefied gas flows use the discrete velocity (or discrete ordinate) approximation. In this approach, the kinetic equation is approximated with a global velocity grid. The grid must…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-03-19 Stéphane Brull , Luc Mieussens