We consider an abstract formulation for a class of parabolic quasi-variational inequalities or quasi-linear PDEs, which are generated by subdifferentials of convex functions with various nonlocal constraints depending on the unknown functions. In this paper we specify a class of convex functions ${\phi }^t(v;·)$ on a real Hilbert space H, with parameters 0 ≤ t ≤ T and v in a set of functions from [-δ₀,T], 0 < δ₀ < ∞, into H, in order to formulate an evolution equation of the form $u^{\text{'}}\left(t\right)+\partial {\phi }^t(u;u\left(t\right))\ni f\left(t\right)$, 0 < t < T, in H. Our...

We study the null controllability by one control force of some linear systems of parabolic type. We give sufficient conditions for the null controllability property to be true and, in an abstract setting, we prove that it is not always possible to control.

We study the null controllability by one control force of some linear systems of parabolic type. We give sufficient conditions for the null controllability property to be true and, in an abstract setting, we prove that it is not always possible to control.

We consider the numerical solution of diffusion problems in $(0,T)\times \Omega$ for $\Omega \subset {ℝ}^d$ and for $T\&gt;0$ in dimension $d\ge 1$. We use a wavelet based sparse grid space discretization with mesh-width $h$ and order $p\ge 1$, and $hp$ discontinuous Galerkin time-discretization of order $r=O\left(\left|logh\right|\right)$ on a geometric sequence of $O\left(\left|logh\right|\right)$ many time steps. The linear systems in each time step are solved iteratively by $O\left(\left|logh\right|\right)$ GMRES iterations with a wavelet preconditioner. We prove that this algorithm gives an $L^2\left(\Omega \right)$-error of $O\left(N^{-p}\right)$ for $u(x,T)$ where $N$ is the total number of operations,...

We consider the numerical solution of diffusion problems in (0,T) x Ω for $\Omega \subset {ℝ}^d$ and for T > 0 in dimension dd ≥ 1. We use a wavelet based sparse grid space discretization with mesh-width h and order pd ≥ 1, and hp discontinuous Galerkin time-discretization of order $r=O\left(\left|logh\right|\right)$ on a geometric sequence of $O\left(\left|logh\right|\right)$ many time steps. The linear systems in each time step are solved iteratively by $O\left(\left|logh\right|\right)$ GMRES iterations with a wavelet preconditioner. We prove that this algorithm gives an L2(Ω)-error of O(N-p) for u(x,T)...