This contribution gives an overview of current research in applying object oriented programming to scientific computing at the computational mechanics laboratory (LABMEC) at the school of civil engineering – UNICAMP. The main goal of applying object oriented programming to scientific computing is to implement increasingly complex algorithms in a structured manner and to hide the complexity behind a simple user interface. The following areas are current topics of research and documented within the...

This contribution gives an overview of current research in applying object oriented programming to scientific computing at the computational mechanics laboratory (LABMEC) at the school of civil engineering – UNICAMP. The main goal of applying object oriented programming to scientific computing is to implement increasingly complex algorithms in a structured manner and to hide the complexity behind a simple user interface. The following areas are current topics of research and documented within the...

A priori estimates and strong solvability results in Sobolev space $W^{2,p}\left(\Omega \right)$, $1<p<\infty$ are proved for the regular oblique derivative problem $$\left\{\begin{array}{c}\sum _{i,j=1}^n{a}^{ij}\left(x\right)\frac{{\partial }^{2}u}{\partial x_i\partial x_j}=f\left(x\right)\text{a.e.}\Omega \hfill \\ \frac{\partial u}{\partial \ell }+\sigma \left(x\right)u=\varphi \left(x\right)\text{on}\partial \Omega \hfill \end{array}\right.$$ when the principal coefficients $a^{ij}$ are $VMO\cap L^{\infty }$ functions.

The aim of this paper is to extend the results of Calderón [1] and Kenig-Pipher [12] on solutions to the oblique derivative problem to the case where the data is assumed to be BMO or Hölder continuous.

This paper presents two observability inequalities for the heat equation over $\Omega \times (0,T)$. In the first one, the observation is from a subset of positive measure in $\Omega \times (0,T)$, while in the second, the observation is from a subset of positive surface measure on $\partial \Omega \times (0,T)$. It also proves the Lebeau-Robbiano spectral inequality when $\Omega$ is a bounded Lipschitz and locally star-shaped domain. Some applications for the above-mentioned observability inequalities are provided.

The goal of this article is to analyze the observability properties for a space semi-discrete approximation scheme derived from a mixed finite element method of the 1d wave equation on nonuniform meshes. More precisely, we prove that observability properties hold uniformly with respect to the mesh-size under some assumptions, which, roughly, measures the lack of uniformity of the meshes, thus extending the work [Castro and Micu, Numer. Math.102 (2006) 413–462] to nonuniform meshes. Our results...

In this paper, we make some observations on the work of Di Fazio concerning $W^{1,p}$ estimates, $1<p<\mathrm{\infty }$, for solutions of elliptic equations $\text{div}A\nabla u=\text{div}f$ , on a domain $\mathrm{\Omega }$ with Dirichlet data $0$ whenever $A\in VMO\left(\mathrm{\Omega }\right)$ and $f\in L^p\left(\mathrm{\Omega }\right)$. We weaken the assumptions allowing real and complex non-symmetric operators and $C^1$ boundary. We also consider the corresponding inhomogeneous Neumann problem for which we prove the similar result. The main tool is an appropriate representation for the Green (and Neumann) function on the upper half space. We propose...