The interface control domain decomposition (ICDD) method for elliptic problems

Interface controls are unknown functions used as Dirichlet or Robin boundary data on the interfaces of an overlapping decomposition designed for solving second order elliptic boundary value problems. The controls are computed through an optimal control problem with either distributed or interface observation. Numerical results show that, when interface observation is considered, the resulting interface control domain decomposition method is robust with respect to coefficients variations; it can exploit nonconforming meshes and provides optimal convergence with respect to the discretization parameters; finally it can be easily used to face heterogeneous advection--advection-diffusion couplings

Heterogeneous mathematical models in fluid dynamics and associated solution algorithms

Mathematical models of complex physical problems can be based on heterogeneous differential equations, i.e. on boundary-value problems of different kind in different subregions of the computational domain. In this presentation we will introduce a few representative examples, we will illustrate the way the coupling conditions between the different models can be devised, then we will address several solution algorithms and discuss their properties of convergence as well as their robustness with respect to the variation of the physical parameters that characterize the submodel

Interface control domain decomposition (ICDD) methods for the Stokes problem

We study the Interface Control Domain Decomposition (ICDD) for the Stokes equation. We reformulate this problem introducing auxiliary control variables that represent either the traces of the fluid velocity or the normal stress across subdomain interfaces. Then, we characterize suitable cost functionals whose minimization permits to recover the solution of the original problem. We analyze the well-posedness of the optimal control problems associated to the different choices of the cost functionals, and we propose a discretization of the problem based on hp finite elements. The effectiveness of the proposed methods is illustrated through several numerical tests