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most citedOn the Convergence of Finite Element Methods for Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman Equations

60 citations · 361 across the 27 of their papers we have counts for

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27 papers

math.NA2026

The Effect of Quadrature on the Convergence of Policy Iteration for Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman Equations

Thomas Hall, Iain Smears, Endre Süli +1

Modern finite element libraries allow users to express partial differential equations directly in variational form, with the added convenience of automatic quadrature selection. In…

math.NA2026

A posteriori error bounds for finite element approximations of time-dependent mean field games

Iain Smears, Harry Wells

We present a posteriori error bounds for a general class of stabilized finite element approximations of time-dependent mean field games. We first show the equivalence between the n…

math.AP2025

Fully nonlinear second-order mean field games with nondifferentiable Hamiltonians

Thomas Sales, Iain Smears

We analyse fully nonlinear second-order mean field games (MFG) with nondifferentiable Hamiltonians, which take the form of a coupled system of a fully nonlinear Hamilton-Jacobi-Bel…

math.NA2025

An introduction to the a posteriori error analysis of parabolic partial differential equations

Iain Smears

This article provides a brief introduction to the a posteriori error analysis of parabolic partial differential equations, with an emphasis on challenges distinct from those of ste…

math.NA2025

On the efficiency of a posteriori error estimators for parabolic partial differential equations in the energy norm

Iain Smears

For the model problem of the heat equation discretized by an implicit Euler method in time and a conforming finite element method in space, we prove the efficiency of a posteriori…

math.NA2025

Rates of convergence of finite element approximations of second-order mean field games with nondifferentiable Hamiltonians

Yohance A. P. Osborne, Iain Smears

We prove a rate of convergence for finite element approximations of stationary, second-order mean field games with nondifferentiable Hamiltonians posed in general bounded polytopal…

math.NA2025★ 1 cited

A posteriori error bounds for finite element approximations of steady-state mean field games

Yohance A. P. Osborne, Iain Smears, Harry Wells

We analyze a posteriori error bounds for stabilized finite element discretizations of second-order steady-state mean field games. We prove the local equivalence between the -n…

math.OC2024★ 2 cited

Regularization of Stationary Second-order Mean Field Game Partial Differential Inclusions

Yohance A. P. Osborne, Iain Smears

Mean field Game (MFG) Partial Differential Inclusions (PDI) are generalizations of the system of Partial Differential Equations (PDE) of Lasry and Lions to situations where players…

math.NA2024★ 3 cited

Near and full quasi-optimality of finite element approximations of stationary second-order mean field games

Yohance A. P. Osborne, Iain Smears

We establish a priori error bounds for monotone stabilized finite element discretizations of stationary second-order mean field games (MFG) on Lipschitz polytopal domains. Under su…

math.NA2023★ 9 cited

Finite element approximation of time-dependent mean field games with nondifferentiable Hamiltonians

Yohance A. P. Osborne, Iain Smears

The standard formulation of the PDE system of Mean Field Games (MFG) requires the differentiability of the Hamiltonian. However in many cases, the structure of the underlying optim…

math.NA2022★ 14 cited

Analysis and Numerical Approximation of Stationary Second-Order Mean Field Game Partial Differential Inclusions

Yohance A. P. Osborne, Iain Smears

The formulation of Mean Field Games (MFG) typically requires continuous differentiability of the Hamiltonian in order to determine the advective term in the Kolmogorov--Fokker--Pla…

math.NA2020★ 15 cited

Convergence of adaptive discontinuous Galerkin and -interior penalty finite element methods for Hamilton--Jacobi--Bellman and Isaacs equations

Ellya L. Kawecki, Iain Smears

We prove the convergence of adaptive discontinuous Galerkin and -interior penalty methods for fully nonlinear second-order elliptic Hamilton--Jacobi--Bellman and Isaacs equati…

math.NA2020★ 19 cited

Unified analysis of discontinuous Galerkin and -interior penalty finite element methods for Hamilton--Jacobi--Bellman and Isaacs equations

Ellya L. Kawecki, Iain Smears

We provide a unified analysis of a posteriori and a priori error bounds for a broad class of discontinuous Galerkin and -IP finite element approximations of fully nonlinear se…

math.NA2019★ 6 cited

Equivalence of local-and global-best approximations, a simple stable local commuting projector, and optimal approximation estimates in

Alexandre Ern, Thirupathi Gudi, Iain Smears +1

Given an arbitrary function in H(div), we show that the error attained by the global-best approximation by H(div)-conforming piecewise polynomial Raviart-Thomas-Nédélec elements un…

math.NA2018★ 18 cited

Simple and robust equilibrated flux a posteriori estimates for singularly perturbed reaction-diffusion problems

Iain Smears, Martin Vohralík

We consider energy norm a posteriori error analysis of conforming finite element approximations of singularly perturbed reaction-diffusion problems on simplicial meshes in arbitrar…

math.NA2018★ 18 cited

Time-parallel iterative solvers for parabolic evolution equations

Martin Neumuller, Iain Smears

We present original time-parallel algorithms for the solution of the implicit Euler discretization of general linear parabolic evolution equations with time-dependent self-adjoint…

math.NA2017★ 23 cited

An adaptive -refinement strategy with computable guaranteed bound on the error reduction factor

Patrik Daniel, Alexandre Ern, Iain Smears +1

We propose a new practical adaptive refinement strategy for -finite element approximations of elliptic problems. Following recent theoretical developments in polynomial-degree-…

math.NA2017★ 9 cited

On the notion of boundary conditions in comparison principles for viscosity solutions

Max Jensen, Iain Smears

We collect examples of boundary-value problems of Dirichlet and Dirichlet-Neumann type which we found instructive when designing and analysing numerical methods for fully nonlinear…

math.NA2017★ 17 cited

Equilibrated flux a posteriori error estimates in -norms for high-order discretizations of parabolic problems

Alexandre Ern, Iain Smears, Martin Vohralik

We consider the a posteriori error analysis of fully discrete approximations of parabolic problems based on conforming -finite element methods in space and an arbitrary order d…

math.NA2016★ 47 cited

Guaranteed, locally space-time efficient, and polynomial-degree robust a posteriori error estimates for high-order discretizations of parabolic problems

Alexandre Ern, Iain Smears, Martin Vohralík

We consider the a posteriori error analysis of approximations of parabolic problems based on arbitrarily high-order conforming Galerkin spatial discretizations and arbitrarily high…

math.NA2016★ 22 cited

Discrete -robust -liftings and a posteriori estimates for elliptic problems with source terms

Alexandre Ern, Iain Smears, Martin Vohralík

We establish the existence of liftings into discrete subspaces of of piecewise polynomial data on locally refined simplicial partitions of polygonal/poly…

math.NA2016★ 15 cited

Robust and efficient preconditioners for the discontinuous Galerkin time-stepping method

Iain Smears

The discontinuous Galerkin time-stepping method has many advantageous properties for solving parabolic equations. However, it requires the solution of a large nonsymmetric system a…

math.NA2016★ 13 cited

Stable discontinuous Galerkin FEM without penalty parameters

Lorenz John, Michael Neilan, Iain Smears

We propose a modified local discontinuous Galerkin (LDG) method for second--order elliptic problems that does not require extrinsic penalization to ensure stability. Stability is i…

math.NA2014★ 15 cited

Nonoverlapping domain decomposition preconditioners for discontinuous Galerkin approximations of Hamilton--Jacobi--Bellman equations

Iain Smears

We analyse a class of nonoverlapping domain decomposition preconditioners for nonsymmetric linear systems arising from discontinuous Galerkin finite element approximation of fully…