English
Related papers

Related papers: Solving One Dimensional Scalar Conservation Laws b…

200 papers

This paper introduces a novel wave front tracking framework for reconstructing unknown flux functions in $2\times 2$ hyperbolic conservation laws, extending beyond the well-studied scalar case. By analyzing Riemann solutions at fixed…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Chaohua Duan , Yan Jiang , Hongyu Liu , Wenjian Peng

A novel, conservative discontinuous Galerkin algorithm is presented for particle kinetics on manifolds. The motion of particles on the manifold is represented using using both canonical and non-canonical Hamiltonian formulations. Our…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Grant Johnson , Ammar Hakim , James Juno

Due to the limited cell resolution in the representation of flow variables, a piecewise continuous initial reconstruction with discontinuous jump at a cell interface is usually used in modern computational fluid dynamics methods. Starting…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-09-23 Kun Xu , Quanhua Sun , Pubing Yu

Under the genuinely nonlinear assumption for 1-D $n\times n$ strictly hyperbolic conservation laws, we investigate the geometric blowup of smooth solutions and the development of singularities when the small initial data fulfill the generic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-18 Min Ding , Huicheng Yin

This paper investigates some properties of entropy solutions of hyperbolic conservation laws on a Riemannian manifold. First, we generalize the Total Variation Diminishing (TVD) property to manifolds, by deriving conditions on the flux of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Paulo Amorim , Matania Ben-Artzi , Philippe G. LeFloch

Spectral methods yield numerical solutions of the Galerkin-truncated versions of nonlinear partial differential equations involved especially in fluid dynamics. In the presence of discontinuities, such as shocks, spectral approximations…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-01 Sai Swetha Venkata Kolluru , Nicolas Besse , Rahul Pandit

This paper develops a consistent particle method for capturing the highly non-linear behavior of violent free-surface flows, based on an Enhanced Weakly Compressible Moving Particle Semi-implicit (EWC-MPS) method. It pays special attention…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-10-25 Mojtaba Jandaghian , Abdelkader Krimi , Amir Reza Zarrati , Ahmad Shakibaeinia

We introduce a second-order, central-upwind finite volume method for the discretization of nonlinear hyperbolic conservation laws posed on the two-dimensional sphere. The semi-discrete version of the proposed method is based on a technique…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-12-29 Abdelaziz Beljadid , Philippe G. LeFloch

We develop an unconditionally energy-stable tensor-product space-time discretization framework for the solution of a linear kinetic transport equation in one space dimension. The kinetic equation is a simplified model of radiative transfer…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-24 Anita Gjesteland , Sigrun Ortleb , Salim Elghawi , David C. Del Rey Fernández

We present a meshless finite difference method for multivariate scalar conservation laws that generates positive schemes satisfying a local maximum principle on irregular nodes and relies on artificial viscosity for shock capturing.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-26 Cesare Bracco , Oleg Davydov , Carlotta Giannelli , Alessandra Sestini

In this article, we propose a novel front tracking scheme for scalar conservation laws with spatially heterogeneous, uniformly convex flux and prove that approximations converge to the unique entropy solution. The main tools are Dafermos'…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Parasuram Venkatesh

Smoothed dissipative particle dynamics (SDPD) is a widely used particle-based method for modelling soft matter systems at mesoscopic and macroscopic scales, offering thermodynamic consistency and direct control over the fluid's transport…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-10-22 Marina Echeverria Ferrero , Nicolas Moreno , Marco Ellero

Hyperbolic conservation laws are conventionally solved by evolving reconstructed floating-point fields, incurring both computational overhead and structural diffusion near discontinuities. Here we introduce the Fast Quantised Numerical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Park Junhu , Youngsoo Ha , Myungjoo Kang

We present direct methods and symbolic software for the computation of conservation laws of nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs) and differential-difference equations (DDEs).The methods are applied to nonlinear PDEs in (1+1)…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2008-03-04 Willy Hereman , Paul J. Adams , Holly L. Eklund , Mark S. Hickman , Barend M. Herbst

Due to particle conservation, Canonical Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulations fail in the description of surface phase transitions involving coverage or lateral density changes. However, a step on the surface can act effectively as a source…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-08-31 D. Passerone , U. Tartaglino , F. Ercolessi , E. Tosatti

A variety of real-world applications are modeled via hyperbolic conservation laws. To account for uncertainties or insufficient measurements, random coefficients may be incorporated. These random fields may depend discontinuously on the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-02 Lukas Brencher , Andrea Barth

We show that there exist scalar field theories with plausible one-particle states in general $D$ dimensional nonstationary curved spacetimes whose propagating modes are localized on $d\le D$ dimensional hypersurfaces, and the corresponding…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-04-29 Farhang Loran

Smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) is positioned as having ideal conservation properties. When properly implemented, conservation of total mass, energy, and both linear and angular momentum is guaranteed exactly, up to machine precision.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-16 Oleg Korobkin , Hyun Lim , Irina Sagert , Julien Loiseau , Christopher Mauney , M. Alexander R. Kaltenborn , Bing-Jyun Tsao , Wesley P. Even

Nonlinear scalar conservation laws are traditionally viewed as transport equations. We take instead the viewpoint of these PDEs as continuity equations with an implicitly defined velocity field. We show that a weak solution is the entropy…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-03 Ulrik S. Fjordholm , Ola H. Mæhlen , Magnus C. Ørke

We study the zero-dispersion limit for a class of Korteweg--de Vries (KdV)-type initial-boundary value problems on the half-line, with Dirichlet boundary conditions assigned at \(x=0\). We focus on the outflow regime, where the solution of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Paolo Antonelli , Pierangelo Marcati , Laura V. Spinolo