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We propose a new finite volume scheme for the Euler system of gas dynamics motivated by the model proposed by H. Brenner. Numerical viscosity imposed through upwinding acts on the velocity field rather than on the convected quantities. The…
The fluid flow transport and hydrodynamic problems often take the form of hyperbolic systems of conservation laws. In this work we will present a new scheme of finite volume methods for solving these evolution equations. It is a family of…
We study the convergence of a finite volume method based on the method of bicharacteristics for multidimensional hyperbolic conservation laws. In particular, we concentrate on the linear wave equation system and nonlinear Euler equations of…
We propose an upwind finite volume method for a system of two kinetic equations in one dimension that are coupled through nonlocal interaction terms. These cross-interaction systems were recently obtained as the mean-field limit of a…
This article proposes a highly accurate and conservative method for hyperbolic systems using the finite volume approach. This innovative scheme constructs the intermediate states at the interfaces of the control volumes using the method of…
We find a representation of smooth solutions to the Cauchy problem for a scalar multidimensional conservation law as small diffusion limit of a stochastic perturbation along characteristics. It helps, in particular, to study the process of…
We consider a hyperbolic system of three conservation laws in one space variable. The system is a model for fluid flow allowing phase transitions; in this case the state variables are the specific volume, the velocity and the mass density…
In this work we present new second order semi-discrete central schemes for systems of hyperbolic conservation laws on curvilinear grids. Our methods generalise the two-dimensional central-upwind schemes developed by Kurganov and Tadmor. In…
A classical model for water-gas flows in porous media is considered. The degenerate coupled system of equations obtained by mass conservation is usually approximated by finite volume schemes in the oil reservoir simulations. The convergence…
We prove strong convergence of an upwind-type finite volume method to a weak solution of the Navier-Stokes-Fourier system with the Dirichlet boundary conditions. The limit solution satisfies a weak form of the mass and momentum equations,…
We consider a model for flow of liquid and gas in a pipe. We assume that the gas is ideal and that the liquid is incompressible. Under this assumption the resulting equations, expressing conservation of mass and momentum, splits into two…
We study nonlinear hyperbolic conservation laws posed on a differential (n+1)-manifold with boundary referred to as a spacetime, and defined from a prescribed flux field of n-forms depending on a parameter (the unknown variable), a class of…
We propose a finite volume scheme for a class of nonlinear parabolic equations endowed with non-homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions and which admit relative en-tropy functionals. For this kind of models including porous media…
We study convergence of a finite volume scheme for the Navier-Stokes-Fourier system describing the motion of compressible viscous and heat conducting fluids. The numerical flux uses upwinding with an additional numerical diffusion of order…
In this work, a geometric discretization of the Navier-Stokes equations is sought by treating momentum as a covector-valued volume-form. The novelty of this approach is that we treat conservation of momentum as a tensor equation and…
We consider entropy solutions to the initial value problem associated with scalar nonlinear hyperbolic conservation laws posed on the two-dimensional sphere. We propose a finite volume scheme which relies on a web-like mesh made of segments…
This paper considers one-dimensional equations of acoustics equations of inhomogeneous media and the system of gas dynamics equations with constant entropy. Using the Riemann approach, the gas dynamics equations are reduced to a…
In Physica A vol 387(24) (2008) pp6079-6094 [1], a kinetic equation for gas flows was proposed that leads to a set of four macroscopic conservation equations, rather than the traditional set of three equations. The additional equation…
We reconsider some fundamental aspects of the fluid mechanics model, and the derivation of continuum flow equations from gas kinetic theory. Two topologies for fluid representation are presented, and a set of macroscopic equations are…
We present Finite Volume methods for diffusion equations on generic meshes, that received important coverage in the last decade or so. After introducing the main ideas and construction principles of the methods, we review some literature…