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High-speed turbulent flows are encountered in most space-related applications (including exploration, tourism and defense fields) and represent a subject of growing interest in the last decades. A major challenge in performing high-fidelity…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-03-31 Luca Sciacovelli , Donatella Passiatore , Paola Cinnella , Giuseppe Pascazio

We present a numerical method to deal efficiently with large numbers of particles in incompressible fluids. The interactions between particles and fluid are taken into account by a physically motivated ansatz based on locally defined drag…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 W. Kalthoff , S. Schwarzer , G. H. Ristow , H. J. Herrmann

We propose a time-adaptive predictor/multi-corrector method to solve hyperbolic partial differential equations, based on the generalized-$\alpha$ scheme that provides user-control on the numerical dissipation and second-order accuracy in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-11 Nicolas A. Labanda , Pouria Behnoudfar , Victor M. Calo

In sufficiently large gaps and electric fields, discharge streamers do branch. In [Arrayas et al., PRL 88, 174502 (2002)], we observed streamer branching numerically within a deterministic particle density model and explained it as a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Carolynne Montijn , Ute Ebert , Willem Hundsdorfer

Solving multiscale diffusion problems is often computationally expensive due to the spatial and temporal discretization challenges arising from high-contrast coefficients. To address this issue, a partially explicit temporal splitting…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-26 Yating Wang , Zhengya Yang , Wing Tat Leung

This paper is concerned with a space-time adaptive numerical method for instationary porous media flows with nonlinear interaction between porosity and pressure, with focus on problems with discontinuous initial porosities. A convergent…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-27 Markus Bachmayr , Simon Boisserée

This paper focuses on the three-dimensional simulation of the photoionization in streamer discharges, and provides a general framework to efficiently and accurately calculate the photoionization model using the integral form. The simulation…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-12-13 Bo Lin , Chijie Zhuang , Zhenning Cai , Rong Zeng , Weizhu Bao

We develop numerical schemes for solving the isothermal compressible and incompressible equations of fluctuating hydrodynamics on a grid with staggered momenta. We develop a second-order accurate spatial discretization of the diffusive,…

The evolution of negative streamers during electric breakdown of a non-attaching gas can be described by a two-fluid model for electrons and positive ions. It consists of continuity equations for the charged particles including drift,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 C. Montijn , W. Hundsdorfer , U. Ebert

A novel numerical approach to solving the shallow-water equations on the sphere using high-order numerical discretizations in both space and time is proposed. A space-time tensor formalism is used to express the equations of motion…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-11-12 Stéphane Gaudreault , Martin Charron , Valentin Dallerit , Mayya Tokman

In this paper, we propose and analyze a second order accurate (in both time and space) numerical scheme for the Poisson-Nernst-Planck-Navier-Stokes system, which describes the ion electro-diffusion in fluids. In particular, the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-12 Yuzhe Qin , Cheng Wang

Streamers are ionization fronts that occur in gases at atmospheric and sub-atmospheric pressures. Numerical studies of streamers are important for practical applications but are challenging due to the multiscale nature of this discharge…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-06-14 I. L. Semenov , K. -D. Weltmann

In this paper we investigate a sub-diffusion equation for simulating the anomalous diffusion phenomenon in real physical environment. Based on an equivalent transformation of the original sub-diffusion equation followed by the use of a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-03-29 Zongze Yang , Jungang Wang , Yan Li , Yufeng Nie

Dissipative particle dynamics is a widely used mesoscale technique for the simulation of hydrodynamics (as well as immersed particles) utilizing coarse-grained molecular dynamics. While the method is capable of describing any fluid, the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-10-22 Ryan C. Krafnick , Angel E. Garcia

Preserving scalar boundedness is important for numerical schemes used in turbulent compressible multi-component flow simulations to prevent unphysical results and unstable simulations. However, ensuring scalar boundedness for high-order,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-13 Ye Wang , Armin Wehrfritz , Evatt R. Hawkes

In this work, we propose and compare four different strategies to simulate the fluid model for streamer propagation in one-dimension (1D) and quasi two-dimension (2D), which consists of a Poisson's equation for particle velocity and two…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-12-13 Mengmin Huang , Chijie Zhuang , Huizhe Guan , Rong Zeng

We study the numerical behaviour of a particle method for gradient flows involving linear and nonlinear diffusion. This method relies on the discretisation of the energy via non-overlapping balls centred at the particles. The resulting…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-12-07 J. A. Carrillo , Y. Huang , F. S. Patacchini , G. Wolansky

The smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) method has been increasingly used to study fluid problems in recent years; but its computational cost can be high if high resolution is required. In this study, an adaptive resolution method based…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-01-23 Xiufeng Yang , Song-Charng Kong

Subsurface flows are commonly modeled by advection-diffusion equations. Insufficient measurements or uncertain material procurement may be accounted for by random coefficients. To represent, for example, transitions in heterogeneous media,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-25 Andrea Barth , Andreas Stein