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This study investigates the efficacy of Jacobian-free Newton-Krylov methods in finite-volume solid mechanics. Traditional Newton-based approaches require explicit Jacobian matrix formation and storage, which can be computationally expensive…

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Multiphase flow is a critical process in a wide range of applications, including carbon sequestration, contaminant remediation, and groundwater management. Typically, this process is modeled by a nonlinear system of partial differential…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-01-26 Quan M. Bui , Howard C. Elman , J. D. Moulton

This contribution deals with the modeling of collisional multicomponent magnetized plasmas in thermal and chemical nonequilibrium aiming at simulating and predicting magnetic reconnections in the chromosphere of the sun. We focus on the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-01 Quentin Wargnier , Sylvain Faure , Benjamin Graille , Thierry Magin , Marc Massot

The transport of heat and particles in the relatively collisional edge regions of magnetically confined plasmas is a scientifically challenging and technologically important problem. Understanding and predicting this transport requires the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-04-26 Ben Dudson , Jarrod Leddy

Phase-field fracture models lead to variational problems that can be written as a coupled variational equality and inequality system. Numerically, such problems can be treated with Galerkin finite elements and primal-dual active set…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-05-04 Daniel Jodlbauer , Ulrich Langer , Thomas Wick

BOUT++ is a software package designed for solving plasma fluid models. It has been used to simulate a wide range of plasma phenomena ranging from linear stability analysis to 3D plasma turbulence, and is capable of simulating a wide range…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-06-29 Ben Dudson , Jens Madsen , John Omotani , Peter Hill , Luke Easy , Michael Løiten

Nonlinear electromagnetic stabilization by suprathermal pressure gradients found in specific regimes is shown to be a key factor in reducing tokamak microturbulence, augmenting significantly the thermal pressure electromagnetic…

Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods are promising high order discretizations for unsteady compressible flows. Here, we focus on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP). These flows are characterized by a fine resolution in $z$-direction and low…

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Transient simulation of linear and nonlinear circuits remains an important task in modern EDA tools. At present, SPICE-like simulators face challenges in parallelization, nonlinear convergence and linear efficiency, especially when applied…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Zijian Zhang , Yuanmiao Lin , Xuesong Chen , Shuting Cai

Multigrid (MG) is widely recognized as a highly effective solver for the model problem, the Laplacian, but textbook MG fails on most problems of interest. MG methods have been applied to complex, real-world applications with careful…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-05-21 Mark F. Adams , Jin Chen , Benjamin Sturdevant

Numerical simulation of incompressible viscous flow, in particular in three space dimensions, continues to remain a challenging task. Space-time finite element methods feature the natural construction of higher order discretization schemes.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-07 Mathias Anselmann , Markus Bause

At high Reynolds numbers, the use of explicit in time compressible flow simulations with spectral/$hp$ element discretization can become significantly limited by time step. To alleviate this limitation we extend the capability of the…

Toroidal rotation is crucial for maintaining stable and high performance plasmas in tokamak fusion reactors. Among its driving mechanisms, the neoclassical toroidal viscosity (NTV) torque--induced by three-dimensional magnetic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-04-16 Xingting Yan , Yuetao Meng , Nana Bao , Youwen Sun , Weiyong Zhou , Jinpeng Huang

A self-consistent model is presented for the simulation of a multi-component plasma in the tokamak boundary. A deuterium plasma is considered, with the plasma species that include electrons, deuterium atomic ions and deuterium molecular…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-04-13 A. Coroado , P. Ricci

Advanced Krylov subspace methods are investigated for the solution of large sparse linear systems arising from stiff adjoint-based aerodynamic shape optimization problems. A special attention is paid to the flexible inner-outer GMRES…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-30 Mehdi Jadoui , Christophe Blondeau , Emeric Martin , Florent Renac , François-Xavier Roux

Numerical climate- and weather-prediction requires the fast solution of the equations of fluid dynamics. Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) discretisations have several advantageous properties. They can be used for arbitrary domains and support a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-10-13 Jack D. Betteridge , Thomas H. Gibson , Ivan G. Graham , Eike H. Müller

The magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations are continuum models used in the study of a wide range of plasma physics systems, including the evolution of complex plasma dynamics in tokamak disruptions. However, efficient numerical solution…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-02-09 Qi Tang , Luis Chacon , Tzanio V. Kolev , John N. Shadid , Xian-Zhu Tang

In this research, to solve the large indefinite least squares problem, we firstly transform its normal equation into a sparse block three-by-three linear systems, then use GMRES method with an accelerated preconditioner to solve it. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-26 Jun Li , Lingsheng Meng

This work is a continuation of our efforts to develop an efficient implicit solver for multidimensional hydrodynamics for the purpose of studying important physical processes in stellar interiors, such as turbulent convection and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-17 Maxime Viallet , Tom Goffrey , Isabelle Baraffe , Doris Folini , Chris Geroux , Mikhail Popov , Jane Pratt , Rolf Walder

We extend the ultraspherical spectral method to solving nonlinear ODE boundary value problems. We propose to use the inexact Newton-GMRES framework for which an effective preconditioner can be constructed and a fast Jacobian-vector…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-03 Ouyuan Qin , Kuan Xu