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Gaseous flows under an external force are intrinsically defined by their multi-scale nature due to the large variation of densities along the forcing direction. Devising a numerical method capable of accurately and efficiently solving…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-07-15 Shuangqing Liu , Zuoxu Li , Yonghao Zhang , Tianbai Xiao

We introduce a space-time finite element method for the linear time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation with Dirichlet conditions in a bounded Lipschitz domain. The proposed discretization scheme is based on a space-time variational…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-11 Marco Zank

Numerical approximation of the Boltzmann equation presents a challenging problem due to its high-dimensional, nonlinear, and nonlocal collision operator. Among the deterministic methods, the Fourier-Galerkin spectral method stands out for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-20 Jingwei Hu , Xiaodong Huang , Jie Shen , Haizhao Yang

The lattice Boltzmann (LB) method intrinsically links to the Boltzmann equation with the Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook collision operator; however, it has been questioned to be able to simulate noncontinuum bounded gas flows at the micro and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-08-24 Yong Shi

In this paper, we develop a Bernstein dual-Petrov-Galerkin method for the numerical simulation of a two-dimensional fractional diffusion equation. A spectral discretization is applied by introducing suitable combinations of dual Bernstein…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-05-16 Mostafa Jani , Shahnam Javadi , Esmail Babolian , Dambaru Bhatta

We consider the Boltzmann equation with random uncertainties arising from the initial data and collision kernel in the {\it whole space}, along with their stochastic Galerkin (SG) approximations. By employing Green's function method, we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-09 Shi Jin , Qi Shao , Haitao Wang

An elliptic partial differential equation Lu=f with a zero Dirichlet boundary condition is converted to an equivalent elliptic equation on the unit ball. A spectral Galerkin method is applied to the reformulated problem, using multivariate…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-06-20 Kendall Atkinson , David Chien , Olaf Hansen

We develop and analyze a new hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin (HDG) method for solving third-order Korteweg-de Vries type equations. The approximate solutions are defined by a discrete version of a characterization of the exact solution…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-25 Bo Dong

The generalized linear Boltzmann equation (GLBE) is a recently developed framework based on non-classical transport theory for modeling the expected value of particle flux in an arbitrary stochastic medium. Provided with a non-classical…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-07-24 Ari Frankel

A numerical method based on the hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin method in space and backward Euler in time is formulated and analyzed for solving the miscible displacement problem. Under low regularity assumptions, convergence is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-19 Keegan L. A. Kirk , Beatrice Riviere

Spectral methods, thanks to the high accuracy and the possibility of using fast algorithms, represent an effective way to approximate collisional kinetic equations in kinetic theory. On the other hand, the loss of some local invariants can…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-28 Lorenzo Pareschi , Thomas Rey

In this paper we establish a best approximation property of fully discrete Galerkin finite element solutions of second order parabolic problems on convex polygonal and polyhedral domains in the $L^\infty$ norm. The discretization method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-20 Dmitriy Leykekhman , Boris Vexler

Trefftz methods are high-order Galerkin schemes in which all discrete functions are elementwise solution of the PDE to be approximated. They are viable only when the PDE is linear and its coefficients are piecewise constant. We introduce a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-11 Lise-Marie Imbert-Gérard , Andrea Moiola , Paul Stocker

Rooted from the gas kinetics, the lattice Boltzmann method is a powerful tool in modeling hydrodynamics. In the past decade, it has been extended to simulate the rarefied gas flow beyond the Navier-Stokes level, either by using the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-08-30 Scott Lindsay , Wei Su , Haihu Liu , Lei Wu

The development of accurate and fast algorithms for the Boltzmann collision integral and their analysis represent a challenging problem in scientific computing and numerical analysis. Recently, several works were devoted to the derivation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-02-02 Francis Filbet , Clément Mouhot

We study the stationary Boltzmann equation in a thin slab for a rarefied gas for which the molecular mean free path is comparable to the film thickness. We prove that there exists a solution which converges, in the hydrodynamic limit, to a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-02-12 Andrei Ichim

We present a robust scheme for solving the electrokinetic equations. This goal is achieved by combining the lattice-Boltzmann method (LB) with a discrete solution of the convection-diffusion equation for the different charged and neutral…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Fabrizio Capuani , Ignacio Pagonabarraga , Daan Frenkel

We present and discuss a variance-reduced stochastic particle method for simulating the relaxation-time model of the Boltzmann transport equation. The present paper focuses on the dilute gas case, although the method is expected to directly…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-05-15 Nicolas G. Hadjiconstantinou , Gregg A. Radtke , Lowell L. Baker

The paper proves existence of renormalized stationary solutions for a dense class of discrete velocity Boltzmann equations in the plane with given ingoing boundary values. The proof is based on the construction of a sequence of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-12-17 L. Arkeryd , A. Nouri