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We propose a discrete lattice version of the Fokker-Planck kinetic equation along lines similar to the Lattice-Boltzmann scheme. Our work extends an earlier one-dimensional formulation to arbitrary spatial dimension $D$. A generalized…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Daniele Moroni , Benjamin Rotenberg , Jean-Pierre Hansen , Sauro Succi , Simone Melchionna

In the article, correct method for the kinetic Boltzmann equation asymptotic solution is formulated, the Hilbert method and the Enskog error are considered. The equations system of multi-component nonequilibrium gas-dynamics is derived,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-05-12 Sergey A. Serov , Svetlana S. Serova

Computational modeling and simulation of fluid-structure interactions constitute a fundamental cornerstone for advancing aerospace engineering endeavors. This paper addresses the notion and implementation of the immersed boundary method for…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-12-24 Longqing Ge , Qingdong Cai , Yonghao Zhang , Tianbai Xiao

We propose a hydridizable discontinuous Galerkin (HDG) method for solving the Cahn-Hilliard equation. The temporal discretization can be based on either the backward Euler method or the convex-splitting method. We show that the fully…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Gang Chen , Daozhi Han , John Singler , Yangwen Zhang

The standard lattice Boltzmann equation (LBE) method usually fails to capture the physical equilibrium state of a two-phase fluid system, i.e., zero velocity and constant chemical potential. Consequently, spurious velocities and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-11-16 Zhaoli Guo

In this paper, based on the two-step discretization scheme proposed by Dahlquist, Liniger and Nevanlinna (DLN), we develop a semi-implicit Galerkin finite element method for solving the coupled generalized Ginzburg-Landau equations. By…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-12 Zhen Guan , Xianxian Cao , Junjun Wang

Ballistic annihilation with continuous initial velocity distributions is investigated in the framework of Boltzmann equation. The particle density and the rms velocity decay as $c=t^{-\alpha}$ and $<v>=t^{-\beta}$, with the exponents…

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One of the challenges when simulating astrophysical flows with self-gravity is to compute the gravitational forces. In contrast to the hyperbolic hydrodynamic equations, the gravity field is described by an elliptic Poisson equation. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-30 Michael Schlottke-Lakemper , Andrew R. Winters , Hendrik Ranocha , Gregor J. Gassner

A simplified relativistic kinetic theory for gases with internal degrees of freedom, based on a BGK-type collision term, is considered. First the Boltzmann equation is rewritten in tetrad form and then thermal coefficients are determined to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-13 Philip Semrén , Michael Bradley , João M. S. Oliveira , M. Piedade Machado Ramos

We approximate the solution of the Stokes equations by a new quasi-optimal and pressure robust discontinuous Galerkin discretization of arbitrary order. This means quasi-optimality of the velocity error independent of the pressure.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-27 Christian Kreuzer , Rüdiger Verfürth , Pietro Zanotti

We consider time discretizations of the two-dimensional Euler equation written in vorticity form. The discretization method uses a Crouch-Grossman integrator that proceeds in two stages: first freezing the velocity vector field at the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-11-06 Romain Horsin

In this paper we propose an explicit fully discrete scheme to numerically solve the stochastic Allen-Cahn equation. The spatial discretization is done by a spectral Galerkin method, followed by the temporal discretization by a tamed…

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We analyze a Fourier spectral Galerkin method for the fractional Camassa-Holm (fCH) equation involving a fractional Laplacian of exponent $\alpha \in [1,2]$ with periodic boundary conditions. The semi-discrete scheme preserves both mass and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-19 Mukul Dwivedi , Andreas Rupp

In this paper, we employ the lattice Boltzmann method to solve the Boltzmann equation with the Shakhov model for the collision integral in the context of the 3D planar Couette flow. The half-range Gauss-Hermite quadrature is used to account…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Victor E. Ambrus , Felix Sharipov , Victor Sofonea

We consider flux-corrected finite element discretizations of 3D convection-dominated transport problems and assess the computational efficiency of algorithms based on such approximations. The methods under investigation include…

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A novel discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method is developed to solve time-dependent bi-harmonic type equations involving fourth derivatives in one and multiple space dimensions. We present the spatial DG discretization based on a mixed…

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As a counterpoint to classical stochastic particle methods for diffusion, we develop a deterministic particle method for linear and nonlinear diffusion. At first glance, deterministic particle methods are incompatible with diffusive partial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-03-05 José Antonio Carrillo , Katy Craig , Francesco S. Patacchini

We present recent finite element numerical results on a model convection-diffusion problem in the singular perturbed case when the convection term dominates the problem. We compare the standard Galerkin discretization using the linear…

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The generalized polynomial chaos method is applied to the Buckley-Leverett equation. We consider a spatially homogeneous domain modeled as a random field. The problem is projected onto stochastic basis functions which yields an extended…

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