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Cylindrical coordinates are often used in computational fluid dynamics, in particular, when one considers gas flow accreting onto a central object. Although the cylindrical coordinates have several advantages in describing rotation, they…

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This paper deals with local criteria for the convergence to a global minimiser for gradient flow trajectories and their discretisations. To obtain quantitative estimates on the speed of convergence, we consider variations on the classical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-01 Lorenzo Dello Schiavo , Jan Maas , Francesco Pedrotti

The interfacial diffusion associated with finite volume method (FVM) discretizations of multiphase flows creates the need for an interface sharpening mechanism. Such solutions for structured quadrilateral grids are well documented, but…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-05 J. Marziale , J. Sun , D. Salac , J. Chen

The parallel solver of the general synthetic iterative scheme (GSIS), as recently developed by Zhang \textit{et. al.} in Comput. Fluids 281 (2024) 106374, is an efficient method to find the solution of the Boltzmann equation…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-01-07 Yanbing Zhang , Jianan Zeng , Lei Wu

Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) methods see many uses in optimization problems. Modifications to the algorithm, such as momentum-based SGD methods have been known to produce better results in certain cases. Much of this, however, is due…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Eric Lu

This article is aimed at extending the framework of optimal control techniques to the situation where the control field values are restricted to a finite set. We propose a generalization of the standard GRAPE algorithm suited to this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-10-28 G. Dridi , M. Lapert , Julien Salomon , D Sugny , S. J. Glaser

This article details a novel numerical scheme to approximate gradient flows for optimal transport (i.e. Wasserstein) metrics. These flows have proved useful to tackle theoretically and numerically non-linear diffusion equations that model…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-03-10 Gabriel Peyré

We introduce a class of unconditionally energy stable, high order accurate schemes for gradient flows in a very general setting. The new schemes are a high order analogue of the minimizing movements approach for generating a time discrete…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-11 Alexander Zaitzeff , Selim Esedoglu , Krishna Garikipati

Flow based models such as Real NVP are an extremely powerful approach to density estimation. However, existing flow based models are restricted to transforming continuous densities over a continuous input space into similarly continuous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-27 Laurent Dinh , Jascha Sohl-Dickstein , Hugo Larochelle , Razvan Pascanu

This article performs a unified convergence analysis of a variety of numerical methods for a model of the miscible displacement of one incompressible fluid by another through a porous medium. The unified analysis is enabled through the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-03-07 Jérôme Droniou , Robert Eymard , Alain Prignet , Kyle S. Talbot

The selective frequency damping (SFD) method is an alternative to classical Newton's method to obtain unstable steady-state solutions of dynamical systems. However this method has two main limitations: it does not converge for arbitrary…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-10-28 Bastien E. Jordi , Colin J. Cotter , Spencer J. Sherwin

We introduce a new numerical method to approximate the solutions of a class of stationary Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) partial differential equations arising from minimum time optimal control problems. We rely on nested grid approximations, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-10 Marianne Akian , Stéphane Gaubert , Shanqing Liu

We apply the Local Discontinuous Galerkin discretisation to flow equations of the O(N)-model in the Local Potential Approximation. The improved stability is directly observed by solving the flow equation for various $N$ and space-time…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-17 Friederike Ihssen , Jan M. Pawlowski , Franz R. Sattler , Nicolas Wink

We present a method for parametrizing sub-grid processes in the Shallow Water equations. We define coarse variables and local spatial averages and use a feed-forward neural network to learn sub-grid fluxes. Our method results in a local…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-06 Md Amran Hossan Mojamder , Zhihang Xu , Min Wang , Ilya Timofeyev

Kinetic simulations of relativistic gases and plasmas are critical for understanding diverse astrophysical and terrestrial systems, but the accurate construction of the relativistic Maxwellian, the Maxwell-J\"uttner (MJ) distribution, on a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 Grant Johnson , Ammar Hakim , James Juno

In this paper, a rapid approximation method is introduced to estimate the sea surface velocity field based on scattered measurements. The method uses a simplified two-dimensional flow model as a surrogate model, which mimics the real…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-11-05 Karlo Jakac , Luka Lanča , Ante Sikirica , Stefan Ivić

Motivated by the modeling of the spatial structure of the velocity field of three-dimensional turbulent flows, and the phenomenology of cascade phenomena, a linear dynamics has been recently proposed able to generate high velocity gradients…

We derive macroscopic traffic equations from specific gas-kinetic equations, dropping some of the assumptions and approximations made in previous papers. The resulting partial differential equations for the vehicle density and average…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Martin Treiber , Ansgar Hennecke , Dirk Helbing

In many applications the accurate representation of the computational domain is a key factor to obtain reliable and effective numerical solutions. Curved interfaces, which might be internal, related to physical data, or portions of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-19 Franco Dassi , Alessio Fumagalli , Davide Losapio , Stefano Scialò , Anna Scotti , Giuseppe Vacca