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We propose an explicit particle method for the Vlasov-Fokker-Planck equation that conserves energy at the fully discrete level. The method features two key components: a deterministic and conservative particle discretization for the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-10-07 Jiyoung Yoo , Jingwei Hu , Lee F. Ricketson

Critical points of energy functionals, which are of broad interest, for instance, in physics and chemistry, in solid and quantum mechanics, in material science, or in general diffusion-reaction models arise as solutions to the associated…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Pascal Heid , Thomas P. Wihler

Energy conserving particle-in-cell schemes are constructed for a class of reduced relativistic Vlasov--Maxwell equations of laser-plasma interaction. Discrete Poisson equation is also satisfied by the numerical solution. Specifically,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-30 Yingzhe Li

We design an arbitrary high-order accurate nodal discontinuous Galerkin spectral element approximation for the nonlinear two dimensional shallow water equations with non-constant, possibly discontinuous, bathymetry on unstructured, possibly…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-06-23 Niklas Wintermeyer , Andrew R. Winters , Gregor J. Gassner , David A. Kopriva

We present a novel discontinuous Galerkin finite element method for numerical simulations of the rotating thermal shallow water equations in complex geometries using curvilinear meshes, with arbitrary accuracy. We derive an entropy…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-19 Kieran Ricardo , Kenneth Duru , David Lee

This paper discusses a novel fully implicit formulation for a 1D electrostatic particle-in-cell (PIC) plasma simulation approach. Unlike earlier implicit electrostatic PIC approaches (which are based on a linearized Vlasov-Poisson…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 Guangye Chen , Luis Chacón , Daniel C. Barnes

A numerical dynamical low-rank approximation (DLRA) scheme for the solution of the Vlasov-Poisson equation is presented. Based on the formulation of the DLRA equations as Friedrichs' systems in a continuous setting, it combines recently…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-15 André Uschmajew , Andreas Zeiser

In this paper, we present consistent and inconsistent discontinuous Galerkin methods for incompressible Euler and Navier-Stokes equations with the kinematic pressure, Bernoulli function and EMAC function. Semi- and fully discrete energy…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-02 Xi Chen , Yuwen Li , Corina Drapaca , John Cimbala

In this work, we develop a novel numerical scheme to solve the classical Keller--Segel (KS) model which simultaneously preserves its intrinsic mathematical structure and achieves optimal accuracy. The model is reformulated into a gradient…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-23 X. Yin , X. Lan , Y. Qin

In this paper, a time-domain discontinuous Galerkin (TDdG) finite element method for the full system of Maxwell's equations in optics and photonics is investigated, including a complete proof of a semi-discrete error estimate. The new…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-04 Asad Anees , Lutz Angermann

Wave propagation problems for heterogeneous media are known to have many applications in physics and engineering. Recently, there has been an increasing interest in stochastic effects due to the uncertainty, which may arise from impurities…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Ching-Shan Chou , Yukun Li , Dongbin Xiu

We design an arbitrary-order free energy satisfying discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method for solving time-dependent Poisson-Nernst-Planck systems. Both the semi-discrete and fully discrete DG methods are shown to satisfy the corresponding…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-12-21 Hailiang Liu , Zhongming Wang

Relativistic plasmas around compact objects can sometimes be approximated as being force-free. In this limit, the plasma inertia is negligible and the overall dynamics is governed by global electric currents. We present a novel numerical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-14 Yoonsoo Kim , Elias R. Most , William Throwe , Saul A. Teukolsky , Nils Deppe

A fully discrete Galerkin scheme for a thermodynamically consistent transient Max-well-Stefan system for the mass particle densities, coupled to the Poisson equation for the electric potential, is investigated. The system models the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-09-05 Ansgar Jüngel , Oliver Leingang

We consider the numerical approximation of linear damped wave systems by Galerkin approximations in space and appropriate time-stepping schemes. Based on a dissipation estimate for a modified energy, we prove exponential decay of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-11-30 Herbert Egger , Thomas Kugler

We consider a nonlinear variational wave equation that models the dynamics of the director field in nematic liquid crystals with high molecular rotational inertia. Being derived from an energy principle, energy stability is an intrinsic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-03-31 U. Koley , P. Aursand

This article focuses on an energy-conservation Galerkin finite element method (FEM) for the generalized Klein-Gordon-Zakharov (KGZ) equations. This method combines the bilinear finite element method for spatial discretization with the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Xuemiao Xu , Maosheng Jiang , Jiansong Zhang , Jiang Zhu

For a general class of nonlinear port-Hamiltonian systems we develop a high-order time discretization scheme with certain structure preservation properties. The finite or infinite-dimensional system under consideration possesses a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-23 Jan Giesselmann , Attila Karsai , Tabea Tscherpel

This paper is concerned with structure-preserving numerical approximations for a class of nonlinear nonlocal Fokker-Planck equations, which admit a gradient flow structure and find application in diverse contexts. The solutions,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-26 José A. Carrillo , Hailiang Liu , Hui Yu

We consider a Navier--Stokes--Allen--Cahn (NSAC) system that governs the compressible motion of a viscous, immiscible two-phase fluid at constant temperature. Weak solutions of the NSAC system dissipate an appropriate energy functional.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Lukas Ostrowski , Christian Rohde