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We examine stability of summation by parts (SBP) numerical schemes that use hyperboloidal slices to include future null infinity in the computational domain. This inclusion serves to mitigate outer boundary effects and, in the future, will…

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We present a new numerical algorithm for the solution of coupled collisional and collisionless systems, based on the block structured adaptive mesh and time refinement strategy (AMR). We describe the issues associated with the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Francesco Miniati , Phillip Colella

We study dendritic microstructure evolution using an adaptive grid, finite element method applied to a phase-field model. The computational complexity of our algorithm, per unit time, scales linearly with system size, rather than the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-30 Nikolas Provatas , Nigel Goldenfeld , Jonathan Dantzig

There has been an increasing interest in developing efficient immersed boundary method (IBM) based on Cartesian grids, recently in the context of high-order methods. IBM based on volume penalization is a robust and easy to implement method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-22 Jiaqing Kou , Esteban Ferrer

In this work we explore the fidelity of numerical approximations to the analytic spectra of hyperbolic partial differential equation systems with variable coefficients. We are particularly interested in the ability of discrete methods to…

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In this paper we present an adaptive discretization technique for solving elliptic partial differential equations via a collocation radial basis function partition of unity method. In particular, we propose a new adaptive scheme based on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-13 R. Cavoretto , A. De Rossi

Wavelet-based grid adaptation methods use multiresolution analysis for error estimation, offering a mathematically rigorous approach to adaptive grid refinement when solving Partial Differential Equations (PDEs). However, applying these…

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We propose an adaptive mesh refinement strategy for immersed isogeometric analysis, with application to steady heat conduction and viscous flow problems. The proposed strategy is based on residual-based error estimation, which has been…

We use high order finite difference methods to solve the wave equation in the second order form. The spatial discretization is performed by finite difference operators satisfying a summation-by-parts property. The focus of this work is on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-02-08 Siyang Wang , Kristoffer Virta , Gunilla Kreiss

Central schemes are frequently used for incompressible and compressible flow calculations. The present paper is the first in a forthcoming series where a new approach to a 2nd order accurate Finite Volume scheme operating on cartesian grids…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-01-16 Sebastian Noelle , Wolfram Rosenbaum , Martin Rumpf

We develop a new finite difference method for the wave equation in second order form. The finite difference operators satisfy a summation-by-parts (SBP) property. With boundary conditions and material interface conditions imposed weakly by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-29 Siyang Wang , Daniel Appelö , Gunilla Kreiss

Propagation characteristics of a wave are defined by the dispersion relationship, from which the governing partial differential equation (PDE) can be recovered. PDEs are commonly solved numerically using the finite-difference (FD) method,…

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Overset grid methods handle complex geometries by overlapping simpler, geometry-fitted grids to cover the original, more complex domain. However, ensuring their stability -- particularly at high orders -- remains a practical and theoretical…

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In wave propagation problems, finite difference methods implemented on staggered grids are commonly used to avoid checkerboard patterns and to improve accuracy in the approximation of short-wavelength components of the solutions. In this…

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Partial differential equations (PDEs) on surfaces appear in many applications throughout the natural and applied sciences. The classical closest point method (Ruuth and Merriman, J. Comput. Phys. 227(3):1943-1961, [2008]) is an embedding…

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This work presents a high-order finite-difference adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) framework for robust simulation of shock-turbulence interaction problems. A staggered-grid arrangement, in which solution points are stored at cell centers…

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This work focuses on multidimensional summation-by-parts (SBP) discretizations of linear elliptic operators with variable coefficients. We consider a general SBP discretization with dense simultaneous approximation terms (SATs), which serve…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-12-28 Jianfeng Yan , Jared Crean , Jason E. Hicken

We investigate the construction and performance of summation-by-parts (SBP) operators, which offer a powerful framework for the systematic development of structure-preserving numerical discretizations of partial differential equations.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-12 Jan Glaubitz , Armin Iske , Joshua Lampert , Philipp Öffner

Numerical methods for approximately solving partial differential equations (PDE) are at the core of scientific computing. Often, this requires high-resolution or adaptive discretization grids to capture relevant spatio-temporal features in…

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