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We propose a class of conservative discontinuous Galerkin methods for the Vlasov-Poisson system written as a hyperbolic system using Hermite polynomials in the velocity variable. These schemes are designed to be systematically as accurate…

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We propose a bound-preserving Runge-Kutta (RK) discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method as an efficient, effective and compact numerical approach for numerical simulation of traffic flow problems on networks, with arbitrary high order accuracy.…

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In this paper, we develop a Galerkin-type approximation, with quantitative error estimates, for weak solutions to the Cauchy problem for kinetic Fokker-Planck equations in the domain $(0, T) \times D \times \mathbb{R}^d$, where $D$ is…

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A moving mesh discontinuous Galerkin method is presented for the numerical solution of hyperbolic conservation laws. The method is a combination of the discontinuous Galerkin method and the mesh movement strategy which is based on the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-20 Dongmi Luo , Weizhang Huang , Jianxian Qiu

The convergence and optimality theory of adaptive Galerkin methods is almost exclusively based on the D\"orfler marking. This entails a fixed parameter and leads to a contraction constant bounded below away from zero. For spectral Galerkin…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-11-03 Claudio Canuto , Ricardo H. Nochetto , Rob Stevenson , Marco Verani

We study a Cucker-Smale-type flocking model with distributed time delay where individuals interact with each other through normalized communication weights. Based on a Lyapunov functional approach, we provide sufficient conditions for the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-07-16 Young-Pil Choi , Cristina Pignotti

In this work we consider entropy stable discontinuous Galerkin methods applied to nonconservative hyperbolic systems. We introduce a new class of entropy conservative fluctuations that allow us to construct entropy conservative schemes…

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We introduce a Lagrangian nodal discontinuous Galerkin (DG) cell-centered hydrodynamics method for solving multi-dimensional hyperbolic systems. By incorporating an adaptation of Zalesak's flux-corrected transport algorithm, we combine a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-30 Joshua Vedral , Nathaniel Morgan , Dmitri Kuzmin , Jacob Moore

In this paper, we propose and analyze a numerically stable and convergent scheme for a convection-diffusion-reaction equation in the convection-dominated regime. Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods are considered since standard finite…

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Linear wave equations sourced by a Dirac delta distribution $\delta(x)$ and its derivative(s) can serve as a model for many different phenomena. We describe a discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method to numerically solve such equations with…

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We discuss the mathematical modeling and numerical discretization of transport problems on one-dimensional networks. Suitable coupling conditions are derived that guarantee conservation of mass across network junctions and dissipation of a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-23 Herbert Egger , Nora Philippi

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…

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Integro-differential equations, analyzed in this work, comprise an important class of models of continuum media with nonlocal interactions. Examples include peridynamics, population and opinion dynamics, the spread of disease models, and…

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A discontinuous Galerkin method for approximating the Vlasov-Poisson system of equations describing the time evolution of a collisionless plasma is proposed. The method is mass conservative and, in the case that piecewise constant functions…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2011-10-04 R. E. Heath , I. M. Gamba , P. J. Morrison , C. Michler

We propose a structure-preserving discontinuous Galerkin scheme for the Cahn--Hilliard equations with degenerate mobility based on the Symmetric Weighted Interior Penalty formulation. By evaluating the mobility at cell averages rather than…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-03 Jimmy Kornelije Gunnarsson , Robert Klöfkorn

We present a novel discontinuous Galerkin algorithm for the solution of a class of Fokker-Planck collision operators. These operators arise in many fields of physics, and our particular application is for kinetic plasma simulations. In…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 Ammar Hakim , M. Francisquez , J. Juno , Greg W. Hammett

We propose a large-scale scaling viewpoint for deriving mesoscopic dynamics from interacting particle systems and apply it to the Cucker--Smale flocking model. In contrast with the classical mean-field regime leading to the Vlasov-type…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Ruicheng Cheng , Seung-Yeal Ha , Jaemoon Lee , Zhenfu Wang

Quadrature-based moment-closure methods are a class of approximations that replace high-dimensional kinetic descriptions with lower-dimensional fluid models. In this work we investigate some of the properties of a sub-class of these methods…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-10-17 Yongtao Cheng , James A. Rossmanith

In this article, we propose high order discontinuous Galerkin entropy stable schemes for ten-moment Gaussian closure equations, which is based on the suitable quadrature rules (see [8]). The key components of the proposed method are the use…

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