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We develop a structure-preserving computational framework for optimal mixing control in incompressible flows. Our approach exactly conserves the continuous system's key invariants (mass and $L^2$-energy), while also maintaining discrete…

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Conservation laws are among the most fundamental geometric properties of a partial differential equation (PDE), but few known finite difference methods preserve more than one conservation law. All conservation laws belong to the kernel of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-12-13 Gianluca Frasca-Caccia , Peter E. Hydon

We analyze, from the viewpoint of positivity preservation, certain discretizations of a fundamental partial differential equation, the one-dimensional advection equation with periodic boundary condition. The full discretization is obtained…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-18 Yiannis Hadjimichael , David I. Ketcheson , Lajos Lóczi

We describe a methodology to build vectorial kinetic schemes, targetting the numerical solution of linear symmetric-hyperbolic systems of conservation laws -a minimal application case for those schemes. Precisely, we fully detail the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-10 Emmanuel Audusse , Sébastien Boyaval , Virgile Dubos , Minh-Hoang Le

We present a novel asymptotic-preserving semi-implicit finite element method for weakly compressible and incompressible flows based on compatible finite element spaces. The momentum is sought in an $H(\mathrm{div})$-conforming space,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-16 Enrico Zampa , Michael Dumbser

A procedure for obtaining a "minimal" discretization of a partial differential equation, preserving all of its Lie point symmetries is presented. "Minimal" in this case means that the differential equation is replaced by a partial…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Francis Valiquette , Pavel Winternitz

Typical fully conservative discretizations of the Euler compressible single or multi-component fluid equations governed by a real-fluid equation of state exhibit spurious pressure oscillations due to the nonlinearity of the thermodynamic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-12-05 Christopher DeGrendele , Nguyen Ly , Francois Cadieux , Michael Barad , Dongwook Lee , Jared Duensing

We propose a nonlinear Discrete Duality Finite Volume scheme to approximate the solutions of drift diffusion equations. The scheme is built to preserve at the discrete level even on severely distorted meshes the energy / energy dissipation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-05-31 Clément Cancès , Claire Chainais-Hillairet , Stella Krell

There are several well-established approaches to constructing finite difference schemes that preserve global invariants of a given partial differential equation. However, few of these methods preserve more than one conservation law locally.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-10-19 Gianluca Frasca-Caccia , Peter E. Hydon

We design a consistent Galerkin scheme for the approximation of the vectorial modified Korteweg-de Vries equation. We demonstrate that the scheme conserves energy up to machine precision. In this sense the method is consistent with the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-10-11 James Jackaman , Georgios Papamikos , Tristan Pryer

We construct and analyze a strongly consistent second-order finite difference scheme for the steady two-dimensional Stokes flow. The pressure Poisson equation is explicitly incorporated into the scheme. Our approach suggested by the first…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-09-05 Yury A. Blinkov , Vladimir P. Gerdt , Dmitry A. Lyakhov , Dominik L. Michels

We study an inverse design problem for the linear multiple fragmentation equation arising in particle dynamics. Our objective is to reconstruct an unknown initial size distribution that evolves, under a prescribed fragmentation law, into a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-20 Arijit Das

Nonlinear self-adjointness method for constructing conservation laws of partial differential equations (PDEs) is further studied. We show that any adjoint symmetry of PDEs is a differential substitution of nonlinear self-adjointness and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-05-22 Zhi-Yong Zhang

Discrete gradient methods are a class of numerical integrators producing solutions with exact preservation of first integrals of ordinary differential equations. In this paper, we apply order theory combined with the symmetrized Itoh--Abe…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-13 Håkon Noren Myhr , Sølve Eidnes

We show that the classical fourth order accurate compact finite difference scheme with high order strong stability preserving time discretizations for convection diffusion problems satisfies a weak monotonicity property, which implies that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-26 Hao Li , Shusen Xie , Xiangxiong Zhang

This work presents a non-linear extension of the high-order discretisation framework based on the Variational Multiscale (VMS) method previously introduced for steady linear problems. We build on the concept of an optimal projector defined…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-22 Suyash Shrestha , Marc Gerritsma , Gonzalo Rubio , Steven Hulshoff , Esteban Ferrer

We construct a finite element discretization and time-stepping scheme for the incompressible Euler equations with variable density that exactly preserves total mass, total squared density, total energy, and pointwise incompressibility. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-22 Evan S. Gawlik , François Gay-Balmaz

Preserving scalar boundedness is important for numerical schemes used in turbulent compressible multi-component flow simulations to prevent unphysical results and unstable simulations. However, ensuring scalar boundedness for high-order,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-13 Ye Wang , Armin Wehrfritz , Evatt R. Hawkes

A method is introduced for the construction of meshless discretization schemes which preserve Lie symmetries of the differential equations that these schemes approximate. The method exploits the fact that equivariant moving frames provide a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Alexander Bihlo

We investigate the geometric structure of adjoint systems associated with evolutionary partial differential equations at the fully continuous, semi-discrete, and fully discrete levels and the relations between these levels. We show that the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-10 Brian K. Tran , Ben S. Southworth , Melvin Leok