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Consistent BGK models for inert mixtures are compared, first in their kinetic behavior and then versus the hydrodynamic limits that can be derived in different collision-dominated regimes. The comparison is carried out both analytically and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-02-26 Sebastiano Boscarino , Seung Yeon Cho , Maria Groppi , Giovanni Russo

The Runge--Kutta (RK) discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method is a mainstream numerical algorithm for solving hyperbolic equations. In this paper, we use the linear advection equation in one and two dimensions as a model problem to prove the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-02 Zheng Sun

In this paper, we present a conservative semi-Lagrangian finite-difference scheme for the BGK model. Classical semi-Lagrangian finite difference schemes, coupled with an L-stable treatment of the collision term, allow large time steps, for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-05-10 Sebastiano Boscarino , Seung-Yeon Cho , Giovanni Russo , Seok-Bae Yun

Ideal gases can be modeled by the Boltzmann equation from statistical physics. Instead of trying to track the position and velocity of a large number of gas molecules, it is possible to describe the particles with a particle distribution…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-27 Vienna B. Rossmanith

This work explores the capability of simulating complex fluid flows by directly solving the Boltzmann equation. Due to the high-dimensionality of the governing equation, the substantial computational cost of solving the Boltzmann equation…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-12-05 Tarik Dzanic , Luigi Martinelli

Dynamical low-rank approximation (DLRA) is an emerging tool for reducing computational costs and provides memory savings when solving high-dimensional problems. In this work, we propose and analyze a semi-implicit dynamical low-rank…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-14 Peimeng Yin , Eirik Endeve , Cory D. Hauck , Stefan R. Schnake

We introduce a numerical method for solving Grad's moment equations or regularized moment equations for arbitrary order of moments. In our algorithm, we do not need explicitly the moment equations. As an instead, we directly start from the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-05-04 Zhenning Cai , Ruo Li

We study in this paper three variants of the high-order Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method with Runge-Kutta (RK) time integration for the induction equation, analysing their ability to preserve the divergence free constraint of the magnetic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-25 Maria Han Veiga , David A Velasco-Romero , Quentin Wenger , Romain Teyssier

We propose a new family of high order staggered semi-implicit discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods for the simulation of natural convection problems. Assuming small temperature fluctuations, the Boussinesq approximation is valid and the flow…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-12-05 Saray Busto , Maurizio Tavelli , Walter Boscheri , Michael Dumbser

In this work, we study and extend a class of semi-Lagrangian exponential methods, which combine exponential time integration techniques, suitable for integrating stiff linear terms, with a semi-Lagrangian treatment of nonlinear advection…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-25 João Guilherme Caldas Steinstraesser , Martin Schreiber , Pedro da Silva Peixoto

We present a high-order, fully explicit, asymptotic-preserving projective integration scheme for the nonlinear BGK equation. The method first takes a few small (inner) steps with a simple, explicit method (such as direct forward Euler) to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-02-03 Ward Melis , Thomas Rey , Giovanni Samaey

The Runge--Kutta discontinuous Galerkin (RKDG) method is a high-order technique for addressing hyperbolic conservation laws, which has been refined over recent decades and is effective in handling shock discontinuities. Despite its…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-01 Yixiao Wang , Xing Ji , Gang Chen , Kun Xu

The numerical method of dynamical low-rank approximation (DLRA) has recently been applied to various kinetic equations showing a significant reduction of the computational effort. In this paper, we apply this concept to the linear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-12 Lena Baumann , Lukas Einkemmer , Christian Klingenberg , Jonas Kusch

We consider a recently introduced formulation for fluid-structure interaction problems which makes use of a distributed Lagrange multiplier in the spirit of the fictitious domain method. In this paper we focus on time integration methods of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-02 Daniele Boffi , Lucia Gastaldi , Sebastian Wolf

We present unconditionally energy stable Runge-Kutta (RK) discontinuous Galerkin (DG) schemes for solving a class of fourth order gradient flows. Our algorithm is geared toward arbitrarily high order approximations in both space and time,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-05 Hailiang Liu , Peimeng Yin

We consider the numerical approximation of a generalized fractional Oldroyd-B fluid problem involving two Riemann-Liouville fractional derivatives in time. We establish regularity results for the exact solution which play an important role…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-06 Mariam Al-Maskari , Samir Karaa

Most high order computational fluid dynamics (CFD) methods for compressible flows are based on Riemann solver for the flux evaluation and Runge-Kutta (RK) time stepping technique for temporal accuracy. The main advantage of this kind of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 Xing Ji , Fengxiang Zhao , Wei Shyy , Kun Xu

The elucidation of many physical problems in science and engineering is subject to the accurate numerical modelling of complex wave propagation phenomena. Over the last decades, high-order numerical approximation for partial differential…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Mathias Anselmann , Markus Bause

In this paper, a high-order gas-kinetic scheme is developed for the equation of radiation hydrodynamics in equilibrium-diffusion limit which describes the interaction between matter and radiation. To recover RHE, the Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-10-14 Yaqing Yang , Liang Pan , Wenjun Sun

This work constructs and analyzes new efficient high-order two-derivative diagonally implicit Runge--Kutta (TDDIRK) schemes with optimized phase errors. Specifically, we present a convergence result for TDDIRK methods and investigate their…

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