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We present a new class of high-order accurate numerical algorithms for solving the equations of general-relativistic ideal magnetohydrodynamics in curved spacetimes. In this paper we assume the background spacetime to be given and static,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-05-28 Francesco Fambri , Michael Dumbser , Sven Köppel , Luciano Rezzolla , Olindo Zanotti

We propose a local discontinuous Galerkin (LDG) method for the fractional Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation, involving the fractional Laplacian with exponent $\alpha \in (1,2)$ in one and multiple space dimensions. By decomposing the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-19 Mukul Dwivedi , Tanmay Sarkar

We propose a family of high-order local discontinuous Galerkin (LDG) methods, built on a parametric representation and coupled with a semi-implicit backward Euler time discretization, for isotropic and anisotropic curve-shortening flows.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-06 Xiuhui Guo , Wei Jiang , Chunmei Su

We incorporate a time-independent gravitational field into the BGK scheme for numerical hydrodynamics. In the BGK scheme the gas evolves via an approximation to the collisional Boltzmann equation, namely the Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook (BGK)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Adrianne Slyz , Kevin H. Prendergast

Fully implicit Runge-Kutta (IRK) methods have many desirable accuracy and stability properties as time integration schemes, but high-order IRK methods are not commonly used in practice with large-scale numerical PDEs because of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-10-07 Ben S. Southworth , Oliver Krzysik , Will Pazner

This minicourse contains a description of recent results on the modelling of rarefied gases in weakly non equilibrium regimes, and the numerical methods used to approximate the resulting equations. Therefore this work focuses on BGK type…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-02-25 Gabriella Puppo

We are interested in high-order linear multistep schemes for time discretization of adjoint equations arising within optimal control problems. First we consider optimal control problems for ordinary differential equations and show loss of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-07-24 Giacomo Albi , Michael Herty , Lorenzo Pareschi

The Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook (BGK) model of the Boltzmann equation allows for efficient flow simulations, especially in the transition regime between continuum and high rarefaction. However, ensuring efficient performances for multiscale…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-05-09 Félix Garmirian , Marcel Pfeiffer

In this work, we present an asymptotic-preserving semi-Lagrangian discontinuous Galerkin scheme for the Boltzmann equation that effectively handles multi-scale transport phenomena. The main challenge lies in designing appropriate moments…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-17 Xiaofeng Cai , Zhen Hao , Liu Liu , Jiayu Wan

The main purpose of this paper is to design a fully discrete local discontinuous Galerkin (LDG) scheme for the generalized Benjamin-Ono equation. First, we proved the $L^2$-stability for the proposed semi-discrete LDG scheme and obtained a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-05 Mukul Dwivedi , Tanmay Sarkar

In this paper, we develop high-order asymptotic preserving (AP) schemes for the BGK equation in a hyperbolic scaling, which leads to the macroscopic models such as the Euler and compressible Navier-Stokes equations in the asymptotic limit.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-20 Tao Xiong , Juhi Jang , Fengyan Li , Jing-Mei Qiu

We devise a lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) for a matrix-valued quantum Boltzmann equation, with the classical Maxwell distribution replaced by Fermi-Dirac functions. To accommodate the spin density matrix, the distribution functions become…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-03-09 Christian B. Mendl

A direct discontinuous Galerkin (DDG) finite element method is developed for solving fractional convection-diffusion and Schr\"{o}dinger type equations with a fractional Laplacian operator of order $\alpha$ $(1<\alpha<2)$. The fractional…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-08-16 Tarek Aboelenen

We present an efficient nodal discontinuous Galerkin method for approximating nearly incompressible flows using the Boltzmann equations. The equations are discretized with Hermite polynomials in velocity space yielding a first order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-05-22 A. Karakus , N. Chalmers , J. S. Hesthaven , T. Warburton

This paper presents second-order accurate genuine BGK (Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook) schemes in the framework of finite volume method for the ultra-relativistic flows. Different from the existing kinetic flux-vector splitting (KFVS) or BGK-type…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-09-13 Yaping Chen , Yangyu Kuang , Huazhong Tang

We thoroughly investigate Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) discretizations as time integrators for second-order oscillatory systems, considering both second-order and first-order formulations of the original problem. Key contributions include…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-12 Gabriele Ciaramella , Martin J. Gander , Ilario Mazzieri

Semi-Lagrangian methods are numerical methods designed to find approximate solutions to particular time-dependent partial differential equations (PDEs) that describe the advection process. We propose semi-Lagrangian one-step methods for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-03-07 Nikolai D. Lipscomb , Daniel X. Guo

In this work, we have theoretically analyzed and numerically evaluated the accuracy of high-order lattice Boltzmann (LB) models for capturing non-equilibrium effects in rarefied gas flows. In the incompressible limit, the LB equation is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-09-08 Jianping Meng , Yonghao Zhang

We present a general framework for the rigorous numerical analysis of time-fractional nonlinear parabolic partial differential equations, with a fractional derivative of order $\alpha\in(0,1)$ in time. The framework relies on three…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-05 Bangti Jin , Buyang Li , Zhi Zhou

In this paper, we develop a class of high order conservative semi-Lagrangian (SL) discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods for solving multi-dimensional linear transport equations. The methods rely on a characteristic Galerkin weak formulation,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-09-25 Xiaofeng Cai , Wei Guo , Jing-Mei Qiu
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