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We propose a new class of asymptotic preserving schemes to solve kinetic equations with mono-kinetic singular limit. The main idea to deal with the singularity is to transform the equations by appropriate scalings in velocity. In…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-06-30 Alina Chertock , Changhui Tan , Bokai Yan

In this paper we present a non-local numerical scheme based on the Local Discontinuous Galerkin method for a non-local diffusive partial differential equation with application to traffic flow. In this model, the velocity is determined by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-14 D. Do , H. Nick Zinat Matin , M. L. Delle Monache

We provide a numerical algorithm for the model characterizing anomalous diffusion in expanding media, which is derived in [F. Le Vot, E. Abad, and S. B. Yuste, Phys. Rev. E {\bf96} (2017) 032117]. The Sobolev regularity for the equation is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-13 Daxin Nie , Jing Sun , Weihua Deng

The present work provides a critical assessment of numerical solutions of the space-fractional diffusion-advection equation, which is of high significance for applications in various natural sciences. In view of the fact that, in contrast…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-10-27 Robin Stern , Frederic Effenberger , Horst Fichtner , Tobias Schaefer

We present an ``equation-free'' multiscale approach to the simulation of unsteady diffusion in a random medium. The diffusivity of the medium is modeled as a random field with short correlation length, and the governing equations are cast…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Dongbin Xiu , Ioannis Kevrekidis

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

We consider the initial/boundary value problem for a diffusion equation involving multiple time-fractional derivatives on a bounded convex polyhedral domain. We analyze a space semidiscrete scheme based on the standard Galerkin finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-18 Bangti Jin , Raytcho Lazarov , Yikan Liu , Zhi Zhou

In this article we study the numerical approximation of a variable coefficient fractional diffusion equation. Using a change of variable, the variable coefficient fractional diffusion equation is transformed into a constant coefficient…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-28 Xiangcheng Zheng , V. J. Ervin , Hong Wang

The Feynman-Kac equations are a type of partial differential equations describing the distribution of functionals of diffusive motion. The probability density function (PDF) of Brownian functionals satisfies the Feynman-Kac formula, being a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-02-03 Weihua Deng , Minghua Chen , Eli Barkai

In this paper Gaussian models of retarded and accelerated anomalous diffusion are considered. Stochastic differential equations of fractional order driven by single or multiple fractional Gaussian noise terms are introduced to describe…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-05-08 Chai Hok Eab , S. C. Lim

Anomalous transport is usually described either by models of continuous time random walks (CTRW) or, otherwise by fractional Fokker-Planck equations (FFPE). The asymptotic relation between properly scaled CTRW and fractional diffusion…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-12-09 Bartlomiej Dybiec , Ewa Gudowska-Nowak

We present a robust and accurate numerical method for the anisotropic diffusion equation in curvilinear coordinates. This study extends the recent work [Muir et al., Computer Physics Communications, 2025] for solving the anisotropic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-23 Dean Muir , Kenneth Duru , Stuart Hudson , Matthew Hole

Inspired by problems in biochemical kinetics, we study statistical properties of an overdamped Langevin process whose friction coefficient depends on the state of a similar, unobserved process. Integrating out the latter, we derive the long…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-08-13 Golan Bel , Ilya Nemenman

We study the numerical anisotropy existent in compact difference schemes as applied to hyperbolic partial differential equations, and propose an approach to reduce this error and to improve the stability restrictions based on a previous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-14 Adrian Sescu , Ray Hixon

We have developed a new, very efficient numerical scheme to solve the CR diffusion convection equation that can be applied to the study of the nonlinear time evolution of CR modified shocks for arbitrary spatial diffusion properties. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 T. W. Jones , H. Kang

We introduce a numerical scheme to approximate a quasi-linear hyperbolic system which models the movement of cells under the influence of chemotaxis. Since we expect to find solutions which contain vacuum parts, we propose an upwinding…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-11-19 Roberto Natalini , Magali Ribot , Monika Twarogowska

We introduce a finite volume scheme to solve a special case of isotropic 3-wave kinetic equations. We test our numerical solution against theoretical results concerning the long time behavior of the energy and observe that our solutions…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-16 Steven Walton , Minh-Binh Tran

We show that anomalous diffusion can result when the steps of a random walk are not statistically independent. We present an algorithm that counts all the possible paths of particles diffusing on random graphs with arbitrary degree…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Joseph Snider , Clare C. Yu

The aim of this article is to provide a scheme for simulating diffusion processes evolving in one-dimensional discontinuous media. This scheme does not rely on smoothing the coefficients that appear in the infinitesimal generator of the…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Antoine Lejay , Miguel Martinez

The computation time required by standard finite difference methods with fixed timesteps for solving fractional diffusion equations is usually very large because the number of operations required to find the solution scales as the square of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-06-28 Santos B. Yuste , Joaquin Quintana-Murillo