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In this paper we devise and analyze a mixed finite element method for a modified Cahn-Hilliard equation coupled with a non-steady Darcy-Stokes flow that models phase separation and coupled fluid flow in immiscible binary fluids and diblock…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-12-24 Amanda E. Diegel , Xiaobing H. Feng , Steven M. Wise

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

In this paper, we consider numerical approximation of an electrically conductive ferrofluid model, which consists of Navier-Stokes equations, magnetization equation, and magnetic induction equation. To solve this highly coupled, nonlinear,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-02 Jialin Xie , Xiaodi Zhang

In this paper we analyze a fully discrete scheme for a general Cahn-Hilliard equation coupled with a nonsteady Magneto-hydrodynamics flow, which describes two immiscible, incompressible and electrically conducting fluids with different…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-04 Hailong Qiu

Maxwell's equations are a system of partial differential equations that govern the laws of electromagnetic induction. We study a mimetic finite-difference (MFD) discretization of the equations which preserves important underlying physical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-28 James H. Adler , Casey Cavanaugh , Xiaozhe Hu , Ludmil T. Zikatanov

In this article, we present and analyze a finite element numerical scheme for a three-component macromolecular microsphere composite (MMC) hydrogel model, which takes the form of a ternary Cahn-Hilliard-type equation with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-20 Maoqin Yuan , Wenbin Chen , Cheng Wang , Steven M. Wise , Zhengru Zhang

We propose and analyze a class of finite element methods for the time-dependent incompressible magnetohydrodynamics system based on $H(\mathrm{curl})$-conforming discretizations for both the velocity and the magnetic field. This choice is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-08 Lourenço Beirão da Veiga , Sergio Gómez , Ilaria Perugia , Enrico Zampa

We develop arbitrarily high-order, stationarity-preserving stabilized finite element methods for multidimensional nonlinear hyperbolic balance laws on Cartesian grids. We aim at approximating all the steady states of the problem at hand,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-25 Moussa Ziggaf , Davide Torlo , Mario Ricchiuto

Respecting the laws of thermodynamics is crucial for ensuring that numerical simulations of dynamical systems deliver physically relevant results. In this paper, we construct a structure-preserving and thermodynamically consistent finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-23 Evan S. Gawlik , François Gay-Balmaz

We introduce a new formulation for the finite element immersed boundary method which makes use of a distributed Lagrange multiplier. We prove that a full discretization of our model, based on a semi-implicit time advancing scheme, is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-05 Daniele Boffi , Nicola Cavallini , Lucia Gastaldi

In this paper we describe two fully mass conservative, energy stable, finite difference methods on a staggered grid for the quasi-incompressible Navier-Stokes-Cahn-Hilliard (q-NSCH) system governing a binary incompressible fluid flow with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-10-11 Zhenlin Guo , Ping Lin , Steven Wise , John Lowengrub

This paper proposes a virtual element method (VEM) combined with a second-order implicit-explicit scheme based on the scalar auxiliary variable (SAV) method for the incompressible magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations. We employ the BDF2…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-25 Xiaojing Dong , Yunqing Huang , Tianwen Wang

In this work we present two new numerical schemes to approximate the Navier-Stokes-Cahn-Hilliard system with degenerate mobility using finite differences in time and finite elements in space. The proposed schemes are conservative,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-24 Francisco Guillén-González , Giordano Tierra

Magnetic relaxation drives plasma toward lower-energy equilibria under helicity constraints. In ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD), helicity is locally conserved, while resistive theories such as Taylor relaxation preserve only global…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-13 Patrick E. Farrell , Mingdong He , Kaibo Hu , Ganghui Zhang

A well-balanced second order finite volume central scheme for the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations with gravitational source term is developed in this paper. The scheme is an unstaggered central scheme that evolves the numerical solution…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-02-18 Farah Kanbar , Rony Touma , Christian Klingenberg

Reduced magnetohydrodynamics is a simplified set of magnetohydrodynamics equations with applications to both fusion and astrophysical plasmas, possessing a noncanonical Hamiltonian structure and consequently a number of conserved…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-10-05 Michael Kraus , Emanuele Tassi , Daniela Grasso

We present a Finite Volume formulation for determining discontinuous distributions of magnetic fields within non-orthogonal and non-uniform meshes. The numerical approach is based on the discretization of the vector potential variant of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-13 Augusto Riedinger , Martín Saravia , José Ramírez

Magneto-hydrodynamics is one of the foremost models in plasma physics with applications in inertial confinement fusion, astrophysics and elsewhere. Advanced numerical methods are needed to get an insight into the complex physical phenomena.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-03-29 Jan Nikl , Milan Kuchařík , Stefan Weber

We study mixed finite element methods for the rotating shallow water equations with linearized momentum terms but nonlinear drag. By means of an equivalent second-order formulation, we prove long-time stability of the system without energy…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-06-06 Colin J. Cotter , P. Jameson Graber , Robert C. Kirby

This paper proposes a novel first-order and a novel second-order fully discrete virtual element schemes based on the scalar auxiliary variable method for the three dimensional inductionless magnetohydrodynamics problem. The backward Eular…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-13 Xianghai Zhou , Haiyan Su