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Maxwell's equations describe the evolution of electromagnetic fields, together with constraints on the divergence of the magnetic and electric flux densities. These constraints correspond to fundamental physical laws: the nonexistence of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-02 Yakov Berchenko-Kogan , Ari Stern

We show how two-dimensional mixed finite element methods that satisfy the conditions of finite element exterior calculus can be used for the horizontal discretisation of dynamical cores for numerical weather prediction on pseudo-uniform…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-27 C. J. Cotter , J. Shipton

A new fully discrete linearized $H^1$-conforming Lagrange finite element method is proposed for solving the two-dimensional magneto-hydrodynamics equations based on a magnetic potential formulation. The proposed method yields numerical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-03-12 Buyang Li , Jilu Wang , Liwei Xu

In the framework of a mixed finite element method, a structure-preserving formulation for incompressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations with general boundary conditions is proposed. A leapfrog-type temporal scheme fully decouples the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-20 Yi Zhang , Artur Palha , Andrea Brugnoli , Deepesh Toshniwal , Marc Gerritsma

In this article we apply a discrete action principle for the Vlasov--Maxwell equations in a structure-preserving particle-field discretization framework. In this framework the finite-dimensional electromagnetic potentials and fields are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-27 Martin Campos Pinto , Katharina Kormann , Eric Sonnendrücker

We present a general framework to design Godunov-type schemes for multidimensional ideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) systems, having the divergence-free relation and the related properties of the magnetic field B as built-in conditions. Our…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 P. Londrillo , L. Del Zanna

In this paper, we develop a class of mixed finite element methods for the ferrofluid flow model proposed by Shliomis [Soviet Physics JETP, 1972]. We show that the energy stability of the weak solutions to the model is preserved exactly for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-28 Yongke Wu , Xiaoping Xie

Development of particle in cell methods using finite element based methods (FEMs) have been a topic of renewed interest; this has largely been driven by (a) the ability of finite element methods to better model geometry, (b) better…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-04-13 Scott O'Connor , Zane D. Crawford , O. H. Ramachandran , John Luginsland , B. Shanker

On the basis of the recent group classification of the one-dimensional magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations in cylindrical geometry, the construction of symmetry-preserving finite-difference schemes with conservation laws is carried out.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-10-24 E. I. Kaptsov , V. A. Dorodnitsyn , S. V. Meleshko

Recently, we developed a pair of meshless finite-volume Lagrangian methods for hydrodynamics: the 'meshless finite mass' (MFM) and 'meshless finite volume' (MFV) methods. These capture advantages of both smoothed-particle hydrodynamics…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-15 Philip F. Hopkins , Matthias J. Raives

To model ferromagnetic material in finite element analysis a correct description of the constitutive relationship (BH-law) must be found from measured data. This article proposes to use the energy density function as a centrepiece. Using…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-12-21 Jens Krause

In this present paper we consider a full divergence-free of high order virtual finite element algorithm to approximate the stationary inductionless magnetohydrodynamic model on polygonal meshes. More precisely, we choice appropriate virtual…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-10-19 Xianghai Zhou , Haiyan Su

This paper presents a family of spatial discretisations of the nonlinear rotating shallow-water equations that conserve both energy and potential enstrophy. These are based on two-dimensional mixed finite element methods and hence, unlike…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-16 Andrew T. T. McRae , Colin J. Cotter

In this paper, we utilize the maximum-principle-preserving flux limiting technique, originally designed for high order weighted essentially non-oscillatory (WENO) methods for scalar hyperbolic conservation laws, to develop a class of high…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-01-14 Andrew J. Christlieb , Yuan Liu , Qi Tang , Zhengfu Xu

We propose and analyse a novel surface finite element method that preserves the invariant regions of systems of semilinear parabolic equations on closed compact surfaces in $\mathbb{R}^3$ under discretisation. We also provide a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-20 Massimo Frittelli , Anotida Madzvamuse , Ivonne Sgura , Chandrasekhar Venkataraman

We derive error estimates of a finite element method for the approximation of solutions to a seven-fields formulation of a magnetohydrodynamics model, which preserves the energy of the system, and the magnetic and cross helicities on the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-04 L. Beirao da Veiga , K. Hu , L. Mascotto

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 conforming finite element scheme with mixed explicit-implicit time discretization for quasi-incompressible Navier-Stokes-Maxwell-Stefan systems in a bounded domain with periodic boundary conditions is presented. The system consists of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-05 Aaron Brunk , Ansgar Jüngel , Maria Lukáčová-Medvid'ová

Recently, an extended version of magnetohydrodynamics that incorporates electron inertia, dubbed inertial magnetohydrodynamics, has been proposed. This model features a noncanonical Hamiltonian formulation with a number of conserved…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-08-29 Michael Kraus

Numerical methods for hyperbolic PDEs require stabilization. For linear acoustics, divergence-free vector fields should remain stationary, but classical Finite Difference methods add incompatible diffusion that dramatically restricts the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-14 Wasilij Barsukow , Mario Ricchiuto , Davide Torlo