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Optimization tasks are crucial in statistical machine learning. Recently, there has been great interest in leveraging tools from dynamical systems to derive accelerated and robust optimization methods via suitable discretizations of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-07-06 Guilherme França , Alessandro Barp , Mark Girolami , Michael I. Jordan

The Helmholtz equation is fundamental to wave modeling in acoustics, electromagnetics, and seismic imaging, yet high-frequency regimes remain challenging due to the ``pollution effect''. We propose FD-MGDL, an adaptive framework integrating…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-25 Peiyao Zhao , Rui Wang , Tingting Wu , Yuesheng Xu

A finite difference method (FDM) applicable to a two dimensional (2D) quantum dot was developed as a non-conventional approach to the theoretical understandings of quantum devices. This method can be applied to a realistic potential with an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-16 Jai Seok Ahn

Motivated by the viewpoint of integrable systems, we study commuting flows of 2-component quasilinear equations, reducing to investigate the solutions of the wave equation with non-constant speed. In this paper, we apply the reduction…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-12-15 Natale Manganaro , Alessandra Rizzo , Pierandrea Vergallo

We propose and analyze a two-level method for mimetic finite difference approximations of second order elliptic boundary value problems. We prove that the two-level algorithm is uniformly convergent, i.e., the number of iterations needed to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-10-14 Paola F. Antonietti , Marco Verani , Ludmil Zikatanov

We develop a new spatial semidiscrete multiscale method based upon the edge multiscale methods to solve semilinear parabolic problems with heterogeneous coefficients and smooth initial data. This method allows for a cheap spatial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Leonardo A. Poveda , Shubin Fu , Guanglian Li , Eric Chung

The acoustic scattering problem is modeled by the exterior Helmholtz equation, which is challenging to solve due to both the unboundedness of the domain and the high dispersion error, known as the pollution effect. We develop high-order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Bin Han , Jiwoon Sim

A Finite Volume (FV) scheme is developed for solving the extended magnetohydrodynamic (XMHD) equations, yielding accurate results in the ideal, resistive, and Hall MHD limits. This is accomplished by first re-writing the XMHD equations such…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-05-25 Yi Han Toh , Joshua Dolence , Karthik Duraisamy

We study the asymptotic stability of the semi-discrete (SD) numerical method for the approximation of stochastic differential equations. Recently, we examined the order of $\mathcal L^2$-convergence of the truncated SD method and showed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-10 Nikolaos Halidias , Ioannis S. Stamatiou

Stochastic Hamiltonian partial differential equations, which possess the multi-symplectic conservation law, are an important and fairly large class of systems. The multi-symplectic methods inheriting the geometric features of stochastic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-10 Jialin Hong , Baohui Hou , Qiang Li , Liying Sun

Dissipation can be represented in Hamiltonian mechanics in an extended phase space as a symplectic process. The method uses an auxiliary variable which represents the excitation of unresolved dynamics and a Hamiltonian for the interaction…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-02-16 Richard Blender , Gualtiero Badin

This paper proposes a fully discrete method called the symplectic dG full discretization for stochastic Maxwell equations driven by additive noises, based on a stochastic symplectic method in time and a discontinuous Galerkin (dG) method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-22 Chuchu Chen

Wave propagation and acoustic scattering problems require vast computational resources to be solved accurately at high frequencies. Asymptotic methods can make this cost potentially frequency independent by explicitly extracting the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-01-16 Daan Huybrechs , Peter Opsomer

We present for astrophysical use a multi-dimensional numerical code to solve the equations for ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). It is based on an explicit finite difference method on an Eulerian grid, called the Total Variation Diminishing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Dongsu Ryu , T. W. Jones , Adam Frank

We propose a novel numerical homogenization method based on the edge multiscale approach for solving indefinite time-harmonic Maxwell equations in heterogeneous media with large wavenumber. Numerical methods for these equations in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-27 Yueqi Wang , Wing Tat Leung , Guanglian Li

In this paper, we discuss the second-order finite element method (FEM) and finite difference method (FDM) for numerically solving elliptic cross-interface problems characterized by vertical and horizontal straight lines, piecewise constant…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-04 Qiwei Feng

An alternative way of visualizing electromagnetic waves in matter and of deriving the Finite Difference Time Domain method (FDTD) for simulating Maxwell's equations for one dimensional systems is presented. The method uses d'Alembert's…

Optics · Physics 2021-02-24 Ross Hyman , Nathaniel Stern , Allen Taflove

A new numerical method is presented for solving the rotating shallow water equations on a rotating sphere using quasi-uniform polygonal meshes. The method uses special families of finite element function spaces to mimic key mathematical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-23 John Thuburn , Colin J. Cotter

The Half-Space Matching (HSM) method has recently been developed as a new method for the solution of 2D scattering problems with complex backgrounds, providing an alternative to Perfectly Matched Layers (PML) or other artificial boundary…

Large-scale simulations of the wave equation in electromagnetism, seismology, and acoustics, can be solved efficiently by finite difference methods. The accuracy of these numerical solutions usually depends on the minimization of…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-06-23 Gianmarco Pinton