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In recent years, kinetic equations have been used to model many social phenomena. A key feature of these models is that transition rate kernels involve Dirac delta functions, which capture sudden, discontinuous state changes. Here, we study…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-12 Yassin Bahid , Eduardo Corona , Nancy Rodriguez

We analyze asymptotic scaling properties of a model class of anomalous reaction-diffusion (ARD) equations. Numerical experiments show that solutions to these have, for large $t$, well defined scaling properties. We suggest a general…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 G. Gaeta , R. Mancinelli

We are interested in this work in the numerical resolution of the Quantum Liouville-BGK equation, which arises in the derivation of quantum hydrodynamical models from first principles. Such models are often obtained in some asymptotic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-21 Romain Duboscq , Olivier Pinaud

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

This work is devoted to the numerical simulation of a Vlasov-Poisson model describing a charged particle beam under the action of a rapidly oscillating external electric field. We construct an Asymptotic Preserving numerical scheme for this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-11 Nicolas Crouseilles , Mohammed Lemou , Florian Méhats

We propose a computational method to simulate anomalous self-diffusion in a simple liquid. The method is based on a molecular dynamics simulation on which we impose the following two conditions: firstly, the inter-particle interaction is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-04-07 Simon Standaert , Jan Ryckebusch , Lesley De Cruz

A new kinetic model is proposed where the equilibrium distribution with bounded support has a range of velocities about two average velocities in 1D. In 2D, the equilibrium distribution function has a range of velocities about four average…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-08-15 Shashi Shekhar Roy , S. V. Raghurama Rao

A physical-mathematical approach to anomalous diffusion may be based on fractional diffusion equations and related random walk models. The fundamental solutions of these equations can be interpreted as probability densities evolving in time…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-05-27 Rudolf Gorenflo , Francesco Mainardi

Kinetic transport models are mesoscopic mathematical descriptions of the transport of particles as well as their interactions with the background media or among themselves, and they have wide applications in many areas of mathematical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-08 Kimberly Matsuda , Fengyan Li

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

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

We apply the two-scale formulation approach to propose uniformly accurate (UA) schemes for solving the nonlinear Dirac equation in the nonrelativistic limit regime. The nonlinear Dirac equation involves two small scales $\varepsilon$ and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-12-20 Mohammed Lemou , Florian Méhats , Xiaofei Zhao

In this paper, a new asymptotic preserving (AP) scheme is proposed for the anisotropic elliptic equations. Different from previous AP schemes, the actual one is based on first-order system least-squares for second-order partial differential…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-09 Long Li , Chang Yang

We investigate numerically a model consisting in a kinetic equation for the biased motion of bacteria following a run-and-tumble process, coupled with two reaction-diffusion equations for chemical signals. This model exhibits asymptotic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-11-26 Vincent Calvez , Laurent Gosse , Monika Twarogowska

The present paper introduces an efficient and accurate numerical scheme for the solution of a highly anisotropic elliptic equation, the anisotropy direction being given by a variable vector field. This scheme is based on an asymptotic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-04-08 Pierre Degond , Fabrice Deluzet , Alexei Lozinski , Jacek Narski , Claudia Negulescu

We consider a linear kinetic transport equation under a diffusive scaling, that converges to a diffusion equation as the Knudsen number $\varepsilon\rightarrow0$. In [3, 21], to achieve the asymptotic preserving (AP) property and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-16 Zhichao Peng , Fengyan Li

In this paper we construct numerical schemes to approximate linear transport equations with slab geometry by diffusion equations. We treat both the case of pure diffusive scaling and the case where kinetic and diffusive scalings coexist.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-18 Qin Li , Jianfeng Lu , Weiran Sun

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

This paper is devoted to the anomalous diffusion limit of kinetic equations with a fractional Fokker-Planck collision operator in a spatially bounded domain. We consider two boundary conditions at the kinetic scale: absorption and specular…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-11-10 Ludovic Cesbron

We provide a `user guide' to the literature of the past twenty years concerning the modeling and approximation of discontinuous solutions to nonlinear hyperbolic systems that admit small-scale dependent shock waves. We cover several classes…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-12-05 Philippe G. LeFloch , Siddhartha Mishra