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We develop an asymptotic-preserving scheme to solve evolution problems containing stiff transport terms. This scheme is based to a micro-macro decomposition of the unknown, coupled with a stabilization procedure. The numerical method is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-02-21 Baptiste Fedele , Claudia Negulescu , Stefan Possanner

In this paper, two kinds of high-order compact finite difference schemes for second-order derivative are developed. Then a second-order numerical scheme for Riemann-Liouvile derivative is established based on fractional center difference…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-22 Hengfei Ding , Changpin Li

This paper is devoted to the analysis of a numerical scheme for the coagulation and fragmentation equation with diffusion in space. A finite volume scheme is developed, based on a conservative formulation of the space nonhomogeneous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2009-11-13 Francis Filbet

In this paper, we present a numerical solution to an ordinary differential equation of a fractional order in one-dimensional space. The solution to this equation can describe a steady state of the process of anomalous diffusion. The process…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-12-03 Mariusz Ciesielski , Jacek Leszczynski

Anomalous-diffusion, the departure of the spreading dynamics of diffusing particles from the traditional law of Brownian-motion, is a signature feature of a large number of complex soft-matter and biological systems. Anomalous-diffusion…

We propose a novel non-compact, positivity-preserving scheme for linear non-divergence form elliptic equations. Based on the Feynman--Kac formula, the solution is represented as a conditional expectation associated with a diffusion…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-06 Haoran Xu , Kunyang Li , Xingye Yue

The Active Flux (AF) method is a compact, high-order finite volume scheme that enhances flexibility by introducing point values at cell interfaces as additional degrees of freedom alongside cell averages. The method of lines is employed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-08 Junming Duan , Wasilij Barsukow , Christian Klingenberg

We present a mathematical analysis of the asymptotic preserving scheme proposed in [M. Lemou and L. Mieussens, SIAM J. Sci. Comput., 31, pp. 334-368, 2008] for linear transport equations in kinetic and diffusive regimes. We prove that the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2009-10-06 Jian-Guo Liu , Luc Mieussens

A physical-mathematical approach to anomalous diffusion may be based on generalized diffusion equations (containing derivatives of fractional order in space or/and time) and related random walk models. The fundamental solution (for the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-09-25 Rudolf Gorenflo , Francesco Mainardi , Daniele Moretti , Gianni Pagnini , Paolo Paradisi

We propose an efficient numerical strategy for simulating fluid flow through porous media with highly oscillatory characteristics. Specifically, we consider non-linear diffusion models. This scheme is based on the classical homogenization…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-04 Manuela Bastidas , Carina Bringedal , Sorin Pop , Florin Radu

We introduce mesoscopic and macroscopic model equations of chemotaxis with anomalous subdiffusion for modelling chemically directed transport of biological organisms in changing chemical environments with diffusion hindered by traps or…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2012-12-03 T. A. M. Langlands , B. I. Henry

In this article we review classical and recent results in anomalous diffusion and provide mechanisms useful for the study of the fundamentals of certain processes, mainly in condensed matter physics, chemistry and biology. Emphasis will be…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-02-25 Fernando A. Oliveira , Rogelma M. S. Ferreira , Luciano C. Lapas , Mendeli H. Vainstein

In this paper, we provide a result of exponential stability for several dissipative linear kinetic equations with heavy-tailed equilibria. The approach, inspired by the so-called $L^2$-hypocoercivity method, is robust enough to provide…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-24 Maxime Herda , Marc Pegon , Isabelle Tristani

Diffusion is the macroscopic manifestation of disordered molecular motion. Mathematically, diffusion equations are partial differential equations describing the fluid-like large-scale dynamics of parcels of molecules. Spatially…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-10-26 F. Sattin , A. Bonato , L. Salasnich

We develop an unconditionally energy-stable tensor-product space-time discretization framework for the solution of a linear kinetic transport equation in one space dimension. The kinetic equation is a simplified model of radiative transfer…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-24 Anita Gjesteland , Sigrun Ortleb , Salim Elghawi , David C. Del Rey Fernández

This paper is devoted to the numerical resolution of an anisotropic non-linear diffusion problem involving a small parameter \varepsilon, defined as the anisotropy strength reciprocal. In this work, the anisotropy is carried by a variable…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-10-03 Stéphane Brull , Fabrice Deluzet , Alexandre Mouton

This paper presents a new resolution strategy for multi-scale streamer discharge simulations based on a second order time adaptive integration and space adaptive multiresolution. A classical fluid model is used to describe plasma…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-04-10 Max Duarte , Zdenek Bonaventura , Marc Massot , Anne Bourdon , Stéphane Descombes , Thierry Dumont

We investigate a projective integration scheme for a kinetic equation in the limit of vanishing mean free path, in which the kinetic description approaches a diffusion phenomenon. The scheme first takes a few small steps with a simple,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-12-27 Pauline Lafitte , Giovanni Samaey

We present a new finite volume scheme for anisotropic heterogeneous diffusion problems on unstructured irregular grids, which simultaneously gives an approximation of the solution and of its gradient. In the case of simplicial meshes, the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-16 Jérôme Droniou , Robert Eymard

In this paper we present in one-dimensional space a numerical solution of a partial differential equation of fractional order. This equation describes a process of anomalous diffusion. The process arises from the interactions within the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Mariusz Ciesielski , Jacek Leszczynski