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In this work we introduce and analyse a new low-order method for the variable-density incompressible Navier-Stokes equations. The main novelty of the proposed method lies in the support of general meshes, possibly including polygonal or…

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Mesh-free methods have significant potential for simulations of flows in complex geometries, with the difficulties of domain discretisation greatly reduced. However, many mesh-free methods are limited to low order accuracy. In order to…

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We aim to solve the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations within the complex microstructure of a porous material. Discretizing the equations on a fine grid using a staggered (e.g., marker-and-cell, mixed FEM) scheme results in a nonlinear…

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Computational fluid dynamics plays a key role in the design process across many industries. Recently, there has been increasing interest in data-driven methods, in order to exploit the large volume of data generated by such computations.…

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Computational fluctuating hydrodynamics aims at understanding the impact of thermal fluctuations on fluid motions at small scales through numerical exploration. These fluctuations are modeled as stochastic flux terms and incorporated into…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-05-13 Marc Mancini , Maxime Theillard , Changho Kim

Radial basis function generated finite difference (RBF-FD) methods for PDEs require a set of interpolation points which conform to the computational domain $\Omega$. One of the requirements leading to approximation robustness is to place…

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We present three new semi-Lagrangian methods based on radial basis function (RBF) interpolation for numerically simulating transport on a sphere. The methods are mesh-free and are formulated entirely in Cartesian coordinates, thus avoiding…

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We propose an approach to solving partial differential equations (PDEs) using a set of neural networks which we call Neural Basis Functions (NBF). This NBF framework is a novel variation of the POD DeepONet operator learning approach where…

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We present an accurate and efficient discretization approach for the adaptive discretization of typical model equations employed in numerical weather prediction. A semi-Lagrangian approach is combined with the TR-BDF2 semi-implicit time…

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We consider shape and topology optimization for fluids which are governed by the Navier--Stokes equations. Shapes are modelled with the help of a phase field approach and the solid body is relaxed to be a porous medium. The phase field…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-04-27 Harald Garcke , Claudia Hecht , Michael Hinze , Christian Kahle , Kei Fong Lam

This work presents a non-linear extension of the high-order discretisation framework based on the Variational Multiscale (VMS) method previously introduced for steady linear problems. We build on the concept of an optimal projector defined…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-22 Suyash Shrestha , Marc Gerritsma , Gonzalo Rubio , Steven Hulshoff , Esteban Ferrer

We construct a class of spatially polynomial velocity fields that are exact solutions of the planar unsteady Navier-Stokes equation. These solutions can be used as simple benchmarks for testing numerical methods or verifying the feasibility…

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Hydrodynamics provides a universal description of the emergent collective dynamics of vastly different many-body systems, based solely on their symmetries and conservation laws. Here we harness this universality, encoded in the…

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In this paper, we propose compactly supported radial basis functions for solving some well- known classes of astrophysics problems categorized as non-linear singular initial ordinary dif- ferential equations on a semi-infinite domain. To…

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We introduce and investigate matrix approximation by decomposition into a sum of radial basis function (RBF) components. An RBF component is a generalization of the outer product between a pair of vectors, where an RBF function replaces the…

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The finite difference time domain method is one of the simplest and most popular methods in computational electromagnetics. This work considers two possible ways of generalising it to a meshless setting by employing local radial basis…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-02-27 Andrej Kolar-Požun , Gregor Kosec

In the continuum flow regime, the Navier-Stokes equations are usually used for the description of gas dynamics. On the other hand, the Boltzmann equation is applied for the rarefied gas dynamics. Both equations are constructed from modeling…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-03-08 Kun Xu , Chang Liu

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Pseudospectral time domain (PSTD) methods are widely used in many branches of acoustics for the numerical solution of the wave equation, including biomedical ultrasound and seismology. The use of the Fourier collocation spectral method in…

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