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We develop a new finite difference method for the wave equation in second order form. The finite difference operators satisfy a summation-by-parts (SBP) property. With boundary conditions and material interface conditions imposed weakly by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-29 Siyang Wang , Daniel Appelö , Gunilla Kreiss

We apply an unfitted HDG discretization to a model problem in shape optimization. The method proposed uses a fixed, shape regular, non-geometry conforming mesh and a high order transfer technique to deal with the curved boundaries arising…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Esteban Henríquez , Tonatiuh Sánchez-Vizuet , Manuel Solano

In this paper, a two-grid temporal second-order scheme for the two-dimensional nonlinear Volterra integro-differential equation with weakly singular kernel is proposed to reduce the computation time and improve the accuracy of the scheme…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-02 Hao Chen , Mahmoud A. Zaky , Ahmed S. Hendy , Wenlin Qiu

We apply second order finite difference to calculate the lowest eigenvalues of the Helmholtz equation, for complicated non-tensor domains in the plane, using different grids which sample exactly the border of the domain. We show that the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 Paolo Amore , John P. Boyd , Francisco M. Fernandez , Boris Rösler

Invariant discretization schemes are derived for the one- and two-dimensional shallow-water equations with periodic boundary conditions. While originally designed for constructing invariant finite difference schemes, we extend the usage of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-01-04 Alexander Bihlo , Roman O. Popovych

We introduce a fluid dynamics algorithm that performs with nearly spectral accuracy, but uses finite-differences instead of FFTs to compute gradients and thus executes 10 times faster. The finite differencing is not based on a high-order…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jason Maron

Efforts to achieve better accuracy in numerical relativity have so far focused either on implementing second order accurate adaptive mesh refinement or on defining higher order accurate differences and update schemes. Here, we argue for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Luis Lehner , Steven L. Liebling , Oscar Reula

We present a mechanism to explicitly couple the finite-difference discretizations of 2D acoustic and isotropic elastic wave systems that are separated by straight interfaces. Such coupled simulations allow the application of the elastic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-04-13 Longfei Gao , David Keyes

In this paper, we propose a trigonometric-interpolation approach for solutions of second order nonlinear ODEs with mixed boundary conditions. The method interpolates secondary derivative $y''$ of a target solution $y$ by a trigonometric…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-29 Xiaorong Zou

We propose two stable and one conditionally stable finite difference schemes of second-order in both time and space for the time-fractional diffusion-wave equation. In the first scheme, we apply the fractional trapezoidal rule in time and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Fanhai Zeng

Floating offshore structures often exhibit low-frequency oscillatory motions in the horizontal plane, with amplitudes in the same order as their characteristic dimensions and larger than the corresponding wave-frequency responses, making…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-10-07 Yanlin Shao , Zhiping Zheng , Hui Liang , Jikang Chen

Immersed boundary methods have attracted substantial interest in the last decades due to their potential for computations involving complex geometries. Often these cannot be efficiently discretized using boundary-fitted finite elements.…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Tim Bürchner , Lars Radtke , Philipp Kopp , Stefan Kollmannsberger , Ernst Rank , Alexander Düster

A stable numerical solution of the steady Stokes problem requires compatibility between the choice of velocity and pressure approximation that has traditionally proven problematic for meshless methods. In this work, we present a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-15 Nathaniel Trask , Martin Maxey , Xiaozhe Hu

Simulation of 3D low-frequency electromagnetic fields propagating in the Earth is computationally expensive. We present a fictitious wave domain high-order finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) modelling method on nonuniform grids to compute…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-13 Pengliang Yang , Rune Mittet

In this paper, we propose a reduced-order modeling strategy for two-way Dirichlet-Neumann parametric coupled problems solved with domain-decomposition (DD) sub-structuring methods. We split the original coupled differential problem into two…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-12 Elena Zappon , Andrea Manzoni , Paola Gervasio , Alfio Quarteroni

We define a new finite element method for a steady state elliptic problem with discontinuous diffusion coefficients where the meshes are not aligned with the interface. We prove optimal error estimates in the $L^2$ norm and $H^1$ weighted…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-10-18 Johnny Guzman , Manuel A. Sanchez , Marcus Sarkis

This paper is concerned with moving mesh finite difference solution of partial differential equations. It is known that mesh movement introduces an extra convection term and its numerical treatment has a significant impact on the stability…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-07-31 Weizhang Huang

In this article, we have developed a higher order compact numerical method for variable coefficient parabolic problems with mixed derivatives. The finite difference scheme, presented here for two-dimensional domains, is based on fourth…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-12-19 Shuvam Sen

High-order finite difference methods are efficient, easy to program, scales well in multiple dimensions and can be modified locally for various reasons (such as shock treatment for example). The main drawback have been the complicated and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-17 Magnus Svärd , Jan Nordström

This article presents a higher-order spectral element method for the two-dimensional Stokes interface problem involving a piecewise constant viscosity coefficient. The proposed numerical formulation is based on least-squares formulation.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-14 Kishore Kumar Naraparaju , Shivangi Joshi , Subhashree Mohapatra