English
Related papers

Related papers: A fully discrete variational scheme for solving no…

200 papers

In neuroscience, the distribution of a decision time is modelled by means of a one-dimensional Fokker--Planck equation with time-dependent boundaries and space-time-dependent drift. Efficient approximation of the solution to this equation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-08 Udo Boehm , Sonja Cox , Gregor Gantner , Rob Stevenson

This paper, as the sequel to previous work, develops numerical schemes for fractional diffusion equations on a two-dimensional finite domain with triangular meshes. We adopt the nodal discontinuous Galerkin methods for the full spatial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-07-14 Liangliang Qiu , Weihua Deng , Jan Hesthaven

In this work, we present a second-order numerical scheme to address the solution of optimal control problems constrained by the evolution of nonlinear Fokker-Planck equations arising from socio-economic dynamics. In order to design an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Giacomo Albi , Elisa Calzola

We consider a rather general class of non-local in time Fokker-Planck equations and show by means of the entropy method that as $t\to \infty$ the solution converges in $L^1$ to the unique steady state. Important special cases are the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-08-03 Jukka Kemppainen , Rico Zacher

We develop unified and easy to use framework to study robust fully discrete numerical methods for nonlinear degenerate diffusion equations $$ \partial_t u-\mathfrak{L}[\varphi(u)]=f(x,t) \qquad\text{in}\qquad \mathbb{R}^N\times(0,T), $$…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-17 Félix del Teso , Jørgen Endal , Espen R. Jakobsen

In this paper, we present an efficient numerical algorithm for solving the time-dependent Cahn--Hilliard--Navier--Stokes equations that model the flow of two phases with different densities. The pressure-correction step in the projection…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-02 Chen Liu , Deep Ray , Christopher Thiele , Lu Lin , Beatrice Riviere

We develop a recursive method for perturbative solutions of the Fokker-Planck equation with nonlinear drift. The series expansion of the time-dependent probability density in terms of powers of the coupling constant is obtained by solving a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-12-06 Jens Dreger , Axel Pelster , Bodo Hamprecht

We introduce a generalized finite difference method for solving a large range of fully nonlinear elliptic partial differential equations in three dimensions. Methods are based on Cartesian grids, augmented by additional points carefully…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-19 Brittany Froese Hamfeldt , Jacob Lesniewski

Based on the continuous time random walk, we derive the Fokker-Planck equations with Caputo-Fabrizio fractional derivative, which can effectively model a variety of physical phenomena, especially, the material heterogeneities and structures…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-24 Minghua Chen , Jiankang Shi , Weihua Deng

The fractional Schr\"{o}dinger equation (FSE) on the real line arises in a broad range of physical settings and their numerical simulation is challenging due to the nonlocal nature and the power law decay of the solution at infinity. In…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-01 Mengxia Shen , Haiyong Wang

We present a space-time continuous-Galerkin finite element method for solving incompressible Navier-Stokes equations. To ensure stability of the discrete variational problem, we apply ideas from the variational multi-scale method. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-25 Biswajit Khara , Robert Dyja , Kumar Saurabh , Anupam Sharma , Baskar Ganapathysubramanian

In this article, we introduce a new method for discretizing micro-macro models of dilute polymeric fluids by integrating a finite element discretization for the macroscopic fluid dynamic equation with a deterministic variational particle…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-24 Xuelian Bao , Chun Liu , Yiwei Wang

In this paper, we propose two approaches to derive the discrete Poincar\'e inequality for the B-schemes, a family of finite volume discretization schemes, for the one-dimensional Fokker-Planck equation in full space. We study the properties…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Lei Li , Jian-Guo Liu , Zhen Wang

We consider a class of doubly nonlinear degenerate hyperbolic-parabolic equations with homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions, for which we first establish the existence and uniqueness of entropy solutions. We then turn to the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-01-08 Boris Andreianov , Mostafa Bendahmane , Kenneth H. Karlsen

We study the particle method to approximate the gradient flow on the $L^p$-Wasserstein space. This method relies on the discretization of the energy introduced by [3] via nonoverlapping balls centered at the particles and preserves the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-08 Rong Lei

We study discretizations of fractional fully nonlinear equations by powers of discrete Laplacians. Our problems are parabolic and of order $\sigma\in(0,2)$ since they involve fractional Laplace operators $(-\Delta)^{\sigma/2}$. They arise…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-18 Indranil Chowdhury , Espen Robstad Jakobsen , Robin Østern Lien

The Landau-Lifshitz Navier-Stokes (LLNS) equations incorporate thermal fluctuations into macroscopic hydrodynamics by using stochastic fluxes. This paper examines explicit Eulerian discretizations of the full LLNS equations. Several CFD…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2009-11-11 John B. Bell , Alejandro L. Garcia , Sarah A. Williams

In this paper, the periodic initial-value problem for the fractional nonlinear Schr\"odinger (fNLS) equation is discretized in space by a Fourier spectral Galerkin method and in time by diagonally implicit, high-order Runge-Kutta schemes,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-30 A. Durán , N. Reguera

We propose a finite element discretisation approach for the incompressible Euler equations which mimics their geometric structure and their variational derivation. In particular, we derive a finite element method that arises from a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-10-17 Andrea Natale , Colin J. Cotter

First-order energy dissipative schemes in time are available in literature for the Poisson-Nernst-Planck (PNP) equations, but second-order ones are still in lack. This work proposes novel second-order discretization in time and finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-08 Jie Ding , Shenggao Zhou