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A non-negativity-preserving cut-cell discontinuous Galerkin method for the degenerate parabolic diffusive wave approximation of the shallow water equation is presented. The method can handle continuous and discontinuous bathymmetry as well…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-19 Panasun Manorost , Peter Bastian

Wave propagation problems have many applications in physics and engineering, and the stochastic effects are important in accurately modeling them due to the uncertainty of the media. This paper considers and analyzes a fully discrete finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-30 Yukun Li , Shuonan Wu , Yulong Xing

In this article, a finite element model is implemented to analyze hydro-thermal convective flow in a porous medium. The mathematical model encompasses Darcy's law for incompressible fluid behavior, which is coupled with a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-27 S. M. Mallikarjunaiah , Dambaru Bhatta

We consider the initial/boundary value problem for the fractional diffusion and diffusion-wave equations involving a Caputo fractional derivative in time. We develop two "simple" fully discrete schemes based on the Galerkin finite element…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-10-13 Bangti Jin , Raytcho Lazarov , Zhi Zhou

This article devises a new primal-dual weak Galerkin finite element method for the convection-diffusion equation. Optimal order error estimates are established for the primal-dual weak Galerkin approximations in various discrete norms and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-22 Waixiang Cao , Chunmei Wang

In this work, we develop variational formulations of Petrov-Galerkin type for one-dimensional fractional boundary value problems involving either a Riemann-Liouville or Caputo derivative of order $\alpha\in(3/2, 2)$ in the leading term and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-12-18 Bangti Jin , Raytcho Lazarov , Zhi Zhou

We study the weak finite element method solving convection-diffusion equations. A weak finite element scheme is presented based on a spacial variational form. We established a weak embedding inequality that is very useful in the weak finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-10 Tie Zhang , Yanli Chen

We propose a novel formulation for parametric finite element methods to simulate surface diffusion of closed curves, which is also called as the curve diffusion. Several high-order temporal discretizations are proposed based on this new…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-27 Harald Garcke , Wei Jiang , Chunmei Su , Ganghui Zhang

We present and analyze a structure-preserving method for the approximation of solutions to nonlinear cross-diffusion systems, which combines a Local Discontinuous Galerkin spatial discretization with the backward Euler time-stepping scheme.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Sergio Gómez , Ansgar Jüngel , Ilaria Perugia

The global existence of bounded solutions to reaction-diffusion systems with fractional diffusion in the whole space $\mathbb R^N$ is investigated. The systems are assumed to preserve the non-negativity of initial data and to dissipate…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-25 Phuoc-Tai Nguyen , Bao Quoc Tang

We propose a new fully-discretized finite difference scheme for a quantum diffusion equation, in both one and two dimensions. This is the first fully-discretized scheme with proven positivity-preserving and energy stable properties using…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-10 Xiaokai Huo , Hailiang Liu

It is well-known that the standard Galerkin formulation, which is often the formulation of choice under the finite element method for solving self-adjoint diffusion equations, does not meet maximum principles and the non-negative constraint…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2018-02-22 J. Chang , S. Karra , K. B. Nakshatrala

We propose higher-order isoparametric finite element approximations for mean curvature flow and surface diffusion. The methods are natural extensions of the piecewise linear finite element methods introduced by Barrett, Garcke, and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-29 Harald Garcke , Robert Nürnberg , Simon Praetorius , Ganghui Zhang

The main aim of this paper is to document the performance of $p$-refinement with respect to maximum principles and the non-negative constraint. The model problem is (steady-state) anisotropic diffusion with decay (which is a second-order…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2015-03-19 G. S. Payette , K. B. Nakshatrala , J. N. Reddy

The numerical approximation of an inverse problem subject to the convection--diffusion equation when diffusion dominates is studied. We derive Carleman estimates that are on a form suitable for use in numerical analysis and with explicit…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-25 Erik Burman , Mihai Nechita , Lauri Oksanen

We study the numerical approximation of advection-diffusion equations with highly oscillatory coefficients and possibly dominant advection terms by means of the Multiscale Finite Element Method. The latter method is a now classical, finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-12 Rutger A. Biezemans , Claude Le Bris , Frédéric Legoll , Alexei Lozinski

In this paper, we propose a nonlinear positivity-preserving finite volume element(FVE) scheme for anisotropic diffusion problems on quadrilateral meshes. Based on an overlapping dual partition, the one-sided flux is approximated by the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-14 Yanni Gao , Guangwei Yuan , Shuai Wang , Xudeng Hang

A new modified Galerkin / Finite Element Method is proposed for the numerical solution of the fully nonlinear shallow water wave equations. The new numerical method allows the use of low-order Lagrange finite element spaces, despite the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-09-21 Dimitrios Mitsotakis , Costas Synolakis , Mark Mcguinness

We present a finite element approach for diffusion problems with thermal fluctuations based on a fluctuating hydrodynamics model. The governing transport equations are stochastic partial differential equations with a fluctuating forcing…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-21 P. Martínez-Lera , M. De Corato

A hydrogeological model for the spread of pollution in an aquifer is considered. The model consists in a convection-diffusion-reaction equation involving the dispersion tensor which depends nonlinearly of the fluid velocity. We introduce an…

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