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We present and analyze a space-time Petrov-Galerkin finite element method for a time-fractional diffusion equation involving a Riemann-Liouville fractional derivative of order $\alpha\in(0,1)$ in time and zero initial data. We derive a…

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As an extension of our previous work in Sun et.al (2018) [41], we develop a discontinuous Galerkin method for solving cross-diffusion systems with a formal gradient flow structure. These systems are associated with non-increasing entropy…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-09 Zheng Sun , José Antonio Carrillo , Chi-Wang Shu

This work proposes a nonlinear finite element method whose nodal values preserve bounds known for the exact solution. The discrete problem involves a nonlinear projection operator mapping arbitrary nodal values into bound-preserving ones…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-04-04 Gabriel Barrenechea , Emmanuil Georgoulis , Tristan Pryer , Andreas Veeser

We prove optimal estimates for the decay in time of solutions to a rather general class of non-local in time subdiffusion equations in $\mathbb{R}^d$. An important special case is the time-fractional diffusion equation, which has seen much…

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In this work, we consider the numerical recovery of a spatially dependent diffusion coefficient in a subdiffusion model from distributed observations. The subdiffusion model involves a Caputo fractional derivative of order $\alpha\in(0,1)$…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-12 Bangti Jin , Zhi Zhou

In this paper, we develop a modified nonlinear dynamic diffusion (DD) finite element method for convection-diffusion-reaction equations. This method is free of stabilization parameters and is capable of precluding spurious oscillations. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-11 Shaohong Du , Qianqian Hou , Xiaoping Xie

A moving mesh finite difference method based on the moving mesh partial differential equation is proposed for the numerical solution of the 2T model for multi-material, non-equilibrium radiation diffusion equations. The model involves…

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We establish three partial differential equation models describing the thermodynamics of the fluid, by combining the energetic variational approach, appropriate constitutive relations, and classical thermodynamics laws. What is more, by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-11-23 Ning-An Lai , Chun Liu , Andrei Tarfulea

A high-order finite element method is proposed to solve the nonlinear convection-diffusion equation on a time-varying domain whose boundary is implicitly driven by the solution of the equation. The method is semi-implicit in the sense that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-03 Chuwen Ma , Weiying Zheng

We consider the dynamic Biot model (see [Biot, M. A. J. Appl. Phys. 33, 1482--1498 (1962)]) describing the interaction between fluid flow and solid deformation including wave propagation phenomena in both the liquid and solid phases of a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-29 Johannes Kraus , Maria Lymbery , Kevin Osthues

We develop a linear fully discrete structure-preserving finite element method for a diffuse-interface model of tumour growth. The system couples a Cahn--Hilliard type equation with a nonlinear reaction-diffusion equation for nutrient…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-23 Agus L. Soenjaya , Ping Lin , Thanh Tran

Structure-preserving particle methods have recently been proposed for a class of nonlinear continuity equations, including aggregation-diffusion equation in [J. Carrillo, K. Craig, F. Patacchini, Calc. Var., 58 (2019), pp. 53] and the…

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We consider the numerical approximation of the ill-posed data assimilation problem for stationary convection-diffusion equations and extend our previous analysis in [Numer. Math. 144, 451--477, 2020] to the convection-dominated regime.…

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This paper introduces a novel approach to approximate a broad range of reaction-convection-diffusion equations using conforming finite element methods while providing a discrete solution respecting the physical bounds given by the…

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Cross-diffusion systems are systems of nonlinear parabolic partial differential equations that are used to describe dynamical processes in several application, including chemical concentrations and cell biology. We present a space-time…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-19 Marcel Braukhoff , Ilaria Perugia , Paul Stocker

We propose fully discrete, implicit-in-time finite-volume schemes for a general family of non-linear and non-local Fokker-Planck equations with a gradient-flow structure, usually known as aggregation-diffusion equations, in any dimension.…

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In this work we consider an extension of a recently proposed structure preserving numerical scheme for nonlinear Fokker-Planck-type equations to the case of nonconstant full diffusion matrices. While in existing works the schemes are…

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We consider an initial-boundary value problem for $\partial_tu-\partial_t^{-\alpha}\nabla^2u=f(t)$, that is, for a fractional diffusion ($-1<\alpha<0$) or wave ($0<\alpha<1$) equation. A numerical solution is found by applying a…

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We study mixed finite element methods for the rotating shallow water equations with linearized momentum terms but nonlinear drag. By means of an equivalent second-order formulation, we prove long-time stability of the system without energy…

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