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A new and effective computational approach is presented for analyzing transient heat conduction problems. The approach consists of a meshless Fragile Points Method (FPM) being utilized for spatial discretization, and a Local Variational…

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At the heart of any method for computational fluid dynamics lies the question of how the simulated fluid should be discretized. Traditionally, a fixed Eulerian mesh is often employed for this purpose, which in modern schemes may also be…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2011-09-13 Volker Springel

When the variations of surface temperature are measured both spatially and temporally, analytical expressions that correctly account for multi-dimensional transient conduction can be applied. To enhance the accessibility of these accurate…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-12-03 David Buttsworth , Timothy Buttsworth

We introduce a nonlinear structure preserving high-order scheme for anisotropic advection-diffusion equations. This scheme, based on Hybrid High-Order methods, can handle general meshes. It also has an entropy structure, and preserves the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-20 Julien Moatti

In this paper we have studied the flow and heat transfer in a viscous fluid by a horizontal sheet. The stretching rate and temperature of the sheet vary with time. The governing equations for momentum and thermal energy are reduced to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-22 Remus-Daniel Ene , Vasile Marinca , Bogdan Marinca

We compare the performance of energy-based and entropy-conserving schemes for modeling nonthermal energy components, such as unresolved turbulence and cosmic rays, using idealized fluid dynamics tests and isolated galaxy simulations. While…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-07-27 Vadim A. Semenov , Andrey V. Kravtsov , Benedikt Diemer

We explore the importance of anisotropic thermal conduction in the evolution of supernova remnants via numerical simulations. The mean temperature of the bubble of hot gas is decreased by a factor of ~3 compared to simulations without…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 David A. Tilley , Dinshaw S. Balsara

In this work, we propose an asymptotic preserving scheme for a non-linear kinetic reaction-transport equation, in the regime of sharp interface. With a non-linear reaction term of KPP-type, a phenomenon of front propagation has been proved…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-23 Hélène Hivert

In this article, we propose a numerical method to solve semi-discrete optimal transport problems for gigantic pointsets (108 points and more). By pushing the limits by several orders of magnitude, it opens the path to new applications in…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-09-16 Bruno Lévy , Nicolas Ray , Quentin Mérigot , Hugo Leclerc

Accurate numerical solutions of the equations of hydrodynamics play an ever more important role in many fields of astrophysics. In this work, we reinvestigate the accuracy of the moving-mesh code \textsc{Arepo} and show how its convergence…

In magnetized plasma, the magnetic field confines the particles around the field lines. The anisotropy intensity in the viscosity and heat conduction may reach the order of $10^{12}$. When the boundary conditions are periodic or Neumann,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-01-04 Min Tang , Yihong Wang

We introduce a high-order finite element method for approximating the Vlasov-Poisson equations. This approach employs continuous Lagrange polynomials in space and explicit Runge-Kutta schemes for time discretization. To stabilize the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-12 Junjie Wen , Murtazo Nazarov

We propose an efficient and accurate parametric finite element method (PFEM) for solving sharp-interface continuum models for solid-state dewetting of thin films with anisotropic surface energies. The governing equations of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-01-10 Weizhu Bao , Wei Jiang , Yan Wang , Quan Zhao

We investigate interfacial fluid dynamics and heat transfer at nanoscales using an improved diffuse interface approach for liquid-vapor interfaces in non-equilibrium. Conventional Navier-Stokes-Korteweg (NSK) formulations often fail to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-11 Rahul Bhattacharjee , Henning Struchtrup , Anirudh Singh Rana

We study a three-dimensional, incompressible, viscous, micropolar fluid with anisotropic microstructure on a periodic domain. Subject to a uniform microtorque, this system admits a unique nontrivial equilibrium. We prove that when the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-02-14 Antoine Remond-Tiedrez , Ian Tice

Vapour-deposited organic glasses are currently in use in many optoelectronic devices. Their operation temperature is limited by the glass transition temperature of the organic layers and thermal management strategies become increasingly…

Anisotropic mesh adaptation is studied for the linear finite element solution of eigenvalue problems with anisotropic diffusion operators. The M-uniform mesh approach is employed with which any nonuniform mesh is characterized…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-20 Jingyue Wang , Weizhang Huang

We solve the anisotropic diffusion equation in 2D, where the dominant direction of diffusion is defined by a vector field which does not conform to a Cartesian grid. Our method uses operator splitting to separate the diffusion perpendicular…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-29 Dean Muir , Kenneth Duru , Matthew Hole , Stuart Hudson

We consider the simulation of isentropic flow in pipelines and pipe networks. Standard operating conditions in pipe networks suggest an emphasis to simulate low Mach and high friction regimes -- however, the system is stiff in these regimes…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-22 Michael Redle , Michael Herty

Vlasov solvers that operate on a phase-space grid are highly accurate but also numerically demanding. Coarse velocity space resolutions, which are unproblematic in particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations, can lead to numerical heating or…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-04-06 Florian Allmann-Rahn , Simon Lautenbach , Rainer Grauer