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This paper presents a class of novel high-order fully-discrete entropy stable (ES) discontinuous Galerkin (DG) schemes with explicit time discretization. The proposed methodology exploits a critical observation from [4] that the cell…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Yuchang Liu , Wei Guo , Yan Jiang , Zheng Sun

This paper is concerned with structure-preserving numerical approximations for a class of nonlinear nonlocal Fokker-Planck equations, which admit a gradient flow structure and find application in diverse contexts. The solutions,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-26 José A. Carrillo , Hailiang Liu , Hui Yu

For high-order accurate schemes such as discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods solving Fokker-Planck equations, it is desired to efficiently enforce positivity without losing conservation and high-order accuracy, especially for implicit time…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-16 Chen Liu , Jingwei Hu , William T. Taitano , Xiangxiong Zhang

We develop entropy dissipative higher order accurate local discontinuous Galerkin (LDG) discretizations coupled with Diagonally Implicit Runge-Kutta (DIRK) methods for nonlinear degenerate parabolic equations with a gradient flow structure.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-02 F. Yan , J. J . W. van der Vegt , Y. Xia , Y. Xu

We propose an entropy stable and positivity preserving discontinuous Galerkin (DG) scheme for the Euler equations with gravity, which is also well-balanced for hydrostatic equilibrium states. To achieve these properties, we utilize the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-04 Yuchang Liu , Wei Guo , Yan Jiang , Mengping Zhang

This paper designs and analyzes positivity-preserving well-balanced (WB) central discontinuous Galerkin (CDG) schemes for the Euler equations with gravity. A distinctive feature of these schemes is that they not only are WB for a general…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-20 Haili Jiang , Huazhong Tang , Kailiang Wu

The Lax-Wendroff method is a single step method for evolving time dependent solutions governed by partial differential equations, in contrast to Runge- Kutta methods that need multiple stages per time step. We develop a flux reconstruction…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-10 Arpit Babbar , Sudarshan Kumar Kenettinkara , Praveen Chandrashekar

The Vlasov-Poisson equations describe the evolution of a collisionless plasma, represented through a probability density function (PDF) that self-interacts via an electrostatic force. One of the main difficulties in numerically solving this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-20 J. A. Rossmanith , D. C. Seal

We propose a high order discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method for solving nonlinear Fokker-Planck equations with a gradient flow structure. For some of these models it is known that the transient solutions converge to steady-states when time…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-01-12 Hailiang Liu , Zhongming Wang

A discontinuous Galerkin method for approximating the Vlasov-Poisson system of equations describing the time evolution of a collisionless plasma is proposed. The method is mass conservative and, in the case that piecewise constant functions…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2011-10-04 R. E. Heath , I. M. Gamba , P. J. Morrison , C. Michler

We consider a class of time dependent second order partial differential equations governed by a decaying entropy. The solution usually corresponds to a density distribution, hence positivity (non-negativity) is expected. This class of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-28 Zheng Sun , José A. Carrillo , Chi-Wang Shu

This paper proposes a numerical method, termed PosDiv-CDG, that provably preserves both positivity and the globally divergence-free (DF) condition at arbitrarily high order in multiple dimensions. It resolves the fundamental structural…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-13 Ruifang Yan , Huihui Cao , Kailiang Wu

In this paper, we are interested in constructing a scheme solving compressible Navier--Stokes equations, with desired properties including high order spatial accuracy, conservation, and positivity-preserving of density and internal energy…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-13 Chen Liu , Xiangxiong Zhang

In this paper, we present a positivity-preserving limiter for nodal Discontinuous Galerkin disctretizations of the compressible Euler equations. We use a Legendre-Gauss-Lobatto (LGL) Discontinuous Galerkin Spectral Element Method (DGSEM)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-12 Andrés M. Rueda-Ramírez , Gregor J. Gassner

A mass-preserving two-step Lagrange-Galerkin scheme of second order in time for convection-diffusion problems is presented, and convergence with optimal error estimates is proved in the framework of $L^2$-theory. The introduced scheme…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-22 Kouta Futai , Niklas Kolbe , Hirofumi Notsu , Tasuku Suzuki

A high order time stepping applied to spatial discretizations provided by the method of lines for hyperbolic conservations laws is presented. This procedure is related to the one proposed in Qiu and Shu (SIAM J Sci Comput 24(6):2185-2198,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-29 David Zorío , Antonio Baeza , Pep Mulet

We present a novel quasi-conservative arbitrary high order accurate ADER discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method allowing to efficiently use a non-conservative form of the considered partial differential system, so that the governing equations…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-06-25 Elena Gaburro , Walter Boscheri , Simone Chiocchetti , Mario Ricchiuto

In Klingenberg, Schn\"ucke and Xia (Math. Comp. 86 (2017), 1203-1232) an arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian discontinuous Galerkin (ALE-DG) method to solve conservation laws has been developed and analyzed. In this paper, the ALE-DG method will…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-12-27 Pei Fu , Gero Schnücke , Yinhua Xia

An implicit Euler discontinuous Galerkin scheme for the Fisher-Kolmogorov-Petrovsky-Piscounov (Fisher-KPP) equation for population densities with no-flux boundary conditions is suggested and analyzed. Using an exponential variable…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-03-12 Francesca Bonizzoni , Marcel Braukhoff , Ansgar Jüngel , Ilaria Perugia

In this paper we present a family of high order cut finite element methods with bound preserving properties for hyperbolic conservation laws in one space dimension. The methods are based on the discontinuous Galerkin framework and use a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-06-07 Pei Fu , Gunilla Kreiss , Sara Zahedi