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We introduce an algebraic multiscale method for two--dimensional problems. The method uses the generalized multiscale finite element method based on the quadrilateral nonconforming finite element spaces. Differently from the…

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We study the behavior of nonlinear waves in a two-dimensional medium with density and stress relation that vary periodically in space. Efficient approximate Riemann solvers are developed for the corresponding variable-coefficient…

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We consider the numerical solution of partial differential equations with coefficients that are strongly heterogeneous in space. We provide an overview of higher-order localized orthogonal decomposition (LOD) methods for the elliptic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-29 Balaje Kalyanaraman , Felix Krumbiegel , Roland Maier , Siyang Wang

We consider numerical solution of elliptic problems with heterogeneous diffusion coefficients containing thin highly conductive structures. Such problems arise e.g. in fractured porous media, reinforced materials, and electric circuits. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-22 Fredrik Hellman , Axel Målqvist , Siyang Wang

We study the behavior of shallow water waves over periodically-varying bathymetry, based on the first-order hyperbolic Saint-Venant equations. Although solutions of this system are known to generally exhibit wave breaking, numerical…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-06 David I. Ketcheson , Lajos Lóczi , Giovanni Russo

This work develops a dynamic homogenization approach for metamaterials. It finds an approximate macroscopic homogenized equation with constant coefficients posed in space and time; however, the resulting homogenized equation is higher order…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-06-23 Kshiteej Deshmukh , Timothy Breitzman , Kaushik Dayal

In this work we introduce and analyze a new multiscale method for strongly nonlinear monotone equations in the spirit of the Localized Orthogonal Decomposition. A problem-adapted multiscale space is constructed by solving linear local…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-16 Barbara Verfürth

The article summarizes the studies of wave fields in structured non-equilibrium media describing by means of nonlocal hydrodynamic models. Due to the symmetry properties of models, we derived the invariant wave solutions satisfying…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-03-05 V. A. Danylenko , S. I. Skurativskyi

The focus of our work is dispersive, second-order effective model describing the low-frequency wave motion in heterogeneous (e.g.~functionally-graded) media endowed with periodic microstructure. For this class of quasi-periodic medium…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-05 Danial P. Shahraki , Bojan B. Guzina

In recent years, several numerical methods for solving the unique continuation problem for the wave equation in a homogeneous medium with given data on the lateral boundary of the space-time cylinder have been proposed. This problem enjoys…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-14 Erik Burman , Janosch Preuss , Tim van Beeck

Numerical simulations of waves in highly heterogeneous media have important applications, but direct computations are prohibitively expensive. In this paper, we develop a new generalized multiscale finite element method with the aim of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-09-09 Eric T. Chung , Wing Tat Leung

In a companion paper, equations for partially molten media were derived using two-scale homogenization theory. One advantage of homogenization is that material properties, such as permeability and viscosity, readily emerge. A caveat is that…

Geophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Gideon Simpson , Marc Spiegelman , Michael I. Weinstein

In this contribution we present the first formulation of a heterogeneous multiscale method for an incompressible immiscible two-phase flow system with degenerate permeabilities. The method is in a general formulation which includes…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-11-24 Patrick Henning , Mario Ohlberger , Ben Schweizer

We develop a new spatial semidiscrete multiscale method based upon the edge multiscale methods to solve semilinear parabolic problems with heterogeneous coefficients and smooth initial data. This method allows for a cheap spatial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Leonardo A. Poveda , Shubin Fu , Guanglian Li , Eric Chung

We provide a `user guide' to the literature of the past twenty years concerning the modeling and approximation of discontinuous solutions to nonlinear hyperbolic systems that admit small-scale dependent shock waves. We cover several classes…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-12-05 Philippe G. LeFloch , Siddhartha Mishra

In this paper, we study a multiscale method for simulating a dual-continuum unsaturated flow problem within complex heterogeneous fractured porous media. Mathematically, each of the dual continua is modeled by a multiscale Richards equation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-03 Jun Sur Richard Park , Siu Wun Cheung , Tina Mai

Modeling time-harmonic Maxwell problems in heterogeneous media presents significant mathematical and computational challenges. Due to the inherent non-elliptic structure and non-coercive nature of Maxwell equations, conventional methods…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-30 Xiang Zhong , Eric T. Chung , Xingguang Jin

A numerical method is proposed for solving the two layer shallow water equations with variable bathymetry in one dimension based on high-resolution f-wave-propagation finite volume methods. The method splits the jump in the fluxes and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-16 Kyle T. Mandli

Numerical simulations for flow and transport in subsurface porous media often prove computationally prohibitive due to property data availability at multiple spatial scales that can vary by orders of magnitude. A number of model order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-03-13 Gurpreet Singh , Wingtat Leung , Mary F. Wheeler

We pursue a low-wavenumber, second-order homogenized solution of the time-harmonic wave equation at both low and high frequency in periodic media with a source term whose frequency resides inside a band gap. Considering the wave motion in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-02-23 Shixu Meng , Othman Oudghiri-Idrissi , Bojan B. Guzina