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In this work, we apply the finite element heterogeneous multiscale method to a class of dispersive first-order time-dependent Maxwell systems. For this purpose, we use an analytic homogenization result, which shows that the effective system…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-19 Philip Freese

We propose a numerical method for the Vlasov-Poisson-Fokker-Planck model written as an hyperbolic system thanks to a spectral decomposition in the basis of Hermite functions with respect to the velocity variable and a structure preserving…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-08 Alain Blaustein , Francis Filbet

In this paper, we generalize the idea in our previous work for the Vlasov-Amp\`{e}re (VA) system \cite{cheng_va} and develop energy-conserving discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods for the Vlasov-Maxwell (VM) system. The VM system is a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-18 Yingda Cheng , Andrew J. Christlieb , Xinghui Zhong

The Numerical Flow Iteration (NuFI) method has recently been proposed as a memory-slim solution method for the Vlasov--Poisson system. It stores the temporal evolution of the electric field, instead of the distribution functions, and…

We develop and analyze a class of structure-preserving discontinuous Galerkin schemes for the nonlinear Vlasov-Poisson-Fokker-Planck model, reformulated as a hyperbolic system through a Hermite expansion in the velocity variable. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-30 Yi Cai , Alain Blaustein , Tao Xiong , Francis Filbet

We propose and analyse a novel surface finite element method that preserves the invariant regions of systems of semilinear parabolic equations on closed compact surfaces in $\mathbb{R}^3$ under discretisation. We also provide a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-20 Massimo Frittelli , Anotida Madzvamuse , Ivonne Sgura , Chandrasekhar Venkataraman

We propose and analyze a structure-preserving approximation of the non-isothermal Cahn-Hilliard equation using conforming finite elements for the spatial discretization and a problem-specific mixed explicit-implicit approach for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-05 Aaron Brunk , Dennis Höhn , Mária Lukáčová-Medvidová

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

Stochastic Hamiltonian partial differential equations, which possess the multi-symplectic conservation law, are an important and fairly large class of systems. The multi-symplectic methods inheriting the geometric features of stochastic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-10 Jialin Hong , Baohui Hou , Qiang Li , Liying Sun

The paper introduces a finite element method for an Eulerian formulation of partial differential equations governing the transport and diffusion of a scalar quantity in a time-dependent domain. The method follows the idea from Lehrenfeld &…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-26 Maxim Olshanskii , Henry von Wahl

In this paper we discuss energy conservation issues related to the numerical solution of the nonlinear wave equation. As is well known, this problem can be cast as a Hamiltonian system that may be autonomous or not, depending on the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-11-27 Luigi Brugnano , Gianluca Frasca Caccia , Felice Iavernaro

We analyze the anti-symmetric properties of a spectral discretization for the one-dimensional Vlasov-Poisson equations. The discretization is based on a spectral expansion in velocity with the symmetrically weighted Hermite basis functions,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-31 Opal Issan , Oleksandr Koshkarov , Federico D. Halpern , Boris Kramer , Gian Luca Delzanno

This paper focuses on the numerical approximation of the linearized shallow water equations using hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin (HDG) methods, leveraging the Hamiltonian structure of the evolution system. First, we propose an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-04 C. Núñez , M. A. Sánchez

In this paper, we study a Hamiltonian structure of the Vlasov-Poisson system, first mentioned by Fr\"ohlich, Knowles, and Schwarz. To begin with, we give a formal guideline to derive a Hamiltonian on a subspace of complex-valued $L^2$…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-07-11 R. A. Neiss

We propose a meshless conservative Galerkin method for solving Hamiltonian wave equations. We first discretize the equation in space using radial basis functions in a Galerkin-type formulation. Differ from the traditional RBF Galerkin…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-20 Zhengjie Sun , Leevan Ling

We derive mixed finite element discretizations of a cold relativistics fluid model from approximations of the Poisson bracket that preserve mass, energy and the divergence constraints. For time-discretization we derive an implicit…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Tileuzhan Mukhamet , Katharina Kormann

This work deals with the numerical solution of the Vlasov equation. This equation gives a kinetic description of the evolution of a plasma, and is coupled with Poisson's equation for the computation of the self-consistent electric field.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-12-13 Nicolas Crouseilles , Thomas Respaud , Eric Sonnendrücker

We present a one-step algorithm that solves the Maxwell equations for systems with spatially varying permittivity and permeability by the Chebyshev method. We demonstrate that this algorithm may be orders of magnitude more efficient than…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 H. De Raedt , K. Michielsen , J. S. Kole , M. T. Figge

In this article, we introduce a novel dimensionality reduction formulation for the Poisson's equation in the Vlasov-Poisson system that yields a reduced-order particle-in-cell scheme. This scheme allows a remarkable reduction in the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-06-29 Maryam Reza , Farbod Faraji , Aaron Knoll

Reciprocal space methods for solving Poisson's equation for finite charge distributions are investigated. Improvements to previous proposals are presented, and their performance is compared in the context of a real-space density functional…

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alberto Castro , Angel Rubio , M. J. Stott