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We use the general framework of summation-by-parts operators to construct conservative, energy-stable, and well-balanced semidiscretizations of two different nonlinear systems of dispersive shallow water equations with varying bathymetry:…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-12 Joshua Lampert , Hendrik Ranocha

In recent years, several gauge-symmetric particle-in-cell (PIC) methods have been developed whose simulations of particles and electromagnetic fields exactly conserve charge. While it is rightly observed that these methods' gauge symmetry…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-05-28 Alexander S. Glasser , Hong Qin

In this paper, we develop monolithic limiting techniques for enforcing nonlinear stability constraints in enriched Galerkin (EG) discretizations of nonlinear scalar hyperbolic equations. To achieve local mass conservation and gain control…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-02 Dmitri Kuzmin , Sanghyun Lee , Yi-Yung Yang

We survey recent contributions to finite element exterior calculus on manifolds and surfaces within a comprehensive formalism for the error analysis of vector-valued partial differential equations on manifolds. Our primary focus is on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-02 Martin W. Licht

This paper presents a p-adaptive high-order hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin spectral element method (HDG-SEM) for solving the Poisson equation in electrostatic plasma simulations using particle-in-cell (PIC) schemes. This approach…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-04-06 Tobias Ott , Stephen Copplestone , Marcel Pfeiffer

We present and analyze two stabilized finite element methods for solving numerically the Poisson--Nernst--Planck equations. The stabilization we consider is carried out by using a shock detector and a discrete graph Laplacian operator for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-24 Jesús Bonilla , Juan Vicente Gutiérrez-Santacreu

In this work, we conduct a systematic study of Hamiltonian and quasi-Hamiltonian systems within the framework of nondecomposable generalized Poisson geometry. Our focus lies on the interplay between the algebraic structure of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-10-10 C. Sardón , X. Zhao

Discontinuous Galerkin methods are developed for solving the Vlasov-Maxwell system, methods that are designed to be systematically as accurate as one wants with provable conservation of mass and possibly total energy. Such properties in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-10-24 Yingda Cheng , Irene M. Gamba , Fengyan Li , Philip J. Morrison

This paper aims at developing exactly energy-conservative and structure-preserving finite volume schemes for the discretisation of first-order symmetric-hyperbolic and thermodynamically compatible (SHTC) systems of partial differential…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-01 Alessia Lucca , Michael Dumbser

Hamiltonian particle-based simulations of plasma dynamics are inherently computationally intensive, primarily due to the large number of particles required to obtain accurate solutions. This challenge becomes even more acute in many-query…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-19 Emmanuel Franck , Laurent Navoret , Vincent Vigon , Raphaël Côte , Guillaume Steimer

A conforming finite element scheme with mixed explicit-implicit time discretization for quasi-incompressible Navier-Stokes-Maxwell-Stefan systems in a bounded domain with periodic boundary conditions is presented. The system consists of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-05 Aaron Brunk , Ansgar Jüngel , Maria Lukáčová-Medvid'ová

In this paper, a nonuniform size modified Poisson-Boltzmann ion channel (nuSMPBIC) model is presented as a nonlinear system of an electrostatic potential and multiple ionic concentrations. It mixes nonlinear algebraic equations with a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-14 Dexuan Xie

We discretize the Vlasov-Poisson system using conservative semi-Lagrangian (CSL) discontinuous Galerkin (DG) schemes that are asymptotic preserving (AP) in the quasi-neutral limit. The proposed method (CSLDG) relies on two key ingredients:…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Xiaofeng Cai , Linghui Kong , Dmitri Kuzmin , Li Shan

We propose a new fictitious domain finite element method, well suited for elliptic problems posed in a domain given by a level-set function without requiring a mesh fitting the boundary. To impose the Dirichlet boundary conditions, we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-09 Michel Duprez , Alexei Lozinski

We present a new line-based discontinuous Galerkin (DG) discretization scheme for first- and second-order systems of partial differential equations. The scheme is based on fully unstructured meshes of quadrilateral or hexahedral elements,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-04 Per-Olof Persson

In this work, we propose a new numerical method for the Vlasov-Poisson system that is both asymptotically consistent and stable in the quasineutral regime, i.e. when the Debye length is small compared to the characteristic spatial scale of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-09 Alain Blaustein , Giacomo Dimarco , Francis Filbet , Marie-Hélène Vignal

We propose a finite element discretisation approach for the incompressible Euler equations which mimics their geometric structure and their variational derivation. In particular, we derive a finite element method that arises from a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-10-17 Andrea Natale , Colin J. Cotter

We find that with uniform mesh, the numerical schemes derived from finite element method can keep a preserved symplectic structure in one-dimensional case and a preserved multisymplectic structure in two-dimentional case in certain discrete…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-01-17 Han-Ying Guo , Xiao-mei Ji , Yu-Qi Li , Ke Wu

We present a framework for the structure-preserving approximation of partial differential equations on mapped multipatch domains, extending the classical theory of finite element exterior calculus (FEEC) to discrete de Rham sequences which…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-10 Yaman Güçlü , Said Hadjout , Martin Campos Pinto

Particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations are essential for studying kinetic plasma processes, but they often suffer from statistical noise, especially in plasmas with fast flows. We have also found that the typical central difference scheme used…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-06-16 Yuxi Chen , Hongyang Zhou , Gabor Toth