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In this paper, we investigate numerically a diffuse interface model for the Navier-Stokes equation with fluid-fluid interface when the fluids have different densities \cite{Lowengrub1998}. Under minor reformulation of the system, we show…

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The solution of partial differential equations (PDEs) on complex domains often presents a significant computational challenge by requiring the generation of fitted meshes. The Diffuse Domain Method (DDM) is an alternative which reformulates…

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In collisionless and weakly collisional plasmas, the particle distribution function is a rich tapestry of the underlying physics. However, actually leveraging the particle distribution function to understand the dynamics of a weakly…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-05-29 James Juno

An accelerated boundary integral method for Stokes flow of a suspension of deformable particles is presented for an arbitrary domain and implemented for the important case of a planar slit geometry. The computational complexity of the…

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Gaseous flows under an external force are intrinsically defined by their multi-scale nature due to the large variation of densities along the forcing direction. Devising a numerical method capable of accurately and efficiently solving…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-07-15 Shuangqing Liu , Zuoxu Li , Yonghao Zhang , Tianbai Xiao

This work examines the distributed optimal control of generalized Oseen equations with non-constant viscosity. We propose and analyze a new conforming augmented mixed finite element method and a Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method for the…

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In this paper, we propose and analyze a numerically stable and convergent scheme for a convection-diffusion-reaction equation in the convection-dominated regime. Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods are considered since standard finite…

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In recent work, Li et al.\ (Comm.\ Math.\ Sci., 7:81-107, 2009) developed a diffuse-domain method (DDM) for solving partial differential equations in complex, dynamic geometries with Dirichlet, Neumann, and Robin boundary conditions. The…

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When the flow is sufficiently rarefied, a temperature gradient, for example, between two walls separated by a few mean free paths, induces a gas flow---an observation attributed to the thermo-stress convection effects at microscale. The…

Simple modifications for higher-order Godunov-type difference schemes are presented which allow for accurate advection of multi-fluid flows in hydrodynamic simulations. The constraint that the sum of all mass fractions has to be equal to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 Tomasz Plewa , Ewald Mueller

Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) discretizations with exact representation of the geometry and local polynomial degree adaptivity are revisited. Hybridization techniques are employed to reduce the computational cost of DG approximations and…

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In this paper, we propose a robust and efficient numerical framework for simulating multicomponent gas flow in poroelastic media, with a focus on preserving fundamental thermodynamic principles and ensuring computational reliability. The…

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In this paper we present a new high order semi-implicit DG scheme on two-dimensional staggered triangular meshes applied to different nonlinear systems of hyperbolic conservation laws such as advection-diffusion models, incompressible…

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Robust and accurate schemes are designed to simulate the coupling between subsurface and overland flows. The coupling conditions at the interface enforce the continuity of both the normal flux and the pressure. Richards' equation governing…

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We present an explicit divergence-free DG method for incompressible flow based on velocity formulation only. A globally divergence-free finite element space is used for the velocity field, and the pressure field is eliminated from the…

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In this work, the Navier-Stokes (NS) solver is combined with the Direct simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) solver in a direct way, under the wave-particle formulation [J. Comput. Phys. 401, 108977 (2020)]. Different from the classical domain…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-09-26 Junzhe Cao , Sha Liu , Sirui Yang , Chengwen Zhong

Machine learning techniques are being used as an alternative to traditional numerical discretization methods for solving hyperbolic partial differential equations (PDEs) relevant to fluid flow. Whilst numerical methods are higher fidelity,…

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A high-performance gas kinetic solver using multi-level parallelization is developed to enable pore-scale simulations of rarefied flows in porous media. The Boltzmann model equation is solved by the discrete velocity method with an…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-12-05 Minh Tuan Ho , Lianhua Zhu , Lei Wu , Peng Wang , Zhaoli Guo , Zhi-Hui Li , Yonghao Zhang

The discontinuous Galerkin finite element method (DGFEM) developed by Rhebergen et al. (2008) offers a robust method for solving systems of nonconservative hyperbolic partial differential equations but, as we show here, does not…

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