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Presence of a high-dimensional stochastic parameter space with discontinuities poses major computational challenges in analyzing and quantifying the effects of the uncertainties in a physical system. In this paper, we propose a stochastic…

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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…

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We introduce the proximal Galerkin (PG) method for non-symmetric variational inequalities. The proposed approach is asymptotically mesh-independent and yields constraint-preserving approximations. We present both a conforming PG formulation…

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In uncertainty quantification, a stochastic modelling is often applied, where parameters are substituted by random variables. We investigate linear dynamical systems of ordinary differential equations with a quantity of interest as output.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-09-23 Roland Pulch , Akil Narayan

Simulating general relativistic hydrodynamics (GRHD) presents challenges such as handling curved spacetime, achieving high-order shock-capturing accuracy, and preserving key physical constraints (positive density, pressure, and subluminal…

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In this paper we extensively study the stochastic Galerkin scheme for uncertain systems of conservation laws, which appears to produce oscillations already for a simple example of the linear advection equation with Riemann initial data.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-26 Louisa Schlachter , Florian Schneider , Oliver Kolb

We study the steady-state Navier-Stokes equations in the context of stochastic finite element discretizations. Specifically, we assume that the viscosity is a random field given in the form of a generalized polynomial chaos expansion. For…

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In this paper we propose a new spatially high order accurate semi-implicit discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method for the solution of the two dimensional incompressible Navier-Stokes equations on staggered unstructured curved meshes. While the…

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This paper presents stochastic virtual element methods for propagating uncertainty in linear elastic stochastic problems. We first derive stochastic virtual element equations for 2D and 3D linear elastic problems that may involve…

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This paper is concerned with developing accurate and efficient numerical methods for fully nonlinear second order elliptic and parabolic partial differential equations (PDEs) in multiple spatial dimensions. It presents a general framework…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-01-19 Xiaobing Feng , Thomas Lewis

In this paper, we present a staggered discontinuous Galerkin (SDG) method for a class of nonlinear elliptic equations in two dimensions. The SDG methods have some distinctive advantages, and have been successfully applied to a wide range of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-10-10 Eric T. Chung , Ming Fai Lam , Chi Yeung Lam

For hyperbolic conservation laws, traditional methods and physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) often encounter difficulties in capturing sharp discontinuities and maintaining temporal consistency. To address these challenges, we…

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Plasmonic nanostructures significantly improve the performance of photoconductive devices (PCDs) in generating terahertz radiation. However, they are geometrically intricate and result in complicated electromagnetic (EM) field and carrier…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-14 Liang Chen , Hakan Bagci

We present gPC-SCP: Generalized Polynomial Chaos-based Sequential Convex Programming to compute a sub-optimal solution for a continuous-time chance-constrained stochastic nonlinear optimal control (SNOC) problem. The approach enables motion…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Yashwanth Kumar Nakka , Soon-Jo Chung

We present a new method for approximating solutions to the incompressible miscible displacement problem in porous media. At the discrete level, the coupled nonlinear system has been split into two linear systems that are solved…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2018-09-18 Maurice S. Fabien , Matthew G. Knepley , Beatrice M. Riviere

Stochastic Galerkin methods offer unexplored potential for the numerical simulation of parabolic problems with random variables, in particular if they are combined with variational discretizations of the space and time variables. Due to the…

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The high-order numerical solution of the non-linear shallow water equations (and of hyperbolic systems in general) is susceptible to unphysical Gibbs oscillations that form in the proximity of strong gradients. The solution to this problem…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-07-18 Simone Marras , Michal A. Kopera , Emil M. Constantinescu , Jenny Suckale , Francis X. Giraldo

This article establishes the usefulness of the Smoothness-Increasing Accuracy-Increasing (SIAC) filter for reducing the errors in the mean and variance for a wave equation with uncertain coefficients solved via generalized polynomial chaos…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-19 Andrés Galindo-Olarte , Jennifer K. Ryan

In highly diffusion regimes when the mean free path $\varepsilon$ tends to zero, the radiative transfer equation has an asymptotic behavior which is governed by a diffusion equation and the corresponding boundary condition. Generally, a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-19 Qiwei Sheng , Cory Hauck , Yulong Xing

A considerable amount of attention has been given to discontinuous Galerkin methods for hyperbolic problems in numerical relativity, showing potential advantages of the methods in dealing with hydrodynamical shocks and other…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-10-30 Trevor Vincent , Harald P. Pfeiffer , Nils L. Fischer