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The advection-diffusion and wave equations are the fundamental equations governing any physical law and therefore arise in many areas of physics and astrophysics. For complex problems and geometries, only numerical simulations can give…

Computational Physics · Physics 2014-01-08 J. Pétri

Semi-infinite programming can be used to model a large variety of complex optimization problems. The simple description of such problems comes at a price: semi-infinite problems are often harder to solve than finite nonlinear problems. In…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-01 Tobias Seidel , Karl-Heinz Küfer

In this paper, we present a robust and fully discretized method for solving the time fractional diffusion equation with high-contrast multiscale coefficients. We establish the homogenized equation using a multicontinuum approach and employ…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-30 Yifei Gao , Yating Wang , Wing Tat Leung , Zhengya Yang

We use a diffuse interface method for solving Poisson's equation with a Dirichlet condition on an embedded curved interface. The resulting diffuse interface problem is identified as a standard Dirichlet problem on approximating regular…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-11-23 Matthias Schlottbom

The interface problem for the linear Schr\"odinger equation in one-dimensional piecewise homogeneous domains is examined by providing an explicit solution in each domain. The location of the interfaces is known and the continuity of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-08-20 Natalie E Sheils , Bernard Deconinck

High-fidelity, high-resolution numerical simulations are crucial for studying complex multiscale phenomena in fluid dynamics, such as turbulent flows and ocean waves. However, direct numerical simulations with high-resolution solvers are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-14 Wuzhe Xu , Yulong Lu , Lian Shen , Anqing Xuan , Ali Barzegari

We present a Multi-Index Quasi-Monte Carlo method for the solution of elliptic partial differential equations with random coefficients. By combining the multi-index sampling idea with randomly shifted rank-1 lattice rules, the algorithm…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-06-20 Pieterjan Robbe , Dirk Nuyens , Stefan Vandewalle

We present a semi-analytical model to analyze multi-tile metasurface antennas consisting of a set of metasurface tiles and a practical power-dividing network that excites the tiles. The metasurface tiles consist of arrays of rectangular…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-19 Insang Yoo , Michael Boyarsky , David R. Smith

In this paper, a thermal-dynamical consistent model for mass transfer across permeable moving interfaces is proposed by using the energy variation method. We consider a restricted diffusion problem where the flux across the interface…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-15 Yuzhe Qin , Huaxiong Huang , Yi Zhu , Chun Liu , Shixin Xu

We define a new finite element method for a steady state elliptic problem with discontinuous diffusion coefficients where the meshes are not aligned with the interface. We prove optimal error estimates in the $L^2$ norm and $H^1$ weighted…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-10-18 Johnny Guzman , Manuel A. Sanchez , Marcus Sarkis

We present a novel artificial diffusion method to circumvent the instabilities associated with the standard finite element approximation of convection-diffusion equations. Motivated by the micromorphic approach, we introduce an auxiliary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-19 Soheil Firooz , B. Daya Reddy , Paul Steinmann

The aim of this paper is to develop and analyze numerical schemes for approximately solving the backward problem of subdiffusion equation involving a fractional derivative in time with order $\alpha\in(0,1)$. After using quasi-boundary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-28 Zhengqi Zhang , Zhi Zhou

In this article, we develop a new method to prove both global propagation of analyticity and unique continuation in finite time for solutions of semilinear wave-type equations with analytic nonlinearity. It combines control theory…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-04 Camille Laurent , Cristóbal Loyola

We present new convergence analyses for parallel subspace correction methods for unconstrained semicoercive and nearly semicoercive convex optimization problems, generalizing the theory of singular and nearly singular linear problems to a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-03 Young-Ju Lee , Jongho Park

This paper exploits the theory of geometric gradient flows to introduce an alternative regularization of the thin-film equation. The solution properties of this regularization are investigated via a sequence of numerical simulations whose…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-02-20 Darryl D. Holm , Lennon Ó Náraigh , Cesare Tronci

Coupled nonlinear system of reaction-diffusion equations describing multi-component (species) interactions with heterogeneous coefficients is considered. Finite volume method based approximation for the space is used to construct…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-13 Maria Vasilyeva , Alexey Sadovski , D. Palaniappan

Nonlinear time fractional partial differential equations are widely used in modeling and simulations. In many applications, there are high contrast changes in media properties. For solving these problems, one often uses coarse spatial grid…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-13 Wenyuan Li , Anatoly Alikhanov , Yalchin Efendiev , Wing Tat Leung

The problem of mass diffusion in layered systems has relevance to applications in different scientific disciplines, e.g., chemistry, material science, soil science, and biomedical engineering. The mathematical challenge in these type of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-10-28 Oded Farago

Two semi-analytical approaches to solve the problem of light scattering on nanowire antennas are developed and compared. The derivation is based on the exact solution of the plane wave scattering problem in case of an infinite cylinder. The…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-27 Christian Kremers , Dmitry N. Chigrin

We present a Cartesian cut-cell finite-volume method for sharp-interface two-phase diffusion problems in static geometries. The formulation follows a two-fluid approach: independent diffusion equations are discretized in each phase on a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-07 Louis Libat , Can Selçuk , Eric Chénier , Vincent Le Chenadec