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In this paper, we present a new framework for addressing the nonlinear Landau collision operator in terms of particle-in-cell methods. We employ the underlying metriplectic structure of the collision operator and, using a macro particle…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-02-15 Eero Hirvijoki , Michael Kraus , Joshua W. Burby

We present a novel family of particle discretisation methods for the nonlinear Landau collision operator. We exploit the metriplectic structure underlying the Vlasov-Maxwell-Landau system in order to obtain disretisation schemes that…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-04-30 Sandra Jeyakumar , Michael Kraus , Matthew J. Hole , David Pfefferlé

We describe a density-, momentum-, and energy-conserving discretization of the nonlinear Landau collision integral. The method is suitable for both the finite-element and discontinuous Galerkin methods and does not require structured…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-04-26 Eero Hirvijoki , Mark Adams

This paper explores energy-, momentum-, density-, and positivity-preserving spatio-temporal discretizations for the nonlinear Landau collision operator. We discuss two approaches, namely direct Galerkin formulations and discretizations of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-04-24 Eero Hirvijoki , Joshua W. Burby , Michael Kraus

The Landau collision integral is often considered the gold standard in the context of kinetic plasma simulation due to its conservative properties, despite challenges involved in its discretization. The primary challenge when implementing…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-06-23 Joseph Pusztay , Filippo Zonta , Matt Knepley , Mark Adams

This research note documents new developments regarding finite-element discretizations of the relativistic Beliaev-Budker Coulomb collision operator and the nonrelativistic Landau operator. Where energy conservation in a finite-element…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-03-19 Eero Hirvijoki

This paper proposes a novel numerical integrator for modeling multispecies Coulomb collisions in kinetic plasmas. The proposed scheme provides an energy-, momentum-, and positivity-preserving particle discretization of the nonlinear Landau…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-12-28 Filippo Zonta , Joseph V. Pusztay , Eero Hirvijoki

We consider flux-corrected finite element discretizations of 3D convection-dominated transport problems and assess the computational efficiency of algorithms based on such approximations. The methods under investigation include…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-15 Abhinav Jha , Ondřej Pártl , Naveed Ahmed , Dmitri Kuzmin

We present and analyze a structure-preserving method for the approximation of solutions to nonlinear cross-diffusion systems, which combines a Local Discontinuous Galerkin spatial discretization with the backward Euler time-stepping scheme.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Sergio Gómez , Ansgar Jüngel , Ilaria Perugia

We consider the coupled system of the Landau--Lifshitz--Gilbert equation and the conservation of linear momentum law to describe magnetic processes in ferromagnetic materials including magnetoelastic effects in the small-strain regime. For…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-15 Hywel Normington , Michele Ruggeri

Metriplectic dynamical systems consist of a special combination of a Hamiltonian and a (generalized) entropy-gradient flow, such that the Hamiltonian is conserved and entropy is dissipated/produced (depending on a sign convention). It is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-04-06 C. Bressan , M. Kraus , O. Maj , P. J. Morrison

In this paper, based on the two-step discretization scheme proposed by Dahlquist, Liniger and Nevanlinna (DLN), we develop a semi-implicit Galerkin finite element method for solving the coupled generalized Ginzburg-Landau equations. By…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-12 Zhen Guan , Xianxian Cao , Junjun Wang

In this paper, we propose a linear and monolithic finite element method for the approximation of an incompressible viscous fluid interacting with an elastic and deforming plate. We use the arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE) approach that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-13 Sebastian Schwarzacher , Bangwei She , Karel Tuma

This paper develops and analyzes a class of semi-discrete and fully discrete weak Galerkin finite element methods for unsteady incompressible convective Brinkman-Forchheimer equations. For the spatial discretization, the methods adopt the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-30 Xiaojuan Wang , Jihong Xiao , Xiaoping Xie , Shiquan Zhang

We consider a system of second order non-linear elliptic partial differential equations that models the equilibrium configurations of a two dimensional planar bistable nematic liquid crystal device. Discontinuous Galerkin finite element…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-05-29 Ruma Rani Maity , Apala Majumdar , Neela Nataraj

We consider the numerical approximation of a nonlinear system of partial differential equations modeling magnetostriction in the small-strain regime consisting of the Landau--Lifshitz--Gilbert equation for the magnetization and the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-01 Martin Kružík , Hywel Normington , Michele Ruggeri

In ecological studies of pattern formation, models of the competitive-diffusion type are generally singularly perturbed, and the numerical approximation of such models is challenging. In this paper, we present finite element discretization…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-15 Xianping Li , Woinshet D. Mergia , Kailash C. Patidar

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

A new method is proposed for integrating the equations of motion of an elastic filament. In the standard finite-difference and finite-element formulations the continuum equations of motion are discretized in space and time, but it is then…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Anthony JC Ladd , Gaurav Misra

The proximal Galerkin finite element method is a high-order, low-iteration complexity, nonlinear numerical method that preserves the geometric and algebraic structure of point-wise bound constraints in infinite-dimensional function spaces.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-18 Brendan Keith , Thomas M. Surowiec
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