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This paper contributes new insights into discretizing Coulomb collisions in kinetic plasma models. Building on the previous works [Carrillo et al. J. Comp. Phys. X 7:100066 (2020), Hirvijoki and Burby Phys. Plasmas 27(8):082307 (2020)], I…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-05-12 Eero Hirvijoki

We present a novel discontinuous Galerkin algorithm for the solution of a class of Fokker-Planck collision operators. These operators arise in many fields of physics, and our particular application is for kinetic plasma simulations. In…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 Ammar Hakim , M. Francisquez , J. Juno , Greg W. Hammett

This work develops and analyzes a variational-monolithic unfitted finite element formulation of a linear fluid-structure interaction problem in Eulerian coordinates with a fixed interface. The overall discretization is based on a backward…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-27 Stefan Frei , Tobias Knoke , Marc C. Steinbach , Anne-Kathrin Wenske , Thomas Wick

We develop a hybrid spatial discretization for the wave equation in second order form, based on high-order accurate finite difference methods and discontinuous Galerkin methods. The hybridization combines computational efficiency of finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-26 Siyang Wang , Gunilla Kreiss

We study the numerical approximation by space-time finite element methods of a multi-physics system coupling hyperbolic elastodynamics with parabolic transport and modeling poro- and thermoelasticity. The equations are rewritten as a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-14 Markus Bause , Mathias Anselmann , Uwe Köcher , Florin A. Radu

In this work, we propose an accurate, robust, and stable discretization of the gamma-based compressible multicomponent model by Shyue [J. Comput. Phys., 142 (1998), 208-242] where each component follows a stiffened gas equation of state…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-10 Rémi Abgrall , Pratik Rai , Florent Renac

We investigate a two-state conformational conversion system and introduce a novel structure-preserving numerical scheme that couples a local discontinuous Galerkin space discretization with the backward Euler time-integration method. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Paola F. Antonietti , Mattia Corti , Sergio Gómez , Ilaria Perugia

We present a novel framework based on semi-bounded spatial operators for analyzing and discretizing initial boundary value problems on moving and deforming domains. This development extends an existing framework for well-posed problems and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-14 Tomas Lundquist , Arnaud Malan , Jan Nordström

Metriplectic dynamics is applied to compute equilibria of fluid dynamical systems. The result is a relaxation method in which Hamiltonian dynamics (symplectic structure) is combined with dissipative mechanisms (metric structure) that…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-12-05 C. Bressan , M. Kraus , P. J. Morrison , O. Maj

This work introduces finite element methods for a class of elliptic fully nonlinear partial differential equations. They are based on a minimal residual principle that builds upon the Alexandrov--Bakelman--Pucci estimate. Under rather…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-03 Dietmar Gallistl , Ngoc Tien Tran

In this contribution, we extend the hybridization framework for the Hodge Laplacian [Awanou et al., Hybridization and postprocessing in finite element exterior calculus, 2023] to port-Hamiltonian systems describing linear wave propagation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-25 Andrea Brugnoli , Ramy Rashad , Yi Zhang , Stefano Stramigioli

The aim of this paper is to establish the convergence and error bounds to the fully discrete solution for a class of nonlinear systems of reaction-diffusion nonlocal type with moving boundaries, using a linearized Crank-Nicolson-Galerkin…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-02-03 Rui M. P. Almeida , José C. M. Duque , Jorge Ferreira , Rui J. Robalo

We present a novel structure-preserving framework for solving the Vlasov-Poisson-Landau system of equations using a particle in cell (PIC) discretization combined with discrete gradient time integrators. The Vlasov-Poisson-Landau system is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-02-16 Daniel S. Finn , Joseph V. Pusztay , Matthew G. Knepley , Mark F. Adams

We construct a cut finite element method for the membrane elasticity problem on an embedded mesh using tangential differential calculus. Both free membranes and membranes coupled to 3D elasticity are considered. The discretization comes…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-24 Mirza Cenanovic , Peter Hansbo , Mats G. Larson

Spacetime discontinuous Galerkin (SDG) finite element methods are used to solve such PDEs involving space and time variables arising from wave propagation phenomena in important applications in science and engineering. To support an…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2008-04-08 Shripad Thite

Recently, continuous-time dynamical systems have proved useful in providing conceptual and quantitative insights into gradient-based optimization, widely used in modern machine learning and statistics. An important question that arises in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-29 Guilherme França , Michael I. Jordan , René Vidal

We propose and rigorously analyse semi- and fully discrete discontinuous Galerkin methods for an initial and boundary value problem describing inertial viscoelasticity in terms of elastic and viscoelastic stress components, and with mixed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-27 Salim Meddahi , Ricardo Ruiz-Baier

The immersed boundary method is an approach to fluid-structure interaction that uses a Lagrangian description of the structural deformations, stresses, and forces along with an Eulerian description of the momentum, viscosity, and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-02-27 Boyce E. Griffith , Xiaoyu Luo

In this paper, we propose a fully discrete mixed finite element method for solving the time-dependent Ginzburg--Landau equations, and prove the convergence of the finite element solutions in general curved polyhedra, possibly nonconvex and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-05-06 Buyang Li

In this paper, we consider the numerical approximation for a diffuse interface model of the two-phase incompressible inductionless magnetohydrodynamics problem. This model consists of Cahn-Hilliard equations, Navier-Stokes equations and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-01 Xiaorong Wang , Xiaodi Zhang