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We present a new tunably-accurate Laguerre Petrov-Galerkin spectral method for solving linear multi-term fractional initial value problems with derivative orders at most one and constant coefficients on the half line. Our method results in…

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We develop a spectral low-mode reduced solver for second-order elliptic boundary value problems with spatially varying diffusion coefficients. The approach projects standard finite difference or finite element discretization onto a global…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-23 Prosper Torsu

The paper presents a solution to the Boltzmann kinetic equation based on the construction of its discrete conservative model. Discrete analogue of the collision integral is presented as a contraction of a tensor, which is independent from…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-07-04 George Arabuli

A kinetic model for the Boltzmann equation is proposed and explored as a practical means to investigate the properties of a dilute granular gas. It is shown that all spatially homogeneous initial distributions approach a universal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 James W. Dufty , Aparna Baskaran , Lorena Zogaib

In this paper, for the first time a theory is formulated that predicts velocity and spatial correlations between occupation numbers that occur in lattice gas automata violating semi-detailed balance. Starting from a coupled BBGKY hierarchy…

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A spectral solution method is proposed to solve a previuously developed non-equilibrium statistical model describing partial thermalization of produced charged hadrons in relativistic heavy-ion collisions, thus improving the accuracy of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-10 A. Rizzi , G. Wolschin

It is challenging to solve the Boltzmann equation accurately due to the extremely high dimensionality and nonlinearity. This paper addresses the idea and implementation of the first flux reconstruction method for high-order Boltzmann…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-03-19 Tianbai Xiao

We demonstrate the implementation of a hybrid OpenMP and MPI parallelization of a conservative spectral method for the Boltzmann equation originally developed by Gamba and Tharkabhushaman. We perform a scaling analysis to demonstrate that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-01-18 Jeffrey Haack

We study regularity and numerical methods for two-sided fractional diffusion equations with a lower-order term. We show that the regularity of the solution in weighted Sobolev spaces can be greatly improved compared to that in standard…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-05-23 Zhaopeng Hao , Guang Lin , Zhongqiang Zhang

Optimal control problems of nonlinear delay differential equations (DDEs) are considered for which we propose a general Galerkin approximation scheme built from Koornwinder polynomials. Error estimates for the resulting Galerkin-Koornwinder…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-04 Mickaël D. Chekroun , Axel Kröner , Honghu Liu

In this paper the nonlinear multi-species Boltzmann equation with random uncertainty coming from the initial data and collision kernel is studied. Well-posedness and long-time behavior - exponential decay to the global equilibrium - of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-05-10 Esther S. Daus , Shi Jin , Liu Liu

We determine properties of the lattice Boltzmann method for semiclassical fluids, which is based on the Boltzmann equation and the equilibrium distribution function is given either by the Bose-Einstein or the Fermi-Dirac ones. New…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-02-23 Rodrigo C. V. Coelho , Mauro M. Doria

We propose to use a hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin (HDG) method combined with the continuous Galerkin (CG) method to approximate Maxwell's equations. We make two contributions in this paper. First, even though there are many papers…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-17 Gang Chen , Peter Monk , Yangwen Zhang

Prediction of non-equilibrium flows is critical to space flight. In the present work we demonstrate that the recently developed spectral multiple-relaxation-time (SMRT) lattice Boltzmann (LB) model is theoretically equivalent to Grad's…

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We propose and analyse a fully-discrete discontinuous Galerkin time-stepping method for parabolic Hamilton--Jacobi--Bellman equations with Cordes coefficients. The method is consistent and unconditionally stable on rather general…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-03-16 Iain Smears , Endre Süli

The linearized collision operator of the Boltzmann equation for single species can be written as a sum of a positive multiplication operator, the collision frequency, and a compact integral operator. This classical result has more recently,…

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An perturbation-iteration method is developed for the computation of the Hermite-Gaussian-like solitons with arbitrary peak numbers in nonlocal nonlinear media. This method is based on the perturbed model of the Schr\"{o}dinger equation for…

Optics · Physics 2018-02-14 Weiyi Hong , Bo Tian , Rui Li , Qi Guo , Wei Hu

In this work, approximate solutions to the nonlinear Klein-Gordon equation are constructed by means of the Galerkin method. Specifically, it is shown how the dynamics of a real scalar field in $1+1$ dimensions subjected to Dirichlet…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-09-04 Annibal D. de Figueiredo Neto , Caio C. Holanda Ribeiro , Luana L. Silva Ribeiro

The diffusive-viscous wave equation (DVWE) is widely used in seismic exploration since it can explain frequency-dependent seismic reflections in a reservoir with hydrocarbons. Most of the existing numerical approximations for the DVWE are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-10 Dan Ling , Zhiping Mao

This paper establishes convergence rates for learning elliptic pseudo-differential operators, a fundamental operator class in partial differential equations and mathematical physics. In a wavelet-Galerkin framework, we formulate learning…

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