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A hydrogeological model for the spread of pollution in an aquifer is considered. The model consists in a convection-diffusion-reaction equation involving the dispersion tensor which depends nonlinearly of the fluid velocity. We introduce an…

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We devise a stabilized method to weakly enforce bound constraints in the discrete solution of advection-dominated diffusion problems. This method combines a nonlinear penalty formulation with a discontinuous Galerkin-based residual…

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Problems with localized nonhomogeneous material properties present well-known challenges for numerical simulations. In particular, such problems may feature large differences in length scales, causing difficulties with meshing and…

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A method is developed within an adaptive framework to solve quasilinear diffusion problems with internal and possibly boundary layers starting from a coarse mesh. The solution process is assumed to start on a mesh where the problem is badly…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-02-16 Sara Pollock

In this article we study the two dimensional singularly perturbed heat equation in a circular domain. The aim is to develop a numerical method with a uniform mesh, avoiding mesh refinement at the boundary thanks to the use of a relatively…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-09-12 Youngjoon Hong

In this paper, we consider non-diffusive variational problems with mixed boundary conditions and (distributional and weak) gradient constraints. The upper bound in the constraint is either a function or a Borel measure, leading to the state…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-25 Harbir Antil , Rafael Arndt , Carlos N. Rautenberg , Deepanshu Verma

We consider the numerical approximation of the ill-posed data assimilation problem for stationary convection-diffusion equations and extend our previous analysis in [Numer. Math. 144, 451--477, 2020] to the convection-dominated regime.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-22 Erik Burman , Mihai Nechita , Lauri Oksanen

In this work, we discuss and compare three methods for the numerical approximation of constant- and variable-coefficient diffusion equations in both single and composite domains with possible discontinuity in the solution/flux at…

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Splitting methods constitute a well-established class of numerical schemes for solving convection-diffusion-reaction problems. They have been shown to be effective in solving problems with periodic boundary conditions. However, in the case…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-14 Thi Tam Dang , Lukas Einkemmer , Alexander Ostermann

In this paper, an upwind GFDM is developed for the coupled heat and mass transfer problems in porous media. GFDM is a meshless method that can obtain the difference schemes of spatial derivatives by using Taylor expansion in local node…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-05-02 Xiang Rao

The formulation of combinatorial differential forms, proposed by Forman for analysis of topological properties of discrete complexes, is extended by defining the operators required for analysis of physical processes dependent on scalar…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-05-22 Kiprian Berbatov , Pieter D. Boom , Andrew L. Hazel , Andrey P. Jivkov

We propose a fourth-order unfitted characteristic finite element method to solve the advection-diffusion equation on time-varying domains. Based on a characteristic-Galerkin formulation, our method combines the cubic MARS method for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-09 Chuwen Ma , Qinghai Zhang , Weiying Zheng

A possible mechanism of superdiffusion of ultra-cold atoms in a one-dimensional polarization optical lattice, observed experimentally in [Phys. Rev. Lett. \textbf{108}, 093002 (2012)], is suggested. The analysis is based on a consideration…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-11 Alexander Iomin

Davies' method of perturbed semigroups is a classical technique to obtain off-diagonal upper bounds on the heat kernel. However Davies' method does not apply to anomalous diffusions due to the singularity of energy measures. In this note,…

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Let $E$ be a complete, separable metric space and $A$ be an operator on $C_b(E)$. We give an abstract definition of viscosity sub/supersolution of the resolvent equation $\lambda u-Au=h$ and show that, if the comparison principle holds,…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-11-19 Cristina Costantini , Thomas G. Kurtz

For singularly perturbed reaction-diffusion problems in 1D and 2D, we study a local discontinuous Galerkin (LDG) method on a Shishkin mesh. In these cases, the standard energy norm is too weak to capture adequately the behavior of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-22 Jin Zhang , Wenchao Zheng

The problem of heat conduction in one-dimensional piecewise homogeneous composite materials is examined by providing an explicit solution of the one-dimensional heat equation in each domain. The location of the interfaces is known, but…

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This paper is devoted to the inverse problem of determining the spatially dependent source in a time fractional diffusion-wave equation, with the aid of extra measurement data at subboundary. Uniqueness result is obtained by using the…

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For a model convection-diffusion problem, we address the presence of oscillatory discrete solutions, and study difficulties in recovering standard approximation results for its solution. We justify the presence of non-physical oscillations…

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We revisit the celebrated Kohn-Vogelius penalty method and discuss how to use it for the unique continuation problem where data is given in the bulk of the domain. We then show that the primal-dual mixed finite element methods for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-04-21 Erik Burman