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This paper focusses on finite volume schemes for solving multilayer diffusion problems. We develop a finite volume method that addresses a deficiency of recently proposed finite volume/difference methods, which consider only a limited…

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We introduce a finite-volume numerical scheme for solving stochastic gradient-flow equations. Such equations are of crucial importance within the framework of fluctuating hydrodynamics and dynamic density functional theory. Our proposed…

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We show the evolution of non-spherically symmetric balls of a self-gravitating scalar field in the Newtonian regime or equivalently an ideal self-gravitating condensed Bose gas. In order to do so, we use a finite differencing approximation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Argelia Bernal , F. Siddhartha Guzman

The dynamical equations describing the evolution of a self-gravitating fluid can be rewritten in the form of a Schrodinger equation coupled to a Poisson equation determining the gravitational potential. This wave-mechanical representation…

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We develop a monotone finite volume method for the time fractional Fokker-Planck equations and theoretically prove its unconditional stability. We show that the convergence rate of this method is order 1 in space and if the space grid…

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We analyze the dynamics of a Bose-Einstein condensate undergoing a continuous dispersive imaging by using a Lindblad operator formalism. Continuous strong measurements drive the condensate out of the coherent state description assumed…

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This paper deals with the evolution of the Einstein gravitational fields which are coupled to a perfect fluid. We consider the Einstein--Euler system in asymptotically flat spacestimes and therefore use the condition that the energy density…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-05-10 Uwe Brauer , Lavi Karp

We introduce a family of mixed methods and discontinuous Galerkin discretisations designed to numerically solve the Oseen equations written in terms of velocity, vorticity, and Bernoulli pressure. The unique solvability of the continuous…

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Achieving self-consistent convergence with the conventional effective-mass approach at ultra-low temperatures (below $4.2~K$) is a challenging task, which mostly lies in the discontinuities in material properties (e.g., effective-mass,…

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High order algorithms have emerged in numerical astrophysics as a promising avenue to reduce truncation error (proportional to a power of the linear resolution $\Delta x$) with only a moderate increase to computational expense. Significant…

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The computational complexity of simulating seismic waves demands continual exploration of more efficient numerical methods. While Finite Volume methods are widely acclaimed for tackling general nonlinear hyperbolic (wave) problems, their…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-03 Juan Barrios , Pedro S. Peixoto , Felipe A. G. Silva

Classical Finite Volume methods for multi-dimensional problems include stabilization (e.g.\ via a Riemann solver), that is derived by considering several one-dimensional problems in different directions. Such methods therefore ignore a…

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Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-13 Rubén Arjona

We formulate a smoothed-particle hydrodynamics numerical method, traditionally used for the Euler equations for fluid dynamics in the context of astrophysical simulations, to solve the non-linear Schrodinger equation in the Madelung…

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We present the construction of stationary boson-fermion spherically symmetric configurations governed by Newtonian gravity. Bosons are described in the Gross-Pitaevskii regime and fermions are assumed to obey Euler equations for an inviscid…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-06-14 Iván Álvarez-Rios , Francisco S. Guzmán

The aim of the present paper is to provide a comparison between several finite-volume methods of different numerical accuracy: second-order Godunov method with PPM interpolation and high-order finite-volume WENO method. The results show…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-03-06 Emmanuel Motheau , John Wakefield

We perform simulations in a gravitational collapsing model using the Einstein equations. In this paper, we review the equations for constructing the initial values and the evolution form of the Einstein equations called the BSSN…

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