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We show that for any $\al<\frac 17$ there exist $\al$-H\"older continuous weak solutions of the three-dimensional incompressible Euler equation, which satisfy the local energy inequality and strictly dissipate the total kinetic energy. The…
We present a high-order space-time discretization equipped with fully-discrete entropy stability properties for general choices of volume and surface quadrature rules. The formulation uses flux reconstruction (FR) in the spatial dimension…
A discretisation scheme that preserves topological features of a physical problem is extended so that differential geometric structures can be approximated in a consistent way thus giving access to the study of physical systems which are…
This study derives geometric, variational discretizations of continuum theories arising in fluid dynamics, magnetohydrodynamics (MHD), and the dynamics of complex fluids. A central role in these discretizations is played by the geometric…
Variational interpolants are an indispensable tool for the construction of gradient-flow solutions via the Minimizing Movement Scheme. The De Giorgi lemma provides the associated discrete energy-dissipation inequality. It was originally…
We present unconditionally energy stable Runge-Kutta (RK) discontinuous Galerkin (DG) schemes for solving a class of fourth order gradient flows. Our algorithm is geared toward arbitrarily high order approximations in both space and time,…
We present a new numerical scheme for one dimensional dynamical systems. This is a modification of the discrete gradient method and keeps its advantages, including the stability and the conservation of the energy integral. However, its…
We present a generalization of dissipative particle dynamics that includes shear forces between particles. The new algorithm has the same structure as the (isothermal) smoothed particle dynamics algorithm, except that it conserves angular…
In micro-fluidics not only does capillarity dominate but also thermal fluctuations become important. On the level of the lubrication approximation, this leads to a quasi-linear fourth-order parabolic equation for the film height $h$ driven…
The aim of this paper is the derivation of structure preserving schemes for the solution of the EPDiff equation, with particular emphasis on the two dimensional case. We develop three different schemes based on the Discrete Variational…
A fully discrete finite element method, based on a new weak formulation and a new time-stepping scheme, is proposed for the surface diffusion flow of closed curves in the two-dimensional plane. It is proved that the proposed method can…
We design consistent discontinuous Galerkin finite element schemes for the approximation of the Euler-Korteweg and the Navier-Stokes-Korteweg systems. We show that the scheme for the Euler-Korteweg system is energy and mass conservative and…
We present an energy conserving space discretisation based on a Poisson bracket that can be used to derive the dry compressible Euler as well as thermal shallow water equations. It is formulated using the compatible finite element method,…
We investigate the relation between several generalized solution concepts for nonlinear PDE systems from fluid dynamics. More precisely, we study measure-valued solutions, dissipative weak solutions, and energy-variational solutions. For…
We consider the numerical approximation of linear damped wave systems by Galerkin approximations in space and appropriate time-stepping schemes. Based on a dissipation estimate for a modified energy, we prove exponential decay of the…
This paper is concerned with a rigorous convergence analysis of a fully discrete Lagrangian scheme for the Hele-Shaw flow, which is the fourth order thin-film equation with linear mobility in one space dimension. The discretization is based…
We analyze the gradient flow of a potential energy in the space of probability measures when we substitute the optimal transport geometry with a geometry based on Sinkhorn divergences, a debiased version of entropic optimal transport. This…
We examine the two-dimensional Euler equations including the local energy (in)equality as a differential inclusion and show that the associated relaxation essentially reduces to the known relaxation for the Euler equations considered…
The mean curvature flow describes the evolution of a surface (a curve) with normal velocity proportional to the local mean curvature. It has many applications in mathematics, science and engineering. In this paper, we develop a numerical…
We present an effective adaptive procedure for the numerical approximation of the steady-state Gross-Pitaevskii equation. Our approach is solely based on energy minimization, and consists of a combination of gradient flow iterations and…