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An implicit Euler finite-volume scheme for a spinorial matrix drift-diffusion model for semiconductors is analyzed. The model consists of strongly coupled parabolic equations for the electron density matrix or, alternatively, of weakly…
In this paper, we develop a novel staggered mesh (SM) approach for general nonlinear dissipative systems with arbitrary energy distributions (including cases with known or unknown energy lower bounds). Based on this framework, we propose…
We propose a new fractional Laplacian for bounded domains, expressed as a conservation law and thus particularly suited to finite-volume schemes. Our approach permits the direct prescription of no-flux boundary conditions. We first show the…
A nonlinear diffusion equation, interpreted as a Wasserstein gradient flow, is numerically solved in one space dimension using a higher-order minimizing movement scheme based on the BDF (backward differentiation formula) discretization. In…
The propagation of gradient flow structures from microscopic to macroscopic models is a topic of high current interest. In this paper we discuss this propagation in a model for the diffusion of particles interacting via hard-core exclusion…
In this paper we analyze a fully discrete scheme for a general Cahn-Hilliard equation coupled with a nonsteady Magneto-hydrodynamics flow, which describes two immiscible, incompressible and electrically conducting fluids with different…
This paper concerns the construction and analysis of a numerical scheme for a mixed discrete-continuous fragmentation equation. A finite volume scheme is developed, based on a conservative formulation of a truncated version of the…
We analyze the conservation properties of various discretizations of the system of compressible Euler equations for shock-free flows, with special focus on the treatment of the energy equation and on the induced discrete equations for other…
This paper aims at developing exactly energy-conservative and structure-preserving finite volume schemes for the discretisation of first-order symmetric-hyperbolic and thermodynamically compatible (SHTC) systems of partial differential…
In this paper, we introduce and analyse numerical schemes for the homogeneous and the kinetic L\'evy-Fokker-Planck equation. The discretizations are designed to preserve the main features of the continuous model such as conservation of…
In this work, we investigate a variational formulation for a time-fractional Fokker-Planck equation which arises in the study of complex physical systems involving anomalously slow diffusion. The model involves a fractional-order Caputo…
Structure-preserving numerical schemes for a nonlinear parabolic fourth-order equation, modeling the electron transport in quantum semiconductors, with periodic boundary conditions are analyzed. First, a two-step backward differentiation…
We introduce in this paper two time discretization schemes tailored for a range of Wasserstein gradient flows. These schemes are designed to preserve mass, positivity and to be uniquely solvable. In addition, they also ensure energy…
This paper studies a class of linear unconditionally energy stable schemes for the gradient flows. Such schemes are built on the SAV technique and the general linear time discretization (GLTD) as well as the linearization based on the…
This paper extends a new class of positivity-preserving, entropy stable spectral collocation schemes developed for the one-dimensional compressible Navier-Stokes equations in [1,2] to three spatial dimensions. The new high-order schemes are…
The theory of Wasserstein gradient flows in the space of probability measures has made an enormous progress over the last twenty years. It constitutes a unified and powerful framework in the study of dissipative partial differential…
We provide a framework for high-order discretizations of nonlinear scalar convection-diffusion equations that satisfy a discrete maximum principle. The resulting schemes can have arbitrarily high order accuracy in time and space, and can be…
We present a novel structure-preserving semi-implicit finite volume method on vertex-based staggered meshes for the compatible discretization of first order systems of time-dependent partial differential equations (PDEs). The method…
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 consider the initial/boundary value problem for a diffusion equation involving multiple time-fractional derivatives on a bounded convex polyhedral domain. We analyze a space semidiscrete scheme based on the standard Galerkin finite…