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The unified gas kinetic scheme (UGKS) of K. Xu et al. [K. Xu and J.-C. Huang, J. Comput. Phys., 229, pp. 7747--7764, 2010], originally developed for multiscale gas dynamics problems, is applied in this paper to a linear kinetic model of…
We propose a unified method for the large space-time scaling limit of \emph{linear} collisional kinetic equations in the whole space. The limit is of \emph{fractional} diffusion type for heavy tail equilibria with slow enough decay, and of…
Kinetic equations are difficult to solve numerically due to their high dimensionality. A promising approach for reducing computational cost is the dynamical low-rank algorithm, which decouples the dimensions of the phase space by proposing…
We present a mathematical analysis of the asymptotic preserving scheme proposed in [M. Lemou and L. Mieussens, SIAM J. Sci. Comput., 31, pp. 334-368, 2008] for linear transport equations in kinetic and diffusive regimes. We prove that the…
The unified gas kinetic scheme (UGKS) was initially designed to address multiscale challenges in rarefied gas dynamics and then extended to radiative transfert theory, as described by BGK like relaxation models. In this work, we extend its…
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 develop and analyze a class of structure-preserving discontinuous Galerkin schemes for the nonlinear Vlasov-Poisson-Fokker-Planck model, reformulated as a hyperbolic system through a Hermite expansion in the velocity variable. We…
In this article, we propose and study several discrete versions of homogeneous and inhomogeneous one-dimensional Fokker-Planck equations. In particular, for these discretizations of velocity and space, we prove the exponential convergence…
We propose a numerical approach, of the BGK kinetic type, that is able to approximate with a given, but arbitrary, order of accuracy the solution of linear and non-linear convection-diffusion type problems: scalar advection-diffusion,…
In this work, we propose some numerical schemes for linear kinetic equations in the diffusion and anomalous diffusion limit. When the equilibrium distribution function is a Maxwellian distribution, it is well known that for an appropriate…
We investigate a high-order, fully explicit, asymptotic-preserving scheme for a kinetic equation with linear relaxation, both in the hydrodynamic and diffusive scalings in which a hyperbolic, resp. parabolic, limiting equation exists. The…
We present a positive and asymptotic preserving numerical scheme for solving linear kinetic, transport equations that relax to a diffusive equation in the limit of infinite scattering. The proposed scheme is developed using a standard…
In this paper, some theoretical aspects will be addressed for the asymptotic preserving DG-IMEX schemes recently proposed in [J. Jang, F. Li, J.-M. Qiu and T. Xiong, submitted, arxiv:1306.0227] for kinetic transport equations under a…
We study hypocoercivity for a class of linear and linearized BGK models for discrete and continuous phase spaces. We develop methods for constructing entropy functionals that prove exponential rates of relaxation to equilibrium. Our…
In this study, we investigate the Shallow Water Equations incorporating source terms accounting for Manning friction and a non-flat bottom topology. Our primary focus is on developing and validating numerical schemes that serve a dual…
In this paper, we study the hypocoercivity for a class of linear kinetic equations with both transport and degenerately dissipative terms. As concrete examples, the relaxation operator, Fokker-Planck operator and linearized Boltzmann…
We investigate the existence of steady states and exponential decay for hypocoercive Fokker--Planck equations on the whole space with drift terms that are linear in the position variable. For this class of equations, we first establish that…
In this paper, we develop a numerical method for the L\'evy-Fokker-Planck equation with the fractional diffusive scaling. There are two main challenges. One comes from a two-fold nonlocality, that is, the need to apply the fractional…
We present a new asymptotic strategy for general micro-macro models which analyze complex viscoelastic fluids governed by coupled multiscale dynamics. In such models, the elastic stress appearing in the macroscopic continuum equation is…
This article proposes a highly accurate and conservative method for hyperbolic systems using the finite volume approach. This innovative scheme constructs the intermediate states at the interfaces of the control volumes using the method of…