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Finite difference method was extended to unstructured meshes to solve Euler equations. The spatial discretization is made of two steps. First, numerical fluxes are computed at the middle point of each edge with high order accuracy. In this…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-02-26 Meiyuan Zhen , Kun Qu , Jinsheng Cai

We propose a model for nonlinearly elastic membranes undergoing finite deformations while confined to a regular frictionless surface in $\mathbb{R}^3$. This is a physically correct model of the analogy sometimes given to motivate harmonic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-06-03 Timothy J. Healey , Gokul G. Nair

We establish local existence and a quasi-optimal error estimate for piecewise cubic minimizers to the bending energy under a discretized inextensibility constraint. In previous research a discretization is used where the inextensibility…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Sören Bartels , Balázs Kovács , Dominik Schneider

Aiming at simulating elastic rods, we discretize a rod model based on a general theory of hyperelasticity for inextensible and unshearable rods. After reviewing this model and discussing topological effects of periodic rods, we prove…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-11-19 Sören Bartels , Philipp Reiter

We show the $L^2$-Wasserstein contraction for the transition kernel of a discretised diffusion process, under a contractivity at infinity condition on the drift and a sufficiently high diffusivity requirement. This extends recent results…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-10-25 Linshan Liu , Mateusz B. Majka , Pierre Monmarché

We study the existence of stationary classical solutions of the incompressible Euler equation in the plane that approximate singular stationnary solutions of this equation. The construction is performed by studying the asymptotics of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-04-04 Didier Smets , Jean Van Schaftingen

The fully-implicit time discretization (i.e. the backward Euler formula) is applied to compressible nonlinear dynamical models of thermo-viscoelastic solids in the Eulerian description, i.e. in the actual deforming configuration, formulated…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-09 Tomáš Roubíček

We study the convergence of a discrete Luenberger observer for the barotropic Euler equations in one dimension, for measurements of the velocity only. We use a mixed finite element method in space and implicit Euler integration in time. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-13 Aidan Chaumet , Jan Giesselmann

This article is concerned with the problem of minimising the Willmore energy in the class of \emph{connected} surfaces with prescribed area which are confined to a small container. We propose a phase field approximation based on De Giorgi's…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-10-28 Patrick W. Dondl , Antoine Lemenant , Stephan Wojtowytsch

We provide a new existence result for weak solutions to the one-dimensional Euler equations with a maximal density constraint, corresponding to a unilateral constraint on the density. Such models arise in the description of congestion…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-06 Charlotte Perrin

Euler's elastica is a classical model of flexible slender structures, relevant in many industrial applications. Static equilibrium equations can be derived via a variational principle. The accurate approximation of solutions of this problem…

We prove exponential convergence in the energy norm of $hp$ finite element discretizations for the integral fractional diffusion operator of order $2s\in (0,2)$ subject to homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions in bounded polygonal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-27 Markus Faustmann , Carlo Marcati , Jens Markus Melenk , Christoph Schwab

After characterizing the integrable discrete analogue of the Euler's elastica, we focus our attention on the problem of approximating a given discrete planar curve by an appropriate discrete Euler's elastica. We carry out the fairing…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2022-06-10 Sebastián Elías Graiff Zurita , Kenji Kajiwara

In this paper, we study the stability of various difference approximations of the Euler-Korteweg equations. This system of evolution PDEs is a classical isentropic Euler system perturbed by a dispersive (third order) term. The Euler…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-01-30 Pascal Noble , Jean-Paul Vila

Entropy stabilization of the compressible Euler system is achieved by adapting the averages that are applied to the density and internal energy variables. The approach achieves non-linear robustness despite the use of simplified symmetric…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-21 Carlo De Michele , Ayaboe K. Edoh

This work is motivated by discrete-to-continuum modeling of the mechanics of a graphene sheet, which is a single-atom thick macromolecule of carbon atoms covalently bonded to form a hexagonal lattice. The strong covalent bonding makes the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-04-28 Malena I. Espanol , Dmitry Golovaty , J. Patrick Wilber

Numerical schemes for the solution of the Euler equations have recently been developed, which involve the discretisation of the internal energy equation, with corrective terms to ensure the correct capture of shocks, and, more generally,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-06-28 R. Herbin , T. Gallouët , J. -C Latché , N Therme

The paper considers the Euler system of PDE on a smooth compact Riemannian manifold of positive curvature without boundary, and the sphere ${\mathbb{S}}^2$ in particular. The paper interprets the Euler equations as a transport problem for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-11-24 Gordon Blower

It is shown that the supports of measures minimizing weakly repulsive energies on Riemannian manifolds with sectional curvature bounded below do not have concentration points. This extends the results of Bj\"orck and Carrillo, Figalli, and…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-11 Oleksandr Vlasiuk

We consider a chain of Euler-Bernoulli beams with spatial dependent mass density, modulus of elasticity and area moment which are interconnected in dissipative or conservative ways and prove uniform exponential energy decay of the coupled…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-06-23 Björn Augner