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The dynamics of collisionless plasmas can be modelled by the Vlasov-Maxwell system of equations. An Eulerian approach is needed to accurately describe processes that are governed by high energy tails in the distribution function, but is of…

Problems with localized nonhomogeneous material properties present well-known challenges for numerical simulations. In particular, such problems may feature large differences in length scales, causing difficulties with meshing and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-11-23 Alex Viguerie , Silvia Bertoluzza , Alessandro Veneziani , Ferdinando Auricchio

We present a simple and efficient variational finite difference method for simulating time-dependent Stokes flow in the presence of irregular free surfaces and moving solid boundaries. The method uses an embedded boundary approach on…

Computational Physics · Physics 2011-05-25 Christopher Batty , Robert Bridson

A framework of finite-velocity model based Boltzmann equation has been developed for convection-diffusion equations. These velocities are kept flexible and adjusted to control numerical diffusion. A flux difference splitting based kinetic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-01 S. V. Raghurama Rao , K. S. Shrinath , Ankit Ruhi , Veeredhi Vasudeva Rao

For most finite element simulations, boundary-conforming meshes have significant advantages in terms of accuracy or efficiency. This is particularly true for complex domains. However, with increased complexity of the domain, generating a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-07 Jan Helmig , Fabian Key , Marek Behr , Stefanie Elgeti

In this paper, authors focus effort on improving the conventional discrete velocity method (DVM) into a multiscale scheme in finite volume framework for gas flow in all flow regimes. Unlike the typical multiscale kinetic methods unified…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-03-24 Ruifeng Yuan , Sha Liu , Chengwen Zhong

This paper introduces a novel method for the efficient second-order accurate computation of normal fields from volume fractions on unstructured polyhedral meshes. Locally, i.e. in each mesh cell, an averaged normal is reconstructed by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-16 Johannes Kromer , Fabio Leotta , Dieter Bothe

Over the last two decades, several fast, robust, and high-order accurate methods have been developed for solving the Poisson equation in complicated geometry using potential theory. In this approach, rather than discretizing the partial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-19 Fredrik Fryklund , Leslie Greengard , Shidong Jiang , Samuel Potter

This paper presents a novel mass-conservative mixed multiscale method for solving flow equations in heterogeneous porous media. The media properties (the permeability) contain multiple scales and high contrast. The proposed method solves…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-04-01 Eric Chung , Yalchin Efendiev , Wing Tat Leung

In this paper, we present a residual-driven multiscale method for simulating Darcy flow in perforated domains, where complex geometries and highly heterogeneous permeability make direct simulations computationally expensive. To address…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Wei Xie , Shubin Fu , Yin Yang , Yunqing Huang

We present a finite element implementation for the steady-state nonlocal Dirichlet problem with homogeneous volume constraints. Here, the nonlocal diffusion operator is defined as integral operator characterized by a certain kernel…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-09-20 Christian Vollmann , Volker Schulz

We address here the discretization of the momentum convection operator for fluid flow simulations on 2D triangular and quadrangular meshes and 3D polyhedral meshes containing hexahedra, tetrahedra, prisms and pyramids. The finite volume…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-15 Aubin Brunel , Raphaèle Herbin , Jean-Claude Latché

This papers deals with a construction and convergence analysis of a finite difference scheme for solving time-fractional porous medium equation. The governing equation exhibits both nonlocal and nonlinear behaviour making the numerical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-04-05 Łukasz Płociniczak

Conventional mathematical models for simulating incompressible fluid flow problems are based on the Navier-Stokes equations expressed in terms of pressure and velocity. In this context, pressure-velocity coupling is a key issue, and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-06-06 Ricardo Costa , Stéphane Clain , Gaspar J. Machado , João M. Nóbrega

In this paper, we study a $\tau$-matrix approximation based preconditioner for the linear systems arising from discretization of unsteady state Riesz space fractional diffusion equation with non-separable variable coefficients. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-18 Xue-Lei Lin , Michael K. Ng

A moving mesh finite difference method based on the moving mesh partial differential equation is proposed for the numerical solution of the 2T model for multi-material, non-equilibrium radiation diffusion equations. The model involves…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-20 Xiaobo Yang , Weizhang Huang , Jianxian Qiu

We introduce a meshless method for solving both continuous and discrete variational formulations of a volume constrained, nonlocal diffusion problem. We use the discrete solution to approximate the continuous solution. Our method is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-01-13 Richard B. Lehoucq , Francis J. Narcowich , Stephen T. Rowe , Joseph D. Ward

We study a one dimensional model for two-phase flows in heterogeneous media, in which the capillary pressure functions can be discontinuous with respect to space. We first give a model, leading to a system of degenerated non-linear…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-09-08 Clément Cancès

We develop a framework for constructing mixed multiscale finite volume methods for elliptic equations with multiple scales arising from flows in porous media. Some of the methods developed using the framework are already known…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-08-20 Lijian Jiang , Ilya D. Mishev

A system of boundary-domain integral equations is derived from the bidimensional Dirichlet problem for the diffusion equation with variable coefficient using the novel parametrix from [22] different from the one in [5,18]. Mapping…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-11-23 C. F. Portillo , Z. W. Woldemicheal