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Noise or fluctuations play an important role in the modeling and understanding of the behavior of various complex systems in nature. Fokker-Planck equations are powerful mathematical tool to study behavior of such systems subjected to…

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We propose a numerical method for the Vlasov-Poisson-Fokker-Planck model written as an hyperbolic system thanks to a spectral decomposition in the basis of Hermite functions with respect to the velocity variable and a structure preserving…

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Realistic models of biological processes typically involve interacting components on multiple scales, driven by changing environment and inherent stochasticity. Such models are often analytically and numerically intractable. We revisit a…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2022-01-19 K. Bodova , E. Szep , N. H. Barton

We introduce and study a notion of Asymptotic Preserving schemes, related to convergence in distribution, for a class of slow-fast Stochastic Differential Equations. In some examples, crude schemes fail to capture the correct limiting…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-05 Charles-Edouard Bréhier , Shmuel Rakotonirina-Ricquebourg

In uncertainty quantification, a stochastic modelling is often applied, where parameters are substituted by random variables. We investigate linear dynamical systems of ordinary differential equations with a quantity of interest as output.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-09-23 Roland Pulch , Akil Narayan

In this paper, we develop bound-preserving discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods for chemical reactive flows. There are several difficulties in constructing suitable numerical schemes. First of all, the density and internal energy are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-11 Fangyao Zhu , Juntao Huang , Yang Yang

Entropy stable methods have become increasingly popular in the field of computational fluid dynamics. They often work by satisfying some form of a discrete entropy inequality: a discrete form of the 2nd law of thermodynamics. Schemes which…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-08 Brian Christner , Jesse Chan

The high-order accurate continuous Galerkin finite element method offers attractive computational efficiency for computational fluid dynamics. A challenge is however spurious oscillations which result for convection dominated flows over…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-10 Arnaud G. Malan , Jan Nordstrom

We study Markov processes associated with stochastic differential equations, whose non-linearities are gradients of convex functionals. We prove a general result of existence of such Markov processes and a priori estimates on the transition…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Luigi Ambrosio , Giuseppe Savare , Lorenzo Zambotti

In recent years, stochastic effects have become increasingly relevant for describing fluid behaviour, particularly in the context of turbulence. The most important model for inviscid fluids in computational fluid dynamics are the Euler…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-11 Dominic Breit , Thamsanqa Castern Moyo , Philipp Öffner

We consider the stochastic nonlinear Schroedinger equation driven by a multiplicative noise in a semiclassical regime, where the Plank constant is small. In this regime, the solution of the equation exhibits high-frequency oscillations. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-20 Lihai Ji , Zhihui Liu

In this paper we extensively study the stochastic Galerkin scheme for uncertain systems of conservation laws, which appears to produce oscillations already for a simple example of the linear advection equation with Riemann initial data.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-26 Louisa Schlachter , Florian Schneider , Oliver Kolb

In this paper, we study the numerical approximation of a coupled system of elliptic-parabolic equations posed on two separated spatial scales. The model equations describe the interplay between macroscopic and microscopic pressures in an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-03-10 Martin Lind , Adrian Muntean , Omar Richardson

It is well-known that the Fourier-Galerkin spectral method has been a popular approach for the numerical approximation of the deterministic Boltzmann equation with spectral accuracy rigorously proved. In this paper, we will show that such a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-08 Liu Liu , Kunlun Qi

In the hyperbolic community, discontinuous Galerkin approaches are mainly applied when finite element methods are considered. As the name suggested, the DG framework allows a discontinuity at the element interfaces, which seems for many…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-20 Rémi Abgrall , Jan Nordström , Philipp Öffner , Svetlana Tokareva

Numerical approximation of the Boltzmann equation is a challenging problem due to its high-dimensional, nonlocal, and nonlinear collision integral. Over the past decade, the Fourier-Galerkin spectral method has become a popular…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-13 Jingwei Hu , Kunlun Qi , Tong Yang

We propose a stable Petrov-Galerkin discretization of a kinetic Fokker-Planck equation constructed in such a way that uniform inf-sup stability can be inferred directly from the variational formulation. Inspired by well-posedness results…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-13 Julia Brunken , Kathrin Smetana

When the complete understanding of a complex system is not available, as, e.g., for systems considered in the real-world, we need a top-down approach to complexity. In this approach one may start with the desire to understand general…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-05-22 Joachim Peinke , Mohammad Reza Rahimi Tabar , Matthias Wächter

We consider a system of Fokker-Planck-Kolmogorov (FPK) equations, where the dependence of the coefficients is nonlinear and nonlocal in time with respect to the unknowns. We extend the numerical scheme proposed and studied recently by the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-03 Elisabetta Carlini , Francisco J. Silva

A method is presented for constructing energy-conserving Galerkin approximations in the vertical coordinate of the full quasigeostrophic model with active surface buoyancy. The derivation generalizes the approach of Rocha \emph{et al.}…

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