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The paper describes the construction of entropy-stable discontinuous Galerkin difference (DGD) discretizations for hyperbolic conservation laws on unstructured grids. The construction takes advantage of existing theory for entropy-stable…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-08 Ge Yan , Sharanjeet Kaur , Jeffery W. Banks , Jason E. Hicken

The discontinuous Galerkin (DG) finite element method is conservative, lends itself well to parallelization, and is high-order accurate due to its close affinity with the theory of quadrature and orthogonal polynomials. When applied with an…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-03-01 D. W. Crews

High order entropy stable discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods for nonlinear conservation laws satisfy an inherent discrete entropy inequality. The construction of such schemes has relied on the use of carefully chosen nodal points or volume…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-08-06 Jesse Chan

An $hp$-discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method is applied to a class of second order linear hyperbolic integro-differential equations. Based on the analysis of an expanded mixed type Ritz-Volterra projection, {\it a priori} $hp$-error estimates…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-01-23 Samir Karaa , Amiya K. Pani , Sangita Yadav

This paper derives a kinetic equation for a two-dimensional single species point vortex system. We consider a situation (different from the ones considered previously) of weak mean flow where the time scale of the macroscopic motion is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-12-28 Yuichi Yatsuyanagi , Tadatsugu Hatori , Pierre-Henri Chavanis

A set of key properties for an ideal dissipation scheme in gyrokinetic simulations is proposed, and implementation of a model collision operator satisfying these properties is described. This operator is based on the exact linearized…

We present an embedded-hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin finite element method for the total pressure formulation of the quasi-static poroelasticity model. Although the displacement and the Darcy velocity are approximated by discontinuous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-27 Aycil Cesmelioglu , Jeonghun J. Lee , Sander Rhebergen

In this work, we study the Galerkin-Boltzmann formulation within a physics-informed neural network (PINN) framework to solve flow problems in weakly compressible regimes. The Galerkin-Boltzmann equations are discretized with second-order…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-09-11 Atakan Aygun , Ali Karakus

We present a new formulation of the central moment lattice Boltzmann (LB) method based on a continuous Fokker-Planck (FP) kinetic model, originally proposed for stochastic diffusive-drift processes (e.g., Brownian dynamics), by adapting it…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-10-15 William Schupbach , Kannan Premnath

A family of weak Galerkin finite element discretization is developed for solving the coupled Darcy-Stokes equation. The equation in consideration admits the Beaver-Joseph-Saffman condition on the interface. By using the weak Galerkin…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-07-22 Wenbin Chen , Fang Wang , Yanqiu Wang

In this paper, we present and study discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods for one-dimensional multi-symplectic Hamiltonian partial differential equations. We particularly focus on semi-discrete schemes with spatial discretization only, and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-15 Zheng Sun , Yulong Xing

Coulomb collision is a fundamental diffusion process in plasmas that can be described by the Landau-Fokker-Planck (LFP) equation or the stochastic differential equation (SDE). While energy and momentum are conserved exactly in the LFP…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-03-05 Yichen Fu , Justin R. Angus , Hong Qin , Vasily I. Geyko

We introduce and rigorously analyze a least-squares weak Galerkin (LS-WG) finite element method for the severely ill-posed Cauchy problem of convection--diffusion equations. The proposed framework utilizes weak derivatives defined on a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-15 Chunmei Wang , Shangyou Zhang

Nishikawa (2007) proposed to reformulate the classical Poisson equation as a steady state problem for a linear hyperbolic system. This results in optimal error estimates for both the solution of the elliptic equation and its gradient.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-18 Hendrik Ranocha

This paper develops a discontinuous Galerkin (DG) finite element differential calculus theory for approximating weak derivatives of Sobolev functions and piecewise Sobolev functions. By introducing numerical one-sided derivatives as…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-03-06 Xiaobing Feng , Thomas Lewis , Michael Neilan

We study kinetic representations of flocking models. They arise from agent-based models for self-organized dynamics, such as Cucker-Smale and Motsch-Tadmor models. We prove flocking behavior for the kinetic descriptions of flocking systems,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-20 Changhui Tan

The quadrature-based method of moments (QMOM) offers a promising class of approximation techniques for reducing kinetic equations to fluid equations that are valid beyond thermodynamic equilibrium. In this work, we study a particular…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-25 Erica R. Johnson , James A. Rossmanith , Christine Vaughan

Kinetic simulations of relativistic gases and plasmas are critical for understanding diverse astrophysical and terrestrial systems, but the accurate construction of the relativistic Maxwellian, the Maxwell-J\"uttner (MJ) distribution, on a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 Grant Johnson , Ammar Hakim , James Juno

We propose a structure-preserving discontinuous Galerkin scheme for the Cahn--Hilliard equations with degenerate mobility based on the Symmetric Weighted Interior Penalty formulation. By evaluating the mobility at cell averages rather than…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-03 Jimmy Kornelije Gunnarsson , Robert Klöfkorn

In this second part of our two-part paper, we extend to multiple spatial dimensions the one-dimensional, fully conservative, positivity-preserving, and entropy-bounded discontinuous Galerkin scheme developed in the first part for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-11 Eric J. Ching , Ryan F. Johnson , Andrew D. Kercher