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We consider a non-standard finite-volume discretization of a strongly non-linear fourth order diffusion equation on the $d$-dimensional cube, for arbitrary $d \geq 1$. The scheme preserves two important structural properties of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-06-29 Jan Maas , Daniel Matthes

This paper revisits the modeling of multicomponent diffusion within the framework of thermodynamics of irreversible processes. We briefly review the two well-known main approaches, leading to the generalized Fick-Onsager multicomponent…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-08-13 Dieter Bothe , Pierre-Etienne Druet

A fully discrete finite element method, based on a new weak formulation and a new time-stepping scheme, is proposed for the surface diffusion flow of closed curves in the two-dimensional plane. It is proved that the proposed method can…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-28 Wei Jiang , Buyang Li

We present a convergence analysis of a finite volume (FV) scheme for the multicomponent compressible Euler system in the framework of dissipative weak (DW) solutions. DW solutions were introduced as a generalized solution framework in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Jaya Agnihotri , Philipp Öffner

Structure-preserving discretization of the Rosenbluth-Fokker-Planck equation is still an open question especially for unlike-particle collision. In this paper, a mass-energy-conserving isotropic Rosenbluth-Fokker-Planck scheme is…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-11-30 Takashi Shiroto , Akinobu Matsuyama , Nobuyuki Aiba , Masatoshi Yagi

In this work we first prove, by formal arguments, that the diffusion limit of nonlinear kinetic equations, where both the transport term and the turning operator are density-dependent, leads to volume-exclusion chemotactic equations. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-11-04 Gissell Estrada-Rodriguez , Diane Peurichard , Xinran Ruan

Using the method of equivariant moving frames, we present a procedure for constructing symmetry-preserving finite element methods for second-order ordinary differential equations. Using the method of lines, we then indicate how our…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-03-28 Alexander Bihlo , Francis Valiquette

A Lagrangian numerical scheme for solving nonlinear degenerate Fokker-Planck equations in space dimensions $d\ge2$ is presented. It applies to a large class of nonlinear diffusion equations, whose dynamics are driven by internal energies…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-18 José A. Carrillo , Bertram Düring , Daniel Matthes , David S. McCormick

We propose a positivity preserving entropy decreasing finite volume scheme for nonlinear nonlocal equations with a gradient flow structure. These properties allow for accurate computations of stationary states and long-time asymptotics…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-18 José A. Carrillo , Alina Chertock , Yanghong Huang

We propose a fully discrete finite volume scheme for the standard Fokker-Planck equation. The space discretization relies on the well-known square-root approximation, which falls into the framework of two-point flux approximations. Our time…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-07 Clément Cancès , Léonard Monsaingeon , Andrea Natale

In this paper, we consider a nonlinear and nonlocal parabolic model for multi-species ionic fluids and introduce a semi-implicit finite volume scheme, which is second order accurate in space, first order in time and satisfies the following…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-01 Yong Zhang , Yu Zhao , Zhennan Zhou

This work presents a conforming finite-element scheme for the non-isothermal Allen-Cahn-Navier-Stokes system, incorporating periodic, closed, and thermal boundary conditions. The system comprises the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-24 Aaron Brunk , Dennis Höhn

We propose a novel non-compact, positivity-preserving scheme for linear non-divergence form elliptic equations. Based on the Feynman--Kac formula, the solution is represented as a conditional expectation associated with a diffusion…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-06 Haoran Xu , Kunyang Li , Xingye Yue

By the simple finite element method, we study the symplectic, multisymplectic structures and relevant preserving properties in some semi-linear elliptic boundary value problem in one-dimensional and two-dimensional spaces respectively. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Han-Ying Guo , Xiao-mei Ji , Yu-Qi Li , Ke Wu

In this article, we propose a novel conservative diffuse-interface method for the simulation of immiscible compressible two-phase flows. The proposed method discretely conserves the mass of each phase, momentum and total energy of the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-06-11 Suhas S. Jain , Ali Mani , Parviz Moin

This paper aims to construct structure-preserving numerical schemes for multi-dimensional space fractional Klein-Gordon-Schr\"{o}dinger equation, which are based on the newly developed partitioned averaged vector field methods. First, we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-11-27 Yayun Fu Wenjun Cai , Yushun Wang

We propose a new fractional Laplacian for bounded domains, expressed as a conservation law and thus particularly suited to finite-volume schemes. Our approach permits the direct prescription of no-flux boundary conditions. We first show the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-19 Rafael Bailo , José A. Carrillo , Stefano Fronzoni , David Gómez-Castro

We develop structure-preserving numerical methods for the compressible Euler equations, employing potential temperature as a prognostic variable. We construct three numerical fluxes designed to ensure the conservation of entropy and total…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-23 Marco Artiano , Oswald Knoth , Peter Spichtinger , Hendrik Ranocha

This paper introduces a family of entropy-conserving finite-difference discretizations for the compressible flow equations. In addition to conserving the primary quantities of mass, momentum, and total energy, the methods also preserve…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-09-24 Carlo De Michele , Ayaboe K. Edoh , Gennaro Coppola

I report a study of the nonstationary one-dimensional Fokker-Planck solutions by means of the strictly isospectral method of supesymmetric quantum mechanics. The main conclusion is that this technique can lead to a space-dependent…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-28 H. C. Rosu