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The Rosenbluth-Fokker-Planck (RFP) equation describes Coulomb collisional dynamics within and across species in plasmas. It belongs to the broader class of anisotropic-diffusion-advection equations, whose numerical approximation is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-15 Hamad El Kahza , Luis Chacón , William Taitano , Jingmei Qiu , Jingwei Hu

In simulations of compressible flows, the conservative finite difference method (FDM) based on the nonlinear upwind schemes, e.g. WENO5, might violate free-stream preserving (FP), due to the loss of the geometric conservation law (GCL)…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-01-14 Hongmin Su , Jinsheng Cai , Kun Qu , Shucheng Pan

We present a linear, second order fully discrete numerical scheme on a staggered grid for a thermodynamically consistent hydrodynamic phase field model of binary compressible fluid flow mixtures derived from the generalized Onsager…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-24 Xueping Zhao , Qi Wang

In this paper, we propose stochastic structure-preserving schemes to compute the effective diffusivity for particles moving in random flows. We first introduce the motion of particles using the Lagrangian formulation, which is modeled by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-24 Junlong Lyu , Zhongjian Wang , Jack Xin , Zhiwen Zhang

Radiation hydrodynamics simulations based on the one-fluid two-temperature model may violate the law of energy conservation because the governing equations are expressed in a nonconservative formulation. Here, we maintain the important…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-03-09 Takashi Shiroto , Soshi Kawai , Naofumi Ohnishi

We use the general framework of summation-by-parts operators to construct conservative, energy-stable, and well-balanced semidiscretizations of two different nonlinear systems of dispersive shallow water equations with varying bathymetry:…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-12 Joshua Lampert , Hendrik Ranocha

Classical Finite Volume methods for multi-dimensional problems include stabilization (e.g.\ via a Riemann solver), that is derived by considering several one-dimensional problems in different directions. Such methods therefore ignore a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Wasilij Barsukow , Mirco Ciallella , Mario Ricchiuto , Davide Torlo

We study the construction of a non-standard finite differences numerical scheme for a general class of two dimensional differential equations including several models in population dynamics using the idea of non-local approximation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-10-27 Jacky Cresson , Frédéric Pierret

We introduce a finite volume scheme for the two-dimensional incompressible Navier-Stokes equations. We use a triangular mesh. The unknowns for the velocity and pressure are both piecewise constant (colocated scheme). We use a projection…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Sebastien Zimmermann

In this work, high order asymptotic preserving schemes are constructed and analysed for kinetic equations under a diffusive scaling. The framework enables to consider different cases: the diffusion equation, the advection-diffusion equation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-24 Megala Anandan , Benjamin Boutin , Nicolas Crouseilles

We study two schemes for a time-fractional Fokker-Planck equation with space- and time-dependent forcing in one space dimension. The first scheme is continuous in time and is discretized in space using a piecewise-linear Galerkin finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-10-24 Kim Ngan Le , William McLean , Kassem Mustapha

We introduce a finite-volume numerical scheme for solving stochastic gradient-flow equations. Such equations are of crucial importance within the framework of fluctuating hydrodynamics and dynamic density functional theory. Our proposed…

In this work, we introduce a structure-preserving local discontinuous Galerkin (LDG) method \cite{cockburn1998local} for solving the non-local non-linear Fokker-Planck-Landau (FPL) equations. We rephrase the structure-preserving strategy of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-27 Kun Huang , Andrés Galindo-Olarte , Rodrigo González-Hernández , Irene M. Gamba

We present Finite Volume methods for diffusion equations on generic meshes, that received important coverage in the last decade or so. After introducing the main ideas and construction principles of the methods, we review some literature…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-07-08 Jerome Droniou

Space fractional convection diffusion equation describes physical phenomena where particles or energy (or other physical quantities) are transferred inside a physical system due to two processes: convection and superdiffusion. In this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-05-20 Minghua Chen , Weihua Deng

We propose finite-volume schemes for the Cahn-Hilliard equation which unconditionally and discretely preserve the boundedness of the phase field and the dissipation of the free energy. Our numerical framework is applicable to a variety of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-18 Rafael Bailo , José A. Carrillo , Serafim Kalliadasis , Sergio P. Perez

Lack of conservation has been the biggest drawback in meshfree generalized finite difference methods (GFDMs). In this paper, we present a novel modification of classical meshfree GFDMs to include local balances which produce an approximate…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-02-02 Pratik Suchde , Joerg Kuhnert , Simon Schroeder , Axel Klar

We report the development of a discontinuous spectral element flow solver that includes the implementation of both spectral difference and flux reconstruction formulations. With this high order framework, we have constructed a foundation…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-08-06 Christopher Cox , Will Trojak , Tarik Dzanic , Freddie Witherden , Antony Jameson

We are interested in the discretisation of a drift-diffusion system in the framework of hybrid finite volume (HFV) methods on general polygonal/polyhedral meshes. The system under study is composed of two anisotropic and nonlinear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-11 Julien Moatti

Q-conditional symmetries (nonclassical symmetries) for a general class of two-component reaction-diffusion systems with constant diffusivities are studied. Using the recently introduced notion of Q-conditional symmetries of the first type…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-09-17 Roman Cherniha , Vasyl' Davydovych