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Employing physically-consistent numerical methods is an important step towards attaining robust and accurate numerical simulations. When addressing compressible flows, in addition to preserving kinetic energy at a discrete level, as done in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-08-13 Carlo De Michele , Gennaro Coppola

We present an energy conserving space discretisation of the rotating shallow water equations using compatible finite elements. It is based on an energy and enstrophy conserving Hamiltonian formulation as described in McRae and Cotter…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Golo Wimmer , Colin Cotter , Werner Bauer

Energy nonconservation is a serious problem of dynamical collapse theories. In this paper, we propose a discrete model of energy-conserved wavefunction collapse. It is shown that the model is consistent with existing experiments and our…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-04-03 Shan Gao

As is known that wave equations have physically very important properties which should be respected by numerical schemes in order to predict correctly the solution over a long time period. In this paper, the long-time behaviour of momentum…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-07-25 Bin Wang , Xinyuan Wu

Structure-preserving particle methods have recently been proposed for a class of nonlinear continuity equations, including aggregation-diffusion equation in [J. Carrillo, K. Craig, F. Patacchini, Calc. Var., 58 (2019), pp. 53] and the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-19 Jingwei Hu , Samuel Q. Van Fleet , Andy T. S. Wan

Moist thermodynamics is a fundamental driver of atmospheric dynamics across all scales, making accurate modeling of these processes essential for reliable weather forecasts and climate change projections. However, atmospheric models often…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2024-11-18 Kieran Ricardo , David Lee , Kenneth Duru

In this work we present a mimetic spectral element discretization for the 2D incompressible Navier-Stokes equations that in the limit of vanishing dissipation exactly preserves mass, kinetic energy, enstrophy and total vorticity on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-12-21 Artur Palha , Marc Gerritsma

We introduce a physically relevant stochastic representation of the rotating shallow water equations. The derivation relies mainly on a stochastic transport principle and on a decomposition of the fluid flow into a large-scale component and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-01-05 Rüdiger Brecht , Long Li , Werner Bauer , Etienne Mémin

We give a systematic method for discretizing Hamiltonian partial differential equations (PDEs) with constant symplectic structure, while preserving their energy exactly. The same method, applied to PDEs with constant dissipative structure,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-04 E. Celledoni , V. Grimm , R. I. McLachlan , D. I. McLaren , D. O'Neale , B. Owren , G. R. W. Quispel

The computation of multiphase flows presents a subtle energetic equilibrium between potential (i.e., surface) and kinetic energies. The use of traditional interface-capturing schemes provides no control over such a dynamic balance. In the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 N. Valle , F. X. Trias , J. Castro

Numerical simulations of compressible real-fluid flows are notoriously plagued by spurious pressure oscillations arising in regions of abrupt flow variations. As a possible remedy, several numerical formulations enforce the pressure…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-27 Gennaro Coppola , Alessandro Aiello , Carlo De Michele

We revisit second-order-in-time space-time discretizations of the linear and semilinear wave equations by establishing precise equivalences with first-order-in-time formulations. Focusing on schemes using continuous piecewise-polynomial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-07 Matteo Ferrari , Ilaria Perugia , Enrico Zampa

The aim of this paper is the derivation of structure preserving schemes for the solution of the EPDiff equation, with particular emphasis on the two dimensional case. We develop three different schemes based on the Discrete Variational…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-04-26 Stig Larsson , Takayasu Matsuo , Klas Modin , Matteo Molteni

We show for a variety of classes of conservative PDEs that discrete gradient methods designed to have a conserved quantity (here called energy) also have a time-discrete conservation law. The discrete conservation law has the same conserved…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-02-20 Robert I McLachlan , G R W Quispel

For discretisations of hyperbolic conservation laws, mimicking properties of operators or solutions at the continuous (differential equation) level discretely has resulted in several successful methods. While well-posedness for nonlinear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-22 Hendrik Ranocha

In this paper, a novel dual-field structure-preserving mixed finite element discretization for incompressible Hall MHD equations is introduced. The discretization satisfies pointwise conservation of mass, magnetic Gauss's law, and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Yi Zhang

We introduce an efficient split finite element (FE) discretization of a y-independent (slice) model of the rotating shallow water equations. The study of this slice model provides insight towards developing schemes for the full 2D case.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-24 Werner Bauer , Jörn Behrens , Colin J. Cotter

In this paper we present a complete framework for the energy-stable simulation of stratified incompressible flow in channels, using the one-dimensional two-fluid model. Building on earlier energy-conserving work on the basic two-fluid…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-10-24 J. F. H. Buist , B. Sanderse , S. Dubinkina , C. W. Oosterlee , R. A. W. M. Henkes

This study proposes a novel spatial discretization procedure for the compressible Euler equations which guarantees entropy conservation at a discrete level when an arbitrary equation of state is assumed. The proposed method, based on a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-09-24 Alessandro Aiello , Carlo De Michele , Gennaro Coppola