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We are interested in the large-time behavior of solutions to finite volume discretizations of convection-diffusion equations or systems endowed with non-homogeneous Dirichlet and Neumann type boundary conditions. Our results concern various…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-10-03 Claire Chainais-Hillairet , Maxime Herda

We consider the numerical approximation of compressible flow in a pipe network. Appropriate coupling conditions are formulated that allow us to derive a variational characterization of solutions and to prove global balance laws for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-10-06 Herbert Egger

We prove the existence of weak solutions to a system of two diffusion equations that are coupled by a pointwise volume constraint. The time evolution is given by gradient dynamics for a free energy functional. Our primary example is a model…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-03-18 Clément Cancès , Daniel Matthes

We present a space-time continuous-Galerkin finite element method for solving incompressible Navier-Stokes equations. To ensure stability of the discrete variational problem, we apply ideas from the variational multi-scale method. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-25 Biswajit Khara , Robert Dyja , Kumar Saurabh , Anupam Sharma , Baskar Ganapathysubramanian

We propose a new class of finite element approximations to ideal compressible magnetohydrodynamic equations in smooth regime. Following variational approximations developed for fluid models in the last decade, our discretizations are built…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-29 Valentin Carlier , Martin Campos-Pinto

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…

We study the discretization of generalized Wasserstein distances with nonlinear mobilities on the real line via suitable discrete metrics on the cone of N ordered particles, a setting which naturally appears in the framework of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-09-01 Simone Di Marino , Lorenzo Portinale , Emanuela Radici

Combining the classical theory of optimal transport with modern operator splitting techniques, we develop a new numerical method for nonlinear, nonlocal partial differential equations, arising in models of porous media, materials science,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-09 Jose A. Carrillo , Katy Craig , Li Wang , Chaozhen Wei

We study the Fokker-Planck equation as the hydrodynamic limit of a stochastic particle system on one hand and as a Wasserstein gradient flow on the other. We write the rate functional, that characterizes the large deviations from the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-03-29 Manh Hong Duong , Vaios Laschos , Michiel Renger

We study a one dimensional model for two-phase flows in heterogeneous media, in which the capillary pressure functions can be discontinuous with respect to space. We first give a model, leading to a system of degenerated non-linear…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-09-08 Clément Cancès

We study the discretization, convergence, and numerical implementation of recent reformulations of the quadratic porous medium equation (multidimensional and anisotropic) and Burgers' equation (one-dimensional, with optional viscosity), as…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-06 Jean-Marie Mirebeau , Erwan Stampfli

We propose fully discrete, implicit-in-time finite-volume schemes for a general family of non-linear and non-local Fokker-Planck equations with a gradient-flow structure, usually known as aggregation-diffusion equations, in any dimension.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-29 Rafael Bailo , Jose A. Carrillo , Jingwei Hu

We consider the non-isothermal flow of a compressible fluid through pipes. Starting from the full set of Euler equations, we propose a variational characterization of solutions that encodes the conservation of mass, energy, and entropy in a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-11 Herbert Egger

This paper concerns the construction and analysis of a numerical scheme for a mixed discrete-continuous fragmentation equation. A finite volume scheme is developed, based on a conservative formulation of a truncated version of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-06 Graham Baird , Endre Süli

We study the particle method to approximate the gradient flow on the $L^p$-Wasserstein space. This method relies on the discretization of the energy introduced by [3] via nonoverlapping balls centered at the particles and preserves the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-08 Rong Lei

Solving Fredholm equations of the first kind is crucial in many areas of the applied sciences. In this work we adopt a probabilistic and variational point of view by considering a minimization problem in the space of probability measures…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-17 Francesca R. Crucinio , Valentin De Bortoli , Arnaud Doucet , Adam M. Johansen

This article details a novel numerical scheme to approximate gradient flows for optimal transport (i.e. Wasserstein) metrics. These flows have proved useful to tackle theoretically and numerically non-linear diffusion equations that model…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-03-10 Gabriel Peyré

We present a novel approximate inference method for diffusion processes, based on the Wasserstein gradient flow formulation of the diffusion. In this formulation, the time-dependent density of the diffusion is derived as the limit of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-06-13 Charlie Frogner , Tomaso Poggio

We consider a time-dependent coupled Navier--Stokes/generalized poroelastic flow problem and propose a unified and monolithic finite element discretization based on implicit time stepping. To handle the fluid-structure interface we employ a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Aparna Bansal , Nicolas A. Barnafi , Dwijendra Narain Pandey , Ricardo Ruiz-Baier

This paper contains two contributions in the study of optimal transport on metric graphs. Firstly, we prove a Benamou-Brenier formula for the Wasserstein distance, which establishes the equivalence of static and dynamical optimal transport.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-02 Matthias Erbar , Dominik Forkert , Jan Maas , Delio Mugnolo