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We develop a micromorphic-based approach for finite element stabilization of reaction-convection-diffusion equations, by gradient enhancement of the field of interest via introducing an auxiliary variable. The well-posedness of the…

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We present a method for optimizing the location of the fermion ground-state nodes using a combination of diffusion Monte Carlo (DMC) and projected gradient descent (PGD). A PGD iteration shifts the parameters of an arbitrary node-fixing…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-04-06 John McFarland , Efstratios Manousakis

This article deals with the stationary Gross-Pitaevskii non-linear eigenvalue problem in the presence of a rotating magnetic field that is used to model macroscopic quantum effects such as Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs). In this regime,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-19 Pascal Heid , Paul Houston , Benjamin Stamm , Thomas P. Wihler

We critically compare the practicality and accuracy of numerical approximations of phase field models and sharp interface models of solidification. Particular emphasis is put on Stefan problems, and their quasi-static variants, with…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-02 John W. Barrett , Harald Garcke , Robert Nürnberg

This paper deals with state estimation of stochastic models with linear state dynamics, continuous or discrete in time. The emphasis is laid on a numerical solution to the state prediction by the time-update step of the grid-point-based…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-18 Jakub Matousek , Jindrich Dunik , Marek Brandner , Chan Gook Park , Yeongkwon Choe

A symmetric phase field model is used to study wavelength selection in two dimensions. We study the problem in a finite system using a two-pronged approach. First we construct an action and, minimizing this, we obtain the most probable…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 R. N. Costa Filho , J. M. Kosterlitz , Enzo Granato

Conventional approaches for simulating steady-state distributions of particles under diffusive and advective transport at high P\'eclet numbers involve solving the diffusion and advection equations in at least two dimensions. Here, we…

We derive a novel efficient scheme to measure the rate constant of transitions between stable states separated by high free energy barriers in a complex environment within the framework of transition path sampling. The method is based on…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Titus S. van Erp , Daniele Moroni , Peter G. Bolhuis

This paper establishes new sufficient conditions for Mittag-Leffler stability of Caputo fractional-order nonlinear systems with state-dependent delays. The central analytical tool is a class of Lyapunov-Krasovskii functionals that…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Abdallah Alsammani , Gassan Farah

We find a general class of nontrivial stationary states in inelastic gases where, due to dissipation, energy is transfered from large velocity scales to small velocity scales. These steady-states exist for arbitrary collision rules and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Ben-Naim , J. Machta

We present an accelerated gradient method for non-convex optimization problems with Lipschitz continuous first and second derivatives. The method requires time $O(\epsilon^{-7/4} \log(1/ \epsilon) )$ to find an $\epsilon$-stationary point,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-02-03 Yair Carmon , John C. Duchi , Oliver Hinder , Aaron Sidford

The phase-field crystal model (PFC) describes crystal structures at diffusive timescales through a periodic order parameter representing the atomic density. One of its main features is that it naturally incorporates elastic and plastic…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-07-07 Maik Punke , Vidar Skogvoll , Marco Salvalaglio

We describe a general method to model multicomponent ordered crystals using the phase-field crystal (PFC) formalism. As a test case, a generic B2 compound is investigated. We are able to produce a line of either first-order or second-order…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-02-15 Eli Alster , K. R. Elder , Jeffrey J. Hoyt , Peter W. Voorhees

A new phase field crystal (PFC) type theory is presented, which accounts for the full spectrum of solid-liquid-vapor phase transitions within the framework of a single density order parameter. Its equilibrium properties show the most…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-23 Gabriel Kocher , Nikolas Provatas

A phase-field model for three-phase flows is established by combining the Navier-Stokes (NS) and the energy equations, with the Allen-Cahn (AC) and Cahn-Hilliard (CH) equations and is demonstrated analytically to satisfy the energy…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-12-24 Zhihua Wang , Lijing Zhou , Wenqiang Zhang , Xiaorong Wang , Shuguang Li , Xuerui Mao

In this paper we present two unconditionally energy stable finite difference schemes for the Modified Phase Field Crystal (MPFC) equation, a sixth-order nonlinear damped wave equation, of which the purely parabolic Phase Field Crystal (PFC)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-11 Arvind Baskaran , Peng Zhou , Zhengzheng Hu , Cheng Wang , Steven M. Wise , John S. Lowengrub

This paper develops and analyzes an accelerated proximal descent method for finding stationary points of nonconvex composite optimization problems. The objective function is of the form $f+h$ where $h$ is a proper closed convex function,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-02 Weiwei Kong

The selective frequency damping (SFD) method is an alternative to classical Newton's method to obtain unstable steady-state solutions of dynamical systems. However this method has two main limitations: it does not converge for arbitrary…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-10-28 Bastien E. Jordi , Colin J. Cotter , Spencer J. Sherwin

We review how phase-field models contributed to the understanding of various aspects of crystal nucleation including homogeneous and heterogeneous processes, and their role in microstructure evolution. We recall results obtained both by the…