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This paper proposes a charge-conserving, variational, spatio-temporal discretization for the drift-kinetic Vlasov-Maxwell system, utilizing finite-elements for the electromagnetic fields and the particle-in-cell approach for the Vlasov…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-10-09 Eero Hirvijoki

We introduce a high-order spline geometric approach for the initial boundary value problem for Maxwell's equations. The method is geometric in the sense that it discretizes in structure preserving fashion the two de Rham sequences of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-03 Bernard Kapidani , Rafael Vázquez

In this paper we propose the first better than second order accurate method in space and time for the numerical solution of the resistive relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (RRMHD) equations on unstructured meshes in multiple space…

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The propagation of electromagnetic waves in general media is modeled by the time-dependent Maxwell's partial differential equations (PDEs), coupled with constitutive laws that describe the response of the media. In this work, we focus on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-10-11 Vrushali A. Bokil , Yingda Cheng , Yan Jiang , Fengyan Li

Two-fluid relativistic plasma flow equations combine the equations of relativistic hydrodynamics with Maxwell's equations for electromagnetic fields, which involve divergence constraints for the magnetic and electric fields. When developing…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-27 Jaya Agnihotri , Deepak Bhoriya , Harish Kumar , Praveen Chandrashekar , Dinshaw S. Balsara

In this work, we present a numerical method that remedies the instabilities of the conventional FDTD approach for solving Maxwell's equations in a space-time dependent magneto-electric medium with direct application to the simulation of the…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-18 Jason Cornelius , Jinjie Liu , Moysey Brio

Motivated by the problem of solving the Einstein equations, we discuss high order finite difference discretizations of first order in time, second order in space hyperbolic systems.Particular attention is paid to the case when first order…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-01-18 M. Chirvasa , S. Husa

This paper is devoted to the numerical validation of an explicit finite-difference scheme for the integration in time of Maxwell's equations in terms of the sole electric field, using standard linear finite elements for the space…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-05-10 L. Beilina , V. Ruas

In this work we propose a new, arbitrary order space-time finite element discretisation for Hamiltonian PDEs in multisymplectic formulation. We show that the new method which is obtained by using both continuous and discontinuous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-08-18 Elena Celledoni , James Jackaman

We present a novel approach for high-order accurate numerical differentiation on unstructured meshes of quadrilateral elements. To differentiate a given function, an auxiliary function with greater smoothness properties is defined which…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-05-11 Yulong Pan , Per-Olof Persson

A transient magneto-quasistatic vector potential formulation involving nonlinear material is spatially discretized using the finite element method of first and second polynomial order. By applying a generalized Schur complement the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-11-09 Bernhard Kähne , Markus Clemens , Sebastian Schöps

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

Geometric particle-in-cell discretizations have been derived based on a discretization of the fields that is conforming with the de Rham structure of the Maxwell's equation and a standard particle-in-cell ansatz for the fields by deriving…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-10 Katharina Kormann , Eric Sonnendrücker

We present a finite-element time-domain (FETD) Maxwell solver for the analysis of body-of-revolution (BOR) geometries based on discrete exterior calculus (DEC) of differential forms and transformation optics (TO) concepts. We explore TO…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-10-08 Dong-Yeop Na , Ben-Hur V. Borges , Fernando L. Teixeira

In this paper we provide a detailed convergence analysis for an unconditionally energy stable, second-order accurate convex splitting scheme for the Modified Phase Field Crystal equation, a generalized damped wave equation for which the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-08-08 Arvind Baskaran , John Lowengrub , Cheng Wang , Steve Wise

In this paper, we study a novel second-order energy stable Backward Differentiation Formula (BDF) finite difference scheme for the epitaxial thin film equation with slope selection (SS). One major challenge for the higher oder in time…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-06-29 Wenqiang Feng , Cheng Wang , Steven M. Wise , Zhengru Zhang

In this article, we analyze semi-discrete finite element approximation and full discretization of a fourth-order stochastic pseudo-parabolic equation in a bounded convex polygonal domain driven by additive Wiener noise. We use the finite…

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We present a formulation for high-order generalized periodicity conditions in the context of a high-order electromechanical theory including flexoelectricity, strain gradient elasticity and gradient dielectricity, with the goal of studying…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-15 J. Barceló-Mercader , D. Codony , A. Mocci , I. Arias

We construct a finite element discretization and time-stepping scheme for the incompressible Euler equations with variable density that exactly preserves total mass, total squared density, total energy, and pointwise incompressibility. The…

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