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We consider a sharp interface formulation for an anisotropic multi-phase Mullins-Sekerka problem with kinetic undercooling. The flow is characterized by a cluster of surfaces evolving such that the total surface energy plus a weighted sum…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-23 Tokuhiro Eto , Harald Garcke , Robert Nürnberg

We propose a spatial discretization of the fourth-order nonlinear DLSS equation on the circle. Our choice of discretization is motivated by a novel gradient flow formulation with respect to a metric that generalizes martingale transport.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-14 Daniel Matthes , Eva-Maria Rott , Giuseppe Savaré , André Schlichting

Optimal Dirichlet boundary control for a fractional/normal evolution with a final observation is considered. The unique existence of the solution and the first-order optimality condition of the optimal control problem are derived. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-20 Qin Zhou , Binjie Li

We present an efficient nodal discontinuous Galerkin method for approximating nearly incompressible flows using the Boltzmann equations. The equations are discretized with Hermite polynomials in velocity space yielding a first order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-05-22 A. Karakus , N. Chalmers , J. S. Hesthaven , T. Warburton

We propose a fully discrete variational scheme for nonlinear evolution equations with gradient flow structure on the space of finite Radon measures on an interval with respect to a generalized version of the Wasserstein distance with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-09-29 Jonathan Zinsl , Daniel Matthes

We analyze the convergence of a perturbed circular interface for the two-phase Mullins-Sekerka evolution in flat two-dimensional space. Our method is based on the gradient flow structure of the evolution and captures two distinct regimes of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-29 Saša Lukić

We study a variant of the dynamical optimal transport problem in which the energy to be minimised is modulated by the covariance matrix of the distribution. Such transport metrics arise naturally in mean-field limits of certain ensemble…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-23 Martin Burger , Matthias Erbar , Franca Hoffmann , Daniel Matthes , André Schlichting

We develop a discretisation of the semigeostrophic rotating shallow water equations, based upon their optimal transport formulation. This takes the form of a Moreau-Yoshida regularisation of the Wasserstein metric. Solutions of the optimal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-23 Jean-David Benamou , Colin J. Cotter , Jacob J. M. Francis , Hugo Malamut

We consider semilinear evolution equations for which the linear part is normal and generates a strongly continuous semigroup and the nonlinear part is sufficiently smooth on a scale of Hilbert spaces. We approximate their semiflow by an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-10-22 Marcel Oliver , Claudia Wulff

Over the past fifteen years, the theory of Wasserstein gradient flows of convex (or, more generally, semiconvex) energies has led to advances in several areas of partial differential equations and analysis. In this work, we extend the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-05-04 Katy Craig

The sliced-Wasserstein flow is an evolution equation where a probability density evolves in time, advected by a velocity field computed as the average among directions in the unit sphere of the optimal transport displacements from its 1D…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-13 Giacomo Cozzi , Filippo Santambogio

We study a discretization in space and time for a class of nonlinear diffusion equations with flux limitation. That class contains the so-called relativistic heat equation, as well as other gradient flows of Renyi entropies with respect to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-10-23 Daniel Matthes , Benjamin Söllner

A space-discretization for the elastic flow of inextensible curves is devised and quasi-optimal convergence of the corresponding semi-discrete problem is proved for a suitable discretization of the nonlinear inextensibility constraint.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-07 Sören Bartels , Klaus Deckelnick , Dominik Schneider

Wasserstein gradient flows have become a central tool for optimization problems over probability measures. A natural numerical approach is forward-Euler time discretization. We show, however, that even in the simple case where the energy…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-16 Yewei Xu , Qin Li

We show that finite element discretizations of incompressible flow problems can be designed to ensure preservation/dissipation of kinetic energy not only globally but also locally. In the context of equal-order (piecewise-linear)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-10 Hennes Hajduk , Dmitri Kuzmin , Gert Lube , Philipp Öffner

We analyze the gradient flow of a potential energy in the space of probability measures when we substitute the optimal transport geometry with a geometry based on Sinkhorn divergences, a debiased version of entropic optimal transport. This…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-19 Mathis Hardion , Hugo Lavenant

We prove that the sequence of marginals obtained from the iterations of the Sinkhorn algorithm or the iterative proportional fitting procedure (IPFP) on joint densities, converges to an absolutely continuous curve on the $2$-Wasserstein…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Nabarun Deb , Young-Heon Kim , Soumik Pal , Geoffrey Schiebinger

It is shown that any three-dimensional periodic configuration that is strictly stable for the area functional is exponentially stable for the surface diffusion flow and for the Mullins-Sekerka or Hele-Shaw flow. The same result holds for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-06-16 Emilio Acerbi , Nicola Fusco , Vesa Julin , Massimiliano Morini

We consider the Shallow Water equations in the supercritical and subcritical cases in one space variable,posed in a finite spatial interval with characteristic boundary conditions at the endpoints, which, as is well known, are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-03-01 D. C. Antonopoulos , V. A. Dougalis

We consider the fully-coupled McKean-Vlasov equation with multi-time-scale potentials, and all the coefficients depend on the distributions of both the slow component and the fast motion. By studying the smoothness of the solution of the…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-04-28 Yun Li , Fuke Wu , Longjie Xie