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To ensure the discrete maximum principle or solution positivity in finite volume schemes, diffusive flux is sometimes discretized as a conical combination of finite differences. Such a combination may be impossible to construct along…
We propose a structure-preserving parametric finite element method (SP-PFEM) for discretizing the surface diffusion of a closed curve in two dimensions (2D) or surface in three dimensions (3D). Here the "structure-preserving" refers to…
In this paper, a higher order finite difference scheme is proposed for Generalized Fractional Diffusion Equations (GFDEs). The fractional diffusion equation is considered in terms of the generalized fractional derivatives (GFDs) which uses…
Entropy stable methods have become increasingly popular in the field of computational fluid dynamics. They often work by satisfying some form of a discrete entropy inequality: a discrete form of the 2nd law of thermodynamics. Schemes which…
For gradient flows, the existing structure-preserving schemes are difficult to achieve arbitrary high-order accuracy in time while preserving maximum-principle (MBP) and energy dissipating simultaneously. In this paper, we develop a new…
First-order energy dissipative schemes in time are available in literature for the Poisson-Nernst-Planck (PNP) equations, but second-order ones are still in lack. This work proposes novel second-order discretization in time and finite…
This paper presents a general positivity-preserving algorithm for implicit high-order finite volume schemes solving Euler and Navier-Stokes equations. Previous positivity-preserving algorithms are mainly based on mathematical analyses,…
We develop a linear fully discrete structure-preserving finite element method for a diffuse-interface model of tumour growth. The system couples a Cahn--Hilliard type equation with a nonlinear reaction-diffusion equation for nutrient…
We develop a positivity-preserving finite difference WENO scheme for the Ten-Moment equations with body forces acting as a source in the momentum and energy equations. A positive forward Euler scheme under a CFL condition is first…
We develop a simple, high-order, conservative and robust positivity-preserving sweeping procedure for the density and the nonlinear pressure function in the compressible Euler equations. Using the scaling limiter in Zhang and Shu (2010), we…
We derive a uniqueness and stability principle for surface diffusion before the onset of singularities. The perturbations, however, are allowed to undergo topological changes. The main ingredient is a relative energy inequality, which in…
A conforming finite element scheme with mixed explicit-implicit time discretization for quasi-incompressible Navier-Stokes-Maxwell-Stefan systems in a bounded domain with periodic boundary conditions is presented. The system consists of the…
An asymptotic preserving and energy stable scheme for the Euler-Poisson system under the quasineutral scaling is designed and analysed. Correction terms are introduced in the convective fluxes and the electrostatic potential, which lead to…
We introduce in this work an efficient numerical method for the simulation of the quantum Liouville-BGK equation, which models the diffusive transport of quantum particles. The corner stone to the model is the BGK collision operator,…
A finite difference numerical scheme is proposed and analyzed for the Cahn-Hilliard-Stokes system with Flory-Huggins energy functional. A convex splitting is applied to the chemical potential, which in turns leads to the implicit treatment…
We propose and analyze stable finite element approximations for Willmore flow of planar curves. The presented schemes are based on a novel weak formulation which combines an evolution equation for curvature with the curvature formulation…
We consider the initial/boundary value problem for the fractional diffusion and diffusion-wave equations involving a Caputo fractional derivative in time. We develop two "simple" fully discrete schemes based on the Galerkin finite element…
We propose two stable and one conditionally stable finite difference schemes of second-order in both time and space for the time-fractional diffusion-wave equation. In the first scheme, we apply the fractional trapezoidal rule in time and…
We introduce in this paper two time discretization schemes tailored for a range of Wasserstein gradient flows. These schemes are designed to preserve mass, positivity and to be uniquely solvable. In addition, they also ensure energy…
We consider a stochastic heat equation with nonlinear finite-rank space-coloured multiplicative noise that admits a unique nonnegative solution when given nonnegative initial data. Inspired by existing results for fully discrete finite…