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In this paper, we introduce and analyze a space-time $p$-adaptive discontinuous Galerkin method for nonlinear acoustics. We first present the underlying mathematical model, which is based on a recently derived formulation involving, in…
Westervelt's equation is a nonlinear wave equation that is widely used to model the propagation of sound waves in a compressible medium, with one important application being ultra-sound in human tissue. Two fundamental aspects of this…
A broad class of nonlinear acoustic wave models possess a Hamiltonian structure in their dissipation-free limit and a gradient flow structure for their dissipative dynamics. This structure may be exploited to design numerical methods which…
We introduce and analyze a post-processing for a family of variational space-time approximations to wave problems. The discretization in space and time is based on continuous finite element methods. The post-processing lifts the fully…
In this paper we discuss the local discontinuous Galerkin methods coupled with two specific explicit-implicit-null time discretizations for solving one-dimensional nonlinear diffusion problems $U_t=(a(U)U_x)_x$. The basic idea is to add and…
Many differential equations with physical backgrounds are described as gradient systems, which are evolution equations driven by the gradient of some functionals, and such problems have energy conservation or dissipation properties. For…
We study the numerical approximation by space-time finite element methods of a multi-physics system coupling hyperbolic elastodynamics with parabolic transport and modeling poro- and thermoelasticity. The equations are rewritten as a…
In this paper, we present an energy-preserving exponentially integrable numerical method for stochastic wave equation with cubic nonlinearity and additive noise. We first apply the spectral Galerkin method to discretizing the original…
We establish sharp energy decay rates for a large class of nonlinearly first-order damped systems, and we design discretization schemes that inherit of the same energy decay rates, uniformly with respect to the space and/or time…
Efficient time integration methods based on operator splitting are introduced for the Westervelt equation, a nonlinear damped wave equation that arises in nonlinear acoustics as mathematical model for the propagation of sound waves in high…
We present and analyse a new conforming space-time Galerkin discretisation of a semi-linear wave equation, based on a variational formulation derived from De Giorgi's elliptic regularisation viewpoint of the wave equation in second-order…
We consider three common mathematical models for time-harmonic high frequency scattering: the Helmholtz equation in two and three spatial dimensions, a transverse magnetic problem in two dimensions, and Maxwell's equation in three…
We consider the numerical discretization of the time-domain Maxwell's equations with an energy-conserving discontinuous Galerkin finite element formulation. This particular formulation allows for higher order approximations of the electric…
Critical points of energy functionals, which are of broad interest, for instance, in physics and chemistry, in solid and quantum mechanics, in material science, or in general diffusion-reaction models arise as solutions to the associated…
In this paper we show local (and partially global) in time existence for the Westervelt equation with several versions of nonlinear damping. This enables us to prove well-posedness with spatially varying $L_\infty$-coefficients, which…
We discuss the asymptotic-preserving properties of a hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin method for the Westervelt model of ultrasound waves. More precisely, we show that the proposed method is robust with respect to small values of the…
We propose a class of numerical methods for the nonlinear Schr\"odinger (NLS) equation that conserves mass and energy, is of arbitrarily high-order accuracy in space and time, and requires only the solution of a scalar algebraic equation…
We present a numerical scheme for the solution of a class of atmospheric models where high horizontal resolution is required while a coarser vertical structure is allowed. The proposed scheme considers a layering procedure for the original…
We present and analyze a discontinuous Galerkin method for the numerical solution of a class of second-order linear mixed-type partial differential equations, i.e. equations that change their nature from elliptic to hyperbolic through the…