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This paper presents the numerical solution of immiscible two-phase flows in porous media, obtained by a first-order finite element method equipped with mass-lumping and flux up-winding. The unknowns are the physical phase pressure and phase…
A novel principle is presented which allows for the proof of bounded weak solutions to a class of physically relevant, strongly coupled parabolic systems exhibiting a formal gradient-flow structure. The main feature of these systems is that…
We are concerned with fully-discrete schemes for the numerical approximation of diffusive-dispersive hyperbolic conservation laws with a discontinuous flux function in one-space dimension. More precisely, we show the convergence of…
We present a numerical scheme for immiscible two-phase flows with one compressible and one incompressible phase. Special emphasis lies in the discussion of the coupling strategy for compressible and incompressible Euler equations to…
This paper introduces a family of entropy-conserving finite-difference discretizations for the compressible flow equations. In addition to conserving the primary quantities of mass, momentum, and total energy, the methods also preserve…
We propose finite-volume schemes for general continuity equations which preserve positivity and global bounds that arise from saturation effects in the mobility function. In the case of gradient flows, the schemes dissipate the free energy…
The Active Flux scheme is a finite volume scheme with additional point values distributed along the cell boundary. It is third order accurate and does not require a Riemann solver. Instead, given a reconstruction, the initial value problem…
Finite volume schemes for hyperbolic conservation laws require a numerical intercell flux. In one spatial dimension the numerical flux can be successfully obtained by solving (exactly or approximately) Riemann problems that are introduced…
We study a degenerate parabolic-hyperbolic equation with zero flux boundary condition. The aim of this paper is to prove convergence of numerical approximate solutions towards the unique entropy solution. We propose an implicit finite…
We study a nonlinear, degenerate cross-diffusion model which involves two densities with two different drift velocities. A general framework is introduced based on its gradient flow structure in Wasserstein space to derive a notion of…
In a recent paper (see [7]), a quasi-nonlocal coupling method was introduced to seamlessly bridge a nonlocal diffusion model with the classical local diffusion counterpart in a one-dimensional space. The proposed coupling framework removes…
A fully discrete finite element method, based on a new weak formulation and a new time-stepping scheme, is proposed for the surface diffusion flow of closed curves in the two-dimensional plane. It is proved that the proposed method can…
Anomalous diffusion is a phenomenon that cannot be modeled accurately by second-order diffusion equations, but is better described by fractional diffusion models. The nonlocal nature of the fractional diffusion operators makes substantially…
The Active Flux method is a finite volume method for hyperbolic conservation laws that uses both cell averages and point values as degrees of freedom. Several versions of such methods are currently under development. We focus on third order…
We propose an improved viscosity model accounting for experiments of emulsions of two immiscible liquids at arbitrary volume fractions and low shear rates. The model is based on a recursive-differential method formulated in terms of the…
This article performs a unified convergence analysis of a variety of numerical methods for a model of the miscible displacement of one incompressible fluid by another through a porous medium. The unified analysis is enabled through the…
Robust and accurate fully implicit finite-volume schemes applied to Darcy-scale multiphase flow and transport in porous media are highly desirable. Recently, a smooth approximation of the saturation-dependent flux coefficients based on…
We consider numerical methods for linear parabolic equations in one spatial dimension having piecewise constant diffusion coefficients defined by a one parameter family of interface conditions at the discontinuity. We construct immersed…
The Active Flux scheme is a Finite Volume scheme with additional degrees of freedom. It makes use of a continuous reconstruction and does not require a Riemann solver. An evolution operator is used for the additional degrees of freedom on…
In this paper, we propose a nonlinear positivity-preserving finite volume element(FVE) scheme for anisotropic diffusion problems on quadrilateral meshes. Based on an overlapping dual partition, the one-sided flux is approximated by the…