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Peskin's Immersed Boundary (IB) model and method are among one of the most important modeling tools and numerical methods. The IB method has been known to be first order accurate in the velocity. However, almost no rigorous theoretical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-07 Zhilin Li , Kejia Pan , Juan Ruiz-Álvarez

We develop a reduced-order framework for optimizing mixing in two-dimensional incompressible flows. Instead of optimizing the full transport PDE, the method maximizes the length of advected material interfaces, leading to a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-07 Ziqian Li , Enrique Zuazua

In this paper, we study a second-order accurate and linear numerical scheme for the nonlocal Cahn-Hilliard equation. The scheme is established by combining a modified Crank-Nicolson approximation and the Adams-Bashforth extrapolation for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-09 Xiao Li , Zhonghua Qiao , Cheng Wang

We develop a framework for solving the stationary, incompressible Stokes equations in an axisymmetric domain. By means of Fourier expansion with respect to the angular variable, the three-dimensional Stokes problem is reduced to an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-19 N. Ericsson

A compact and accurate solution method is provided for problems whose infinite power series solution diverges and/or whose series coefficients are only known up to a finite order. The method only requires that either the power series…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-02-09 Nathaniel S. Barlow , Christopher R. Stanton , Nicole Hill , Steven J. Weinstein , Allyssa G. Cio

Two-phase flow of two Newtonian incompressible viscous fluids with a soluble surfactant and different densities of the fluids can be modeled within the diffuse interface approach. We consider a Navier-Stokes/Cahn-Hilliard type system…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-10-10 Helmut Abels , Harald Garcke , Josef Weber

We consider the stochastic Cahn-Hilliard equation driven by additive Gaussian noise in a convex domain with polygonal boundary in dimension $d\le 3$. We discretize the equation using a standard finite element method in space and a fully…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-04 Daisuke Furihata , Mihály Kovács , Stig Larsson , Fredrik Lindgren

In this paper, further extensions of the result of the paper "A successive approximation method in functional spaces for hierarchical optimal control problems and its application to learning, arXiv:2410.20617 [math.OC], 2024" concerning a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-26 Getachew K. Befekadu

This paper proposes low-complexity algorithms for finding approximate second-order stationary points (SOSPs) of problems with smooth non-convex objective and linear constraints. While finding (approximate) SOSPs is computationally…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-11 Songtao Lu , Meisam Razaviyayn , Bo Yang , Kejun Huang , Mingyi Hong

For an arbitrary strong, spherically symmetric super-horizon curvature perturbation, we present analytical solutions of the Einstein equations in terms of asymptotic expansion over the ratio of the Hubble radius to the length-scale of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-10-09 A. G. Polnarev , Tomohiro Nakama , Jun'ichi Yokoyama

We rigorously prove the bifurcation of slow-moving pattern interfaces with general direction in a two-dimensional Swift-Hohenberg-type model close to a Turing instability for a large class of nonlinearities. These interfaces describe the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-13 Bastian Hilder , Jonas Jansen

We consider the numerical approximations of the Cahn-Hilliard equation with dynamic boundary conditions (C. Liu et. al., Arch. Rational Mech. Anal., 2019). We propose a first-order in time, linear and energy stable numerical scheme, which…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-14 Xuelian Bao , Hui Zhang

In this article we consider the graph alignment problem from the perspective of high-dimensional statistics: we aim to estimate an unknown permutation $\pi^*$ from the observation of two correlated random adjacency matrices $A_1$, $A_2$. We…

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We construct an asymptotic approximation to the solution of a transmission problem for a body containing a region occupied by many small inclusions. The cluster of inclusions is characterised by two small parameters that determine the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-07-22 Michael Nieves

Topology changes in multi-phase fluid flows are difficult to model within a traditional sharp interface theory. Diffuse interface models turn out to be an attractive alternative to model two-phase flows. Based on a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-08-02 Luca Dedè , Harald Garcke , Kei Fong Lam

We show that the two couple equations derived by approximate symmetry method and approximate homotopy symmetry method are connected by a transformation for the perturbed PDEs. Consequently, approximate homotopy series solutions can be…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-04-23 Zhi-Yong Zhang

A Cahn-Hilliard-Navier-Stokes system for two-phase flow on an evolving surface with non-matched densities is derived using methods from rational thermodynamics. For a Cahn-Hilliard energy with a singular (logarithmic) potential short time…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Helmut Abels , Harald Garcke , Andrea Poiatti

We present a new type of approximation of a second-order elliptic operator in a planar domain with a point interaction. It is of a geometric nature, the approximating family consists of operators with the same symbol and regular…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-08-04 Denis I. Borisov , Pavel Exner

In this paper we study the rigorous sharp interface limit of a diffuse interface model related to the dynamics of tumor growth, when a parameter $\epsilon$, representing the interface thickness between the tumorous and non tumorous cells,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-12-21 E. Rocca , R. Scala

In this paper we study the fine-grained complexity of finding exact and approximate solutions to problems in P. Our main contribution is showing reductions from exact to approximate solution for a host of such problems. As one (notable)…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-12-12 Lijie Chen , Shafi Goldwasser , Kaifeng Lyu , Guy N. Rothblum , Aviad Rubinstein