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Many important physical problems, such as fluid structure interaction or conjugate heat transfer, require numerical methods that compute boundary derivatives or fluxes to high accuracy. This paper proposes a novel alternative to calculating…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-03-12 David Wells , Jeffrey Banks

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-08 Kamlesh Kumar , Rajesh K. Pandey

If the $n-th$ order differential equation is not exact, under certain conditions, an integrating factor exists which transforms the differential equation into an exact one. Hence, its order can be reduced to the lower order. In this paper,…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2017-11-23 Mohammadkheer Al-Jararha

In backward error analysis, an approximate solution to an equation is compared to the exact solution to a nearby modified equation. In numerical ordinary differential equations, the two agree up to any power of the step size. If the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-21 Robert I McLachlan , Christian Offen

In this paper, a class of finite difference numerical techniques is presented to solve the second-order linear inhomogeneous damped wave equation. The consistency, stability, and convergences of these numerical schemes are discussed. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-23 Fazel Hadadifard , Satbir Malhi , Zhengyi Xiao

Finite differences, as a subclass of direct methods in the calculus of variations, consist in discretizing the objective functional using appropriate approximations for derivatives that appear in the problem. This article generalizes the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-08-09 Shakoor Pooseh , Ricardo Almeida , Delfim F. M. Torres

We propose a new paradigm for designing efficient p-adaptive arbitrary high order methods. We consider arbitrary high order iterative schemes that gain one order of accuracy at each iteration and we modify them in order to match the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-09 Lorenzo Micalizzi , Davide Torlo , Walter Boscheri

Based on two point spline approximations of arbitrary order, a series of functions that define lower bounds for sin(x) and sin(x)/x, over the interval [0,Pi/2], with increasingly low relative errors and smaller relative errors than…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2020-11-10 Roy M. Howard

There is no general existence theorem for solutions for nonlinear difference equations, so we must prove the existence of solutions in accordance with models one by one. In our work, we found theorems for the existence of analytic solutions…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Mami Suzuki

We consider finite approximations of a fractal generated by an iterated function system of affine transformations on $\mathbb{R}^d$ as a discrete set of data points. Considering a signal supported on this finite approximation, we propose a…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2016-07-14 Calvin Hotchkiss , Eric S. Weber

In this paper we consider a class of boundary value problems for third order nonlinear functional differential equation. By the reduction of the problem to operator equation we establish the existence and uniqueness of solution and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-26 Dang Quang A , Dang Quang Long

We present a general technique for the analysis of first-order methods. The technique relies on the construction of a duality gap for an appropriate approximation of the objective function, where the function approximation improves as the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-12 Jelena Diakonikolas , Lorenzo Orecchia

A typical system of k difference (or differential) equations can be compressed, or folded into a difference (or ordinary differential) equation of order k. Such foldings appear in control theory as the canonical forms of the controllability…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2014-03-18 H. Sedaghat

Recent theoretical work on automatic differentiation (autodiff) has focused on characteristics such as correctness and efficiency while assuming that all derivatives are automatically generated by autodiff using program transformation, with…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Sam Estep

A linear implicit finite difference method is proposed for the approximation of the solution to a periodic, initial value problem for a Schrodinger-Hirota equation. Optimal, second order convergence in the discrete $H^1-$norm is proved,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-06-14 Georgios E. Zouraris

Holderian functions have strong non-linearities, which result in singularities in the derivatives. This manuscript presents several fractional-order Taylor expansions of H\"olderian functions around points of non- differentiability. These…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2015-08-26 Dimiter Prodanov

In the past decades, the finite difference methods for space fractional operators develop rapidly; to the best of our knowledge, all the existing finite difference schemes, including the first and high order ones, just work on uniform…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-04-04 Lijing Zhao , Weihua Deng

Accurate error estimation is crucial in model order reduction, both to obtain small reduced-order models and to certify their accuracy when deployed in downstream applications such as digital twins. In existing a posteriori error estimation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-24 Sridhar Chellappa , Lihong Feng , Peter Benner

The numerical methods for differential equation solution allow obtaining a discrete field that converges towards the solution if the method is applied to the correct problem. Nevertheless, the numerical methods have the restricted class of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-03 Alexander Hvatov , Tatiana Tikhonova

We propose a novel foundation for calculus that focuses on the notion of approximations while avoiding the use of limits altogether. Continuity is defined as approximation at a point, while differentiability is defined as approximation with…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2025-10-27 Michael P. Lamoureux , Matt Yedlin