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The motion of a collisionless plasma - a high-temperature, low-density, ionized gas - is described by the Vlasov-Maxwell (VM) system. These equations are considered in one space dimension and two momentum dimensions without the assumption…
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In this paper we formulate and test numerically a fully-coupled discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method for incompressible two-phase flow with discontinuous capillary pressure. The spatial discretization uses the symmetric interior penalty DG…
In this paper, we propose a high-order energy-conserving semi-Lagrangian discontinuous Galerkin(ECSLDG) method for the Vlasov-Ampere system. The method employs a semi-Lagrangian discontinuous Galerkin scheme for spatial discretization of…
We solve the convection-diffusion equation using a coupling of cell-centered finite volume (FV) and discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods. The domain is divided into disjoint regions assigned to FV or DG, and the two methods are coupled…
We present a high-order space-time discretization equipped with fully-discrete entropy stability properties for general choices of volume and surface quadrature rules. The formulation uses flux reconstruction (FR) in the spatial dimension…
Design of modern nanostructured semiconductor devices often calls for simulation tools capable of modeling arbitrarily-shaped multiscale geometries. In this work, to this end, a discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method-based framework is…
Divergence-free discontinuous Galerkin (DG) finite element methods offer a suitable discretization for the pointwise divergence-free numerical solution of Borrvall and Petersson's model for the topology optimization of fluids in Stokes flow…
In this article we apply a discrete action principle for the Vlasov--Maxwell equations in a structure-preserving particle-field discretization framework. In this framework the finite-dimensional electromagnetic potentials and fields are…
Relativistic plasmas around compact objects can sometimes be approximated as being force-free. In this limit, the plasma inertia is negligible and the overall dynamics is governed by global electric currents. We present a novel numerical…
We present a Hamiltonian formulation for the linearized Vlasov-Maxwell system with a Maxwellian background distribution function. We discuss the geometric properties of the model at the continuous level, and how to discretize the model in…
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