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The implementation process of a $\texttt{RestrictedFunctionSpace}$ class in Firedrake, a Python library which numerically solves partial differential equations through the use of the finite element method, is documented. This includes an…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Emma Rothwell

An additive Runge-Kutta method is used for the time stepping, which integrates the linear stiff terms by an explicit singly diagonally implicit Runge-Kutta (ESDIRK) method and the nonlinear terms by an explicit Runge-Kutta (ERK) method. In…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-08 Ke Chen , Daniel Appelö , Tracy Babb , Per-Gunnar Martinsson

In this work, we develop a class of up to third-order energy-stable schemes for the Cahn--Hilliard equation. Building on Lawson's integrating factor Runge--Kutta method, which is widely used for stiff semilinear equations, we discuss its…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-26 Haifeng Wang , Jingwei Sun , Hong Zhang , Xu Qian , Songhe Song

A novel optimization procedure for the generation of stability polynomials of stabilized explicit Runge-Kutta methods is devised. Intended for semidiscretizations of hyperbolic partial differential equations, the herein developed approach…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-19 Daniel Doehring , Gregor J. Gassner , Manuel Torrilhon

We note a fact that stiff systems or differential equations that have highly oscillatory solutions cannot be solved efficiently using conventional methods. In this paper, we study two new classes of exponential Runge-Kutta (ERK) integrators…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-06 Bin Wang , Xianfa Hu , Xinyuan Wu

Many practical problems can be described by second-order system $\ddot{q}=-M\nabla U(q)$, in which people give special emphasis to some invariants with explicit physical meaning, such as energy, momentum, angular momentum, etc. However,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-25 Wensheng Tang

Runge-Kutta (RK) methods may exhibit order reduction when applied to certain stiff problems. While fully implicit RK schemes exist that avoid order reduction via high-stage order, DIRK (diagonally implicit Runge-Kutta) schemes are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-31 Abhijit Biswas , David Ketcheson , Benjamin Seibold , David Shirokoff

Implicit-Explicit (IMEX) methods are flexible numerical time integration methods which solve an initial-value problem (IVP) that is partitioned into stiff and nonstiff processes with the goal of lower computational costs than a purely…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-11 Alex C. Fish , Daniel R. Reynolds , Steven B. Roberts

Differential equations arising in many practical applications are characterized by multiple time scales. Multirate time integration seeks to solve them efficiently by discretizing each scale with a different, appropriate time step, while…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2022-02-03 Adrian Sandu

We propose a unified theoretical framework to examine the energy dissipation properties at all stages of explicit exponential Runge-Kutta (EERK) methods for gradient flow problems. The main part of the novel framework is to construct the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-10 Hong-lin Liao , Xuping Wang

The computational cost of concurrent multiscale finite element methods is dominated by the repeated solution of microscopic representative volume element (RVE) problems at macroscopic quadrature points. In this work, we introduce a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-08 Yiren Wang , Michael Ortiz , Fehmi Cirak

We propose an experimental study of adaptive time-stepping methods for efficient modeling of the aggregation-fragmentation kinetics. Precise modeling of this phenomena usually requires utilization of the large systems of nonlinear ordinary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-20 Sergey A. Matveev , Viktor Zhilin , Alexander P. Smirnov

For a large class of fully nonlinear parabolic equations, which include gradient flows for energy functionals that depend on the solution gradient, the semidiscretization in time by implicit Runge-Kutta methods such as the Radau IIA methods…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-06-14 Peer C. Kunstmann , Buyang Li , Christian Lubich

In this paper we investigate the existence, uniqueness and approximation of solutions of delay differential equations (DDEs) with the right-hand side functions $f=f(t,x,z)$ that are Lipschitz continuous with respect to $x$ but only H\"older…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-23 Fabio V. Difonzo , Paweł Przybyłowicz , Yue Wu , Xinheng Xie

Finite differences and Runge-Kutta time stepping schemes used in Computational AeroAcoustics simulations are often optimized for low dispersion and dissipation (e.g. DRP or LDDRK schemes) when applied to linear problems in order to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-02 Aldaïr Petronilia , Edward James Brambley

Runge-Kutta time-stepping methods in general suffer from order reduction: the observed order of convergence may be less than the formal order when applied to certain stiff problems. Order reduction can be avoided by using methods with high…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-17 David Ketcheson , Benjamin Seibold , David Shirokoff , Dong Zhou

The Runge-Kutta 4th Order (RK4) technique is extensively employed in the numerical solution of differential equations for airbrake control system design. However, its computational efficacy may encounter restrictions when dealing with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-25 Tanvi Agrawal , Utkarsh Anand

The residual-based variational multiscale (VMS) formulation has achieved remarkable success in large-eddy simulation of turbulent flows. However, its temporal discretization has largely remained limited to second-order implicit schemes. The…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-09 Yujie Sun , Chi Ding , Ju Liu

The aim of this paper is to construct and analyze exponential Runge-Kutta methods for the temporal discretization of a class of semilinear parabolic problems with arbitrary state-dependent delay. First, the well-posedness of the problem is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-12 Qiumei Huang , Alexander Ostermann , Gangfan Zhong

The dynamics of open quantum systems is governed by the Lindblad master equation, which provides a consistent framework for incorporating environmental effects into the evolution of the system. Since exact solutions are rarely available,…