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We analyze fully implicit and linearly implicit backward difference formula (BDF) methods for quasilinear parabolic equations, without making any assumptions on the growth or decay of the coefficient functions. We combine maximal parabolic…
Linear multistep methods (LMMs) applied to approximate the solution of initial value problems---typically arising from method-of-lines semidiscretizations of partial differential equations---are often required to have certain monotonicity…
Using the energy method we investigate the stability of pure conduction in Pearson's model for B\'enard-Marangoni convection in a layer of fluid at infinite Prandtl number. Upon extending the space of admissible perturbations to the…
Simulating the static and dynamic properties of semidilute polymer solutions with Brownian dynamics (BD) requires the computation of a large system of polymer chains coupled to one another through excluded-volume and hydrodynamic…
We consider the semilinear electromagnetic Schr\"{o}dinger equation (-i\nabla+A(x))^{2}u + V(x)u = |u|^{2^{\ast}-2}u, u\in D_{A,0}^{1,2}(\Omega,\mathbb{C}), where $\Omega=(\mathbb{R}^{m}\smallsetminus{0})\times\mathbb{R}^{N-m}$ with $2\leq…
The Vlasov-Schr\"odinger-Poisson system is a kinetic-quantum hybrid model describing quasi-lower dimensional electron gases. For this system, we construct a large class of 2D kinetic/1D quantum steady states in a bounded domain as…
This paper proposes a theoretical framework for establishing the energy dissipation of general implicit-explicit linear multistep methods (IMEX-LMMs) for gradient flows, by constructing a dissipative modified energy consisting of the…
Using the simple (symmetric) Hubbard dimer, we analyze some important features of the $GW$ approximation. We show that the problem of the existence of multiple quasiparticle solutions in the (perturbative) one-shot $GW$ method and its…
The integrating factor technique is widely used to solve numerically (in particular) the Schr\"odinger equation in the context of spectral methods. Here, we present an improvement of this method exploiting the freedom provided by the gauge…
Chemotaxis plays a significant role in numerous physiological processes. The Keller-Segel equation serves as a mathematical model for simulating the phenomenon of cell population aggregation under chemotaxis, possessing physical properties…
This paper continues to study linear and unconditionally modified-energy stable (abbreviated as SAV-GL) schemes for the gradient flows. The schemes are built on the SAV technique and the general linear time discretizations (GLTD) as well as…
We consider a system described by a controlled bilinear Schr{\"o}dinger equation with three external inputs. We provide a constructive method to approximately steer the system from a given energy level to a superposition of energy levels…
In this note we study the asymptotic mean-square stability for two-step schemes applied to a scalar stochastic differential equation (sde) and applied to systems of sdes. We derive necessary and sufficient conditions for the asymptotic…
We consider the following nonlinear Schrodinger equation [{l} \Delta u-(1+\delta V)u+f(u)=0 in \R^N, u>0 in \R^N, u\in H^1(\R^N).] where $V$ is a potential satisfying some decay condition and $ f(u)$ is a superlinear nonlinearity satisfying…
In this paper we investigate the existence of positive solutions to the following Schr\"odinger-Poisson-Slater system [c]{ll} - \Delta u+ u + \lambda\phi u=|u|^{p-2}u & \text{in} \Omega -\Delta\phi= u^{2} & \text{in} \Omega u=\phi=0 &…
The present study is concerned with the following Schr\"{o}dinger-Poisson system involving critical nonlocal term with general nonlinearity: $$ \left\{ \begin{array}{ll} -\Delta u+V(x)u- \phi |u|^3u= f(u), & x\in\mathbb{R}^3, -\Delta \phi=…
We propose a new numerical technique to deal with nonlinear terms in gradient flows. By introducing a scalar auxiliary variable (SAV), we construct efficient and robust energy stable schemes for a large class of gradient flows. The SAV…
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We propose a variational form of the BDF2 method as an alternative to the commonly used minimizing movement scheme for the time-discrete approximation of gradient flows in abstract metric spaces. Assuming uniform semi-convexity --- but no…
New criteria for energy stability of multi-step, multi-stage, and mixed schemes are introduced in the context of evolution equations that arise as gradient flow with respect to a metric. These criteria are used to exhibit second and third…