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We propose a general-purpose method for finding high-quality solutions to hard optimization problems, inspired by self-organizing processes often found in nature. The method, called Extremal Optimization, successively eliminates extremely…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-07-06 S. Boettcher , A. Percus

The nonlinear weakly dispersive Serre equations contain higher-order dispersive terms. This includes a mixed derivative flux term which is difficult to handle numerically. The mix spatial and temporal derivative dispersive term is replaced…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-07-28 Christopher Zoppou , Jordan Pitt , Stephen G. Roberts

In this paper, we propose and analyze a second order accurate (in both time and space) numerical scheme for the Poisson-Nernst-Planck-Navier-Stokes system, which describes the ion electro-diffusion in fluids. In particular, the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-12 Yuzhe Qin , Cheng Wang

We provide a proof of strong maximum and minimum principles for fully nonlinear uniformly parabolic equations of second order. The approach is of parabolic nature, slightly differs from the earlier one proposed by L. Nirenberg and does not…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-25 Alessandro Goffi

Aim of this paper is to extend the continuous dependence estimates proved in \cite{JK1} to quasi-monotone systems of fully nonlinear second-order parabolic equations. As by-product of these estimates, we get an H\"older estimate for bounded…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-02-28 Fabio Camilli , Claudio Marchi

In this work, we present a positivity-preserving entropy-based adaptive filtering method for shock capturing in discontinuous spectral element methods. By adapting the filter strength to enforce positivity and a local discrete minimum…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-29 Tarik Dzanic , Freddie D. Witherden

Two-fluid relativistic plasma flow equations combine the equations of relativistic hydrodynamics with Maxwell's equations for electromagnetic fields, which involve divergence constraints for the magnetic and electric fields. When developing…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-27 Jaya Agnihotri , Deepak Bhoriya , Harish Kumar , Praveen Chandrashekar , Dinshaw S. Balsara

We study a second order BDF (Backward Differentiation Formula) scheme for the numerical approximation of parabolic HJB (Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman) equations. The scheme under consideration is implicit, non-monotone, and second order accurate…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-02-21 Olivier Bokanowski , Athena Picarelli , Christoph Reisinger

In this paper, we consider both first- and second-order techniques to address continuous optimization problems arising in machine learning. In the first-order case, we propose a framework of transition from deterministic or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Sanae Lotfi , Tiphaine Bonniot de Ruisselet , Dominique Orban , Andrea Lodi

We introduce a family of fourth order two-step methods that preserve the energy function of canonical polynomial Hamiltonian systems. Each method in the family may be viewed as a correction of a linear two-step method, where the correction…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-06-08 Luigi Brugnano , Felice Iavernaro , Donato Trigiante

We consider the semiclassical limit for the nonlinear Schrodinger equation. We introduce a phase/amplitude representation given by a system similar to the hydrodynamical formulation, whose novelty consists in including some asymptotically…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-12-23 Christophe Besse , Rémi Carles , Florian Méhats

Simulating infiltration in porous media using Richards' equation remains computationally challenging due to its parabolic structure and nonlinear coefficients. While a wide range of numerical methods for differential equations have been…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-16 Arnob Barua , Christopher E. Kees , Dmitri Kuzmin

This paper is devoted to the study of a novel mixed Finite Element Method for approximating the solutions of fourth order variational problems subjected to a constraint. The first problem we consider consists in establishing the convergence…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Paolo Piersanti , Tianyu Sun

In this paper, a novel high-order, mass and energy-conserving scheme is proposed for the regularized logarithmic Schr\"{o}dinger equation(RLogSE). Based on the idea of the supplementary variable method (SVM), we firstly reformulate the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-11 Fan Yang , Zhida Zhou , Chaolong Jiang

We introduce a numerical framework to verify the finite step convergence of first-order methods for parametric convex quadratic optimization. We formulate the verification problem as a mathematical optimization problem where we maximize a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-18 Vinit Ranjan , Bartolomeo Stellato

In this work, we discuss and compare three methods for the numerical approximation of constant- and variable-coefficient diffusion equations in both single and composite domains with possible discontinuity in the solution/flux at…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-11-17 Gustav Ludvigsson , Kyle R. Steffen , Simon Sticko , Siyang Wang , Qing Xia , Yekaterina Epshteyn , Gunilla Kreiss

In this paper we propose a new method to stabilise non-symmetric indefinite problems. The idea is to solve a forward and an adjoint problem simultaneously using a suitable stabilised finite element method. Both stabilisation of the element…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-08-05 Erik Burman

This paper develops a family of fast, structure-preserving numerical algorithms for the nonlinear Maxwell-Ampere Nernst-Planck equations. For the first-order scheme, the Slotboom transformation rewrites the Nernst-Planck equation to enable…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-10 Haoran Sun , Wancheng Wu , Kun Wang

We review our new method, which might be the most direct and efficient way for approaching the continuum physics from Hamiltonian lattice gauge theory. It consists of solving the eigenvalue equation with a truncation scheme preserving the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 S. H. Guo , Q. Z. Chen , X. Fang , J. Liu , X. Q. Luo , W. Zheng

This article proposes modifications to standard low order finite element approximations of the Stokes system with the goal of improving both the approximation quality and the parallel algebraic solution process. Different from standard…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-11-19 Markus Huber , Lorenz John , Petra Pustejovska , Ulrich Rüde , Christian Waluga , Barbara Wohlmuth