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We study the second-order boundary value problem \begin{equation*} \begin{cases} \, -u''=a_{\lambda,\mu}(t) \, u^{2}(1-u), & t\in(0,1), \\ \, u'(0)=0, \quad u'(1)=0, \end{cases} \end{equation*} where $a_{\lambda,\mu}$ is a step-wise…

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In this paper, we propose new structured second-order methods and structured adaptive-gradient methods obtained by performing natural-gradient descent on structured parameter spaces. Natural-gradient descent is an attractive approach to…

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We are interested in developing a numerical method for capturing stationary sheaths, that a plasma forms in contact with a metallic wall. This work is based on a bi-species (ion/electron) Vlasov-Amp{\`e}re model proposed in [3]. The main…

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In the present paper, a class of stochastic Runge-Kutta methods containing the second order stochastic Runge-Kutta scheme due to E. Platen for the weak approximation of It\^o stochastic differential equation systems with a multi-dimensional…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-03-20 Kristian Debrabant , Andreas Rößler

Fitting a matrix of a given rank to data in a least squares sense can be done very effectively using 2nd order methods such as Levenberg-Marquardt by explicitly optimizing over a bilinear parameterization of the matrix. In contrast, when…

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In this paper, a class of high-order compact finite difference Hermite scheme is presented for the simulation of double-diffusive convection. To maintain linear stability, the convective fluxes are split into positive and negative parts,…

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We propose a monotone, and consistent numerical scheme for the approximation of the Dirichlet problem for the normalized Infinity Laplacian, which could be related to the family of so--called two--scale methods. We show that this method is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-14 Wenbo Li , Abner J. Salgado

First-order methods have been popularly used for solving large-scale problems. However, many existing works only consider unconstrained problems or those with simple constraint. In this paper, we develop two first-order methods for…

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We study the existence of infinitely many positive homoclinic solutions to a second-order difference equation on integers with $p_k$-Laplacian. To achieve our goal we use the critical point theory and the general variational principle of…

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The exponential fitting technique uses information on the expected behaviour of the solution of a differential problem to define accurate and efficient numerical methods. In particular, exponentially fitted methods are very effective when…

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In this paper, a family of arbitrarily high-order structure-preserving exponential Runge-Kutta methods are developed for the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation by combining the scalar auxiliary variable approach with the exponential…

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Runge-Kutta methods have an irreplaceable position among numerical methods designed to solve ordinary differential equations. Especially, implicit ones are suitable for approximating solutions of stiff initial value problems. We propose a…

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This work proposes a model-reduction methodology that preserves Lagrangian structure (equivalently Hamiltonian structure) and achieves computational efficiency in the presence of high-order nonlinearities and arbitrary parameter dependence.…

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In this paper, we develop a higher order symmetric partitioned Runge-Kutta method for a coupled system of differential equations on Lie groups. We start with a discussion on partitioned Runge-Kutta methods on Lie groups of arbitrary order.…

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