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We present a fully discrete finite element method for the interior null controllability problem subject to the wave equation. For the numerical scheme, piece-wise affine continuous elements in space and finite differences in time are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-10 Erik Burman , Ali Feizmohammadi , Lauri Oksanen

We show that the DDR method can be interpreted as defining a computable consistent discrete $\mathrm{L}^2$ product on a conforming FES defined by PDEs. Without modifying the numerical method itself, this point of view provides an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-23 Snorre H. Christiansen , Francesca Rapetti

We present an efficient, accurate, and robust method for simulation of dense suspensions of deformable and rigid particles immersed in Stokesian fluid in two dimensions. We use a well-established boundary integral formulation for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-08-23 Libin Lu , Abtin Rahimian , Denis Zorin

Numerical methods that preserve geometric invariants of the system, such as energy, momentum or the symplectic form, are called geometric integrators. Variational integrators are an important class of geometric integrators. The general idea…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-04 Leonardo Colombo , Manuela Gamonal Fernández , David Martín de Diego

This paper proposes a virtual element method (VEM) combined with a second-order implicit-explicit scheme based on the scalar auxiliary variable (SAV) method for the incompressible magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations. We employ the BDF2…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-25 Xiaojing Dong , Yunqing Huang , Tianwen Wang

We present a Virtual Element Method (VEM) for a nonlocal reaction-diffusion system of the cardiac electric field. To this system, we analyze an $H^1(\Omega)$-conforming discretization by means of VEM which can make use of general polygonal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-04 Verónica Anaya , Mostafa Bendahmane , David Mora , Mauricio Sepúlveda

In this series of works, we develop a discrete-velocity-direction model (DVDM) with collisions of BGK-type for simulating rarefied flows. Unlike the conventional kinetic models (both BGK and discrete-velocity models), the new model…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-06-02 Huang Qian , Chen Yihong , Yong Wen-An

We present an algorithm for the rapid numerical integration of a time-periodic ODE with a small dissipation term that is $C^1$ in the velocity. Such an ODE arises as a model of spin-orbit coupling in a star/planet system, and the motivation…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2016-06-23 Michele V. Bartuccelli , Jonathan H. B. Deane , Guido Gentile

Variational integrators for Lagrangian dynamical systems provide a systematic way to derive geometric numerical methods. These methods preserve a discrete multisymplectic form as well as momenta associated to symmetries of the Lagrangian…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-10-05 Michael Kraus , Omar Maj

Granular impact -- the dynamic intrusion of solid objects into granular media -- is widespread across scientific and engineering applications including geotechnics. Existing approaches for simulating granular impact dynamics have relied on…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-11-24 Yupeng Jiang , Yidong Zhao , Clarence E. Choi , Jinhyun Choo

In this paper, we propose and analyze both conforming and nonconforming virtual element methods (VEMs) for the fully nonlinear second-order elliptic Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equations with Cordes coefficients. By incorporating…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-15 Ying Cai , Hailong Guo , Zhimin Zhang

There is a growing interest in the conservation of invariants when numerically solving a system of ordinary differential equations. Methods that exactly preserve these quantities in time are known as geometric integrators. In this paper we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-14 Artur Palha , Marc Gerritsma

The Virtual Element Method (VEM) is a novel family of numerical methods for approximating partial differential equations on very general polygonal or polyhedral computational grids. This work aims to propose a Balancing Domain Decomposition…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-17 Tommaso Bevilacqua , Franco Dassi , Stefano Zampini , Simone Scacchi

We study the optimal design of numerical integrators for dissipative systems, for which there exists an underlying thermodynamic structure known as GENERIC (general equation for the nonequilibrium reversible-irreversible coupling). We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-14 Xiaocheng Shang , Hans Christian Öttinger

Discrete gradient methods are a class of numerical integrators producing solutions with exact preservation of first integrals of ordinary differential equations. In this paper, we apply order theory combined with the symmetrized Itoh--Abe…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-13 Håkon Noren Myhr , Sølve Eidnes

In the present paper we describe the computational implementation of some integral terms that arise from mixed virtual element methods (mixed-VEM) in two-dimensional pseudostress-velocity formulations. The implementation presented here…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-15 Filánder A. Sequeira , Helen Guillén-Oviedo

We develop a variational integrator for the shallow-water equations on a rotating sphere. The variational integrator is built around a discretization of the continuous Euler-Poincar\'{e} reduction framework for Eulerian hydrodynamics. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-25 Rüdiger Brecht , Werner Bauer , Alexander Bihlo , François Gay-Balmaz , Scott MacLachlan

In this paper we present PDE and finite element analyses for a system of partial differential equations (PDEs) consisting of the Darcy equation and the Cahn-Hilliard equation, which arises as a diffuse interface model for the two phase…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-04-26 Xiaobing Feng , Steven Wise

We propose a variational symplectic numerical method for the time integration of dynamical systems issued from the least action principle. We assume a quadratic internal interpolation of the state and we approximate the action in a small…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-06-25 François Dubois , Juan Antonio Rojas-Quintero

This paper considers weak Galerkin finite element approximations for a quasistatic Maxwell viscoelastic model. The spatial discretization uses piecewise polynomials of degree $k \ (k\geq 1)$ for the stress approximation, degree $k+1$ for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-22 Jihong Xiao , Zimo Zhu , Xiaoping Xie