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The problem of a spatially discontinuous diffusion coefficient ($D(\boldsymbol x)$) is one that may be encountered in hydrogeologic systems due to natural geological features or as a consequence of numerical discretization of flow…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-07-03 Michael J. Schmidt , Nicholas B. Engdahl , Stephen D. Pankavich , Diogo Bolster

This work originates from a heart's images tracking which is to generate an apparent continuous motion, observable through intensity variation from one starting image to an ending one both supposed segmented. Given two images $\rho_0$ and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-06-26 Olivier Besson , Martine Picq , Jérôme Pousin

An explicit high order semi-Lagrangian method is developed for solving Lagrangian transport equations in Eulerian-Lagrangian formulations. To ensure a semi-Lagrangian approximation that is consistent with an explicit Eulerian, discontinuous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-16 Hareshram Natarajan , Gustaaf B. Jacobs

In this paper, we propose a mass conservative semi-Lagrangian finite difference scheme for multi-dimensional problems without dimensional splitting. The semi-Lagrangian scheme, based on tracing characteristics backward in time from grid…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-07-26 Tao Xiong , Giovanni Russo , Jing-Mei Qiu

We develop a semi-discrete optimal transport scheme for the compressible semi-geostrophic equations, a system that plays an important role in modelling large-scale atmospheric dynamics and frontogenesis. Unlike the incompressible case, the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Théo Lavier , Beatrice Pelloni

This paper deals with simulation of flow and transport in porous media such as transport of groundwater contaminants. We first discuss how macro scale equations are derived and which terms have to be closed by models. The transport of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-07-03 Quanji Cai , Sheema Kooshapur , Michael Manhart , Ralf-Peter Mundani , Ernst Rank , Andreas Springer , Boris Vexler

We propose an efficient semi-Lagrangian characteristic mapping method for solving the one+one-dimensional Vlasov-Poisson equations with high precision on a coarse grid. The flow map is evolved numerically and exponential resolution in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-14 Philipp Krah , Xi-Yuan Yin , Julius Bergmann , Jean-Christophe Nave , Kai Schneider

The aim of this work is to investigate semi-Lagrangian approximation schemes on unstructured grids for viscous transport and conservative equations with measurable coefficients that satisfy a one-sided Lipschitz condition. To establish the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-15 Fabio Camilli , Adriano Festa , Luciano Marzufero

This article revolves around shape and topology optimization, in the applicative context where the objective and constraint functionals depend on the solution to a physical boundary value problem posed on the optimized domain. We introduce…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-13 Charles Dapogny , Bruno Levy , Edouard Oudet

Tracer diffusion and hydrodynamic dispersion in two-dimensional fractures with self-affine roughness is studied by analytic and numerical methods. Numerical simulations were performed via the lattice-Boltzmann approach, using a new boundary…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-31 German Drazer , Joel Koplik

Local conservation of mass and entropy are becoming increasingly desirable properties for modern numerical weather and climate models. This work presents a Flux-Form Semi-Lagrangian (FFSL) transport scheme, called SWIFT, that facilitates…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-31 Thomas M. Bendall , James Kent

In this paper we construct numerical schemes to approximate linear transport equations with slab geometry by diffusion equations. We treat both the case of pure diffusive scaling and the case where kinetic and diffusive scalings coexist.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-18 Qin Li , Jianfeng Lu , Weiran Sun

A matrix method is formulated in a Lagrangian representation for the solution of the characteristic value problem governing modes of oscillation and instability in a collisionless stellar system. The underlying perturbation equations govern…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Peter O. Vandervoort

We present a new numerical method for transporting arbitrary sets in a velocity field. The method computes a deformation mapping of the domain and advects particular sets by function composition with the map. This also allows for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-06 Olivier Mercier , Xi-Yuan Yin , Jean-Christophe Nave

We present a new feature extraction method for complex and large datasets, based on the concept of transport operators on graphs. The proposed approach generalizes and extends the many existing data representation methodologies built upon…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-01 Wojciech Czaja , Dong Dong , Pierre-Emmanuel Jabin , Franck Olivier Ndjakou Njeunje

Sliced optimal transport reduces optimal transport on multi-dimensional domains to transport on the line. More precisely, sliced optimal transport is the concatenation of the well-known Radon transform and the cumulative density transform,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-03 Michael Quellmalz , Robert Beinert , Gabriele Steidl

We present the Characteristic Bending (CB) method, a general framework for advecting quantities under incompressible velocity fields. The method builds on standard semi-Lagrangian advection by interpreting the backward-in-time…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-09 Matthew Blomquist , Stéphane Gaudreault , Maxime Theillard

We present and study a Particle method for the stationary solutions of a class of transport equations. This method is inspired by non-stationary Particle methods, the time variable being replaced by one spatial variable. Particles…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-13 Rafael Bailo , Julie Binard , Pierre Degond , Pascal Noble

A discrete analysis of the phase and dissipation errors of an explicit, semi-Lagrangian spectral element method is performed. The semi-Lagrangian method advects the Lagrange interpolant according the Lagrangian form of the transport…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-08 Gustaaf B. Jacobs , Hareshram Natarajan , Pavel Popov , David A. Kopriva

In this work, we study and extend a class of semi-Lagrangian exponential methods, which combine exponential time integration techniques, suitable for integrating stiff linear terms, with a semi-Lagrangian treatment of nonlinear advection…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-25 João Guilherme Caldas Steinstraesser , Martin Schreiber , Pedro da Silva Peixoto