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Recently, a new Lagrange multiplier approach was introduced by Cheng, Liu and Shen in \cite{cheng2020new}, which has been broadly used to solve various challenging phase field problems. To design original energy stable schemes, they have to…
A class of optimal control problems governed by semilinear parabolic equations with mixed pointwise constraints is considered. We give some criteria under which the first and second-order optimality conditions are of KKT-type. We then prove…
We present a positivity preserving variational scheme for the phase-field modeling of incompressible two-phase flows with high density ratio and using meshes of arbitrary topology. The variational finite element technique relies on the…
We consider a class of finite element approximations for fourth-order parabolic equations that can be written as a system of second-order equations by introducing an auxiliary variable. In our approach, we first solve a variational problem…
Modified Patankar schemes are linearly implicit time integration methods designed to be unconditionally positive and conservative. In the present work we extend the Patankar-type approach to linear multistep methods and prove that the…
Many natural processes, such as chemical reactions and wave dynamics, are modeled as production-destruction (PD) systems that obey positivity and linear conservation laws. Classical time integrators do not guarantee positivity and can…
This paper pursues a two-fold goal. Firstly, we aim to derive novel second-order characterizations of important robust stability properties of perturbed Karush-Kuhn-Tucker systems for a broadclass of constrained optimization problems…
In this paper, we present a new class of conservative semi-Lagrangian schemes for kinetic equations. They are based on the conservative reconstruction technique introduced in [S. Y. Cho, et al., Conservative semi-Lagrangian schemes for…
Modified Patankar-Runge-Kutta (MPRK) schemes are numerical methods for the solution of positive and conservative production-destruction systems. They adapt explicit Runge-Kutta schemes to ensure positivity and conservation irrespective of…
In earlier work [H. Liu and Z. Wang, J. Comput. Phys., 328(2017)], an arbitrary high-order conservative and energy-dissipative direct discontinuous Galerkin (DDG) scheme was developed. Although this scheme enforced solution positivity using…
Distribution network reconfiguration (DNR) is an effective approach for optimizing distribution network operation. However, the DNR problem is computationally challenging due to the mixed-integer non-convex nature. One feasible approach for…
For gradient flows, the existing structure-preserving schemes are difficult to achieve arbitrary high-order accuracy in time while preserving maximum-principle (MBP) and energy dissipating simultaneously. In this paper, we develop a new…
Many important applications are modelled by differential equations with positive solutions. However, it remains an outstanding open problem to develop numerical methods that are both (i) of a high order of accuracy and (ii) capable of…
We develop entropy dissipative higher order accurate local discontinuous Galerkin (LDG) discretizations coupled with Diagonally Implicit Runge-Kutta (DIRK) methods for nonlinear degenerate parabolic equations with a gradient flow structure.…
The present article is primarily a review of the projection-operator approach to quantize systems with constraints. We study the quantization of systems with general first- and second-class constraints from the point of view of…
We present a novel spatial discretization for the Cahn-Hilliard equation including transport. The method is given by a mixed discretization for the two elliptic operators, with the phase field and chemical potential discretized in…
This work introduces a single-stage, single-step method for the compressible Euler equations that is provably positivity-preserving and can be applied on both Cartesian and unstructured meshes. This method is the first case of a…
The asymptotic Karush-Kuhn-Tucker (AKKT) optimality conditions are distinguished from other approaches in the literature by virtue of their capacity to be effectively derived through numerical methods, such as the utilization of an…
We combine Patankar-type methods with suitable relaxation procedures that are capable of ensuring correct dissipation or conservation of functionals such as entropy or energy while producing unconditionally positive and conservative…
In this second part of our two-part paper, we extend to multiple spatial dimensions the one-dimensional, fully conservative, positivity-preserving, and entropy-bounded discontinuous Galerkin scheme developed in the first part for the…