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Numerical methods for approximately solving partial differential equations (PDE) are at the core of scientific computing. Often, this requires high-resolution or adaptive discretization grids to capture relevant spatio-temporal features in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-19 Suryanarayana Maddu , Dominik Sturm , Bevan L. Cheeseman , Christian L. Müller , Ivo F. Sbalzarini

We analyze the propagation properties of the numerical versions of one and two-dimensional wave equations, semi-discretized in space by finite difference schemes. We focus on high-frequency solutions whose propagation can be described, both…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-06-26 Umberto Biccari , Aurora Marica , Enrique Zuazua

We consider the numerical simulation of the acoustic wave equations arising from seismic applications, for which staggered grid finite difference methods are popular choices due to their simplicity and efficiency. We relax the uniform grid…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-02-20 Longfei Gao , David C. Del Rey Fernandez , Mark Carpenter , David Keyes

Monotone finite difference methods provide stable convergent discretizations of a class of degenerate elliptic and parabolic Partial Differential Equations (PDEs). These methods are best suited to regular rectangular grids, which leads to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-11-19 Adam M. Oberman , Ian Zwiers

We present DeepFDM, a differentiable finite-difference framework for learning spatially varying coefficients in time-dependent partial differential equations (PDEs). By embedding a classical forward-Euler discretization into a convolutional…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-30 Patrick Chatain , Michael Rizvi-Martel , Guillaume Rabusseau , Adam Oberman

Finite difference approximation, in addition to Taylor truncation errors, introduces numerical dispersion-and-dissipation errors into numerical solutions of partial differential equations. We analyze a class of finite difference schemes…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-09-12 Yi-Hung Kuo , Long Lee , Gregory Lyng

Anomalous diffusion is a phenomenon that cannot be modeled accurately by second-order diffusion equations, but is better described by fractional diffusion models. The nonlocal nature of the fractional diffusion operators makes substantially…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-03-08 K. Mustapha , K. Furati , O. M. Knio , O. Le Maitre

A novel 3-D higher-order finite-difference time-domain framework with complex frequency-shifted perfectly matched layer for the modeling of wave propagation in cold plasma is presented. Second- and fourth-order spatial approximations are…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-10-25 Konstantinos P. Prokopidis

In the task of predicting spatio-temporal fields in environmental science using statistical methods, introducing statistical models inspired by the physics of the underlying phenomena that are numerically efficient is of growing interest.…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-07-23 Lucia Clarotto , Denis Allard , Thomas Romary , Nicolas Desassis

We develop efficient and high-order accurate finite difference methods for elliptic partial differential equations in complex geometry in the Difference Potentials framework. The main novelty of the developed schemes is the use of local…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-28 Qing Xia

Efficient and accurate numerical simulation of seismic wave propagation is important in various Geophysical applications such as seismic full waveform inversion (FWI) problem. However, due to the large size of the physical domain and…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2019-03-22 Keran Li , Wenyuan Liao , Yaoting Lin

Sticky diffusion models a Markovian particle experiencing reflection and temporary adhesion phenomena at the boundary. Numerous numerical schemes exist for approximating stopped or reflected stochastic differential equations (SDEs), but…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-11 Akash Sharma

Dynamical systems are essential to model various phenomena in physics, finance, economics, and are also of current interest in machine learning. A central modeling task is investigating parameter sensitivity, whether tuning atmospheric…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-14 Rishi Leburu , Levon Nurbekyan , Lars Ruthotto

Realistic physical phenomena exhibit random fluctuations across many scales in the input and output processes. Models of these phenomena require stochastic PDEs. For three-dimensional coupled (vector-valued) stochastic PDEs (SPDEs), for…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Ajit Desai , Mohammad Khalil , Chris L. Pettit , Dominique Poirel , Abhijit Sarkar

The paper is concerned with modeling and simulating approaches of wall distance functions based on Partial Differential Equations (PDE). The distance to the nearest wall is required for many industrial problems in Computational Fluid…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-04-11 Niklas Kühl

This paper introduces a novel meshfree methodology based on Radial Basis Function-Finite Difference (RBF-FD) approximations for the numerical solution of partial differential equations (PDEs) on surfaces of codimension 1 embedded in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Víctor Bayona , Argyrios Petras , Cécile Piret , Steven J. Ruuth

Synchronizations of processing elements (PEs) in massively parallel simulations, which arise due to communication or load imbalances between PEs, significantly affect the scalability of scientific applications. We have recently proposed a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-08-16 Konduri Aditya , Diego A. Donzis

The Fractional Diffusion Equation (FDE) is a mathematical model that describes anomalous transport phenomena characterized by non-local and long-range dependencies which deviate from the traditional behavior of diffusion. Solving this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-14 Mohammad Partohaghighi , Emmanuel Asante-Asamani , Olaniyi S. Iyiola

We present an approach to simulate the 3D isotropic elastic wave propagation using nonuniform finite difference discretization on staggered grids. Specifically, we consider simulation domains composed of layers of uniform grids with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-13 Longfei Gao , Omar Ghattas , David Keyes

The finite difference time domain method is one of the simplest and most popular methods in computational electromagnetics. This work considers two possible ways of generalising it to a meshless setting by employing local radial basis…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-02-27 Andrej Kolar-Požun , Gregor Kosec