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Non-linear entropy stability and a summation-by-parts framework are used to derive entropy stable wall boundary conditions for the three-dimensional compressible Navier--Stokes equations. A semi-discrete entropy estimate for the entire…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-23 Matteo Parsani , Mark H. Carpenter , Eric J. Nielsen

Spectral subspaces of a linear dynamical system identify a large class of invariant structures that highlight/isolate the dynamics associated to select subsets of the spectrum. The corresponding notion for nonlinear systems is that of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-08-03 Gergely Buza

Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods have a long history in computational physics and engineering to approximate solutions of partial differential equations due to their high-order accuracy and geometric flexibility. However, DG is not…

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Spectral methods for solving partial differential equations (PDEs) and stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs) often use Fourier or polynomial spectral expansions on either uniform and non-uniform grids. However, while very widely…

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We present a detailed description and verification of a discontinuous Galerkin finite element method (DG) for the multi-component chemically reacting compressible Navier-Stokes equations that retains the desirable properties of DG, namely…

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In this article we develop a high order accurate method to solve the incompressible boundary layer equations in a provably stable manner.~We first derive continuous energy estimates,~and then proceed to the discrete setting.~We formulate…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-06 Mojalefa P. Nchupang , Arnaud G. Malan , Fredrik Laurén , Jan Nordström

We report the development of a discontinuous spectral element flow solver that includes the implementation of both spectral difference and flux reconstruction formulations. With this high order framework, we have constructed a foundation…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-08-06 Christopher Cox , Will Trojak , Tarik Dzanic , Freddie Witherden , Antony Jameson

As lean premixed combustion systems are more susceptible to combustion instabilities than non-premixed systems, there is an increasing demand for improved numerical design tools that can predict the occurrence of combustion instabilities…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-19 Nils Erland L. Haugen , Øyvind Langørgen , Sigurd Sannan

When numerically solving partial differential equations (PDEs), the first step is often to discretize the geometry using a mesh and to solve a corresponding discretization of the PDE. Standard finite and spectral element methods require…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-03-30 Aaron Yeiser , Advisor Alex Townsend

This paper presents the variational discretization of the compressible Navier-Stokes-Fourier system, in which the viscosity and the heat conduction terms are handled within the variational approach to nonequilibrium thermodynamics as…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-02-09 Benjamin Couéraud , François Gay-Balmaz

We present Neural Spectral Methods, a technique to solve parametric Partial Differential Equations (PDEs), grounded in classical spectral methods. Our method uses orthogonal bases to learn PDE solutions as mappings between spectral…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Yiheng Du , Nithin Chalapathi , Aditi Krishnapriyan

We introduce discontinuous spectral-element methods of arbitrary order that are well balanced, conservative of mass, and conservative or dissipative of total energy (i.e., a mathematical entropy function) for a covariant flux formulation of…

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This paper describes in detail the implementation of a finite element technique for solving the compressible Navier-Stokes equations that is provably robust and demonstrates excellent performance on modern computer hardware. The method is…

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An adaptive algorithm for spectral proper orthogonal decomposition (SPOD) of mixed broadband-tonal turbulent flows is developed. Sharp peak resolution at tonal frequencies is achieved by locally minimizing the bias of the spectrum. Smooth…

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A collection of codes (in MATLAB & Fortran 77), and examples, for solving reaction-diffusion equations in one and two space dimensions is presented. In areas of the mathematical community spectral methods are used to remove the stiffness…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-18 Richard V. Craster , Roberto Sassi

Dissipative particle dynamics (DPD) is a well-established mesoscale simulation method. However, there have been long-standing ambiguities regarding the dependence of its (purely repulsive) force field parameter on temperature as well as the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-02-25 Peter Vanya , Jonathan Sharman , James A. Elliott

In this paper we consider a fully discrete numerical method for the unsteady Navier-Stokes equations on a smooth closed stationary surface in $\mathbb{R}^3$. We use the surface finite element method (SFEM) with a generalized Taylor-Hood…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-03 Charles M. Elliott , Achilleas Mavrakis

In order to prevent velocity, pressure, and temperature spikes at material discontinuities occurring when the interface-capturing schemes inconsistently simulate compressible multi-material flows(when the specific heats ratio is…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-12-29 Zhiwei He , Yousheng Zhang , Li Li , Baolin Tian

A recent paper [J. A. Evans, D. Kamensky, Y. Bazilevs, "Variational multiscale modeling with discretely divergence-free subscales", Computers & Mathematics with Applications, 80 (2020) 2517-2537] introduced a novel stabilized finite element…

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