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One way of improving the behavior of finite element schemes for classical, time-dependent Maxwell's equations, is to render them from their hyperbolic character to elliptic form. This paper is devoted to the study of the stabilized linear…
We study the conservation properties of the Hermite-discontinuous Galerkin (Hermite-DG) approximation of the Vlasov-Maxwell equations. In this semi-discrete formulation, the total mass is preserved independently for every plasma species.…
In this paper we propose the first better than second order accurate method in space and time for the numerical solution of the resistive relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (RRMHD) equations on unstructured meshes in multiple space…
Leveraging recent work on data-driven methods for constructing a finite state space Markov process from dynamical systems, we address two problems for obtaining further reduced statistical representations. The first problem is to extract…
In this paper, we construct a semi-implicit finite difference method for the time dependent Poisson-Nernst-Planck system. Although the Poisson-Nernst-Planck system is a nonlinear system, the numerical method presented in this paper only…
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We introduce new methods for the numerical solution of general Hamiltonian boundary value problems. The main feature of the new formulae is to produce numerical solutions along which the energy is precisely conserved, as is the case with…
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In this paper, we provide the constraint energy minimization generalized multiscale finite element method (CEM-GMsFEM) to solve Helmholtz equations in heterogeneous medium. This novel multiscale method is specifically designed to overcome…
Two fundamental models in plasma physics are given by the Vlasov-Maxwell-Boltzmann system and the compressible Euler-Maxwell system which both capture the complex dynamics of plasmas under the self-consistent electromagnetic interactions at…
Stable numerical simulations for a hyperbolic system of conservation laws of relaxation type but not in divergence form are obtained by incorporating the physical entropy into the simulations. The entropy balance is utilized as an…
Since the celebrated theorem of Lax and Wendroff, we know a necessary condition that any numerical scheme for hyperbolic problem should satisfy: it should be written in flux form. A variant can also be formulated for the entropy. Even…
A new approach using a hyperbolic-equation system (HES) is proposed to solve for the electron fluids in quasi-neutral plasmas. The HES approach avoids treatments of cross-diffusion terms which cause numerical instabilities in conventional…
In this paper, we consider a nonlinear and nonlocal parabolic model for multi-species ionic fluids and introduce a semi-implicit finite volume scheme, which is second order accurate in space, first order in time and satisfies the following…
For hyperbolic conservation laws, the famous Lax-Wendroff theorem delivers sufficient conditions for the limit of a convergent numerical method to be a weak (entropy) solution. This theorem is a fundamental result, and many investigations…
The stochastic finite volume method (SFV method) is a high-order accurate method for uncertainty quantification (UQ) in hyperbolic conservation laws. However, the computational cost of SFV method increases for high-dimensional stochastic…
We describe a fourth-order accurate finite-difference time-domain scheme for solving dispersive Maxwell's equations with nonlinear multi-level carrier kinetics models. The scheme is based on an efficient single-step three time-level…
In this paper, we design, analyze, and numerically validate positive and energy-dissipating schemes for solving the time-dependent multi-dimensional system of Poisson-Nernst-Planck (PNP) equations, which has found much use in the modeling…
We study smooth, global-in-time solutions of the relativistic Vlasov-Maxwell system that possess arbitrarily large charge densities and electric fields. In particular, we construct spherically symmetric solutions that describe a thin shell…
The Cauchy problem for the Vlasov-Maxwell-Boltzmann equations (VMB) is considered. First the renormalized solution to the Vlasov equation with the Lorentz force is discussed and the difficulty on the partial differentiability of the…