English
Related papers

Related papers: Solving Stochastic PDEs Using FEniCS and UQtk

200 papers

Stochastic differential equations (SDEs), which models uncertain phenomena as the time evolution of random variables, are exploited in various fields of natural and social sciences such as finance. Since SDEs rarely admit analytical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-26 Kenji Kubo , Yuya O. Nakagawa , Suguru Endo , Shota Nagayama

We study a numerical method to compute probability density functions of solutions of stochastic differential equations. The method is sometimes called the numerical path integration method and has been shown to be fast and accurate in…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-11-29 Linghua Chen , Espen Robstad Jakobsen , Arvid Naess

Finite element method (FEM) suffers from a serious mesh distortion problem when used for high velocity impact analyses. The smooth particle hydrodynamics (SPH) method is appropriate for this class of problems involving severe damages but at…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2012-05-08 S. Swaddiwudhipong , M. J. Islam , Z. S. Liu

This paper introduces the FEDM (Finite Element Discharge Modelling) code, which was developed using the open-source computing platform FEniCS (https://fenicsproject.org). Building on FEniCS, the FEDM code utilises the finite element method…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-03-27 Aleksandar P. Jovanović , Detlef Loffhagen , Markus M. Becker

Stochastic mathematical models are essential tools for understanding and predicting complex phenomena. The purpose of this work is to study the exit times of a stochastic dynamical system-specifically, the mean exit time and the…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-08-06 Eric José Ávila-Vales , José Villa-Morales

Modeling stochastic differential equations (SDEs) is crucial for understanding complex dynamical systems in various scientific fields. Recent methods often employ neural network-based models, which typically represent SDEs through a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Senwei Liang , Chunmei Wang , Xingjian Xu

In this paper, we propose efficient quantum algorithms for solving nonlinear stochastic differential equations (SDE) via the associated Fokker-Planck equation (FPE). We discretize the FPE in space and time using two well-known numerical…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-08-01 Abeynaya Gnanasekaran , Amit Surana , Tuhin Sahai

The scaled boundary finite element method (SBFEM) is capable of generating polyhedral elements with an arbitrary number of surfaces. This salient feature significantly alleviates the meshing burden being a bottleneck in the analysis…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Shukai Ya , Sascha Eisenträger , Chongmin Song , Jianbo Li

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

Partial differential equations (PDEs) with inputs that depend on infinitely many parameters pose serious theoretical and computational challenges. Sophisticated numerical algorithms that automatically determine which parameters need to be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-18 Adam J. Crowder , Catherine E. Powell , Alex Bespalov

The problem of solving partial differential equations (PDEs) on manifolds can be considered to be one of the most general problem formulations encountered in computational multi-physics. The required covariant forms of balance laws as well…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-19 Robert L. Gates , Maximilian Bittens

The Generalized Finite Element Method (GFEM) is a Partition of Unity Method (PUM), where the trial space of standard Finite Element Method (FEM) is augmented with non-polynomial shape functions with compact support. These shape functions,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-27 I. Babuska , U. Banerjee

The implementation of finite element methods (FEMs) for nonlocal models with a finite range of interaction poses challenges not faced in the partial differential equations (PDEs) setting. For example, one has to deal with weak forms…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-05-22 Marta D'Elia , Max Gunzburger , Christian Vollmann

This paper presents a new stochastic finite element method for computing structural stochastic responses. The method provides a new expansion of stochastic response and decouples the stochastic response into a combination of a series of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-28 Zhibao Zheng

Partial Differential Equations (PDE) are fundamental to model different phenomena in science and engineering mathematically. Solving them is a crucial step towards a precise knowledge of the behaviour of natural and engineered systems. In…

Fractional calculus provides a rigorous mathematical framework to describe anomalous stochastic processes by generalizing the notion of classical differential equations to their fractional-order counterparts. By introducing the fractional…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-04 Ehsan Kharazmi , Mohsen Zayernouri

High level domain specific languages for the finite element method underpin high productivity programming environments for simulations based on partial differential equations (PDE) while employing automatic code generation to achieve high…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Nacime Bouziani , David A. Ham

Partial differential equations (PDEs) are used to describe a variety of physical phenomena. Often these equations do not have analytical solutions and numerical approximations are used instead. One of the common methods to solve PDEs is the…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Ivan Yashchuk

Many problems in engineering and sciences require the solution of large scale optimization constrained by partial differential equations (PDEs). Though PDE-constrained optimization is itself challenging, most applications pose additional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-06 Joseph Hart , Bart van Bloemen Waanders , Roland Herzog

This paper analyses the finite element component of the error when using preintegration to approximate the cdf and pdf for uncertainty quantification (UQ) problems involving elliptic PDEs with random inputs. It is a follow up to Gilbert,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Alexander D. Gilbert