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The convergence analysis of a third-order scheme for the highly nonlinear Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation with a non-convex constraint is considered. In this paper, we first present a fully discrete semi-implicit method for solving the…
Many physical problems such as Allen-Cahn flows have natural maximum principles which yield strong point-wise control of the physical solutions in terms of the boundary data, the initial conditions and the operator coefficients.…
A new moving mesh scheme based on the Lagrange-Galerkin method for the approximation of the one-dimensional convection-diffusion equation is studied. The mesh movement, which is prescribed by a discretized dynamical system for the nodal…
A finite element scheme for an entirely fractional Allen-Cahn equation with non-smooth initial data is introduced and analyzed. In the proposed nonlocal model, the Caputo fractional in-time derivative and the fractional Laplacian replace…
We study a second order BDF (Backward Differentiation Formula) scheme for the numerical approximation of parabolic HJB (Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman) equations. The scheme under consideration is implicit, non-monotone, and second order accurate…
This paper studies bulk-surface splitting methods of first order for (semi-linear) parabolic partial differential equations with dynamic boundary conditions. The proposed Lie splitting scheme is based on a reformulation of the problem as a…
In this paper, we propose a first order energy stable linear semi-implicit method for solving the Allen-Cahn-Ohta-Kawasaki equation. By introducing a new nonlinear term in the Ohta-Kawasaki free energy functional, all the system forces in…
In this paper, an efficient and high-order accuracy finite difference method is proposed for solving multidimensional nonlinear Burgers' equation. The third-order three stage Runge-Kutta total variation diminishing (TVD) scheme is employed…
This manuscript deals with the analysis of numerical methods for the full discretization (in time and space) of the linear heat equation with Neumann boundary conditions, and it provides the reader with error estimates that are uniform in…
In this paper we propose and analyze a (temporally) third order accurate backward differentiation formula (BDF) numerical scheme for the no-slope-selection (NSS) equation of the epitaxial thin film growth model, with Fourier pseudo-spectral…
In this paper, we construct an explicit, second-order, and maximum-principle-preserving Crouzeix-Raviart (CR) finite element method for two-dimensional time-dependent transport equation. The key observation is that the mass matrix of the CR…
We present a positive and asymptotic preserving numerical scheme for solving linear kinetic, transport equations that relax to a diffusive equation in the limit of infinite scattering. The proposed scheme is developed using a standard…
In this paper we devise and analyze an unconditionally stable, second-order-in-time numerical scheme for the Cahn-Hilliard equation in two and three space dimensions. We prove that our two-step scheme is unconditionally energy stable and…
In this paper we consider discrete gradient methods for approximating the solution and preserving a first integral (also called a constant of motion) of autonomous ordinary differential equations. We prove under mild conditions for a large…
We establish a well-posedness and error-estimation framework that solves Hamilton-Jacobi equations by minimizing the least-squares residual of monotone finite-difference discretizations. This approach also applies naturally to second-order…
We introduce a new discrete-ordinate scheme for solving the general relativistic Boltzmann transport equation in the context of core-collapse supernovae. Our algorithm avoids the need to spell out the complicated advection terms in energy…
In this paper, we propose a novel recovery based finite element method for the Cahn-Hilliard equation. One distinguishing feature of the method is that we discretize the fourth-order differential operator in a standard $C^0$ linear finite…
We develop an unconditionally energy-stable tensor-product space-time discretization framework for the solution of a linear kinetic transport equation in one space dimension. The kinetic equation is a simplified model of radiative transfer…
This dissertation explores block decomposable methods for large-scale optimization problems. It focuses on alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) schemes and block coordinate descent (BCD) methods. Specifically, it introduces a…
Structure-preserving numerical schemes for a nonlinear parabolic fourth-order equation, modeling the electron transport in quantum semiconductors, with periodic boundary conditions are analyzed. First, a two-step backward differentiation…