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We consider a finite element discretization for the reconstruction of the final state of the heat equation, when the initial data is unknown, but additional data is given in a sub domain in the space time. For the discretization in space we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-07-24 Erik Burman , Jonathan Ish-Horowicz , Lauri Oksanen

This work presents a new conforming stabilized virtual element method for the generalized Boussinesq equation with temperature-dependent viscosity and thermal conductivity. A gradient-based local projection stabilization method is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-29 Sudheer Mishra , Sundararajan Natarajan , Natarajan E

We investigate a convective Brinkman--Forchheimer problem coupled with a heat equation. The investigated model considers thermal diffusion and viscosity depending on the temperature. We prove the existence of a solution without restriction…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-21 Gilberto Campaña , Pablo Muñoz , Enrique Otarola

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

On the example of the Poynting-Thomson-Zener rheological model for solids, which exhibits both dissipation and wave propagation - with nonlinear dispersion relation -, we introduce and investigate a finite difference numerical scheme. Our…

Classical Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 Tamás Fülöp , Róbert Kovács , Mátyás Szücs , Mohammad Fawaier

We study a diffuse-interface model for thermally driven phase separation in viscous incompressible mixtures. The system couples a convective Cahn-Hilliard equation for the order parameter with a Stokes subsystem for the velocity-pressure…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-24 Maria Deliyianni , Boris Muha , Andrej Novak

In this paper, we derive first-order Euler finite element discretization schemes for a time-dependent natural convection model with variable density (NCVD). The model is governed by the variable density Navier-Stokes equations coupled with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-20 Li Hang , Chenyang Li

In this paper, we survey our recent results on the variational formulation of nonequilibrium thermodynamics for the finite dimensional case of discrete systems as well as for the infinite dimensional case of continuum systems. Starting with…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-04-09 François Gay-Balmaz , Hiroaki Yoshimura

We present a finite element variational integrator for compressible flows. The numerical scheme is derived by discretizing, in a structure preserving way, the Lie group formulation of fluid dynamics on diffeomorphism groups and the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-15 Evan S. Gawlik , François Gay-Balmaz

In this paper, we develop variational integrators for the nonequilibrium thermodynamics of simple closed systems. These integrators are obtained by a discretization of the Lagrangian variational formulation of nonequilibrium thermodynamics…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-04 François Gay-Balmaz , H. Yoshimura

We construct four variants of space-time finite element discretizations based on linear tensor-product and simplex-type finite elements. The resulting discretizations are continuous in space, and continuous or discontinuous in time. In a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-05 Max von Danwitz , Igor Voulis , Norbert Hosters , Marek Behr

We derive mixed finite element discretizations of a cold relativistics fluid model from approximations of the Poisson bracket that preserve mass, energy and the divergence constraints. For time-discretization we derive an implicit…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Tileuzhan Mukhamet , Katharina Kormann

A new time discretization scheme for the numerical simulation of two-phase flow governed by a thermodynamically consistent diffuse interface model is presented. The scheme is consistent in the sense that it allows for a discrete in time…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-02-27 Harald Garcke , Michael Hinze , Christian Kahle

We present a simulation scheme for discrete-velocity gases based on {\em local thermodynamic equilibrium}. Exploiting the kinetic nature of discrete-velocity gases, in that context, results in a natural splitting of fluxes, and the…

comp-gas · Physics 2008-02-03 Balu Nadiga , Dale Pullin

In this paper, we develop a variational foundation for stochastic thermodynamics of finite-dimensional, continuous-time systems. Requiring the second law (non-negative average total entropy production) systematically yields a consistent…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-07 Héctor Vaquero del Pino , François Gay-Balmaz , Hiroaki Yoshimura , Lock Yue Chew

This paper presents a finite element method that preserves (at the degrees of freedom) the eigenvalue range of the solution of tensor-valued time-dependent convection--diffusion equations. Starting from a high-order spatial baseline…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-09 Abdolreza Amiri , Gabriel R. Barrenechea , Tristan Pryer

Viscoelastic rate-type fluid models constitute a fundamental framework for the mathematical description of complex materials exhibiting coupled elastic and viscous effects, with a wide range of applications in engineering, biomaterials, and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-01 Miroslav Bulíček , Tomáš Los , Jakub Woźnicki

We present and analyze in a unified setting two schemes for the numerical discretization of a Darcy-Forchheimer fluid flow model coupled with an advection-diffusion equation modeling the temperature distribution in the fluid. The first…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-11 Stefano Bonetti , Michele Botti , Paola F. Antonietti

We study a fully discrete finite element approximation of a model for unsteady flows of rate-type viscoelastic fluids with stress diffusion in two and three dimensions. The model consists of the incompressible Navier--Stokes equation for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-06-21 Dennis Trautwein

Convection-diffusion-reaction equations model the conservation of scalar quantities. From the analytic point of view, solution of these equations satisfy under certain conditions maximum principles, which represent physical bounds of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-24 Gabriel R. Barrenechea , Volker John , Petr Knobloch