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Recently, inverse problems have attracted more and more attention in computational mathematics and become increasingly important in engineering applications. After the discretization, many of inverse problems are reduced to linear systems.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-07 Gong Rongfang , Huang Qin

We present a conservative/dissipative time integration scheme for nonlinear mechanical systems. Starting from a weak form, we derive algorithmic forces and velocities that guarantee the desired conservation/dissipation properties. Our…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-11-01 Cristian G. Gebhardt , Ignacio Romero , Raimund Rolfes

We combine Patankar-type methods with suitable relaxation procedures that are capable of ensuring correct dissipation or conservation of functionals such as entropy or energy while producing unconditionally positive and conservative…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-03 Thomas Izgin , Hendrik Ranocha , Chi-Wang Shu

We develop a discretisation of the semigeostrophic rotating shallow water equations, based upon their optimal transport formulation. This takes the form of a Moreau-Yoshida regularisation of the Wasserstein metric. Solutions of the optimal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-23 Jean-David Benamou , Colin J. Cotter , Jacob J. M. Francis , Hugo Malamut

The nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger (NLS) equation possesses an infinite hierarchy of conserved densities and the numerical preservation of some of these quantities is critical for accurate long-time simulations, particularly for multi-soliton…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-06 Abhijit Biswas , David I. Ketcheson

This survey reviews variational and iterative methods for reconstructing non-negative solutions of ill-posed problems in infinite-dimensional spaces. We focus on two classes of methods: variational methods based on entropy-minimization or…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-07 Christian Clason , Barbara Kaltenbacher , Elena Resmerita

In this paper we investigate an adaptive discretization strategy for ill-posed linear prob- lems combined with a regularization from a class of semiiterative methods. We show that such a discretization approach in combination with a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-07-22 Wolfgang Erb , Evgeniya V. Semenova

We consider linear iterative schemes for the time-discrete equations stemming from a class of nonlinear, doubly-degenerate parabolic equations. More precisely, the diffusion is nonlinear and may vanish or become multivalued for certain…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-12 Ayesha Javed , Koondanibha Mitra , Iuliu Sorin Pop

In this work a non-conservative balance law formulation is considered that encompasses the rotating, compressible Euler equations for dry atmospheric flows. We develop a semi-discretely entropy stable discontinuous Galerkin method on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-31 Maciej Waruszewski , Jeremy E. Kozdon , Lucas C. Wilcox , Thomas H. Gibson , Francis X. Giraldo

We propose entropy-preserving and entropy-stable partitioned Runge--Kutta (RK) methods. In particular, we extend the explicit relaxation Runge--Kutta methods to IMEX--RK methods and a class of explicit second-order multirate methods for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-21 Shinhoo Kang , Emil M. Constantinescu

Ion transport, often described by the Poisson--Nernst--Planck (PNP) equations, is ubiquitous in electrochemical devices and many biological processes of significance. In this work, we develop conservative, positivity-preserving, energy…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-15 Jie Ding , Zhongming Wang , Shenggao Zhou

We discuss differential-- versus integral--equation based methods describing out--of thermal equilibrium systems and emphasize the importance of a well defined reduction to statistical observables. Applying the projection operator approach,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-09-13 Herbert Nachbagauer

Structure-preserving finite-difference schemes for general nonlinear fourth-order parabolic equations on the one-dimensional torus are derived. Examples include the thin-film and the Derrida-Lebowitz-Speer-Spohn equations. The schemes…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-14 Marcel Braukhoff , Ansgar Jüngel

A novel structure-preserving numerical method to solve random hyperbolic systems of conservation laws is presented. The method uses a concept of generalized, measure-valued solutions to random conservation laws. This yields a linear partial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-29 Shaoshuai Chu , Michael Herty , Maria Lukacova-Medvidova , Yizhou Zhou

We develop entropy dissipative higher order accurate local discontinuous Galerkin (LDG) discretizations coupled with Diagonally Implicit Runge-Kutta (DIRK) methods for nonlinear degenerate parabolic equations with a gradient flow structure.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-02 F. Yan , J. J . W. van der Vegt , Y. Xia , Y. Xu

We study a class of degenerate convection diffusion equations with a fractional nonlinear diffusion term. These equations are natural generalizations of anomalous diffusion equations, fractional conservations laws, local convection…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-07-28 Simone Cifani , Espen R. Jakobsen

We consider linear inverse problems under white noise. These types of problems can be tackled with, e.g., iterative regularisation methods and the main challenge is to determine a suitable stopping index for the iteration. Convergence…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-05-02 Tim Jahn

We develop a discretely entropy-stable line-based discontinuous Galerkin method for hyperbolic conservation laws based on a flux differencing technique. By using standard entropy-stable and entropy-conservative numerical flux functions,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-05-01 Will Pazner , Per-Olof Persson

In this paper, the entropy conservative/stable algorithms presented by Del Rey Fernandez and coauthors [18,16,17] for the compressible Euler and Navier-Stokes equations on nonconforming p-refined/coarsened curvilinear grids is extended to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-08 David C. Del Rey Fernandez , Mark H. Carpenter , Lisandro Dalcin , Stefano Zampini , Matteo Parsani

Entropy stable methods have become increasingly popular in the field of computational fluid dynamics. They often work by satisfying some form of a discrete entropy inequality: a discrete form of the 2nd law of thermodynamics. Schemes which…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-08 Brian Christner , Jesse Chan