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The Kohn-Sham method uses a single model system, and corrects it by a density functional the exact user friendly expression of which is not known and is replaced by an approximated, usable, model. We propose to use instead more than one…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-12-28 Étienne Polack , Yvon Maday , Andreas Savin

We propose to expand the territory of density functional theory to strongly correlated electrons by reformulating the Kohn-Sham scheme in the representation of fractionalized particles. We call it the ``KS* scheme.'' Using inhomogeneous…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-04-08 Bo Zhao , Jingyu Zhao , Zheng Zhu , Jian Wu , Zheng Liu

In this paper, we present a new computational framework to approximate a Cahn-Hilliard-Navier-Stokes model with variable density and degenerate mobility that preserves the mass of the mixture, the pointwise bounds of the density and the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-02 Daniel Acosta-Soba , Francisco Guillén-González , J. Rafael Rodríguez-Galván , Jin Wang

In this paper, we investigate numerically a diffuse interface model for the Navier-Stokes equation with fluid-fluid interface when the fluids have different densities \cite{Lowengrub1998}. Under minor reformulation of the system, we show…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Zhenlin Guo , Ping Lin , John S. Lowengrub

Accurate high-speed flow simulations of practical interest require numerical methods with high-resolution properties. In this paper, we present an extension and demonstration of the high-accuracy Gradient-based reconstruction and…

We perform numerical analysis of a nonlinear gradient flow, which can be regarded as a parabolic minimal surface problem or a regularised total variation flow, using the gradient discretisation method (GDM). GDM is a unified convergence…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Jerome Droniou , Kim-Ngan Le , Huateng Zhu

The self consistent version of the density functional theory is presented, which allows to calculate the ground state and dynamic properties of finite multi-electron systems. An exact functional equation for the effective interaction, from…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-08-23 M. Ya. Amusia , A. Z. Msezane , V. R. Shaginyan

Kohn-Sham density functional theory calculations using conventional diagonalization based methods become increasingly expensive as temperature increases due to the need to compute increasing numbers of partially occupied states. We present…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-03-23 Qimen Xu , Xin Jing , Boqin Zhang , John E. Pask , Phanish Suryanarayana

This article presents stability and convergence analyses of subgrid multiscale stabilized finite element formulation of non-Newtonian power-law fluid flow model strongly coupled with variable coefficients Advection-Diffusion-Reaction…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-19 Manisha Chowdhury , B. V. Rathish Kumar

We present a fully discrete convergent finite difference scheme for the Q-tensor flow of liquid crystals based on the energy-stable semi-discrete scheme by Zhao, Yang, Gong, and Wang (Comput. Methods Appl. Mech. Engrg. 2017). We prove…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-05-27 Varun M. Gudibanda , Franziska Weber , Yukun Yue

Recently, a new connection between density functional theory and kinetic theory has been proposed. In particular, it was shown that the Kohn-Sham (KS) equations can be reformulated as a macroscopic limit of the steady-state solution of a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 M. Mendoza , H. J. Herrmann , S. Succi

In this paper we establish a rigorous gradient flow structure for one-dimensional Kimura equations with respect to some Wasserstein-Shahshahani optimal transport geometry. This is achieved by first conditioning the underlying stochastic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-10-03 Jean-Baptiste Casteras , Léonard Monsaingeon

This paper is concerned with a rigorous convergence analysis of a fully discrete Lagrangian scheme for the Hele-Shaw flow, which is the fourth order thin-film equation with linear mobility in one space dimension. The discretization is based…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-09-07 Horst Osberger , Daniel Matthes

This paper presents a novel mass-conservative mixed multiscale method for solving flow equations in heterogeneous porous media. The media properties (the permeability) contain multiple scales and high contrast. The proposed method solves…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-04-01 Eric Chung , Yalchin Efendiev , Wing Tat Leung

In this paper, a new semi-discrete version of the Carleman estimate-based convexification globally convergent numerical method is developed. It is used for the delivery of the starting point for the training procedure of deep learning. An…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-23 Michael V. Klibanov , Kirill V. Golubnichiy , Benjamin Jiang

Predictivity of the Kohn-Sham approach to dynamical problems, when regarded as an initial value problem in a time-dependent density functional framework, is analysed for a class of models for which the argument devised in the work of Maitra…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-16 Walter Tarantino

One of the most powerful strategies to address properties of real many-body systems is to incorporate data obtained for models, for example, to use data of the homogeneous electron gas in order to build the Local Density Approximation for…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-05 Muhammed Hüseyin Güneş , Ayoub Aouina , Vitaly Gorelov , Matteo Gatti , Lucia Reining

The elastic energy of a bending-resistant interface depends both on its geometry and its material composition. We consider such a heterogeneous interface in the plane, modeled by a curve equipped with an additional density function. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-02 Anna Dall'Acqua , Gaspard Jankowiak , Leonie Langer , Fabian Rupp

Molecular dynamics simulations are indispensable for exploring the behavior of atoms and molecules. Grounded in quantum mechanical principles, quantum molecular dynamics provides high predictive power but its computational cost is dominated…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-09-10 Siu Wun Cheung , Youngsoo Choi , Jean-Luc Fattebert , Daniel Osei-Kuffuor

We extend density matrix embedding theory to periodic systems, resulting in an electronic band structure method for solid-state materials. The electron correlation can be captured by means of a local impurity model using various choices of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-09-27 Hung Q. Pham , Matthew R. Hermes , Laura Gagliardi