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Production-destruction systems (PDS) of ordinary differential equations (ODEs) are used to describe physical and biological reactions in nature. The considered quantities are subject to natural laws. Therefore, they preserve positivity and…

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Many important applications are modelled by differential equations with positive solutions. However, it remains an outstanding open problem to develop numerical methods that are both (i) of a high order of accuracy and (ii) capable of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-05-03 Sergio Blanes , Arieh Iserles , Shev Macnamara

Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) describes the interaction between electrically conducting fluids and electromagnetic fields. We propose and analyze a symplectic, second-order algorithm for the evolutionary MHD system in Els\"asser variables. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-18 Zhen Yao , Catalin Trenchea , Wenlong Pei

We present a fourth-order accurate finite volume method for the solution of ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). The numerical method combines high-order quadrature rules in the solution of semi-discrete formulations of hyperbolic conservation…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-17 Kyle Gerard Felker , James Stone

The ideal MHD equations are a central model in astrophysics, and their solution relies upon stable numerical schemes. We present an implementation of a new method, which possesses excellent stability properties. Numerical tests demonstrate…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-28 Knut Waagan , Christoph Federrath , Christian Klingenberg

In this second part of our two-part paper, we extend to multiple spatial dimensions the one-dimensional, fully conservative, positivity-preserving, and entropy-bounded discontinuous Galerkin scheme developed in the first part for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-11 Eric J. Ching , Ryan F. Johnson , Andrew D. Kercher

We present a novel high-order nodal artificial viscosity approach designed for solving Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations. Unlike conventional methods, our approach eliminates the need for ad hoc parameters. The viscosity is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-16 Tuan Anh Dao , Murtazo Nazarov

This paper proposes and analyzes a robust and efficient second-order positivity-preserving constrained transport (PPCT) scheme for ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) on non-staggered Cartesian meshes. The PPCT scheme ensures two critical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-08 Dongwen Pang , Kailiang Wu

This article proposes modifications to standard low order finite element approximations of the Stokes system with the goal of improving both the approximation quality and the parallel algebraic solution process. Different from standard…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-11-19 Markus Huber , Lorenz John , Petra Pustejovska , Ulrich Rüde , Christian Waluga , Barbara Wohlmuth

Though high-performance computing enables high-fidelity simulations of complex engineering systems, accurately resolving multi-scale physics for real-world problems remains computationally prohibitive, particularly in many-query…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-03-26 Ali Mohaghegh , Cheng Huang

In this paper, we present a high-order finite element method based on a reconstructed approximation to the biharmonic equation. In our construction, the space is reconstructed from nodal values by solving a local least squares fitting…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-08 Ruo Li , Qicheng Liu , Fanyi Yang

We present the two-dimensional unstructured grids extension of the a posteriori local subcell correction of discontinuous Galerkin (DG) schemes introduced in [52]. The technique is based on the reformulation of DG scheme as a finite volume…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-23 François Vilar , Rémi Abgrall

This paper presents compact, symmetric, and high-order finite difference methods (FDMs) for the variable Poisson equation on a $d$-dimensional hypercube. Our scheme produces a symmetric linear system: an important property that does not…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-14 Qiwei Feng , Bin Han , Michelle Michelle , Jiwoon Sim

We develop a new finite difference scheme for the Maxwell-Stefan diffusion system. The scheme is conservative, energy stable and positivity-preserving. These nice properties stem from a variational structure and are proved by reformulating…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-05-19 Xiaokai Huo , Hailiang Liu , Athanasios E. Tzavaras , Shuaikun Wang

We present an efficient second-order finite difference scheme for solving the 2D sine-Gordon equation, which can inherit the discrete energy conservation for the undamped model theoretically. Due to the semi-implicit treatment for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-06-28 Xiaorong Kang , Wenqiang Feng , Kelong Cheng , Chunxiang Guo

This paper develops high-order accurate, well-balanced (WB), and positivity-preserving (PP) finite volume schemes for shallow water equations on adaptive moving structured meshes. The mesh movement poses new challenges in maintaining the WB…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-17 Zhihao Zhang , Huazhong Tang , Kailiang Wu

This paper proposes novel high-order accurate discontinuous Galerkin (DG) schemes for the one- and two-dimensional ten-moment Gaussian closure equations with source terms defined by a known potential function. Our DG schemes exhibit the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-26 Jiangfu Wang , Huazhong Tang , Kailiang Wu

In this work we develop and analyze an adaptive finite element method for efficiently solving electrical impedance tomography -- a severely ill-posed nonlinear inverse problem for recovering the conductivity from boundary voltage…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-05-16 Bangti Jin , Yifeng Xu , Jun Zou

We propose a high-order finite element method for linear fourth-order elliptic problems that is both nodally bound-preserving and mass-conservative, based on a variational inequality formulation. The method admits an equivalent strictly…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-25 Jie Shen , Zuodong Wang

We present and analyze a new second-order finite difference scheme for the Macromolecular Microsphere Composite hydrogel, Time-Dependent Ginzburg-Landau (MMC-TDGL) equation, a Cahn-Hilliard equation with Flory-Huggins-deGennes energy…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-26 Lixiu Dong , Cheng Wang , Hui Zhang , Zhengru Zhang