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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

In this paper, we introduce and analyse numerical schemes for the homogeneous and the kinetic L\'evy-Fokker-Planck equation. The discretizations are designed to preserve the main features of the continuous model such as conservation of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-26 Nathalie Ayi , Maxime Herda , Hélène Hivert , Isabelle Tristani

In this paper, we are interested in constructing a scheme solving compressible Navier--Stokes equations, with desired properties including high order spatial accuracy, conservation, and positivity-preserving of density and internal energy…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-13 Chen Liu , Xiangxiong Zhang

We implement the Unified Transform Method of Fokas as a numerical method to solve linear partial differential equations on the half-line. The method computes the solution at any x and t without spatial discretization or time stepping. With…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-12 Bernard Deconinck , Thomas Trogdon , Xin Yang

In this work we consider an extension of a recently proposed structure preserving numerical scheme for nonlinear Fokker-Planck-type equations to the case of nonconstant full diffusion matrices. While in existing works the schemes are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-20 N. Loy , M. Zanella

The Fokker-Planck equation is a partial differential equation that describes the evolution of a probability distribution over time. It is used to model a wide range of physical and biological phenomena, such as diffusion, chemical…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-11-29 Wisit Mangthas , Waipot Ngamsaad

In this work, we introduce semi-implicit or implicit finite difference schemes for the continuity equation with a gradient flow structure. Examples of such equations include the linear Fokker-Planck equation and the Keller-Segel equations.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-25 Jingwei Hu , Xiangxiong Zhang

Solving the Fokker-Planck equation for high-dimensional complex dynamical systems remains a pivotal yet challenging task due to the intractability of analytical solutions and the limitations of traditional numerical methods. In this work,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Naoufal El Bekri , Lucas Drumetz , Franck Vermet

The main objective of this paper is to present an efficient structure-preserving scheme, which is based on the idea of the scalar auxiliary variable approach, for solving the space fractional nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation. First, we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-11-19 Yayun Fu , Wenjun Cai , Yushun Wang

In this paper, we propose a class of explicit positivity preserving numerical methods for general stochastic differential equations which have positive solutions. Namely, all the numerical solutions are positive. Under some reasonable…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-30 Yulian Yi , Yaozhong Hu , Jingjun Zhao

In neuroscience, the distribution of a decision time is modelled by means of a one-dimensional Fokker--Planck equation with time-dependent boundaries and space-time-dependent drift. Efficient approximation of the solution to this equation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-08 Udo Boehm , Sonja Cox , Gregor Gantner , Rob Stevenson

The Feynman-Kac formula provides a way to understand solutions to elliptic partial differential equations in terms of expectations of continuous time Markov processes. This connection allows for the creation of numerical schemes for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-08-11 Cameron Martin , Hongyuan Zhang , Julia Costacurta , Mihai Nica , Adam R Stinchcombe

Here, we introduce a numerical approach for a class of Fokker-Planck (FP) equations. These equations are the adjoint of the linearization of Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) equations. Using this structure, we show how to transfer the properties of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-03-23 Adriano Festa , Diogo A. Gomes , Roberto M. Velho

Several new methods of numerical integration of Cauchy problems with blow-up solutions for nonlinear ordinary differential equations of the first- and second-order are described. Solutions of such problems have singularities whose positions…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-07-17 Andrei D. Polyanin , Inna K. Shingareva

This paper presents a new strategy to deal with the excessive diffusion that standard finite volume methods for compressible Euler equations display in the limit of low Mach number. The strategy can be understood as using centered…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-31 Wasilij Barsukow

The Fokker-Planck (FP) equation is a linear partial differential equation which governs the temporal and spatial evolution of the probability density function (PDF) associated with the response of stochastic dynamical systems. An exact…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-10-02 Hussam Alhussein , Mohammed Khasawneh , Mohammed F. Daqaq

We introduce a novel spatio-temporal discretization for nonlinear Fokker-Planck equations on the multi-dimensional unit cube. This discretization is based on two structural properties of these equations: the first is the representation as a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-01-11 Oliver Junge , Daniel Matthes , Horst Osberger

A novel class of high-order linearly implicit energy-preserving integrating factor Runge-Kutta methods are proposed for the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation. Based on the idea of the scalar auxiliary variable approach, the original equation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-07 Chaolong Jiang , Jin Cui , Xu Qian , Songhe Song

We develop a new method to solve the Fokker-Planck or Kolmogorov's forward equation that governs the time evolution of the joint probability density function of a continuous-time stochastic nonlinear system. Numerical solution of this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-11-16 Kenneth F. Caluya , Abhishek Halder

This paper presents a numerical method to solve a time-fractional Burgers equation, achieving order of convergence $(2-\alpha)$ in time, here $\alpha$ represents the order of the time derivative. The fractional derivative is modeled by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-29 Deeksha Singh , Swati Yadav , Rajesh K. Pandey