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We propose a novel Skew Gradient Embedding (SGE) framework for systematically reformulating thermodynamically consistent partial differential equation (PDE) models-capturing both reversible and irreversible processes-as generalized gradient…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-24 Xuelong Gu , Qi Wang

A Lagrangian numerical scheme for solving nonlinear degenerate Fokker-Planck equations in space dimensions $d\ge2$ is presented. It applies to a large class of nonlinear diffusion equations, whose dynamics are driven by internal energies…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-18 José A. Carrillo , Bertram Düring , Daniel Matthes , David S. McCormick

For gradient flows, the existing structure-preserving schemes are difficult to achieve arbitrary high-order accuracy in time while preserving maximum-principle (MBP) and energy dissipating simultaneously. In this paper, we develop a new…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Qing Cheng , Tingfeng Wang , Xiaofei Zhao

Onsager's variational principle (OVP) provides us with a systematic way to derive dynamical equations for various soft matter and active matter. By reformulating the Onsager-Machlup variational principle (OMVP), which is a time-global…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-10-04 Kento Yasuda , Kenta Ishimoto , Shigeyuki Komura

We present an adaptation of the so-called structural method \cite{CMM23} for Hamiltonian systems, and redesign the method for this specific context, which involves two coupled differential systems. Structural schemes decompose the problem…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-24 Stéphane Clain , Emmanuel Franck , Victor Michel-Dansac

The numerical integration of phase-field equations is a delicate task which needs to recover at the discrete level intrinsic properties of the solution such as energy dissipation and maximum principle. Although the theory of energy…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-16 Chaoyu Quan , Tao Tang , Jiang Yang

We evaluate the Onsager matrix for a system under time-periodic driving by considering all its Fourier components. By application of the second law, we prove that all the fluxes converge to zero in the limit of zero dissipation. Reversible…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-09-02 Karel Proesmans , Christian Van den Broeck

The Cahn-Hilliard equation and extensions, notably the Cahn-Hilliard-Darcy and Cahn-Hilliard-Navier-Stokes systems, provide widely used frameworks for coupling interfacial thermodynamics with flow. This review surveys the thermodynamic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Aaron Brunk , Marco F. P. ten Eikelder , Marvin Fritz , Dennis Höhn , Dennis Trautwein

The Navier--Stokes equations are commonly used to model and to simulate flow phenomena. We introduce the basic equations and discuss the standard methods for the spatial and temporal discretization. We analyse the semi-discrete equations --…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Robert Altmann , Jan Heiland

We study the systematic numerical approximation of a class of Allen-Cahn type problems modeling the motion of phase interfaces. The common feature of these models is an underlying gradient flow structure which gives rise to a decay of an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-03-09 Anke Böttcher , Herbert Egger

In this paper, we construct a semi-implicit finite difference method for the time dependent Poisson-Nernst-Planck system. Although the Poisson-Nernst-Planck system is a nonlinear system, the numerical method presented in this paper only…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-01-17 Dongdong He , Kejia Pan

We propose a machine learning framework to accelerate numerical computations of time-dependent ODEs and PDEs. Our method is based on recasting (generalizations of) existing numerical methods as artificial neural networks, with a set of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-03-08 Siddhartha Mishra

The aim of this paper is the derivation of structure preserving schemes for the solution of the EPDiff equation, with particular emphasis on the two dimensional case. We develop three different schemes based on the Discrete Variational…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-04-26 Stig Larsson , Takayasu Matsuo , Klas Modin , Matteo Molteni

Numerical schemes for the solution of the Euler equations have recently been developed, which involve the discretisation of the internal energy equation, with corrective terms to ensure the correct capture of shocks, and, more generally,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-06-28 R. Herbin , T. Gallouët , J. -C Latché , N Therme

How to develop efficient numerical schemes while preserving the energy stability at the discrete level is a challenging issue for the three component Cahn-Hilliard phase-field model. In this paper, we develop first and second order temporal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-02-01 Xiaofeng Yang , Jia Zhao , Qi Wang , Jie Shen

A simple variational Lagrangian is proposed for the time development of an arbitrary density matrix, employing the "factorization" of the density. Only the "kinetic energy" appears in the Lagrangian. The formalism applies to pure and mixed…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Englman , A. Yahalom

In this paper, we design a novel class of arbitrarily high-order structure-preserving numerical schemes for the time-dependent Gross-Pitaevskii equation with angular momentum rotation in three dimensions. Based on the idea of the scalar…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-03 Jin Cui , Yushun Wang , Chaolong Jiang

There is a qualitative difference between one-dimensional and multi-dimensional solutions to the Euler equations: new features that arise are vorticity and a nontrivial incompressible (low Mach number) limit. They present challenges to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-30 Wasilij Barsukow

This paper detailedly discusses the locally one-dimensional numerical methods for efficiently solving the three-dimensional fractional partial differential equations, including fractional advection diffusion equation and Riesz fractional…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-07-07 Weihua Deng , Minghua Chen

Employing a phase space which includes the (Riemann-Liouville) fractional derivative of curves evolving on real space, we develop a restricted variational principle for Lagrangian systems yielding the so-called restricted fractional…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-03-01 Fernando Jiménez , Sina Ober-Blöbaum