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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

Geometric flows, where an immersed manifold evolves in time according to its own geometry, exhibit important structural properties. For example, surface diffusion dissipates surface area while conserving volume; it is desirable to preserve…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-21 Ganghui Zhang , Boris D. Andrews , Patrick E. Farrell

A fully discrete finite element method, based on a new weak formulation and a new time-stepping scheme, is proposed for the surface diffusion flow of closed curves in the two-dimensional plane. It is proved that the proposed method can…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-28 Wei Jiang , Buyang Li

We propose an unconditionally energy-stable, orthonormality-preserving, component-wise splitting iterative scheme for the Kohn-Sham gradient flow based model in the electronic structure calculation. We first study the scheme discretized in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-01 Xiuping Wang , Huangxin Chen , Jisheng Kou , Shuyu Sun

An extended Maxwell viscoelastic model with a relaxation parameter is studied from mathematical and numerical points of view. It is shown that the model has a gradient flow property with respect to a viscoelastic energy. Based on the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-22 Masato Kimura , Hirofumi Notsu , Yoshimi Tanaka , Hiroki Yamamoto

In this paper we bring together some of the key ideas and methods of two disparate fields of mathematical research, frame theory and optimal transport, using the methods of the second to answer questions posed in the first. In particular,…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-01 Clare Wickman , Kasso Okoudjou

Developing high-order numerical schemes for two-phase flow in porous media that preserve key physical properties remains a significant challenge in numerical analysis. In this article, we propose a general framework to construct fully…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-29 Xiaoli Li , Cheng Wang , Yujing Yan , Nan Zheng

This article presents a new numerical scheme for the discretization of dissipative particle dynamics with conserved energy. The key idea is to reduce elementary pairwise stochastic dynamics (either fluctuation/dissipation or thermal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-04-26 Gabriel Stoltz

We study the numerical solution of a Cahn-Hilliard/Allen-Cahn system with strong coupling through state and gradient dependent non-diagonal mobility matrices. A fully discrete approximation scheme in space and time is proposed which…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-02 Aaron Brunk , Herbert Egger , Oliver Habrich

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

A fully discrete Lagrangian scheme for solving a family of fourth order equations numerically is presented. The discretization is based on the equation's underlying gradient flow structure w.r.t. the $L^2$-Wasserstein distance, and adapts…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-01-23 Horst Osberger

First-order energy dissipative schemes in time are available in literature for the Poisson-Nernst-Planck (PNP) equations, but second-order ones are still in lack. This work proposes novel second-order discretization in time and finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-08 Jie Ding , Shenggao Zhou

Over the past fifteen years, the theory of Wasserstein gradient flows of convex (or, more generally, semiconvex) energies has led to advances in several areas of partial differential equations and analysis. In this work, we extend the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-05-04 Katy Craig

In this paper we devote our attention to a class of weighted ultrafast diffusion equations arising from the problem of quantisation for probability measures. These equations have a natural gradient flow structure in the space of probability…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-01-30 Mikaela Iacobelli , Francesco Patacchini , Filippo Santambrogio

We examine the infinite-dimensional optimization problem of finding a decomposition of a probability measure into K probability sub-measures to minimize specific loss functions inspired by applications in clustering and user grouping. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-04 Jiangze Han , Christopher Thomas Ryan , Xin T. Tong

The well-suited discretization of the Keller-Segel equations for chemotaxis has become a very challenging problem due to the convective nature inherent to them. This paper aims to introduce a new upwind, mass-conservative, positive and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-04 Daniel Acosta-Soba , Francisco Guillén-González , J. Rafael Rodríguez-Galván

Wasserstein gradient flows provide a powerful means of understanding and solving many diffusion equations. Specifically, Fokker-Planck equations, which model the diffusion of probability measures, can be understood as gradient descent over…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Petr Mokrov , Alexander Korotin , Lingxiao Li , Aude Genevay , Justin Solomon , Evgeny Burnaev

We consider the numerical approximation of a sharp-interface model for two-phase flow, which is given by the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations in the bulk domain together with the classical interface conditions on the interface. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-21 Harald Garcke , Robert Nürnberg , Quan Zhao

A new energy and enstrophy conserving scheme is evaluated using a suite of test cases over the global spherical domain or bounded domains. The evaluation is organized around a set of pre-defined properties: accuracy of individual opeartors,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-11 Qingshan Chen , Lili Ju , Roger Temam

A conforming finite element scheme with mixed explicit-implicit time discretization for quasi-incompressible Navier-Stokes-Maxwell-Stefan systems in a bounded domain with periodic boundary conditions is presented. The system consists of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-05 Aaron Brunk , Ansgar Jüngel , Maria Lukáčová-Medvid'ová