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In our previous work [29], we proposed a class of high-order asymptotic preserving (AP) finite difference weighted essentially non-oscillatory (WENO) schemes for solving the shallow water equations (SWEs) with bottom topography and Manning…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Guanlan Huang , Sebastiano Boscarino , Tao Xiong

In this paper, we propose and analyze a second order accurate (in both time and space) numerical scheme for the Poisson-Nernst-Planck-Navier-Stokes system, which describes the ion electro-diffusion in fluids. In particular, the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-12 Yuzhe Qin , Cheng Wang

In this paper we propose and analyze a finite difference numerical scheme for the Poisson-Nernst-Planck equation (PNP) system. To understand the energy structure of the PNP model, we make use of the Energetic Variational Approach (EnVarA),…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-18 Chun Liu , Cheng Wang , Steven M. Wise , Xingye Yue , Shenggao Zhou

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

This work considers charged systems described by the modified Poisson--Nernst--Planck (PNP) equations, which incorporate ionic steric effects and the Born solvation energy for dielectric inhomogeneity. Solving the steady-state modified PNP…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-04 Zhonghua Qiao , Zhenli Xu , Qian Yin , Shenggao Zhou

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

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 Rosenbluth-Fokker-Planck (RFP) equation describes Coulomb collisional dynamics within and across species in plasmas. It belongs to the broader class of anisotropic-diffusion-advection equations, whose numerical approximation is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-15 Hamad El Kahza , Luis Chacón , William Taitano , Jingmei Qiu , Jingwei Hu

In the framework of a mixed finite element method, a structure-preserving formulation for incompressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations with general boundary conditions is proposed. A leapfrog-type temporal scheme fully decouples the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-20 Yi Zhang , Artur Palha , Andrea Brugnoli , Deepesh Toshniwal , Marc Gerritsma

In order to describe the dynamics of crowded ions (charged particles), we use an energetic variation approach to derive a modified Poisson-Nernst-Planck (PNP) system which includes an extra dissipation due to the effective velocity…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-08-01 Chia-Yu Hsieh , YunKyong Hyon , Hijin Lee , Tai-Chia Lin , Chun Liu

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

A second order accurate (in time) numerical scheme is proposed and analyzed for the Poisson-Nernst-Planck equation (PNP) system, reformulated as a non-constant mobility $H^{-1}$ gradient flow in the Energetic Variational Approach (EnVarA).…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-15 Chun Liu , Cheng Wang , Steven M. Wise , Xingye Yue , Shenggao Zhou

A macroscopic model to describe the dynamics of ion transport in ion channels is the Poisson-Nernst-Planck(PNP) equations. In this paper, we develop a finite-difference method for solving PNP equations, which is second-order accurate in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-03-18 Allen Flavell , Michael Machen , Bob Eisenberg , Chun Liu , Xiaofan Li

In this paper, we propose and validate a two-species Multiscale model for a Poisson-Nernst-Planck (PNP) system, focusing on the correlated motion of positive and negative ions under the influence of a trap. Specifically, we aim to model…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Clarissa Astuto , Giovanni Russo

The state of art of charge-conserving electromagnetic finite element particle-in-cell has grown by leaps and bounds in the past few years. These advances have primarily been achieved for leap-frog time stepping schemes for Maxwell solvers,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-10 Omkar H. Ramachandran , Leo C. Kempel , John Luginsland , B. Shanker

In this work, we revisit the adaptive L1 time-stepping scheme for solving the time-fractional Allen-Cahn equation in the Caputo's form. The L1 implicit scheme is shown to preserve a variational energy dissipation law on arbitrary nonuniform…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-31 Hong-lin Liao , Xiaohan Zhu , Jindi Wang

An important component of a number of computational modeling algorithms is an interpolation method that preserves the positivity of the function being interpolated. This report describes the numerical testing of a new positivity-preserving…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-17 T. A. J. Ouermi , Robert M. Kirby , Martin Berzins

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

Understanding the system-level spectral immittance response of capacitive energy storage devices with analytically tractable physics-based models is not only important for the progress of the technology, but also allows to develop new…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-02-22 Anis Allagui , Hachemi Benaoum , Hichem Eleuch , Chunlei Wang

The nonlocal Allen-Cahn equation with nonlocal diffusion operator is a generalization of the classical Allen-Cahn equation. It satisfies the energy dissipation law and maximum bound principle (MBP), and is important for simulating a series…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-27 Xiaoqing Meng , Aijie Cheng , Zhengguang Liu