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Ion transport, often described by the Poisson--Nernst--Planck (PNP) equations, is ubiquitous in electrochemical devices and many biological processes of significance. In this work, we develop conservative, positivity-preserving, energy…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-15 Jie Ding , Zhongming Wang , Shenggao Zhou

This paper aims at developing exactly energy-conservative and structure-preserving finite volume schemes for the discretisation of first-order symmetric-hyperbolic and thermodynamically compatible (SHTC) systems of partial differential…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-01 Alessia Lucca , Michael Dumbser

We construct a structure-preserving finite element method and time-stepping scheme for compressible barotropic magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) both in the ideal and resistive cases, and in the presence of viscosity. The method is deduced from…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-10-04 Evan S. Gawlik , François Gay-Balmaz

We present a novel structure-preserving semi-implicit finite volume method on vertex-based staggered meshes for the compatible discretization of first order systems of time-dependent partial differential equations (PDEs). The method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-24 Elena Bernardelli , Elena Gaburro , Michael Dumbser

A third order shock-capturing numerical scheme for three-dimensional special relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (3-D RMHD) is presented and validated against several numerical tests. The simple and efficient central scheme described in Paper…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 L. Del Zanna , N. Bucciantini , P. Londrillo

Maintaining conservation laws in the fully discrete setting is critical for accurate long-time behavior of numerical simulations and requires accounting for discrete conservation properties in both space and time. This paper derives…

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

We present an adaptive-order positivity-preserving conservative finite-difference scheme that allows a high-order solution away from shocks and discontinuities while guaranteeing positivity and robustness at discontinuities. This is…

We present a new numerical code, ECHO, based on an Eulerian Conservative High Order scheme for time dependent three-dimensional general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) and magnetodynamics (GRMD). ECHO is aimed at providing a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 L. Del Zanna , O. Zanotti , N. Bucciantini , P. Londrillo

We present the implementation of a three-dimensional, second order accurate Godunov-type algorithm for magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD), in the adaptive-mesh-refinement (AMR) cosmological code {\tt CHARM}. The algorithm is based on the full…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Francesco Miniati , Daniel F. Martin

A positivity-preserving conservative semi-Lagrangian transport model by multi-moment finite volume method has been developed on the cubed-sphere grid. In this paper, two kinds of moments, i.e. point values (PV moment) at cell boundaries and…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2020-04-14 Jie Tang , Chungang Chen , Xueshun Shen , Feng Xiao , Xingliang Li

Numerical simulation of the spherically symmetric Einstein--Euler (EE) system faces severe challenges due to the stringent physical admissibility constraints of relativistic fluids and the geometric singularities inherent in metric…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-04 Yuchen Huang , Manting Peng , Kailiang Wu

We develop a structure-preserving numerical discretization for the electrostatic Euler-Poisson equations with a constant magnetic field. The scheme preserves positivity of the density, positivity of the internal energy and a minimum…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-15 Jordan Hoffart , Matthias Maier , John N. Shadid , Ignacio Tomas

A spatial second-order scheme for the nonlinear radiative transfer equations is introduced in this paper. The discretization scheme is based on the filtered spherical harmonics ($FP_N$) method for the angular variable and the unified gas…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-09 Xiaojing Xu , Song Jiang , Wenjun Sun

In this paper, we propose and analyze a temporally second-order accurate, fully discrete finite element method for the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations. A modified Crank--Nicolson method is used to discretize the model and appropriate…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-08-13 Cheng Wang , Jilu Wang , Zeyu Xia , Liwei Xu

We present compatible finite element space discretizations for the ideal compressible magnetohydrodynamic equations. The magnetic field is considered both in div- and curl-conforming spaces, leading to a strongly or weakly preserved…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-06 Golo A. Wimmer , Xianzhu Tang

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 develop parametrized positivity satisfying flux limiters for the high order finite difference Runge-Kutta weighted essentially non-oscillatory (WENO) scheme solving compressible Euler equations to maintain positive density…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-03-05 Tao Xiong , Jing-Mei Qiu , Zhengfu Xu

In this manuscript we present a novel and efficient numerical method for the compressible viscous and resistive MHD equations for all Mach number regimes. The time-integration strategy is a semi-implicit splitting, combined with a hybrid…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-22 Francesco Fambri , Eric Sonnendrücker

In this paper, we construct an explicit, second-order, and maximum-principle-preserving Crouzeix-Raviart (CR) finite element method for two-dimensional time-dependent transport equation. The key observation is that the mass matrix of the CR…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-30 Shipeng Mao , Mingyang Zhang