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This paper presents a fully discrete numerical scheme for one-dimensional nonlocal wave equations and provides a rigorous theoretical analysis. To facilitate the spatial discretization, we introduce an auxiliary variable analogous to the…

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A variational formulation for nonequilibrium thermodynamics was recently proposed in \cite{GBYo2017a,GBYo2017b} for both discrete and continuum systems. This formulation extends the Hamilton principle of classical mechanics to include…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-04-15 François Gay-Balmaz , Hiroaki Yoshimura

The equations of fluid motions are considered in the case of internal energy depending on mass density, volume entropy and their spatial derivatives. The model corresponds to domains with large density gradients in which the temperature is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-06-27 Henri Gouin

Discontinuous Galerkin methods are developed for solving the Vlasov-Maxwell system, methods that are designed to be systematically as accurate as one wants with provable conservation of mass and possibly total energy. Such properties in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-10-24 Yingda Cheng , Irene M. Gamba , Fengyan Li , Philip J. Morrison

We present the mixed Galerkin discretization of distributed parameter port-Hamiltonian systems. On the prototypical example of hyperbolic systems of two conservation laws in arbitrary spatial dimension, we derive the main contributions: (i)…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-03-02 Paul Kotyczka , Bernhard Maschke , Laurent Lefèvre

We present a unified framework for the analysis of space-time methods based on Galerkin-type time discretizations for parabolic and hyperbolic problems. Crucially, the stability analysis relies on a suitable choice of test functions to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-28 Sergio Gómez

We present a detailed description and verification of a discontinuous Galerkin finite element method (DG) for the multi-component chemically reacting compressible Navier-Stokes equations that retains the desirable properties of DG, namely…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-10-28 Ryan F. Johnson , Andrew D. Kercher

Flows on symplectic, Poisson, contact, and metriplectic manifolds are reviewed in order to describe our main result, which is to associate a natural metriplectic dynamical system on the general one-jet bundle $J^1N=T^*N\times \mathbb{R}$,…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Philip J. Morrison , Yong-Geun Oh

Recently, it was discovered that the entropy-conserving/dissipative high-order split-form discontinuous Galerkin discretizations have robustness issues when trying to solve the simple density wave propagation example for the compressible…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-08-03 Hendrik Ranocha , Gregor J Gassner

In this work we present a novel structure-preserving scheme for the discretization of the Godunov-Peshkov-Romenski (GPR) model of continuum mechanics written in Lagrangian form. This model admits an extra conservation law for the total…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-04 Walter Boscheri , Michael Dumbser , Raphael Loubère , Pierre-Henri Maire

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

Mathematical models of protein-protein dynamics, such as the heterodimer model, play a crucial role in understanding many physical phenomena. This model is a system of two semilinear parabolic partial differential equations describing the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-22 Paola F. Antonietti , Francesca Bonizzoni , Mattia Corti , Agnese Dall'Olio

This paper presents a geometric variational discretization of compressible fluid dynamics. The numerical scheme is obtained by discretizing, in a structure preserving way, the Lie group formulation of fluid dynamics on diffeomorphism groups…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-12-17 Werner Bauer , François Gay-Balmaz

Smoothed Dissipative Particle Dynamics (SDPD) is a mesoscopic method which allows to select the level of resolution at which a fluid is simulated. In this work, we study the consistency of the resulting thermodynamic properties as a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-10-19 G. Faure , J. Roussel , J. -B. Maillet , G. Stoltz

In this work, we propose and compare four different strategies to simulate the fluid model for streamer propagation in one-dimension (1D) and quasi two-dimension (2D), which consists of a Poisson's equation for particle velocity and two…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-12-13 Mengmin Huang , Chijie Zhuang , Huizhe Guan , Rong Zeng

A well-balanced moving mesh discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method is proposed for the numerical solution of the Ripa model -- a generalization of the shallow water equations that accounts for effects of water temperature variations.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-08 Weizhang Huang , Ruo Li , Jianxian Qiu , Min Zhang

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

High order methods based on diagonal-norm summation by parts operators can be shown to satisfy a discrete conservation or dissipation of entropy for nonlinear systems of hyperbolic PDEs. These methods can also be interpreted as nodal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-24 Jesse Chan

This work extends the concepts of algebraic flux correction and convex limiting to continuous high-order Bernstein finite element discretizations of scalar hyperbolic problems. Using an array of adjustable diffusive fluxes, the standard…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-22 Dmitri Kuzmin , Manuel Quezada de Luna

For the general class of residual distribution (RD) schemes, including many finite element (such as continuous/discontinuous Galerkin) and flux reconstruction methods, an approach to construct entropy conservative/ dissipative…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-10 Rémi Abgrall , Philipp Öffner , Hendrik Ranocha