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We consider an optimization based limiter for enforcing positivity of internal energy in a semi-implicit scheme for solving gas dynamics equations. With Strang splitting, the compressible Navier-Stokes system is splitted into the…
This paper is concerned with structure-preserving numerical approximations for a class of nonlinear nonlocal Fokker-Planck equations, which admit a gradient flow structure and find application in diverse contexts. The solutions,…
We design, analyze and numerically validate a novel discontinuous Galerkin method for solving the coagulation-fragmentation equations. The DG discretization is applied to the conservative form of the model, with flux terms evaluated by…
Currently, nearly all positivity preserving discontinuous Galerkin (DG) discretizations of partial differential equations are coupled with explicit time integration methods. Unfortunately, for many problems this can result in severe…
In earlier work [H. Liu and Z. Wang, J. Comput. Phys., 328(2017)], an arbitrary high-order conservative and energy-dissipative direct discontinuous Galerkin (DDG) scheme was developed. Although this scheme enforced solution positivity using…
We propose a high order discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method for solving nonlinear Fokker-Planck equations with a gradient flow structure. For some of these models it is known that the transient solutions converge to steady-states when time…
In this paper, we design and analyze third order positivity-preserving discontinuous Galerkin (DG) schemes for solving the time-dependent system of Poisson--Nernst--Planck (PNP) equations, which has found much use in diverse applications.…
This paper designs a high-order positivity-preserving discontinuous Galerkin (DG) scheme for a linear hyperbolic equation. The scheme relies on augmenting the standard polynomial DG spaces with additional basis functions. The purpose of…
We design an arbitrary-order free energy satisfying discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method for solving time-dependent Poisson-Nernst-Planck systems. Both the semi-discrete and fully discrete DG methods are shown to satisfy the corresponding…
We consider a class of time dependent second order partial differential equations governed by a decaying entropy. The solution usually corresponds to a density distribution, hence positivity (non-negativity) is expected. This class of…
This paper presents a class of novel high-order accurate discontinuous Galerkin (DG) schemes for the compressible Euler equations under gravitational fields. A notable feature of these schemes is that they are well-balanced for a general…
High-order entropy-stable discontinuous Galerkin methods for the compressible Euler and Navier-Stokes equations require the positivity of thermodynamic quantities in order to guarantee their well-posedness. In this work, we introduce a…
In this paper, we develop an asymptotic-preserving and positivity-preserving discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method for solving the semiconductor Boltzmann equation in the diffusive scaling. We first formulate the diffusive relaxation system…
In this paper, we are interested in constructing a scheme solving compressible Navier--Stokes equations, with desired properties including high order spatial accuracy, conservation, and positivity-preserving of density and internal energy…
The purpose of this work is to propose a novel a posteriori finite volume subcell limiter technique for the Discontinuous Galerkin finite element method for nonlinear systems of hyperbolic conservation laws in multiple space dimensions that…
In this paper, we present convergence analysis of high-order finite element based methods, in particular, we focus on a discontinuous Galerkin scheme using summation-by-parts operators. To this end, it is crucial that structure preserving…
A novel discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method is developed to solve time-dependent bi-harmonic type equations involving fourth derivatives in one and multiple space dimensions. We present the spatial DG discretization based on a mixed…
Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods offer an enormous flexibility regarding local grid refinement and variation of polynomial degrees for a variety of different problem classes. With a focus on diffusion problems, we consider DG…
In this work, we introduce semi-implicit or implicit finite difference schemes for the continuity equation with a gradient flow structure. Examples of such equations include the linear Fokker-Planck equation and the Keller-Segel equations.…
We develop a conservative, positivity-preserving discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method for the population balance equation (PBE), which models the distribution of particle numbers across particle sizes due to growth, nucleation, aggregation,…