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This paper is concerned with a space-time adaptive numerical method for instationary porous media flows with nonlinear interaction between porosity and pressure, with focus on problems with discontinuous initial porosities. A convergent…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-27 Markus Bachmayr , Simon Boisserée

This paper studies the active flux (AF) methods for two-dimensional hyperbolic conservation laws, focusing on the flux vector splitting (FVS) for the point value update and bound-preserving (BP) limitings, which is an extension of our…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-05 Junming Duan , Wasilij Barsukow , Christian Klingenberg

The present paper describes a parallel unstructured-mesh Plasma simulation code based on Finite Volume method. The code dynamically refines and coarses mesh for accurate resolution of the different features regarding the electron density.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-12-26 Imad Kissami , Souhail Maazioui , Fayssal Benkhaldoun

Astrophysical fluids under the influence of magnetic fields are often subjected to single-fluid or two-fluid approximations. In the case of weakly ionized plasmas however, this can be inappropriate due to distinct responses from the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 S. O'Sullivan , T. P. Downes

We present a space-time extension of a conservative Cartesian cut-cell finite-volume method for two-phase diffusion problems with prescribed interface motion. The formulation follows a two-fluid approach: one scalar field is solved in each…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-01-01 Louis Libat , Can Selçuk , Eric Chénier , Vincent Le Chenadec

We present a way to combine Vlasov and two-fluid codes for the simulation of a collisionless plasma in large domains while keeping full information of the velocity distribution in localized areas of interest. This is made possible by…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 M. Rieke , T. Trost , R. Grauer

Volume of fluid(VOF) method is a sharp interface method employed for simulations of two phase flows. Interface in VOF is usually represented using piecewise linear line segments in each computational grid based on the volume fraction field.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-02-02 Ananthan M , Gaurav Tomar

We present an advection-pressure flux-vector splitting method for the one and two- dimensional shallow water equations following the approach first proposed by Toro and V\'azquez for the compressible Euler equations. The resulting…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-14 E. F. Toro , C. Castro , D. Vanzo , A. Siviglia

Massively parallel Fourier transforms are widely used in computational sciences, and specifically in computational fluid dynamics which involves unbounded Poisson problems. In practice the latter is usually the most time-consuming operation…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Pierre Balty , Philippe Chatelain , Thomas Gillis

The present study is concerned with a one-dimensional problem in explosive welding that pertains to the collision of lead and steel plates. The metal plates and the surrounding air are represented as separate immiscible phases governed by…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-09 Fedor Belolutskiy , Elena Oparina , Svetlana Fortova

A novel fifth-order compact gas-kinetic scheme is developed for high-resolution simulation of compressible flows on structured meshes. Its accuracy relies on a new multidimensional fifth-order compact reconstruction that uses line-averaged…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-13 Yaqing Yang , Fengxiang Zhao , Kun Xu

The time evolution of a two-component collisionless plasma is modeled by the Vlasov-Poisson system. In this work, the setting is two and one-half dimensional, that is, the distribution functions of the particles species are independent of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-12-01 Patrik Knopf , Jörg Weber

Recently, we have shown how current cosmological N-body codes already follow the fine grained phase-space information of the dark matter fluid. Using a tetrahedral tesselation of the three-dimensional manifold that describes perfectly cold…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Oliver Hahn , Tom Abel , Ralf Kaehler

In this paper, for the first time a compact third-order gas-kinetic scheme is proposed on unstructured meshes for the compressible viscous flow computations. The possibility to de sign such a third-order compact scheme is due to the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-06-22 Liang Pan , Kun Xu

We develop a diffuse solid method that is versatile and accurate for modeling wetting and multiphase flows in highly complex geometries. In this scheme, we harness N + 1-component phase field models to investigate interface shapes and flow…

This paper introduces a novel approach to compute the numerical fluxes at the cell boundaries for a cell-centered conservative numerical scheme. Explicit gradients used in deriving the reconstruction polynomials are replaced by high-order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-28 Amareshwara Sainadh Chamarthi , Natan Hoffmann , Hiroaki Nishikawa , Steven H. Frankel

We propose a new adaptive Particle-in-Cloud (AP-Cloud) method for obtaining optimal numerical solutions to the Vlasov-Poisson equation. Unlike the traditional particle-in-cell (PIC) method, which is commonly used for solving this problem,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-05-25 Xingyu Wang , Roman Samulyak , Xiangmin Jiao , Kwangmin Yu

In this paper, we propose a mass conservative semi-Lagrangian finite difference scheme for multi-dimensional problems without dimensional splitting. The semi-Lagrangian scheme, based on tracing characteristics backward in time from grid…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-07-26 Tao Xiong , Giovanni Russo , Jing-Mei Qiu

An explicit moving boundary method for the numerical solution of time-dependent hyperbolic conservation laws on grids produced by the intersection of complex geometries with a regular Cartesian grid is presented. As it employs directional…

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