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The non-equilibrium gas dynamics is described by the Boltzmann equation, which can be solved numerically through the deterministic and stochastic methods. Due to the complicated collision term of the Boltzmann equation, many kinetic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 Xiaocong Xu , Yipei Chen , Kun Xu

This paper proposes a convex optimization based distributed algorithm to solve multi-period optimal gas-power flow (OGPF) in coupled energy distribution systems. At the gas distribution system side, the non-convex Weymouth gas flow…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-10-18 Cheng Wang , Wei Wei , Jianhui Wang , Linquan Bai , Yile Liang

We discuss exterior and classical interior alternatives for evaluating fluid flow induced forces on bodies. The discussion aims at a reduction of the total shape derivative, achieved through a decoupling of control and objective in the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-02-14 Niklas Kühl , Peter M. Müller , Arthur Stück , Michael Hinze , Thomas Rung

Subsurface flows are commonly modeled by advection-diffusion equations. Insufficient measurements or uncertain material procurement may be accounted for by random coefficients. To represent, for example, transitions in heterogeneous media,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-25 Andrea Barth , Andreas Stein

An equilibrium theory of classical fluids based on the space distribution among the particles is derived in the framework of the energy minimization method. This study is motivated by current difficulties of evaluation of optical properties…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. D. Rohrmann

The Gas-Kinetic Scheme (GKS), widely used in computational fluid dynamics for simulating hypersonic and other complicated flow phenomena, is extended in this work to electromagnetic problems by solving Maxwell's equations. In contrast to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-01 Zhigang Pu , Wenpei Long , Kun Xu

In this contribution, we derive a gas-liquid two-scale multi-fluid model with capillarity effects to enable a novelinterface regularization approach for multi-fluid models. As this unified modelling is capable of switching from theinterface…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-12-24 Arthur Loison , Samuel Kokh , Teddy Pichard , Marc Massot

Three algebraically stabilized finite element schemes for discretizing convection-diffusion-reaction equations are studied on adaptively refined grids. These schemes are the algebraic flux correction (AFC) scheme with Kuzmin limiter, the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-15 Abhinav Jha , Volker John , Petr Knobloch

Heat-flux boundary conditions are challenging to implement efficiently in rarefied gas flow simulations because the wall-reflected gas temperature and density must be determined dynamically during the computation. This paper aims to tackle…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Yanbing Zhang , Ruifeng Yuan , Liyan Luo , Lei Wu

We introduce an application of the Quasi-Gasdynamic method for a solution of ideal magnetohydrodynamic equations in the modeling of compressible conductive gas flows. A time-averaging procedure is applied for all physical parameters in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-05-24 M. V. Popov , T. G. Elizarova , S. D. Ustyugov

In this paper, authors focus effort on improving the conventional discrete velocity method (DVM) into a multiscale scheme in finite volume framework for gas flow in all flow regimes. Unlike the typical multiscale kinetic methods unified…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-03-24 Ruifeng Yuan , Sha Liu , Chengwen Zhong

In this paper, we present an efficient adaptive multigrid strategy for the geometry optimization of large-scale three dimensional molecular mechanics. The resulting method can achieve significantly reduced complexity by exploiting the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-08-30 Kejie Fu , Mingjie Liao , Yangshuai Wang , Jianjun Chen , Lei Zhang

Achieving robust control and optimization in high-fidelity physics simulations is extremely challenging, especially for evolutionary systems whose solutions span vast scales across space, time, and physical variables. In conjunction with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-29 Brian K. Tran , Ben S. Southworth , Hannah F. Blumhoefer , Samuel Olivier

Adjoint methods can speed up stellarator optimisation by providing gradient information more efficiently compared to finite-difference evaluations. Adjoint methods are herein applied to vacuum magnetic fields, with objective functions…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-02-16 Richard Nies , Elizabeth J. Paul , Stuart R. Hudson , Amitava Bhattacharjee

The shape gradient is a local sensitivity function that provides the change in a figure of merit associated with a perturbation to the shape of the object. The shape gradient can be used for gradient-based optimization, sensitivity…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-01-29 Elizabeth J. Paul , Thomas Antonsen, , Matt Landreman , W. Anthony Cooper

We present a fast, high-order accurate and adaptive boundary integral scheme for solving the Stokes equations in complex---possibly nonsmooth---geometries in two dimensions. The key ingredient is a set of panel quadrature rules capable of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-22 Bowei Wu , Hai Zhu , Alex Barnett , Shravan Veerapaneni

The adjoint method allows efficient calculation of the gradient with respect to the design variables of a topology optimization problem. This method is almost exclusively used in combination with traditional Finite-Element-Analysis, whereas…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Indre Jödicke , Richard J. Leute , Till Junge , Lars Pastewka

We present an effective adaptive procedure for the numerical approximation of the steady-state Gross-Pitaevskii equation. Our approach is solely based on energy minimization, and consists of a combination of gradient flow iterations and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-16 Pascal Heid , Benjamin Stamm , Thomas P. Wihler

We begin by addressing the time-domain full-waveform inversion using the adjoint method. Next, we derive the scaled boundary semi-weak form of the scalar wave equation in heterogeneous media through the Galerkin method. Unlike conventional…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-14 Alireza Daneshyar , Stefan Kollmannsberger

We develop and analyse finite volume methods for the Poisson problem with boundary conditions involving oblique derivatives. We design a generic framework, for finite volume discretisations of such models, in which internal fluxes are not…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-08-12 Jerome Droniou , Matej Medla , Karol Mikula