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In numerical models of thin astrophysical disks that use an Eulerian scheme, gas orbits supersonically through a fixed grid. As a result the time step is sharply limited by the Courant condition. Also, because the mean flow speed with…

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We study a finite volume scheme for the approximation of the solution to convection diffusion equations with nonlinear convection and Robin boundary conditions. The scheme builds on the interpretation of such a continuous equation as the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-13 Clément Cancès , Juliette Venel

In this study, we investigate the Shallow Water Equations incorporating source terms accounting for Manning friction and a non-flat bottom topology. Our primary focus is on developing and validating numerical schemes that serve a dual…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-24 Guanlan Huang , Sebastiano Boscarino , Tao Xiong

This research explores the development and application of the High-Order Dynamic Integration Method for solving integro-differential equations, with a specific focus on turbulent fluid dynamics. Traditional numerical methods, such as the…

For the simulations of unsteady flow, the global time step becomes really small with a large variation of local cell size. In this paper, an implicit high-order gas-kinetic scheme (HGKS) is developed to remove the restrictions on the time…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-04 Yaqing Yang , Liang Pan , Kun Xu

A numerical algorithm for solving mantle convection problems with strongly variable viscosity is presented. Equations for conservation of mass and momentum for highly viscous and incompressible fluids are solved iteratively by a multigrid…

Geophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Masanori Kameyama , Akira Kageyama , Tetsuya Sato

We present a novel data-driven approach for enhancing gradient reconstruction in unstructured finite volume methods for hyperbolic conservation laws, specifically for the 2D Euler equations. Our approach extends previous structured-grid…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-23 G. de Romémont , F. Renac , F. Chinesta , J. Nunez , D. Gueyffier

As computational astrophysics comes under pressure to become a precision science, there is an increasing need to move to high accuracy schemes for computational astrophysics. Hence the need for a specialized review on higher order schemes…

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A well-balanced second order finite volume central scheme for the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations with gravitational source term is developed in this paper. The scheme is an unstaggered central scheme that evolves the numerical solution…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-02-18 Farah Kanbar , Rony Touma , Christian Klingenberg

We develop arbitrarily high-order, stationarity-preserving stabilized finite element methods for multidimensional nonlinear hyperbolic balance laws on Cartesian grids. We aim at approximating all the steady states of the problem at hand,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-25 Moussa Ziggaf , Davide Torlo , Mario Ricchiuto

We describe a newly developed cosmological hydrodynamics code based on the weighted essentially non-oscillatory (WENO) schemes for hyperbolic conservation laws. High order finite difference WENO schemes are designed for problems with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Long-Long Feng , Chi-Wang Shu , Meng-Ping Zhang

Cartesian-grid methods in combination with immersed-body and volume-of-fluid methods are ideally suited for simulating breaking waves around ships. A surface panelization of the ship hull is used as input to impose body-boundary conditions…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-10-10 Thomas T. O'Shea , Kyle A. Brucker , Douglas G. Dommermuth , Donald C. Wyatt

New implicit and implicit-explicit time-stepping methods for the wave equation in second-order form are described with application to two and three-dimensional problems discretized on overset grids. The implicit schemes are single step,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-24 Allison M. Carson , Jeffrey W. Banks , William D. Henshaw , Donald W. Schwendeman

A well-balanced second-order finite volume scheme is proposed and analyzed for a 2 X 2 system of non-linear partial differential equations which describes the dynamics of growing sandpiles created by a vertical source on a flat, bounded…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-04 Aekta Aggarwal , Veerappa Gowda G. D. , Sudarshan Kumar K

Accurate and efficient simulation of fluid-structure interaction (FSI) problems remains a central challenge in computational physics. High-order discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods offer low numerical errors and excellent scalability on…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-08 Yingjie Xia , Stefano Colombo , David Huergo , Jiaqing Kou , Yuting Dai , Esteban Ferrer

Preserving scalar boundedness is important for numerical schemes used in turbulent compressible multi-component flow simulations to prevent unphysical results and unstable simulations. However, ensuring scalar boundedness for high-order,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-13 Ye Wang , Armin Wehrfritz , Evatt R. Hawkes

We propose a new unstructured numerical subgrid method for solving the shallow water equations using a finite volume method with enhanced bathymetry resolution. The method employs an unstructured triangular mesh with support for…

A new discretisation scheme for the gradient operator, suitable for use in second-order accurate Finite Volume Methods (FVMs), is proposed. The derivation of this scheme, which we call the Taylor-Gauss (TG) gradient, is similar to that of…

We present a multigrid algorithm for self consistent solution of the Kohn-Sham equations in real space. The entire problem is discretized on a real space mesh with a high order finite difference representation. The resulting self consistent…

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The hydrostatic equilibrium state is the consequence of the exact hydrostatic balance between hydrostatic pressure and external force. Standard finite volume or finite difference schemes cannot keep this balance exactly due to their…

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