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In this paper, we develop bound-preserving discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods for the coupled system of compressible miscible displacement problems. We consider the problem with two components and the (volumetric) concentration of the…

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Lagrangian particle tracking is essential for characterizing turbulent flows, but inferring particle acceleration from inherently noisy position data remains a significant challenge. Fluid particles in turbulence experience extreme,…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2026-02-27 Griffin M Kearney , Kasey M Laurent , Makan Fardad

The aim of this paper is to study the asymptotic properties of the maximum likelihood estimator (MLE) of the drift coefficient for fractional stochastic heat equation driven by an additive space-time noise. We consider the traditional for…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-04-25 Igor Cialenco , Francisco Delgado-Vences , Hyun-Jung Kim

In this work, we introduce and analyse discontinuous Galerkin (dG) methods for the drift-diffusion model. We explore two dG formulations: a classical interior penalty approach and a nodally bound-preserving method. Whilst the interior…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-01 Gabriel R. Barrenechea , Tristan Pryer , Alex Trenam

In this work we propose a weighted hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin method (W-HDG) for drift-diffusion problems. By using specific exponential weights when computing the $L^2$ product in each cell of the discretization, we are able to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-04-13 Wenyu Lei , Stefano Piani , Patricio Farrell , Nella Rotundo , Luca Heltai

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-28 Zheng Sun , José A. Carrillo , Chi-Wang Shu

We present a numerical investigation of stochastic transport in ideal fluids. According to Holm (Proc Roy Soc, 2015) and Cotter et al. (2017), the principles of transformation theory and multi-time homogenisation, respectively, imply a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-09-28 Colin J. Cotter , Dan Crisan , Darryl D. Holm , Wei Pan , Igor Shevchenko

The LogSumExp function, dual to the Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence, plays a central role in many important optimization problems, including entropy-regularized optimal transport (OT) and distributionally robust optimization (DRO). In…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-04 Egor Gladin , Alexey Kroshnin , Jia-Jie Zhu , Pavel Dvurechensky

We propose a novel Galerkin discretization scheme for stochastic optimal control problems on an indefinite time horizon. The control problems are linear-quadratic in the controls, but possibly nonlinear in the state variables, and the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-10-01 Ralf Banisch , Carsten Hartmann

Maximum Likelihood Estimators (MLE) has many good properties. For example, the asymptotic variance of MLE solution attains equality of the asymptotic Cram{\'e}r-Rao lower bound (efficiency bound), which is the minimum possible variance for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-11-05 Song Liu , Takafumi Kanamori , Wittawat Jitkrittum , Yu Chen

This work uses high-order discontinuous Galerkin discretization techniques as a generic, parameter-free, and reliable tool to accurately predict transitional and turbulent flows through medical devices. Flows through medical devices are…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-11-19 Niklas Fehn , Wolfgang A. Wall , Martin Kronbichler

We address the numerical solution via Galerkin type methods of the Monge-Amp\`ere equation with transport boundary conditions arising in optimal mass transport, geometric optics and computational mesh or grid movement techniques. This fully…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-27 Ellya Kawecki , Omar Lakkis , Tristan Pryer

In this paper, we apply discontinuous finite element Galerkin method to the time-dependent $2D$ incompressible Navier-Stokes model. We derive optimal error estimates in $L^\infty(\textbf{L}^2)$-norm for the velocity and in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-24 Saumya Bajpai , Deepjyoti Goswami , Kallol Ray

In this paper, we develop an oscillation free local discontinuous Galerkin (OFLDG) method for solving nonlinear degenerate parabolic equations. Following the idea of our recent work [J. Lu, Y. Liu, and C.-W. Shu, SIAM J. Numer. Anal.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-10 Qi Tao , Yong Liu , Yan Jiang , Jianfang Lu

We explore the maximum likelihood degree of a homogeneous polynomial $F$ on a projective variety $X$, $\mathrm{MLD}_F(X)$, which generalizes the concept of Gaussian maximum likelihood degree. We show that $\mathrm{MLD}_F(X)$ is equal to the…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-11-27 Sandra Di Rocco , Lukas Gustafsson , Luca Schaffler

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

One- and multi-dimensional stochastic Maxwell equations with additive noise are considered in this paper. It is known that such system can be written in the multi-symplectic structure, and the stochastic energy increases linearly in time.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-05-04 Jiawei Sun , Chi-Wang Shu , Yulong Xing

We propose a meshless conservative Galerkin method for solving Hamiltonian wave equations. We first discretize the equation in space using radial basis functions in a Galerkin-type formulation. Differ from the traditional RBF Galerkin…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-20 Zhengjie Sun , Leevan Ling

The Lattice Boltzmann Method (LBM) has emerged as a powerful tool in computational fluid dynamics and material science. However, standard LBM formulation imposes some limitations on the applications of the method, particularly compressible…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-03-14 Navid Afrasiabian , Colin Denniston

Mathematical modeling often yields linear dynamical systems in science and engineering. We change physical parameters of the system into random variables to perform an uncertainty quantification. The stochastic Galerkin method yields a…

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