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The accurate and efficient representation of atmospheric dynamics remains a central challenge in numerical weather prediction. A particular difficulty arises from the strong anisotropy of the atmosphere, in which horizontal and vertical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-18 Daniel Witt , Thomas Bendall , Jemma Shipton

The aim of this paper is to develop and analyze numerical schemes for approximately solving the backward problem of subdiffusion equation involving a fractional derivative in time with order $\alpha\in(0,1)$. After using quasi-boundary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-28 Zhengqi Zhang , Zhi Zhou

We develop a fast divided-and-conquer indirect collocation method for the homogeneous Dirichlet boundary value problem of variable-order space-fractional diffusion equations. Due to the impact of the space-dependent variable order, the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-09 Jinhong Jia , Xiangcheng Zheng , Hong Wang

A fractional time derivative is introduced into the Burger's equation to model losses of nonlinear waves. This term amounts to a time convolution product, which greatly penalizes the numerical modeling. A diffusive representation of the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-06-14 Bruno Lombard , Denis Matignon

Viscoelasticity and related phenomena are of great importance in the study of mechanical properties of material especially, biological materials. Certain materials show some complex effects in mechanical tests, which cannot be described by…

Biological Physics · Physics 2017-09-19 Mohammad Amirian Matlob , Yousef Jamali

We consider the problem of waves propagating in a viscoelastic solid. For the material properties of the solid we consider both classical and fractional differentiation in time versions of the Zener, Maxwell, and Voigt models, where the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-02-06 Thomas Brown , Shukai Du , Hasan Eruslu , Francisco-Javier Sayas

The elucidation of many physical problems in science and engineering is subject to the accurate numerical modelling of complex wave propagation phenomena. Over the last decades, high-order numerical approximation for partial differential…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Mathias Anselmann , Markus Bause

In this paper a finite difference/local discontinuous Galerkin method for the fractional diffusion-wave equation is presented and analyzed. We first propose a new finite difference method to approximate the time fractional derivatives, and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-07-29 Leilei Wei

An FFT-based algorithm is developed to simulate the propagation of elastic waves in heterogeneous $d$-dimensional rectangular shape domains. The method allows one to prescribe the displacement as a function of time in a subregion of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-21 R. Sancho , V. Rey de Pedraza , P. Lafourcade , R. A. Lebensohn , J. Segurado

In contrast with the diffusion equation which smoothens the initial data to $C^\infty$ for $t>0$ (away from the corners/edges of the domain), the subdiffusion equation only exhibits limited spatial regularity. As a result, one generally…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-17 Buyang Li , Zongze Yang , Zhi Zhou

This work introduces and analyzes a finite element scheme for evolution problems involving fractional-in-time and in-space differentiation operators up to order two. The left-sided fractional-order derivative in time we consider is employed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-17 Gabriel Acosta , Francisco M. Bersetche , Juan Pablo Borthagaray

In this work, we consider wave propagation in materials characterized by nonlinear properties or damage. To accelerate the simulations of the resulting high-dimensional problems, we apply model order reduction methods. Depending on the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Saddam Hijazi , Nikiema Fulgence , Hannah Burmester , Natalie Rauter , Carmen Gräßle

We propose an efficient algorithm for the approximation of fractional integrals by using Runge--Kutta based convolution quadrature. The algorithm is based on a novel integral representation of the convolution weights and a special…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-29 Lehel Banjai , María López-Fernández

The nonlinear weakly dispersive Serre equations contain higher-order dispersive terms. This includes a mixed derivative flux term which is difficult to handle numerically. The mix spatial and temporal derivative dispersive term is replaced…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-07-28 Christopher Zoppou , Jordan Pitt , Stephen G. Roberts

We present a numerical approach to efficiently calculate spin-wave dispersions and spatial mode profiles in magnetic waveguides of arbitrarily shaped cross section with any non-collinear equilibrium magnetization which is translationally…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-12 Lukas Körber , Gwendolyn Quasebarth , Andreas Otto , Attila Kákay

Fractional-order vortex beams possess fractional orbital angular momentum (FOAM) modes, which theoretically have the potential to increase transmission capacity infinitely. Therefore, they have significant application prospects in the…

Optics · Physics 2025-10-24 Yan Guo , Heng Lyu , Chunling Ding , Chenzhi Yuan , Ruibo Jin

The Ultra Weak Variational Formulation (UWVF) is a special Trefftz discontinuous Galerkin method, here applied to the time-harmonic Maxwell's equations. The method uses superpositions of plane waves to represent solutions element-wise on a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-07 Timo Lähivaara , William F. Hall , Matti Malinen , Dale Ota , Vijaya Shankar , Peter Monk

In this paper, we propose a fast second-order approximation to the variable-order (VO) Caputo fractional derivative, which is developed based on $L2$-$1_\sigma$ formula and the exponential-sum-approximation technique. The fast evaluation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-22 Jia-li Zhang , Zhi-wei Fang , Hai-wei Sun

Variable-order time-fractional wave equations provide a flexible model for wave phenomena with evolving memory effects and anomalous temporal dynamics. Their numerical approximation is challenging because the variable-order fractional…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Lu Zhang

In this paper, an alternating direction implicit (ADI) difference scheme for two-dimensional time-fractional wave equation of distributed-order with a nonlinear source term is presented. The unique solvability of the difference solution is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-04-11 Jiahui Hu , Jungang Wang , Zhanbin Yuan , Zongze Yang , Yufeng Nie