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Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-23 Thomas Izgin , Hendrik Ranocha

Higher-order time integration methods that unconditionally preserve the positivity and linear invariants of the underlying differential equation system cannot belong to the class of general linear methods. This poses a major challenge for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-24 Thomas Izgin , Stefan Kopecz , Andreas Meister

We consider high order, implicit Runge-Kutta schemes to solve time-dependent stiff PDEs on dynamically adapted grids generated by multiresolution analysis for unsteady problems disclosing localized fronts. The multiresolution finite volume…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-04-04 Max Duarte , Richard Dobbins , Mitchell Smooke

We study the local discretization error of Patankar-type Runge-Kutta methods applied to semi-discrete PDEs. For a known two-stage Patankar-type scheme the local error in PDE sense for linear advection or diffusion is shown to be of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-08-02 Sigrun Ortleb , Willem Hundsdorfer

In this study, a family of second order process based modified Patankar Runge-Kutta schemes is proposed with both the mass and mole maintained in balance while preserving the positivity of density and pressure with the time step determined…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-07-07 Jianhua Pan , Yu-Yen Chen , Liang-Shih Fan

In this work, we present a modification of explicit Runge-Kutta temporal integration schemes that guarantees the preservation of any locally-defined quasiconvex set of bounds for the solution. These schemes operate on the basis of a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-18 Tarik Dzanic , Will Trojak , Freddie D. Witherden

In this paper, we apply the Paired-Explicit Runge-Kutta (P-ERK) schemes by Vermeire et. al. (2019, 2022) to dynamically partitioned systems arising from adaptive mesh refinement. The P-ERK schemes enable multirate time-integration with no…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-09 Daniel Doehring , Michael Schlottke-Lakemper , Gregor J. Gassner , Manuel Torrilhon

The effects of kinetic-energy preservation errors due to Runge-Kutta (RK) temporal integrators have been analyzed for the case of large-eddy simulations of incompressible turbulent channel flow. Simulations have been run using the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-09-16 Marco Artiano , Carlo De Michele , Francesco Capuano , Gennaro Coppola

We combine Patankar-type methods with suitable relaxation procedures that are capable of ensuring correct dissipation or conservation of functionals such as entropy or energy while producing unconditionally positive and conservative…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-03 Thomas Izgin , Hendrik Ranocha , Chi-Wang Shu

The main goal of this paper is to investigate the order reduction phenomenon that appears in the integral deferred correction (InDC) methods based on implicit-explicit (IMEX) Runge-Kutta (R-K) schemes when applied to a class of stiff…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-01-18 S. Boscarino , J. Qiu , G. Russo

A novel class of high-order linearly implicit energy-preserving integrating factor Runge-Kutta methods are proposed for the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation. Based on the idea of the scalar auxiliary variable approach, the original equation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-07 Chaolong Jiang , Jin Cui , Xu Qian , Songhe Song

We combine the recent relaxation approach with multiderivative Runge-Kutta methods to preserve conservation or dissipation of entropy functionals for ordinary and partial differential equations. Relaxation methods are minor modifications of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-06-19 Hendrik Ranocha , Jochen Schütz

In this paper we derive and analyze the properties of explicit singly diagonal implicit Runge-Kutta (ESDIRK) integration methods. We discuss the principles for construction of Runge-Kutta methods with embedded methods of different order for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-03-06 John Bagterp Jørgensen , Morten Rode Kristensen , Per Grove Thomsen

We propose a technique for investigating stability properties like positivity and forward invariance of an interval for method-of-lines discretizations, and apply the technique to study positivity preservation for a class of TVD…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-02-15 Imre Fekete , David I. Ketcheson , Lajos Lóczi

In order to solve continuous-time optimal control problems, direct methods transcribe the infinite-dimensional problem to a nonlinear program (NLP) using numerical integration methods. In cases where the integration error can be manipulated…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-18 Jakob Harzer , Jochem De Schutter , Moritz Diehl

Currently, nearly all positivity preserving discontinuous Galerkin (DG) discretizations of partial differential equations are coupled with explicit time integration methods. Unfortunately, for many problems this can result in severe…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-06-03 J. J. W. van der Vegt , Yinhua Xia , Yan Xu

An explicit numerical strategy that practically preserves invariants is derived for conservative systems by combining an explicit high-order Runge-Kutta (RK) scheme with a simple modification of the standard projection approach, which is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-16 Wenjun Cai , Yuezheng Gong , Yushun Wang

When evolving in time the solution of a hyperbolic partial differential equation, it is often desirable to use high order strong stability preserving (SSP) time discretizations. These time discretizations preserve the monotonicity…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-08-02 Sidafa Conde , Sigal Gottlieb , Zachary J. Grant , John N. Shadid

As supercomputers grow in hardware complexity, their susceptibility to faults increases and measures need to be taken to ensure the correctness of results. Some numerical algorithms have certain characteristics that allow them to recover…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Thomas Saupe , Sebastian Götschel , Thibaut Lunet , Daniel Ruprecht , Robert Speck

Spectral Deferred Correction (SDC) is an iterative method for the numerical solution of ordinary differential equations. It works by refining the numerical solution for an initial value problem by approximately solving differential…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-09 Thomas Saupe , Sebastian Götschel , Thibaut Lunet , Daniel Ruprecht , Robert Speck