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We propose a new family of high order staggered semi-implicit discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods for the simulation of natural convection problems. Assuming small temperature fluctuations, the Boussinesq approximation is valid and the flow…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-12-05 Saray Busto , Maurizio Tavelli , Walter Boscheri , Michael Dumbser

The problem of deriving a gradient flow structure for the porous medium equation which is {\em thermodynamic}, in that it arises from the large deviations of some microscopic particle system, is studied. To this end, a rescaled zero-range…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-03-25 Benjamin Gess , Daniel Heydecker

One of the most popular approaches for solving total variation-regularized optimization problems in the space of measures are Particle Gradient Flows (PGFs). These restrict the problem to linear combinations of Dirac deltas and then perform…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Christian Amend , Marcello Carioni , Konstantinos Zemas

We consider point sources in hyperbolic equations discretized by finite differences. If the source is stationary, appropriate source discretization has been shown to preserve the accuracy of the finite difference method. Moving point…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-24 Ylva Ljungberg Rydin , Martin Almquist

The high-order numerical solution of the non-linear shallow water equations (and of hyperbolic systems in general) is susceptible to unphysical Gibbs oscillations that form in the proximity of strong gradients. The solution to this problem…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-07-18 Simone Marras , Michal A. Kopera , Emil M. Constantinescu , Jenny Suckale , Francis X. Giraldo

We study the convergences of three projected Sobolev gradient flows to the ground state of the Gross-Pitaevskii eigenvalue problem. They are constructed as the gradient flows of the Gross-Pitaevskii energy functional with respect to the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-30 Ziang Chen , Jianfeng Lu , Yulong Lu , Xiangxiong Zhang

We study the asymptotic behaviour of a gradient system in a regime in which the driving energy becomes singular. For this system gradient-system convergence concepts are ineffective. We characterize the limiting behaviour in a different…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-11-17 Mark A. Peletier , Mikola C. Schlottke

In structural dynamics, energy dissipative mechanisms with non-viscous damping are characterized by their dependence on the time-history of the response velocity, mathematically represented by convolution integrals involving hereditary…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-05-22 Mario Lázaro

The paper surveys recent progresses in understanding the dynamics and loss landscape of the gradient flow equations associated to deep linear neural networks, i.e., the gradient descent training dynamics (in the limit when the step size…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Joel Wendin , Claudio Altafini

A pure fluid at its critical point shows a dramatic slow-down in its dynamics, due to a divergence of the order-parameter susceptibility and the coefficient of heat transport. Under isothermal conditions, however, sound waves provide the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-03-20 Markus Gross , Fathollah Varnik

This article details a novel numerical scheme to approximate gradient flows for optimal transport (i.e. Wasserstein) metrics. These flows have proved useful to tackle theoretically and numerically non-linear diffusion equations that model…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-03-10 Gabriel Peyré

The large time behaviour of nonnegative solutions to a quasilinear degenerate diffusion equation with a source term depending solely on the gradient is investigated. After a suitable rescaling of time, convergence to a unique profile is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-02-29 Philippe Laurencot , Christian Stinner

We prove the existence of unique regular solutions of steady-state buoyancy-driven flows of viscous incompressible heat-conducting fluids in 3D open channels under mixed boundary conditions. The model takes into account the phenomena of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Michal Benes

We consider a class of Fokker--Planck equations with linear diffusion and superlinear drift enjoying a formal Wasserstein-like gradient flow structure with convex mobility function. In the drift-dominant regime, the equations have a finite…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-06-09 José A. Carrillo , Katharina Hopf , José L. Rodrigo

A low diffusive flux difference splitting based kinetic scheme is developed based on a discrete velocity Boltzmann equation, with a novel three velocity model. While two discrete velocities are used for upwinding, the third discrete…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-10-01 Shrinath. K. S , Maruthi. N. H , S. V. Raghurama Rao , Veeredhi Vasudeva Rao

A density oscillator exhibits limit-cycle oscillations driven by the density difference of the two fluids. We performed two-dimensional hydrodynamic simulations with a simple model, and reproduced the oscillatory flow observed in…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-05-11 Nana Takeda , Naoko Kurata , Hiroaki Ito , Hiroyuki Kitahata

Due to the limited cell resolution in the representation of flow variables, a piecewise continuous initial reconstruction with discontinuous jump at a cell interface is usually used in modern computational fluid dynamics methods. Starting…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-09-23 Kun Xu , Quanhua Sun , Pubing Yu

We demonstrate the controllable generation of distinct types of dispersive shock-waves emerging in a quantum droplet bearing environment with the aid of step-like initial conditions. Dispersive regularization of the ensuing hydrodynamic…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2024-08-20 Sathyanarayanan Chandramouli , Simeon I. Mistakidis , Garyfallia C. Katsimiga , Panayotis G. Kevrekidis

Following Abbatiello et al. [ DCCDS-A (41), 2020], we introduce dissipative turbulent solutions to a simple model of a mixture of two non interacting compressible fluids {\tc filling a bounded domain with general non zero inflow/outflow…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-26 Bumja Jin , Young-Sam Kwon , Sarka Necasova , Antonin Novotny

We are interested in the gradient flow of a general first order convex functional with respect to the $L^1$-topology. By means of an implicit minimization scheme, we show existence of a global limit solution, which satisfies an…

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