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The aim of this paper is to study and classify the multiplicity of distinguished limits and asymptotic solutions for the advection equation with a general oscillating velocity field with the systematic use of the two-timing method. Our…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-05-10 V. A. Vladimirov

Bounds on turbulent averages in shear flows can be derived from the Navier--Stokes equations by a mathematical approach called the background method. Bounds that are optimal within this method can be computed at each Reynolds number Re by…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-14 Farid Rajkotia-Zaheer , David Goluskin

We extend to multi-dimensions the work of [1], where new fully explicit kinetic methods were built for the approximation of linear and non-linear convection-diffusion problems. The fundamental principles from the earlier work are retained:…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-29 Gauthier Wissocq , Rémi Abgrall

We introduce an algorithm based on semidefinite programming that yields increasing (resp. decreasing) sequences of lower (resp. upper) bounds on polynomial stationary averages of diffusions with polynomial drift vector and diffusion…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-09-28 Juan Kuntz , Michela Ottobre , Guy-Bart Stan , Mauricio Barahona

This paper investigates enhanced dissipation for a passive scalar advected by "very rough" horizontal shear flows, described by an advection-diffusion equation on the 2D torus. The authors extend results of Galeati and Gubinelli (2023) to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-03 Marco Romito , Leonardo Roveri

The main contribution of this paper is twofold: (1) Recently, Iyer, Xu, and Zlato\v{s} studied the dissipation enhancement by cellular flows based on standard advection-diffusion equations via a stochastic method. We generalize their…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-11-01 Yu Feng , Xiaoqian Xu

Reaction-advection-diffusion equations, in periodic settings and with general type nonlinearities, admit a threshold known as the minimal speed of propagation. The minimal speed does not have an accessible formula when the nonlinearity is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-17 Mohammad El Smaily , Chunhua Ou

In this paper, we derive two bound-preserving and mass-conserving schemes based on the fractional-step method and high-order compact (HOC) finite difference method for nonlinear convection-dominated diffusion equations. We split the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-16 Baolin Kuang , Hongfei Fu , Shusen Xie

Incompressible flows can be effective mixers by appropriately advecting a passive tracer to produce small filamentation length scales. In addition, diffusion is generally perceived as beneficial to mixing due to its ability to homogenise a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-04-20 Christopher J. Miles , Charles R. Doering

We consider Rayleigh-B\'enard convection in a layer of fluid between rough no-slip boundaries where the top and bottom boundary heights are functions of the horizontal coordinates with square-integrable gradients. We use the background…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-10-20 David Goluskin , Charles R. Doering

We consider cross-diffusion systems describing evolution of two species $u$ and $v$ moving according to Darcy's law with the pressure law $p(s) = \frac{1}{\alpha-1} s^{\alpha-1}$ where $s=u+v$. One of the most challenging questions in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-17 Jakub Skrzeczkowski

We analyze the decay and instant regularization properties of the evolution semigroups generated by two-dimensional drift-diffusion equations in which the scalar is advected by a shear flow and dissipated by full or partial diffusion. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-02-28 Jacob Bedrossian , Michele Coti Zelati

For the case of approximation of convection--diffusion equations using piecewise affine continuous finite elements a new edge-based nonlinear diffusion operator is proposed that makes the scheme satisfy a discrete maximum principle. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-09-30 Gabriel R. Barrenechea , Erik Burman , Fotini Karakatsani

We prove the immediate appearance of an exponential lower bound, uniform in time and space, for continuous mild solutions to the full Boltzmann equation in a $C^2$ convex bounded domain with the physical Maxwellian diffusion boundary…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-08-07 Marc Briant

One-dimensional free boundary problem for a nonlinear diffusion - convection equation with a Dirichlet condition at fixed face $x=0$, variable in time, is considered. Throught several transformations the problem is reduced to a free…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-02-19 Adriana C. Briozzo , Domingo A. Tarzia

The paper develops a hybrid method for solving a system of advection--diffusion equations in a bulk domain coupled to advection--diffusion equations on an embedded surface. A monotone nonlinear finite volume method for equations posed in…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-06-05 Alexey Y. Chernyshenko , Maxim A. Olshanskii , Yuri V. Vassilevski

We introduce new adaptive artificial anti-diffusion (AAAD) methods for one- and two-dimensional hyperbolic systems of conservation laws. The key idea is to reduce the amount of numerical dissipation present in a given numerical method by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-18 Shaoshuai Chu , Igor Kliakhandler , Alexander Kurganov

We provide a new construction for a set of boxes approximating axis-parallel boxes of fixed volume in $[0, 1]^d$. This improves upper bounds for the minimal dispersion of a point set in the unit cube and its inverse in both the periodic and…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2022-01-24 Alexander E. Litvak , Galyna V. Livshyts

The justification of hydrodynamic limits in non-convex domains has long been an open problem due to the singularity at the grazing set. In this paper, we investigate the unsteady neutron transport equation in a general bounded domain with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-03-28 Zhimeng Ouyang

We present and analyze a first order least squares method for convection dominated diffusion problems, which provides robust L2 a priori error estimate for the scalar variable even if the given data f in L2 space. The novel theoretical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-10-09 Huangxin Chen , Guosheng Fu , Jingzhi Li , Weifeng Qiu