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Residual equilibrium schemes for time dependent partial differential equations
Many applications involve partial differential equations which admits
nontrivial steady state solutions. The design of schemes which are able to
describe correctly these equilibrium states may be challenging for numerical
methods, in particular for high order ones. In this paper, inspired by
micro-macro decomposition methods for kinetic equations, we present a class of
schemes which are capable to preserve the steady state solution and achieve
high order accuracy for a class of time dependent partial differential
equations including nonlinear diffusion equations and kinetic equations.
Extension to systems of conservation laws with source terms are also discussed.Comment: 23 pages, 12 figure
Asymptotic solutions of the nonlinear Boltzmann equation for dissipative systems
Analytic solutions of the nonlinear Boltzmann equation in
-dimensions are studied for a new class of dissipative models, called
inelastic repulsive scatterers, interacting through pseudo-power law
repulsions, characterized by a strength parameter , and embedding
inelastic hard spheres () and inelastic Maxwell models (). The
systems are either freely cooling without energy input or driven by
thermostats, e.g. white noise, and approach stable nonequilibrium steady
states, or marginally stable homogeneous cooling states, where the data,
plotted versus , collapse on a scaling or
similarity solution , where is the r.m.s. velocity. The
dissipative interactions generate overpopulated high energy tails, described
generically by stretched Gaussians, with , where with in free cooling, and with when driven by white noise. Power law tails, , are
only found in marginal cases, where the exponent is the root of a
transcendental equation. The stability threshold depend on the type of
thermostat, and is for the case of free cooling located at . Moreover we
analyze an inelastic BGK-type kinetic equation with an energy dependent
collision frequency coupled to a thermostat, that captures all qualitative
properties of the velocity distribution function in Maxwell models, as
predicted by the full nonlinear Boltzmann equation, but fails for harder
interactions with .Comment: Submitted to: "Granular Gas Dynamics", T. Poeschel, N. Brilliantov
(eds.), Lecture Notes in Physics, Vol. LNP 624, Springer-Verlag,
Berlin-Heidelberg-New York, 200
Whitham Averaged Equations and Modulational Stability of Periodic Traveling Waves of a Hyperbolic-Parabolic Balance Law
In this note, we report on recent findings concerning the spectral and
nonlinear stability of periodic traveling wave solutions of
hyperbolic-parabolic systems of balance laws, as applied to the St. Venant
equations of shallow water flow down an incline. We begin by introducing a
natural set of spectral stability assumptions, motivated by considerations from
the Whitham averaged equations, and outline the recent proof yielding nonlinear
stability under these conditions. We then turn to an analytical and numerical
investigation of the verification of these spectral stability assumptions.
While spectral instability is shown analytically to hold in both the Hopf and
homoclinic limits, our numerical studies indicates spectrally stable periodic
solutions of intermediate period. A mechanism for this moderate-amplitude
stabilization is proposed in terms of numerically observed "metastability" of
the the limiting homoclinic orbits.Comment: 27 pages, 5 figures. Minor changes throughou
Asymptotic Preserving time-discretization of optimal control problems for the Goldstein-Taylor model
We consider the development of implicit-explicit time integration schemes for
optimal control problems governed by the Goldstein-Taylor model. In the
diffusive scaling this model is a hyperbolic approximation to the heat
equation. We investigate the relation of time integration schemes and the
formal Chapman-Enskog type limiting procedure. For the class of stiffly
accurate implicit-explicit Runge-Kutta methods (IMEX) the discrete optimality
system also provides a stable numerical method for optimal control problems
governed by the heat equation. Numerical examples illustrate the expected
behavior
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