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Validation and Calibration of Models for Reaction-Diffusion Systems
Space and time scales are not independent in diffusion. In fact, numerical
simulations show that different patterns are obtained when space and time steps
( and ) are varied independently. On the other hand,
anisotropy effects due to the symmetries of the discretization lattice prevent
the quantitative calibration of models. We introduce a new class of explicit
difference methods for numerical integration of diffusion and
reaction-diffusion equations, where the dependence on space and time scales
occurs naturally. Numerical solutions approach the exact solution of the
continuous diffusion equation for finite and , if the
parameter assumes a fixed constant value,
where is an odd positive integer parametrizing the alghorithm. The error
between the solutions of the discrete and the continuous equations goes to zero
as and the values of are dimension
independent. With these new integration methods, anisotropy effects resulting
from the finite differences are minimized, defining a standard for validation
and calibration of numerical solutions of diffusion and reaction-diffusion
equations. Comparison between numerical and analytical solutions of
reaction-diffusion equations give global discretization errors of the order of
in the sup norm. Circular patterns of travelling waves have a maximum
relative random deviation from the spherical symmetry of the order of 0.2%, and
the standard deviation of the fluctuations around the mean circular wave front
is of the order of .Comment: 33 pages, 8 figures, to appear in Int. J. Bifurcation and Chao
Optimized explicit Runge-Kutta schemes for the spectral difference method applied to wave propagation problems
Explicit Runge-Kutta schemes with large stable step sizes are developed for
integration of high order spectral difference spatial discretization on
quadrilateral grids. The new schemes permit an effective time step that is
substantially larger than the maximum admissible time step of standard explicit
Runge-Kutta schemes available in literature. Furthermore, they have a small
principal error norm and admit a low-storage implementation. The advantages of
the new schemes are demonstrated through application to the Euler equations and
the linearized Euler equations.Comment: 37 pages, 3 pages of appendi
Universality of shear-banding instability and crystallization in sheared granular fluid
The linear stability analysis of an uniform shear flow of granular materials
is revisited using several cases of a Navier-Stokes'-level constitutive model
in which we incorporate the global equation of states for pressure and thermal
conductivity (which are accurate up-to the maximum packing density )
and the shear viscosity is allowed to diverge at a density (), with all other transport coefficients diverging at . It is
shown that the emergence of shear-banding instabilities (for perturbations
having no variation along the streamwise direction), that lead to shear-band
formation along the gradient direction, depends crucially on the choice of the
constitutive model. In the framework of a dense constitutive model that
incorporates only collisional transport mechanism, it is shown that an accurate
global equation of state for pressure or a viscosity divergence at a lower
density or a stronger viscosity divergence (with other transport coefficients
being given by respective Enskog values that diverge at ) can induce
shear-banding instabilities, even though the original dense Enskog model is
stable to such shear-banding instabilities. For any constitutive model, the
onset of this shear-banding instability is tied to a {\it universal} criterion
in terms of constitutive relations for viscosity and pressure, and the sheared
granular flow evolves toward a state of lower "dynamic" friction, leading to
the shear-induced band formation, as it cannot sustain increasing dynamic
friction with increasing density to stay in the homogeneous state. A similar
criterion of a lower viscosity or a lower viscous-dissipation is responsible
for the shear-banding state in many complex fluids.Comment: 26 page
Analysing the impact of anisotropy pressure on tokamak equilibria
Neutral beam injection or ion cyclotron resonance heating induces pressure
anisotropy. The axisymmetric plasma equilibrium code HELENA has been upgraded
to include anisotropy and toroidal flow. With both analytical and numerical
methods, we have studied the determinant factors in anisotropic equilibria and
their impact on flux surfaces, magnetic axis shift, the displacement of
pressures and density contours from flux surface. With , can vary 20% on flux surface, in a MAST like
equilibrium. We have also re-evaluated the widely applied approximation to
anisotropy in which , the average of parallel
and perpendicular pressure, is taken as the approximate isotropic pressure. We
find the reconstructions of the same MAST discharge with , using isotropic and anisotropic model respectively, to have a 3%
difference in toroidal field but a 66% difference in poloidal current
Efficient Computation of the Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation with Time-Dependent Coefficients
open access articleMotivated by the limited work performed on the development of computational techniques for solving the nonlinear Schrödinger equation with time-dependent coefficients, we develop a modified Runge-Kutta pair with improved periodicity and stability characteristics. Additionally, we develop a modified step size control algorithm, which increases the efficiency of our pair and all other pairs included in the numerical experiments. The numerical results on the nonlinear Schrödinger equation with periodic solution verified the superiority of the new algorithm in terms of efficiency. The new method also presents a good behaviour of the maximum absolute error and the global norm in time, even after a high number of oscillations
Positive trigonometric polynomials for strong stability of difference equations
We follow a polynomial approach to analyse strong stability of linear
difference equations with rationally independent delays. Upon application of
the Hermite stability criterion on the discrete-time homogeneous characteristic
polynomial, assessing strong stability amounts to deciding positive
definiteness of a multivariate trigonometric polynomial matrix. This latter
problem is addressed with a converging hierarchy of linear matrix inequalities
(LMIs). Numerical experiments indicate that certificates of strong stability
can be obtained at a reasonable computational cost for state dimension and
number of delays not exceeding 4 or 5
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