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Consistent dirichlet boundary conditions for numerical solution of moving boundary problems
We consider the imposition of Dirichlet boundary conditions in the finite element mod-elling of moving boundary problems in one and two dimensions for which the total mass is prescribed. A modification of the standard linear finite element test space allows the boundary conditions to be imposed strongly whilst simultaneously conserving a discrete mass. The validity of the technique is assessed for a specific moving mesh finite element method,
although the approach is more general. Numerical comparisons are carried out for mass-conserving solutions of the porous medium equation with Dirichlet boundary conditions and for a moving boundary problem with a source term and time-varying mass
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A moving-mesh finite element method and its application to the numerical solution of phase-change problems
A distributed Lagrangian moving-mesh finite element method is applied to problems involving changes of phase. The algorithm uses a distributed conservation principle to determine nodal mesh velocities, which are then used to move the nodes. The nodal values are obtained from an ALE (Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian) equation, which represents a generalization of the original algorithm presented in Applied Numerical Mathematics, 54:450--469 (2005). Having described the details of the generalized algorithm it is validated on two test cases from the original paper and is then applied to one-phase and, for the first time, two-phase Stefan problems in one and two space dimensions, paying particular attention to the implementation of the interface boundary conditions. Results are presented to demonstrate the accuracy and the effectiveness of the method, including comparisons against analytical solutions where available
Thermodynamic potential of the Periodic Anderson Model with the X-boson method: Chain Approximation
The Periodic Anderson Model (PAM) in the limit has been studied
in a previous work employing the cumulant expansion with the hybridization as
perturbation (M. S. Figueira, M. E. Foglio and G. G. Martinez, Phys. Rev. B
\textbf{50}, 17933 (1994)). When the total number of electrons is
calculated as a function of the chemical potential in the ``Chain
Approximation'' (CHA), there are three values of the chemical potential
for each in a small interval of at low (M. S Figueira, M. E
Foglio, Physica A 208 (1994)). We have recently introduced the ``X-boson''
method, inspired in the slave boson technique of Coleman, that solves the
problem of non conservation of probability (completeness) in the CHA as well as
removing the spurious phase transitions that appear with the slave boson method
in the mean field approximation. In the present paper we show that the X-boson
method solves also the problem of the multiple roots of that
appear in the CHA.Comment: 13 pages, 6 figures e-mails: [email protected], [email protected],
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Scale-invariant moving finite elements for nonlinear partial differential equations in two dimensions
A scale-invariant moving finite element method is proposed for the adaptive solution of nonlinear partial differential equations. The mesh movement is based on a finite element discretisation of a scale-invariant conservation principle incorporating a monitor function, while the time discretisation of the resulting system of ordinary differential equations is carried out using a scale-invariant time-stepping which yields uniform local accuracy in time.
The accuracy and reliability of the algorithm are successfully tested against exact self-similar solutions where available, and otherwise against a state-of-the-art h-refinement scheme for solutions of a two-dimensional porous medium equation problem with a moving boundary. The monitor functions used are the dependent variable and a monitor related to the surface area of the solution manifold
X-boson cumulant approach to the periodic Anderson model
The Periodic Anderson Model (PAM) can be studied in the infinite U limit by
employing the Hubbard X operators to project out the unwanted states. We have
already studied this problem employing the cumulant expansion with the
hybridization as perturbation, but the probability conservation of the local
states (completeness) is not usually satisfied when partial expansions like the
Chain Approximation (CHA) are employed. Here we treat the problem by a
technique inspired in the mean field approximation of Coleman's slave-bosons
method, and we obtain a description that avoids the unwanted phase transition
that appears in the mean-field slave-boson method both when the chemical
potential is greater than the localized level Ef at low temperatures (T) and
for all parameters at intermediate T.Comment: Submited to Physical Review B 14 pages, 17 eps figures inserted in
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Drug delivery in a tumour cord model: a computational simulation
YesThe tumour vasculature and microenvironment is complex and heterogeneous, contributing to reduced delivery of cancer drugs to the tumour. We have developed an in silico model of drug transport in a tumour cord to explore the effect of different drug regimes over a 72 h period and how changes in pharmacokinetic parameters affect tumour exposure to the cytotoxic drug doxorubicin. We used the model to describe the radial and axial distribution of drug in the tumour cord as a function of changes in the transport rate across the cell membrane, blood vessel and intercellular permeability, flow rate, and the binding and unbinding ratio of drug within the cancer cells. We explored how changes in these parameters may affect cellular exposure to drug. The model demonstrates the extent to which distance from the supplying vessel influences drug levels and the effect of dosing schedule in relation to saturation of drug-binding sites. It also shows the likely impact on drug distribution of the aberrant vasculature seen within tumours. The model can be adapted for other drugs and extended to include other parameters. The analysis confirms that computational models can play a role in understanding novel cancer therapies to optimize drug administration and delivery
Fano resonance in electronic transport through a quantum wire with a side-coupled quantum dot: X-boson treatment
The transport through a quantum wire with a side coupled quantum dot is
studied. We use the X-boson treatment for the Anderson single impurity model in
the limit of . The conductance presents a minimum for values of T=0
in the crossover from mixed-valence to Kondo regime due to a destructive
interference between the ballistic channel associated with the quantum wire and
the quantum dot channel. We obtain the experimentally studied Fano behavior of
the resonance. The conductance as a function of temperature exhibits a
logarithmic and universal behavior, that agrees with recent experimental
results.Comment: 6 pages, 10 eps figs., revtex
Charge dynamics in the Mott insulating phase of the ionic Hubbard model
We extend to charge and bond operators the transformation that maps the ionic
Hubbard model at half filling onto an effective spin Hamiltonian. Using these
operators we calculate the amplitude of the charge density wave in different
dimensions. In one dimension, the charge-charge correlations at large distance
d decay as 1/(d^3 ln^{3/2}d), in spite of the presence of a charge gap, as a
consequence of remaining charge-spin coupling. Bond-bond correlations decay as
(-1)^d 1/(d ln^{3/2}d) as in the usual Hubbard model.Comment: 4 pages, no figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. B printing errors
corrected and some clarifications adde
Three-points interfacial quadrature for geometrical source terms on nonuniform grids
International audienceThis paper deals with numerical (finite volume) approximations, on nonuniform meshes, for ordinary differential equations with parameter-dependent fields. Appropriate discretizations are constructed over the space of parameters, in order to guarantee the consistency in presence of variable cells' size, for which -error estimates, , are proven. Besides, a suitable notion of (weak) regularity for nonuniform meshes is introduced in the most general case, to compensate possibly reduced consistency conditions, and the optimality of the convergence rates with respect to the regularity assumptions on the problem's data is precisely discussed. This analysis attempts to provide a basic theoretical framework for the numerical simulation on unstructured grids (also generated by adaptive algorithms) of a wide class of mathematical models for real systems (geophysical flows, biological and chemical processes, population dynamics)
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