An adaptive finite difference method for first order nonlinear systems of ordinary differential equations subject to multipoint nonlinear boundary conditions is presented. The method is based on a discretization studied earlier by H. B. Keller. Variable order is provided through deferred corrections, while a built-in natural asymptotic estimator is used to automatically refine the mesh in order...

The solution of a linear reaction diffusion equation on a non-convex polygon is proved to be globally regular in a suitable weighted Sobolev space. This result is used to design an optimally convergent Fourier-Finite Element Method (FEM) where the mesh size is suitably refined. Furthermore, the coupled Non-Standard Finite Difference Method (NSFDM)-FEM is presented as a reliable scheme that repl...

Abstract. Superconvergence of the velocity is established for mimetic finite difference approximations of second-order elliptic problems over h2-uniform quadrilateral meshes. The superconvergence result holds for a full tensor coefficient. The analysis exploits the relation between mimetic finite differences and mixed finite element methods via a special quadrature rule for computing the scalar...

by, for example, a finite difference method in the computational (μ, χ, φ) space. The above standard dipole coordinates is convenient and certainly appropriate for analytical studies in which the Earth’s dipolar field plays central roles. It also works as a base coordinates for the node and cell generation of the finite element method in the dipole geometry [2, 3]. However, when one tries to us...

Now-a-days computational fluid mechanics has become very vital area in which obtained governing equations are differential equations. Sometimes, these governing equations cannot be easily solved by existing analytical methods. Due to this reason, we use various numerical techniques to find out approximate solution for such problems. Among these techniques, finite volume method is also being use...

For fire safety purposes, the fire resistance and the structural behavior of reinforced concrete members are assessed to satisfy specific fire performance criteria. The available prescribed provisions are based on standard fire load. Under various fire scenarios, engineers are in need of both heat transfer analysis and structural analysis. For heat transfer analysis, the study proposed a modifi...

We propose a family of mimetic discretization schemes for elliptic problems including convection and reaction terms. Our approach is an extension of the mimetic methodology for purely diffusive problems on unstructured polygonal and polyhedral meshes. The a priori error analysis relies on the connection between the mimetic formulation and the lowest order Raviart–Thomas mixed finite element met...

We present a finite-difference based solver for hyper-elastic and viscoplastic systems using a hybrid of the weighted essentially non-oscillatory (WENO) schemes combined with explicit centered difference to solve the equations of motion expressed in an Eulerian formulation. By construction our approach minimizes both numerical dissipation errors and the creation of curl-constraint violating err...

The gas dynamics equations, coupled with a static gravitational field, admit the hydrostatic balance where the flux produced by the pressure is exactly canceled by the gravitational source term. Many astrophysical problems involve the hydrodynamical evolution in a gravitational field, therefore it is essential to correctly capture the effect of gravitational force in the simulations. Improper t...

Even before any numerical considerations are confronted, we run into difficulties simply in specifying a coordinate system. It is important to distinguish between true scalarvalued and vector-valued functions. The value of a scalar function, say temperature, is independent of coordinate system. That is, the temperature at some point in space is the same regardless of how we define the position ...