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Zbl pre05693768
Westdickenberg, Michael; Wilkening, Jon
Variational particle schemes for the porous medium equation and for the system of isentropic Euler equations. (English)
[J] ESAIM, Math. Model. Numer. Anal. 44, No. 1, 133-166 (2010). ISSN 0764-583X; ISSN 1290-3841/e

Summary: Both the porous medium equation and the system of isentropic Euler equations can be considered as steepest descents on suitable manifolds of probability measures in the framework of optimal transport theory. By discretizing these variational characterizations instead of the partial differential equations themselves, we obtain new schemes with remarkable stability properties. We show that they capture successfully the nonlinear features of the flows, such as shocks and rarefaction waves for the isentropic Euler equations. We also show how to design higher order methods for these problems in the optimal transport setting using backward differentiation formula (BDF) multi-step methods or diagonally implicit Runge-Kutta methods.

MSC 2000:: *76-99 Fluid mechanics
35L65 Conservation laws
49J40 Variational methods including variational inequalities
76M30 Variational methods
76M28 Particle methods and lattice-gas methods

Keywords: optimal transport; Wasserstein metric; isentropic Euler equations; porous medium equation; numerical methods

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