Variational particle schemes for the porous medium equation and for the system of isentropic Euler equations
ESAIM: Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Analysis - Modélisation Mathématique et Analyse Numérique, Volume 44 (2010) no. 1, p. 133-166

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.

DOI : https://doi.org/10.1051/m2an/2009043
Classification:  35L65,  49J40,  76M30,  76M28
Keywords: optimal transport, Wasserstein metric, isentropic Euler equations, porous medium equation, numerical methods
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Westdickenberg, Michael; Wilkening, Jon. Variational particle schemes for the porous medium equation and for the system of isentropic Euler equations. ESAIM: Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Analysis - Modélisation Mathématique et Analyse Numérique, Volume 44 (2010) no. 1, pp. 133-166. doi : 10.1051/m2an/2009043. http://www.numdam.org/item/M2AN_2010__44_1_133_0/

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