Positivity preserving semi-Lagrangian discontinuous Galerkin formulation: Theoretical analysis and application to the Vlasov–Poisson system

Semi-Lagrangian (SL) methods have been very popular in the Vlasov simulation community , , , , , ,  and . In this paper, we propose a new Strang split SL discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method for solving the Vlasov equation. Specifically, we apply the Strang splitting for the Vlasov equation [6], as a way to decouple the nonlinear Vlasov system into a sequence of 1-D advection equations, each of which has an advection velocity that only depends on coordinates that are transverse to the direction of propagation. To evolve the decoupled linear equations, we propose to couple the SL framework with the semi-discrete DG formulation. The proposed SL DG method is free of time step restriction compared with the Runge–Kutta DG method, which is known to suffer from numerical time step limitation with relatively small CFL numbers according to linear stability analysis. We apply the recently developed positivity preserving (PP) limiter [37], which is a low-cost black box procedure, to our scheme to ensure the positivity of the unknown probability density function without affecting the high order accuracy of the base SL DG scheme. We analyze the stability and accuracy properties of the SL DG scheme by establishing its connection with the direct and weak formulations of the characteristics/Lagrangian Galerkin method [23]. The quality of the proposed method is demonstrated via basic test problems, such as linear advection and rigid body rotation, and via classical plasma problems, such as Landau damping and the two stream instability.     

Identification of temperature‐dependent thermophysical properties in a partial differential equation subject to extra final measurement data

We consider an inverse problem for estimating the two coefficient functions c and k in a parabolic type partial differential equation c(u)u_t = ?[k(u)u_x]/?x with the aid of the measurements of u at two different times. The first‐ and second‐order one‐step group preserving schemes are developed. Solving the resultant algebraic equations with a closed‐form, we can estimate the unknown temperature‐dependent thermal conductivity and heat capacity. The new methods possess threefold advantages: they do not require any a priori information on the functional forms of thermal conductivity and heat capacity; no initial guesses are required; and no iterations are required. Numerical examples are examined to show that the new approaches have high accuracy and efficiency, even there are rare measured data. When the measured temperatures are polluted by uniform or normal random noise, the estimated results are also good. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Numer Methods Partial Differential Eq, 2007     

单层介质膜保偏全反射直角三棱镜镀膜材料的选择及其微分相位特性研究

入射角、基底玻璃折射率、膜介质折射率、膜厚等因素会影响单层介质膜保偏全反射直角三棱镜的保偏特性，且各因素的影响程度并不相同。本文分析了上述各因素的微小变化对保偏特性的影响，并提出了选择膜介质的方法     

基于系统非线性的红外焦平面非均匀性校正

采用系统非线性描述和分析方法,从基于红外参考辐射源的校正算法原理入手,提出了一种新的红外焦平面非均匀性校正方法.该算法将每个探测器单元视为一个非线性系统,因此,该算法原理既对基于红外参考辐射源的非均匀性校正算法成立,对基于场景的校正算法在一定条件下也有效,能够适应非均匀性随时间和环境改变而发生缓慢变化的情形,是一种自适应算法.     

The Measure-Preserving Shift on the Cantor Set

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Stability,periodicity, and symmetries of certain second‐order fractional difference equation with quadratic terms via KAM theory

By using the Kolmogorov–Arnold–Moser theory, we investigate the stability of the equilibrium solution of the difference equation where A ,B ,D > 0,u _?1,u ₀>0. We also use the symmetries to find effectively the periodic solutions with feasible periods. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Approximately spectrum-preserving maps

Let X and Y be superreflexive complex Banach spaces and let B(X) and B(Y) be the Banach algebras of all bounded linear operators on X and Y, respectively. If a bijective linear map Φ:B(X)→B(Y) almost preserves the spectra, then it is almost multiplicative or anti-multiplicative. Furthermore, in the case where X=Y is a separable complex Hilbert space, such a map is a small perturbation of an automorphism or an anti-automorphism.