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most citedRelaxation Runge-Kutta Methods: Fully-Discrete Explicit Entropy-Stable Schemes for the Compressible Euler and Navier-Stokes Equations

134 citations · 770 across the 68 of their papers we have counts for

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73 papers

math.NA2026

Optimized linear multistep methods for stiff problems

Tyler Jensen, David I Ketcheson, Lajos Lóczi

We design and test several new optimized linear multistep methods for stiff problems. Each method is A-stable, implicit, and second-order accurate. We focus on achieving the smalle…

math.DS2026

Compartmental epidemiological models with infection-driven immune escape

Daniela R. Ramírez-Gutiérrez, Lajos Lóczi, Carlos Muñoz-Moncayo +1

We propose and study a compartmental epidemiological model that incorporates both waning immunity and mutation-driven immune escape into a single-strain framework. The model, terme…

math.NA2026

Asymptotic-Preserving Exponential Integrators applied to the Hyperbolic Korteweg-de Vries System

Abhijit Biswas, Sebastiano Boscarino, David I. Ketcheson +1

We study the application of exponential time integration methods, coupled with Fourier pseudospectral space discretization, to the hyperbolic Korteweg-de Vries (KdVH) system. We in…

physics.flu-dyn2026

Adaptive, efficient, and scalable water wave modeling with dispersive hyperbolic systems

Carlos Muñoz-Moncayo, David I. Ketcheson

Accurate modeling of tsunamis (such as those generated by landslides) requires capturing both wave dispersion in the deep ocean and wave breaking near the shore. The shallow water…

physics.comp-ph2026

Efficient High-order Mass-conserving and Energy-balancing Schemes for Schrödinger-Poisson Equations

Manvendra Pratap Rajvanshi, David I. Ketcheson

We study relaxation-based approaches for conserving mass and energy in the numerical solution of Schrödinger-Poisson (SP) type systems. Relaxation-based methods offer a general app…

math.NA2025

Conserving mass, momentum, and energy for the Benjamin-Bona-Mahony, Korteweg-de Vries, and nonlinear Schrödinger equations

Hendrik Ranocha, David I. Ketcheson

We propose and study a class of arbitrarily high-order numerical discretizations that preserve multiple invariants and are essentially explicit (they do not require the solution of…

math.NA2025

Asymptotic-preserving and energy-conserving methods for a hyperbolic approximation of the BBM equation

Sebastian Bleecke, Abhijit Biswas, David I. Ketcheson +2

We study the hyperbolic approximation of the Benjamin-Bona-Mahony (BBM) equation proposed recently by Gavrilyuk and Shyue (2022). We develop asymptotic-preserving numerical methods…

math.NA2025

High-order mass- and energy-conserving methods for the nonlinear Schrödinger equation and its hyperbolization

Hendrik Ranocha, David I. Ketcheson

We propose a class of numerical methods for the nonlinear Schrödinger (NLS) equation that conserves mass and energy, is of arbitrarily high-order accuracy in space and time, and re…

math.AP2025

A Hyperbolic Approximation of the Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation

Abhijit Biswas, Laila S. Busaleh, David I. Ketcheson +2

We study a first-order hyperbolic approximation of the nonlinear Schrödinger (NLS) equation. We show that the system is strictly hyperbolic and possesses a modified Hamiltonian str…

math.AP2024

Solitary wave formation in the compressible Euler equations

David I. Ketcheson, Giovanni Russo

We study the behavior of perturbations in a compressible one-dimensional inviscid gas with an ambient state consisting of constant pressure and periodically-varying density. We sho…

math.AP2024

Homogenized Equations for Isentropic Gas in a Pipe with Periodically-Varying Cross-Section

Laila S. Busaleh, David I. Ketcheson

We analyze the behavior of an isentropic gas in a narrow pipe with periodically-varying cross-sectional area. Using multiple-scale perturbation theory, we derive homogenized effect…

math.AP2024★ 3 cited

A dispersive effective equation for transverse propagation of planar shallow water waves over periodic bathymetry

David I. Ketcheson, Giovanni Russo

We study the behavior of shallow water waves propagating over bathymetry that varies periodically in one direction and is constant in the other. Plane waves traveling along the con…

math.NA2024

Pseudo-Energy-Preserving Explicit Runge-Kutta Methods

Gabriel A. Barrios de León, David I. Ketcheson, Hendrik Ranocha

Using a recent characterization of energy-preserving B-series, we derive the explicit conditions on the coefficients of a Runge-Kutta method that ensure energy preservation (for Ha…

math.AP2024★ 4 cited

Approximation of arbitrarily high-order PDEs by first-order hyperbolic relaxation

David I. Ketcheson, Abhijit Biswas

We present a framework for constructing a first-order hyperbolic system whose solution approximates that of a desired higher-order evolution equation. Constructions of this kind ha…

math.AP2023

A multiscale model for weakly nonlinear shallow water waves over periodic bathymetry

David I. Ketcheson, Lajos Lóczi, Giovanni Russo

We study the behavior of shallow water waves over periodically-varying bathymetry, based on the first-order hyperbolic Saint-Venant equations. Although solutions of this system are…

math.NA2023★ 1 cited

Explicit Runge Kutta Methods that Alleviate Order Reduction

Abhijit Biswas, David I. Ketcheson, Steven Roberts +2

Explicit Runge--Kutta (RK) methods are susceptible to a reduction in the observed order of convergence when applied to initial-boundary value problem with time-dependent boundary c…

math.NA2023★ 1 cited

Accurate Solution of the Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation via Conservative Multiple-Relaxation ImEx Methods

Abhijit Biswas, David I. Ketcheson

The nonlinear Schrödinger (NLS) equation possesses an infinite hierarchy of conserved densities and the numerical preservation of some of these quantities is critical for accurate…

physics.comp-ph2023

A high-order finite volume method for Maxwell's equations in heterogeneous and time-varying media

Damian P. San Roman Alerigi, David I. Ketcheson, Boon S. Ooi

We develop a finite volume method for Maxwell's equations in materials whose electromagnetic properties vary in space and time. We investigate both conservative and non-conservativ…

math.NA2023★ 3 cited

Order conditions for Runge--Kutta-like methods with solution-dependent coefficients

Thomas Izgin, David I. Ketcheson, Andreas Meister

In recent years, many positivity-preserving schemes for initial value problems have been constructed by modifying a Runge--Kutta (RK) method by weighting the right-hand side of the…

math.NA2023★ 1 cited

Multiple-Relaxation Runge Kutta Methods for Conservative Dynamical Systems

Abhijit Biswas, David I. Ketcheson

We generalize the idea of relaxation time stepping methods in order to preserve multiple nonlinear conserved quantities of a dynamical system by projecting along directions defined…

math.NA2022

Very High-Order A-stable Stiffly Accurate Diagonally Implicit Runge-Kutta Methods with Error Estimators

Yousef Alamri, David I. Ketcheson

A numerical search approach is used to design high-order diagonally implicit Runge-Kutta (DIRK) schemes equipped with embedded error estimators, some of which have identical diagon…

math.NA2022★ 2 cited

A Comparative Study of Iterative Riemann Solvers for the Shallow Water and Euler Equations

Carlos Muñoz Moncayo, Manuel Quezada de Luna, David I. Ketcheson

The Riemann problem for first-order hyperbolic systems of partial differential equations is of fundamental importance for both theoretical and numerical purposes. Many approximate…

math.NA2022★ 9 cited

Design of DIRK Schemes with High Weak Stage Order

Abhijit Biswas, David Ketcheson, Benjamin Seibold +1

Runge-Kutta (RK) methods may exhibit order reduction when applied to certain stiff problems. While fully implicit RK schemes exist that avoid order reduction via high-stage order,…

math.NA2022

Algebraic Structure of the Weak Stage Order Conditions for Runge-Kutta Methods

Abhijit Biswas, David Ketcheson, Benjamin Seibold +1

Runge-Kutta (RK) methods may exhibit order reduction when applied to stiff problems. For linear problems with time-independent operators, order reduction can be avoided if the meth…