Structure-preserving discretisations for the quasi-incompressible, thermal Maxwell-Stefan equations
Abstract
We study a thermal Maxwell-Stefan-Navier-Stokes system modelling miscible mixtures under a quasi-incompressibility constraint. The system consists of the conservation laws for mass and momentum, and the balance law for entropy, which is preferred over the balance law for energy because it facilitates the development of two structure-preserving discretisation methods. The first method applies a semi-implicit Euler scheme in time, together with suitable finite elements in space, which guarantees generation of entropy and enforces the quasi-incompressibility constraint pointwise, but numerically dissipates total energy. The second method employs a continuous Petrov-Galerkin discretisation in time, which also generates entropy and satisfies the constraint pointwise, and in addition conserves the total energy and allows high-order time approximations. The structure-preserving properties and behaviour of both numerical methods are demonstrated by a series of numerical experiments.
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BibTeX
@misc{andrews2026structurepreserving,
title = {{Structure-preserving discretisations for the quasi-incompressible, thermal Maxwell-Stefan equations}},
author = {Boris D. Andrews and Aaron Baier-Reinio and Aaron Brunk and Patrick E. Farrell and Mária Lukáčová-Medviďová},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2610.35157},
eprint = {2610.35157},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.35157},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Structure-preserving discretisations for the quasi-incompressible, thermal Maxwell-Stefan equations
AU - Boris D. Andrews
AU - Aaron Baier-Reinio
AU - Aaron Brunk
AU - Patrick E. Farrell
AU - Mária Lukáčová-Medviďová
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/26
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2610.35157
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.35157
AB - We study a thermal Maxwell-Stefan-Navier-Stokes system modelling miscible mixtures under a quasi-incompressibility constraint. The system consists of the conservation laws for mass and momentum, and the balance law for entropy, which is preferred over the balance law for energy because it facilitates the development of two structure-preserving discretisation methods. The first method applies a semi-implicit Euler scheme in time, together with suitable finite elements in space, which guarantees generation of entropy and enforces the quasi-incompressibility constraint pointwise, but numerically dissipates total energy. The second method employs a continuous Petrov-Galerkin discretisation in time, which also generates entropy and satisfies the constraint pointwise, and in addition conserves the total energy and allows high-order time approximations. The structure-preserving properties and behaviour of both numerical methods are demonstrated by a series of numerical experiments.
ER -