Structure-preserving local discontinuous Galerkin discretization of conformational conversion systems

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Hauptverfasser: Antonietti, Paola F., Corti, Mattia, Gómez, Sergio, Perugia, Ilaria
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author Antonietti, Paola F.
Corti, Mattia
Gómez, Sergio
Perugia, Ilaria
author_facet Antonietti, Paola F.
Corti, Mattia
Gómez, Sergio
Perugia, Ilaria
contents We investigate a two-state conformational conversion system and introduce a novel structure-preserving numerical scheme that couples a local discontinuous Galerkin space discretization with the backward Euler time-integration method. The model is first reformulated in terms of auxiliary variables involving suitable nonlinear transformations, which allow us to enforce positivity and boundedness at the numerical level. Then, we prove a discrete entropy-stability inequality, which we use to show the existence of discrete solutions, as well as to establish the convergence of the scheme by means of some discrete compactness arguments. As a by-product of the theoretical analysis, we also prove the existence of global weak solutions satisfying the system's physical bounds. Numerical results validate the theoretical results and assess the capabilities of the proposed method in practice.
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spellingShingle Structure-preserving local discontinuous Galerkin discretization of conformational conversion systems
Antonietti, Paola F.
Corti, Mattia
Gómez, Sergio
Perugia, Ilaria
Numerical Analysis
65M60, 65M12, 35K57, 35Q92
We investigate a two-state conformational conversion system and introduce a novel structure-preserving numerical scheme that couples a local discontinuous Galerkin space discretization with the backward Euler time-integration method. The model is first reformulated in terms of auxiliary variables involving suitable nonlinear transformations, which allow us to enforce positivity and boundedness at the numerical level. Then, we prove a discrete entropy-stability inequality, which we use to show the existence of discrete solutions, as well as to establish the convergence of the scheme by means of some discrete compactness arguments. As a by-product of the theoretical analysis, we also prove the existence of global weak solutions satisfying the system's physical bounds. Numerical results validate the theoretical results and assess the capabilities of the proposed method in practice.
title Structure-preserving local discontinuous Galerkin discretization of conformational conversion systems
topic Numerical Analysis
65M60, 65M12, 35K57, 35Q92
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.04830