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We present a practical algorithm based on symplectic splitting methods to integrate numerically in time the Schr\"odinger equation. When discretized in space, the Schr\"odinger equation can be recast as a classical Hamiltonian system…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-02-24 S. Blanes , F. Casas , A. Murua

We propose explicit symplectic integrators of molecular dynamics (MD) algorithms for rigid-body molecules in the canonical and isothermal-isobaric ensembles. We also present a symplectic algorithm in the constant normal pressure and lateral…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hisashi Okumura , Satoru G. Itoh , Yuko Okamoto

This study proposes a novel topology optimization method for unsteady fluid flows induced by actively moving rigid bodies. The key idea of the proposed method is to decouple the design and analysis domains by using separate grids. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-01 Yuta Tanabe , Kentaro Yaji , Kuniharu Ushijima

Optimization is at the heart of machine learning, statistics and many applied scientific disciplines. It also has a long history in physics, ranging from the minimal action principle to finding ground states of disordered systems such as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-11 Guilherme França , Daniel P. Robinson , René Vidal

Cartesian-grid methods in combination with immersed-body and volume-of-fluid methods are ideally suited for simulating breaking waves around ships. A surface panelization of the ship hull is used as input to impose body-boundary conditions…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-10-10 Thomas T. O'Shea , Kyle A. Brucker , Douglas G. Dommermuth , Donald C. Wyatt

A positivity-preserving fractional algorithm is presented for solving the four-equation homogeneous relaxation model (HRM) with an arbitrary number of ideal gases and a liquid governed by the stiffened gas equation of state. The fractional…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-12-21 Man Long Wong , Jordan B. Angel , Cetin C. Kiris

In this work, the benefits of the phase fitting technique are embedded in high order discrete Lagrangian integrators. The proposed methodology creates integrators with zero phase lag in a test Lagrangian in a similar way used in phase…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2009-04-02 O. T. Kosmas , D. S. Vlachos

We show that the herding procedure of Welling (2009) takes exactly the form of a standard convex optimization algorithm--namely a conditional gradient algorithm minimizing a quadratic moment discrepancy. This link enables us to invoke…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-09-12 Francis Bach , Simon Lacoste-Julien , Guillaume Obozinski

Path integral-based simulation methodologies play a crucial role for the investigation of nuclear quantum effects by means of computer simulations. However, these techniques are significantly more demanding than corresponding classical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-01-17 Karsten Kreis , Kurt Kremer , Raffaello Potestio , Mark E. Tuckerman

We address numerical solvers for a poromechanics model particularly adapted for soft materials, as it generally respects thermodynamics principles and energy balance. Considering the multi-physics nature of the problem, which involves solid…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-30 Jakub W. Both , Nicolas A. Barnafi , Florin A. Radu , Paolo Zunino , Alfio Quarteroni

We here investigate the efficient implementation of the energy-conserving methods named Hamiltonian Boundary Value Methods (HBVMs) recently introduced for the numerical solution of Hamiltonian problems. In this note, we describe an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-10-22 Luigi Brugnano , Gianluca Frasca Caccia , Felice Iavernaro

We develop a class of C1-continuous time integration methods that are applicable to conservative problems in elastodynamics. These methods are based on Hamilton's law of varying action. From the action of the continuous system we derive a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-04-18 Janine C. Mergel , Roger A. Sauer , Sina Ober-Blöbaum

We propose a splitting Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (SHMC) algorithm, which can be computationally efficient when combined with the random mini-batch strategy. By splitting the potential energy into numerically nonstiff and stiff parts, one…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-23 Lei Li , Lin Liu , Yuzhou Peng

For conventional smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH), obtaining the static solution of a problem is time-consuming. To address this drawback, we propose an efficient dynamic relaxation method by adding large artificial-viscosity-based…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2021-03-17 Yujie Zhu , Chi Zhang , Xiangyu Hu

We adapt the Gradient Discretisation Method (GDM), originally designed for elliptic and parabolic partial differential equations, to the case of a linear scalar hyperbolic equations. This enables the simultaneous design and convergence…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-28 Jérôme Droniou , Robert Eymard , T. Gallouët , R. Herbin

Differentiable simulation enables gradients to be back-propagated through physics simulations. In this way, one can learn the dynamics and properties of a physics system by gradient-based optimization or embed the whole differentiable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Yaofeng Desmond Zhong , Jiequn Han , Biswadip Dey , Georgia Olympia Brikis

Numerical integration methods are central to the study of self-gravitating systems, particularly those comprised of many bodies or otherwise beyond the reach of analytical methods. Predictor-corrector schemes, both multi-step methods and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-24 Alexander J. Dittmann

We propose a new framework of Hessian-free force-gradient integrators that do not require the analytical expression of the force-gradient term based on the Hessian of the potential. Due to that the new class of decomposition algorithms for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-13 Kevin Schäfers , Jacob Finkenrath , Michael Günther , Francesco Knechtli

We introduce a class of unconditionally energy stable, high order accurate schemes for gradient flows in a very general setting. The new schemes are a high order analogue of the minimizing movements approach for generating a time discrete…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-11 Alexander Zaitzeff , Selim Esedoglu , Krishna Garikipati

In recent years, deep learning for modeling physical phenomena which can be described by partial differential equations (PDEs) have received significant attention. For example, for learning Hamiltonian mechanics, methods based on deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Baige Xu , Yusuke Tanaka , Takashi Matsubara , Takaharu Yaguchi