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We present a data-driven approach for constructing generalized collisional kinetic models for inhomogeneous plasmas in one-dimensional physical space and three-dimensional velocity space (1D-3V). The collision operator is directly learned…

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We propose a new data analysis approach for the efficient post-processing of bundles of finite element data from numerical simulations. The approach is based on the mathematical principles of symmetry. We consider the case where simulations…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-05-23 Rodrigo Iza-Teran , Jochen Garcke

The accuracy obtained with CFD and process simulations of flotation critically depends on the quality and robustness of the underlying models for the non-resolved sub-processes. An important issue in flotation is the collision between…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-06-05 Benedikt Tiedemann , Moritz Kreuseler , Jochen Fröhlich

A quantum linear Boltzmann equation is proposed, constructed in terms of the operator-valued dynamic structure factor of the macroscopic system the test particle is interacting with. Due to this operator structure it is a non-Abelian linear…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Bassano Vacchini

This article extends a recently introduced kinetic closure of turbulence by developing its theoretical framework, operational realizations, and validation. In contrast with filtered Navier--Stokes formulations, filtering the Boltzmann…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-20 Francesco Marson , Orestis Malaspinas

This paper presents a novel methodology for the direct numerical modeling and simulation of turbulent flows. The kinetic model equation is firstly extended to turbulent flow with the account of coupled evolution of kinetic, thermal, and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-03-11 Xiaojian Yang , Kun Xu

We describe and summarize a class of minimal numerical models emerged from recent development of simulation methods for dense particle suspensions in overdamped linear flows. The main ingredients include (i) a frame-invariant, short-range…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-05-27 Zhouyang Ge , Luca Brandt

An encoder-decoder neural network has been used to examine the possibility for acceleration of a partial integro-differential equation, the Fokker-Planck-Landau collision operator. This is part of the governing equation in the massively…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-12-21 M. A. Miller , R. M. Churchill , A. Dener , C. S. Chang , T. Munson , R. Hager

The linearized Vlasov-Poisson system can be exactly solved using the $G$-transform, an integral transform introduced in Refs. 1-3 that removes the electric field term, leaving a simple advection equation. We investigate how this integral…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-08-28 Jeffrey M. Heninger , Philip J. Morrison

Understanding turbulent transport physics in the tokamak edge and scrape-off layer (SOL) is critical to developing a successful fusion reactor. The dynamics in these regions plays a key role in achieving high fusion performance by…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-03-31 Noah Mandell

Recently, fusion frames and frames for operators were considered as generalizations of frames in Hilbert spaces. In this paper, we generalize some of the known results in frame theory to fusion frames related to a linear bounded operator K…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-10 Yuxiang Xu , Dongwei Li , Jinsong Leng

This paper proposes a novel numerical integrator for modeling multispecies Coulomb collisions in kinetic plasmas. The proposed scheme provides an energy-, momentum-, and positivity-preserving particle discretization of the nonlinear Landau…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-12-28 Filippo Zonta , Joseph V. Pusztay , Eero Hirvijoki

Nonlinear gyrokinetics provides a suitable framework to describe short-wavelength turbulence in magnetized laboratory and astrophysical plasmas. In the electrostatic limit, this system is known to exhibit a free energy cascade towards small…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2014-08-07 S. S. Cerri , A. Bañón Navarro , F. Jenko , D. Told

We perform the asymptotic analysis of parabolic equations with stiff transport terms. This kind of problem occurs, for example, in collisional gyrokinetic theory for tokamak plasmas, where the velocity diffusion of the collision mechanism…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-12-15 Thomas Blanc , Mihai Bostan , Franck Boyer

We carry out a comprehensive linear stability analysis of active Brownian particle systems around a constant homogeneous state. These scalar models, being important prototypes for the continuous description of active matter, are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-22 Michele Coti Zelati , Lucas Ertzbischoff , David Gerard-Varet

Granular materials are characterized by large collections of discrete particles of sizes larger than one micron, where the particle-particle interactions are significantly more important than the particle-fluid interactions. These flows can…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-01-04 Yifei Duan , Zhi-Gang Feng

We analytically determine all the eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of the linearized Boltzmann collision operator in massless scalar $\lambda \phi^4$ theory in the high-temperature (classical) regime. This is used to exactly compute the shear…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-09-22 Gabriel S. Denicol , Jorge Noronha

This paper considers a kinetic equation for an unbounded two-dimensional single species point vortex system. No axisymmetric flow is assumed. Using the kinetic theory based on the Klimontovich formalism, we derive a collision term…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-03-13 Yuichi Yatsuyanagi , Tadatsugu Hatori

The Fokker--Planck equation is a key ingredient of many models in physics, and related subjects, and arises in a diverse array of settings. Analytical solutions are limited to special cases, and resorting to numerical simulation is often…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-02-20 R. J. Martin , R. V. Craster , A. Pannier , M. J. Kearney

We introduce a new class of nonlocal kinetic equations and nonlocal Fokker-Planck equations associated with an effective generalized thermodynamical formalism. These equations have a rich physical and mathematical structure that can…

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