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The nonlinear space-fractional problems often allow multiple stationary solutions, which can be much more complicated than the corresponding integer-order problems. In this paper, we systematically compute the solution landscapes of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-31 Bing Yu , Lei Zhang , Pingwen Zhang , Xiangcheng Zheng

This paper introduces a method to preform optical tomography, using 3D radiative transfer as the forward model. We use an iterative approach predicated on the Spherical Harmonics Discrete Ordinates Method (SHDOM) to solve the optimization…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2015-01-27 Aviad Levis , Yoav Y. Schechner , Amit Aides , Anthony B. Davis

We present in this paper a spectrally accurate numerical method for computing the spherical/vector spherical harmonic expansion of a function/vector field with given (elemental) nodal values on a spherical surface. Built upon suitable…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-09-18 Bo Wang , Li-Lian Wang , Ziqing Xie

Most elementary numerical schemes found useful for solving classical trajectory problems are {\it canonical transformations}. This fact should be make more widely known among teachers of computational physics and Hamiltonian mechanics. From…

Physics Education · Physics 2019-12-18 Siu A. Chin

We outline a novel numerical method, called Ultrafast Ultrafast (UF$^2$), for calculating the $n^\text{th}$-order wavepackets required for calculating n-wave mixing signals. The method is simple to implement, and we demonstrate that it is…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-06-26 Peter A. Rose , Jacob J. Krich

The Quantum Fourier Transform (QFT) is a fundamental component of many quantum computing algorithms. In this paper, we present an alternative method for factoring this transformation. Inspired by this approach, we introduce a new quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-30 Juan M. Romero , Emiliano Montoya-González , Guillermo Cruz , Roberto C. Romero

This study proposes an algorithm titled a statistical firefly algorithm (SFA) for truss topology optimization. In the proposed algorithm, historical results of fireflies' motions are used in hypothesis testing to limit the motions of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Nghi Huu Duong , Duy Vo , Pruettha Nanakorn

We propose three fast algorithms for solving the inverse problem of the thermoacoustic tomography corresponding to certain acquisition geometries. Two of these methods are designed to process the measurements done with point-like detectors…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-02-08 Leonid Kunyansky

This paper presents an extension of the hybrid scheme proposed by Wang et al. (J. Comput. Phys. 229 (2010) 169-180) for numerical simulation of compressible isotropic turbulence to flows with higher turbulent Mach numbers. The scheme still…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-03-11 L. Q. Liu , J. C. Wang , Y. P. Shi , S. Y. Chen , X. T. He

Fourier and related transforms is a family of algorithms widely employed in diverse areas of computational science, notoriously difficult to scale on high-performance parallel computers with large number of processing elements (cores). This…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-05-09 Dmitry Pekurovsky

A method is described by which a function defined on a cubic grid (as from a finite difference solution of a partial differential equation) can be resolved into spherical harmonic components at some fixed radius. This has applications to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-06 Charles W. Misner

This paper shows that it is possible to improve the computational cost, the memory requirements and the accuracy of Quick Fourier Transform (QFT) algorithm for power-of-two FFT (Fast Fourier Transform) just introducing a slight modification…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-01-07 Lorenzo Pasquini

This paper considers fast algorithms for operations on linearized polynomials. We propose a new multiplication algorithm for skew polynomials (a generalization of linearized polynomials) which has sub-quadratic complexity in the polynomial…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2017-07-12 Sven Puchinger , Antonia Wachter-Zeh

In calculating integral or discrete transforms, use has been made of fast algorithms for multiplying vectors by matrices whose elements are specified as values of special (Chebyshev, Legendre, Laguerre, etc.) functions. The currently…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-11 Andrew V. Terekhov

Wavelet based algorithms in numerical analysis are similar to other transform methods in that vectors and operators are expanded into a basis and the computations take place in this new system of coordinates. However, due to the recursive…

comp-gas · Physics 2008-02-03 G. Beylkin

In a previous paper it was shown that a machine learning regression problem can be solved within the framework of random function theory, with the optimal kernel analytically derived from symmetry and indifference principles and coinciding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Yuriy N. Bakhvalov

The Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) data analysis and the map-making process rely heavily on the use of spherical harmonics. For suitable pixelizations of the sphere, the (forward and inverse) Fourier transform plays a crucial role in…

This paper presents a novel boundary-optimized fast Fourier extension algorithm for efficient approximation of non-periodic functions. The proposed methodology constructs periodic extensions through strategic utilization of boundary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-27 Z. Y. Zhao , Y. F Wang , A. G. Yagola

Spectral clustering is a powerful unsupervised machine learning algorithm for clustering data with non convex or nested structures. With roots in graph theory, it uses the spectral properties of the Laplacian matrix to project the data in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-15 Iordanis Kerenidis , Jonas Landman

The efficiency of statistical sampling in broad-histogram Monte Carlo simulations can be considerably improved by optimizing the simulated extended ensemble for fastest equilibration. Here we describe how a recently developed feedback…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-12-13 Stefan Wessel , Norbert Stoop , Emanuel Gull , Simon Trebst , Matthias Troyer