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A recent proposal to connect the loop quantization with the spin foam model for cosmology via the path integral is hereby adapted to the case of mechanical systems within the framework of the so called polymer quantum mechanics. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-03-31 Hugo A. Morales-Técotl , Saeed Rastgoo , Juan C. Ruelas

We report numerical results which show the achievement of net transport of self-propelled particles (SPP) in the presence of a two-dimensional regular array of convex, either symmetric or asymmetric, rigid obstacles. The repulsive…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-09-15 Fabricio Q. Potiguar , G. A. Farias , W. P. Ferreira

In this paper, we extend the unified kinetic particle (UGKP) method to the frequency-dependent radiative transfer equation with both absorption-emission and scattering processes. The extended UGKP method could not only capture the diffusion…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-02-17 Yuan Hu , Chang Liu

We present a novel flow-based kinetic approach, inspired by continuous normalizing flows, for plasma simulation that unifies the complementary strengths of direct Vlasov solvers and particle-based methods. By tracking the distribution…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-01-29 Bowen Zhu , Jian Wu , Yuanbo Lu

The adhesion of flowing particles and biological cells over fixed collecting surfaces is vitally important in diverse situations and potentially controlled by small-scale surface heterogeneity on the particle. Differences in the behavior of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-19 Marina Bendersky , Maria M. Santore , Jeffrey M. Davis

We prove the convergence of a particle method for the approximation of diffusive gradient flows in one dimension. This method relies on the discretisation of the energy via non-overlapping balls centred at the particles and preserves the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-06-09 J. A. Carrillo , F. S. Patacchini , P. Sternberg , G. Wolansky

The plasticity of amorphous solids undergoing shear is characterized by quasi-localized rearrangements of particles. While many models of plasticity exist, the precise relationship between plastic dynamics and the structure of a particle's…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-06-12 Jason W. Rocks , Sean A. Ridout , Andrea J. Liu

This article describes two independent developments aimed at improving the Particle Tracking Method for measurements of flow or particle velocities. First, a stereoscopic multicamera calibration method that does not require any optical…

Particulate flows have been largely studied under the simplifying assumptions of one-way coupling regime where the disperse phase do not react-back on the carrier fluid. In the context of turbulent flows, many non trivial phenomena such as…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2023-07-19 P. Gualtieri , F. Picano , G. Sardina , C. M. Casciola

Crossing symmetry asserts that particles are indistinguishable from anti-particles traveling back in time. In quantum field theory, this statement translates to the long-standing conjecture that probabilities for observing the two scenarios…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-08-05 Sebastian Mizera

We present a novel sequential Monte Carlo approach to online smoothing of additive functionals in a very general class of path-space models. Hitherto, the solutions proposed in the literature suffer from either long-term numerical…

Computation · Statistics 2022-10-24 Alessandro Mastrototaro , Jimmy Olsson , Johan Alenlöv

In this work, we propose a novel machine learning approach to compute the optimal transport map between two continuous distributions from their unpaired samples, based on the DeepParticle methods. The proposed method leads to a min-min…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-07-01 Yingyuan Li , Aokun Wang , Zhongjian Wang

We consider the inverse problem of determining the geometry of penetrable objects from scattering data generated by one incident wave at a fixed frequency. We first study an orthogonality sampling type method which is fast, simple to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-21 Thu Le , Dinh-Liem Nguyen , Vu Nguyen , Trung Truong

Several Lagrangian methodologies have been proposed in recent years to simulate advection-dispersion of solutes in fluids as a mass exchange between numerical particles carrying the fluid. In this paper, we unify these methodologies,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-02-26 Guillem Sole-Mari , Michael J. Schmidt , Stephen D. Pankavich , David A. Benson

Particle smoothing methods are used for inference of stochastic processes based on noisy observations. Typically, the estimation of the marginal posterior distribution given all observations is cumbersome and computational intensive. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-24 H. -Ch. Ruiz , H. J. Kappen

A numerical method is developed for solving a system of partial differential equations modeling the flow of a nematic liquid crystal fluid with stretching effect, which takes into account the geometrical shape of its molecules. This system…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-07-11 R. C. Cabrales , F. Guillén-González , J. V. Gutiérrez-Santacreu

Fluid flow simulation is a highly active area with applications in a wide range of engineering problems and interactive systems. Meshless methods like the Moving Particle Semi-implicit (MPS) are a great alternative to deal efficiently with…

We develop efficient algorithms for optimizing piecewise smooth (PWS) functions where the underlying partition of the domain into smooth pieces is \emph{unknown}. For PWS functions satisfying a quadratic growth (QG) condition, we propose a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-28 Zhe Zhang , Suvrit Sra

This paper aims to efficiently compute transport maps between probability distributions arising from particle representation of bio-physical problems. We develop a bidirectional DeepParticle (BDP) method to learn and generate solutions…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-04-17 Tan Zhang , Zhongjian Wang , Jack Xin , Zhiwen Zhang

Accurate mesh-free simulation of fluid flows involving complex boundaries requires that the boundaries be captured accurately in terms of particles. In the context of incompressible/weakly-compressible fluid flow, the SPH method is more…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-05-06 Pawan Negi , Prabhu Ramachandran