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This paper is concerned with approximations of the Boltzmann equation based on the method of moments. We propose a generalization of the setting of the moment-closure problem from relative entropy to {\phi}-divergences and a corresponding…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-03-18 M. R. A. Abdel-Malik , E. H. van Brummelen

In this work, we develop a novel Monte Carlo method for solving the electromagnetic scattering problem. The method is based on a formal solution of the scattering problem as a modified Born series whose coefficients are found by a conformal…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-05-25 Hector Lopez-Menchon , Juan M. Rius , Alexander Heldring , Eduard Ubeda

By precisely writing down the matrix element of the local Boltzmann operator, we have proposed a new path integral formulation for quantum field theory and developed a corresponding Monte Carlo algorithm. With current formula, the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-03-08 J. Wang , W. Pan , D. Y. Sun

We investigate the impact of momentum-dependent relaxation time approximation in the Boltzmann equation within the Bjorken flow framework by analyzing the moments of the single-particle distribution function. The moment equations, which…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-10-23 Reghukrishnan Gangadharan , Sukanya Mitra , Victor Roy

We present a novel Monte Carlo algorithm which enhances equilibrization of low-temperature simulations and allows sampling of configurations over a large range of energies. The method is based on a non-Boltzmann probability weight factor…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 Ulrich H. E. Hansmann , Yuko Okamoto

[Context] The stochasticity of grain chemistry requires special care in modeling. Previously methods based on the modified rate equation, the master equation, the moment equation, and Monte Carlo simulations have been used. [Aims] We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-01-05 Fujun Du , Berengere Parise

In \cite{NRxx}, we proposed a numerical regularized moment method of arbitrary order (abbreviated as NRxx method) for Boltzmann-BGK equation, which makes numerical simulation using very large number of moments possible. In this paper, we…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-11-30 Zhenning Cai , Ruo Li , Yanli Wang

In traffic flow modeling, incorporating uncertainty is crucial for accurately capturing the complexities of real-world scenarios. In this work we focus on kinetic models of traffic flow, where a key step is to design effective numerical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-28 Elisa Iacomini , Lorenzo Pareschi

A new framework based on Boltzmann equation which is genuinely multidimensional and mesh-less is developed for solving Euler's equations. The idea is to use the method of moment of Boltzmann equation to operate in multidimensions using…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-10-02 Praveer Tiwari , S. V. Raghurama Rao

Monte Carlo methods play important part in modern statistical physics. The application of these methods suffer from two main difficulties.The first is caused by the relatively small number of particles that can participate in any numerical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Brandt , V. Ilyin

The kinetic Boltzmann equation models gas dynamics over a wide range of spatial and temporal scales. Simplified versions of the full Boltzmann collision operator, such as the classical Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook and the closely related…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-29 James A. Rossmanith , Preeti Sar

The claim that Monte Carlo is the most accurate method is a case of misattributed credit. This claim is based on experience with advanced systems MCNPX, Geant4 and EGS. These systems achieve remarkable performance because they use most…

Medical Physics · Physics 2026-03-13 Oleg N Vassiliev , Radhe Mohan

The design of particle simulation methods for collisional plasma physics has always represented a challenge due to the unbounded total collisional cross section, which prevents a natural extension of the classical Direct Simulation Monte…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-09 Andrea Medaglia , Lorenzo Pareschi , Mattia Zanella

Uncertainty Quantification through stochastic spectral methods is rising in popularity. We derive a modification of the classical stochastic Galerkin method, that ensures the hyperbolicity of the underlying hyperbolic system of partial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-09-26 Louisa Schlachter , Florian Schneider

We develop a Monte Carlo wave function algorithm for the quantum linear Boltzmann equation, a Markovian master equation describing the quantum motion of a test particle interacting with the particles of an environmental background gas. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-09-28 Marc Busse , Piotr Pietrulewicz , Heinz-Peter Breuer , Klaus Hornberger

This article proposes a new statistical numerical method to address gas kinetics problems obeying the Boltzmann equation. This method is inspired from some Monte-Carlo algorithms used in linear transport physics, where virtual particles are…

In this paper, we first extend the micro-macro decomposition method for multiscale kinetic equations from the BGK model to general collisional kinetic equations, including the Boltzmann and the Fokker-Planck Landau equations. The main idea…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Irene M. Gamba , Shi Jin , Liu Liu

First of all, this paper presents some improvements of DSMC method in the form of new schemes and approaches, that, for a wide class of problems, increase performance and reduce the demands on computer resources. The most important…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2012-01-16 Roman V. Maltsev

A simple iterative approach for solving a set of implicit kinetic moment equations is proposed. This implicit solve is a key component in the IMEX discretization of the multi-species Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook (M-BGK) model with nontrivial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-30 Evan Habbershaw , Cory D. Hauck , Steven M. Wise

We develop a multi-dimensional hybrid discontinuous Galerkin method for multi-scale kinetic equations. This method is based on moment realizability matrices, a concept introduced by D. Levermore, W. Morokoff and B. Nadiga for one…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-01 Francis Filbet , Tao Xiong