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The Direct Simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) method is widely employed for simulating rarefied nonequilibrium gas flows. With advances in aerospace engineering and micro/nano-scale technologies, gas flows exhibit the coexistence of rarefied and…

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Understanding event-by-event correlations and fluctuations is crucial for the comprehension of the dynamics of heavy ion collisions. Relativistic hydrodynamics is an elegant tool for modeling these phenomena; however, such simulations are…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-02-19 J. Porter-Sobieraj , M. Słodkowski , D. Kikoła , J. Sikorski , P. Aszklar

We propose a novel numerical method for solving multi-dimensional, special relativistic Boltzmann equations for neutrinos coupled to hydrodynamics equations. It is meant to be applied to simulations of core-collapse supernovae. We handle…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 Hiroki Nagakura , Kohsuke Sumiyoshi , Shoichi Yamada

We report a current status of our radiation-magnetohydrodynamic code for the study of core-collapse supernovae. In this contribution, we discuss the accuracy of our newly developed numerical code by presenting the test problem in a static…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Kei Kotake , Naofumi Ohnishi , Shoichi Yamada , Katsuhiko Sato

This paper describes the design and implementation of our new multi-group, multi-dimensional radiation hydrodynamics (RHD) code Fornax and provides a suite of code tests to validate its application in a wide range of physical regimes.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-06 M. Aaron Skinner , Joshua C. Dolence , Adam Burrows , David Radice , David Vartanyan

We introduce a multiscale Monte Carlo algorithm to simulate dense simple fluids. The probability of an update follows a power law distribution in its length scale. The collective motion of clusters of particles requires generalization of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. C. Maggs

This paper describes a multidimensional hydrodynamic code which can be used for the studies of relativistic astrophysical flows. The code solves the special relativistic hydrodynamic equations as a hyperbolic system of conservation laws…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Orhan Donmez , Refik Kayali

We have developed a time-dependent, multi-energy-group, and multi-angle (S$_n$) Boltzmann transport scheme for radiation hydrodynamics simulations, in one and two spatial dimensions. The implicit transport is coupled to both 1D…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Eli Livne , Adam Burrows , Rolf Walder , Itamar Lichtenstadt , Todd A. Thompson

For simulations that deal only with dark matter or stellar systems, the conventional N-body technique is fast, memory efficient, and relatively simple to implement. However when including the effects of gas physics, mesh codes are at a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-11-21 Nigel L. Mitchell , Eduard I. Vorobyov , Gerhard Hensler

We have conducted a triple-scale simulation of liquid water by concurrently coupling atomistic, mesoscopic, and continuum models of the liquid. The presented triple-scale hydrodynamic solver for molecular liquids enables the insertion of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-12-29 Rafael Delgado-Buscalioni , Kurt Kremer , Matej Praprotnik

We describe collective-move Monte Carlo algorithms designed to approximate the overdamped dynamics of self-assembling nanoscale components equipped with strong, short-ranged and anisotropic interactions. Conventional Monte Carlo simulations…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-04-16 Stephen Whitelam

In some recent works [G. Dimarco, L. Pareschi, Hybrid multiscale methods I. Hyperbolic Relaxation Problems, Comm. Math. Sci., 1, (2006), pp. 155-177], [G. Dimarco, L. Pareschi, Hybrid multiscale methods II. Kinetic equations, SIAM…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-02-07 Giacomo Dimarco , Lorenzo Pareschi

We describe a newly developed cosmological hydrodynamics code based on the weighted essentially non-oscillatory (WENO) schemes for hyperbolic conservation laws. High order finite difference WENO schemes are designed for problems with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Long-Long Feng , Chi-Wang Shu , Meng-Ping Zhang

A Monte Carlo simulation of chemotactic bacteria is developed on the basis of the kinetic model and is applied to a one-dimensional traveling population wave in a microchannel. In this simulation, the Monte Carlo method, which calculates…

Biological Physics · Physics 2017-01-10 Shugo Yasuda

We develop a numerical hydrodynamics code using a pseudo-Newtonian formulation that uses the weak field approximation for the geometry, and a generalized source term for the Poisson equation that takes into account relativistic effects. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 Jinho Kim , Hee Il Kim , Matthew William Choptuik , Hyung Mok Lee

In plasma edge simulations, the behavior of neutral particles is often described by a Boltzmann--BGK equation. Solving this kinetic equation and estimating the moments of its solution are essential tasks, typically carried out using Monte…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-30 Zhirui Tang , Julian Koellermeier , Emil Løvbak , Giovanni Samaey

We introduce an algorithm for treating growth on surfaces which combines important features of continuum methods (such as the level-set method) and Kinetic Monte Carlo (KMC) simulations. We treat the motion of adatoms in continuum theory,…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 G. Russo , L. M. Sander , P. Smereka

Particle-based kinetic Monte Carlo simulations of neutral particles is one of the major computational bottlenecks in tokamak scrape-off layer simulations. This computational cost comes from the need to resolve individual collision events in…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Oskar Lappi , Emil Løvbak , Thijs Steel , Giovanni Samaey

The main features of a three dimensional, high-resolution special relativistic hydro code based on relativistic Riemann solvers are described. The capabilities and performance of the code are discussed. In particular, we present the results…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. A. Aloy , J. M. Ibanez , J. M. Marti , E. Muller

Models of relativistic heavy ion collisions typically involve both a hydrodynamic module to describe the high density liquid-like phase and a Boltzmann module to simulate the low density break-up phase which is gas-like. Coupling the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2010-10-27 Scott Pratt , Giorgio Torrieri