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High-dimensional transport equations frequently occur in science and engineering. Computing their numerical solution, however, is challenging due to its high dimensionality. In this work we develop an algorithm to efficiently solve the…
Validity of fluid models breaks down for non-thermal or weakly collisional plasmas which often occur e.g. in the solar wind. In these regimes one has to resort to modelling through the first-principle Vlasov-Maxwell system, but its…
Numerical simulation of flow problems and wave propagation in heterogeneous media has important applications in many engineering areas. However, numerical solutions on the fine grid are often prohibitively expensive, and multiscale model…
A general, compact way of achieving second-order in finite-volume numerical methods is to perform a MUSCL-like, piecewise linear reconstruction of flow properties at each cell interface. To avoid the surge of spurious oscillations in the…
The Vlasov equation is a nonlinear partial differential equation that provides a first-principles description of the dynamics of plasmas. Its linear limit is routinely used in plasma physics to investigate plasma oscillations and stability.…
In this paper we propose a semi-Lagrangian discontinuous Galerkin solver for the simulation of the scrape off layer for an electron-ion plasma. We use a time adaptive velocity space to deal with fast particles leaving the computational…
The Residual Smooting Scheme (RSS) have been introduced in \cite{AverbuchCohenIsraeli} as a backward Euler's method with a simplified implicit part for the solution of parabolic problems. RSS have stability properties comparable to those of…
This paper presents a strategy for the computation of structures with repeated patterns based on domain decomposition and block Krylov solvers. It can be seen as a special variant of the FETI method. We propose using the presence of…
Running kinetic plasma physics simulations using grid-based solvers is very demanding both in terms of memory as well as computational cost. This is primarily due to the up to six-dimensional phase space and the associated unfavorable…
The rodeo algorithm has been proposed recently as an efficient method in quantum computing for projection of a given initial state onto a state of fixed energy for systems with discrete spectra. In the initial formulation of the rodeo…
In this paper, we propose a mass conservative semi-Lagrangian finite difference scheme for multi-dimensional problems without dimensional splitting. The semi-Lagrangian scheme, based on tracing characteristics backward in time from grid…
We introduce a very weak space-time variational formulation for the wave equation, prove its well-posedness (even in the case of minimal regularity) and optimal inf-sup stability. Then, we introduce a tensor product-style space-time…
For accurate simulations of rarefied gas flows around moving obstacles, we propose a cut cell method on Cartesian grids: it allows exact conservation and accurate treatment of boundary conditions. Our approach is designed to treat Cartesian…
A novel numerical approach to solving the shallow-water equations on the sphere using high-order numerical discretizations in both space and time is proposed. A space-time tensor formalism is used to express the equations of motion…
A discontinuous Galerkin method for approximating the Vlasov-Poisson system of equations describing the time evolution of a collisionless plasma is proposed. The method is mass conservative and, in the case that piecewise constant functions…
We present a review of recent developments of simulations of the Vlasov-Maxwell system of equations using a Fourier transform method in velocity space. In this method, the distribution functions for electrons and ions are Fourier…
Spectral graph sparsification aims to find ultra-sparse subgraphs which can preserve spectral properties of original graphs. In this paper, a new spectral criticality metric based on trace reduction is first introduced for identifying…
This paper addresses the problem of expressing a signal as a sum of frequency components (sinusoids) wherein each sinusoid may exhibit abrupt changes in its amplitude and/or phase. The Fourier transform of a narrow-band signal, with a…
We study the problem of recovering piecewise-polynomial periodic functions from their low-frequency information. This means that we only have access to possibly corrupted versions of the Fourier samples of the ground truth up to a maximum…
The Numerical Flow Iteration (NuFI) method has recently been proposed as a memory-slim solution method for the Vlasov--Poisson system. It stores the temporal evolution of the electric field, instead of the distribution functions, and…