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Multigrid solvers are among the most efficient methods for solving the Poisson equation, which is ubiquitous in computational physics. For example, in the context of incompressible flows, it is typically the costliest operation. The present…

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We propose a new adaptive Particle-in-Cloud (AP-Cloud) method for obtaining optimal numerical solutions to the Vlasov-Poisson equation. Unlike the traditional particle-in-cell (PIC) method, which is commonly used for solving this problem,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-05-25 Xingyu Wang , Roman Samulyak , Xiangmin Jiao , Kwangmin Yu

We present a polynomial multigrid method for nodal interior penalty and local discontinuous Galerkin formulations of the Poisson equation on Cartesian grids. For smoothing we propose two classes of overlapping Schwarz methods. The first…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2016-12-22 Jörg Stiller

In this paper, we present very first results for the adaptive solution on a grid of the phase space of the Vlasov equation arising in particles accelarator and plasma physics. The numerical algorithm is based on a semi-Lagrangian method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Nicolas Besse , Francis Filbet , Michael Gutnic , Ioana Paun , Eric Sonnendrücker

Elliptic Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) play a central role in computing the equilibrium conditions of physical problems (heat, gravitation, electrostatics, etc.). Efficient solutions to elliptic PDEs are also relevant to computer…

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We present a new code, CASTRO, that solves the multicomponent compressible hydrodynamic equations for astrophysical flows including self-gravity, nuclear reactions and radiation. CASTRO uses an Eulerian grid and incorporates adaptive mesh…

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We describe the remapped particle-mesh method, a new mass-conserving method for solving the density equation which is suitable for combining with semi-Lagrangian methods for compressible flow applied to numerical weather prediction. In…

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Particle-in-cell methods couple mesh-based methods for the solution of continuum mechanics problems, with the ability to advect and evolve particles. They have a long history and many applications in scientific computing. However, they have…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-09-12 R. Gassmoeller , E. Heien , E. G. Puckett , W. Bangerth

We present an explicit solver of the three-dimensional screened and unscreened Poisson's equation which combines accuracy, computational efficiency and versatility. The solver, based on a mixed plane-wave / interpolating scaling function…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-03-27 Alessandro Cerioni , Luigi Genovese , Alessandro Mirone , Vicente Armando Sole

We describe an initial implementation of an electrostatic Particle-in-Cell (ES-PIC) module with adaptive Cartesian mesh in our Unified Flow Solver framework. Challenges of PIC method with cell-based adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) are…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-06-22 Vladimir I Kolobov , Robert R Arslanbekov

We present the IAMReX, an adaptive and parallel solver for particle-resolved simulations on the multi-level grid. The fluid equations are solved using a finite-volume scheme on the block-structured semi-staggered grids with both subcycling…

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A common approach for generating an anisotropic mesh is the M-uniform mesh approach where an adaptive mesh is generated as a uniform one in the metric specified by a given tensor M. A key component is the determination of an appropriate…

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Fully realizing the potential of multigrid solvers often requires custom algorithms for a given application model, discretizations and even regimes of interest, despite considerable effort from the applied math community to develop fully…

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An algorithm for simulating self-gravitating cosmological astrophysical fluids is presented. The advantages include a large dynamic range, parallelizability, high resolution per grid element and fast execution speed. The code is based on a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Ue-Li Pen

We present the design and implementation details of a geometric multigrid method on adaptively refined meshes for massively parallel computations. The method uses local smoothing on the refined part of the mesh. Partitioning is achieved by…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2021-08-04 Thomas C. Clevenger , Timo Heister , Guido Kanschat , Martin Kronbichler

We present a direct Poisson solver for massively parallel simulations on three-dimensional Cartesian grids with non-uniform spacing. The method uses a tensor-based formulation in which the operator is diagonalized numerically along two…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-03-11 Pedro Costa , Duarte Palancha , Joshua Romero , Roberto Verzicco , Massimiliano Fatica

The numerical solution of high dimensional Vlasov equation is usually performed by particle-in-cell (PIC) methods. However, due to the well-known numerical noise, it is challenging to use PIC methods to get a precise description of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-10-20 Bei Wang , Greg Miller , Phil Colella

The Poisson equation has many applications across the broad areas of science and engineering. Most quantum algorithms for the Poisson solver presented so far either suffer from lack of accuracy and/or are limited to very small sizes of the…

Non-uniform grids and mesh adaptation have been a growing part of numerical simulation over the past years. It has been experimentally noted that mesh adaptation leads not only to locally improved solution but also to numerical stability of…

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