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We investigate the accuracy of the recently proposed nonclassical transport equation. This equation contains an extra independent variable compared to the classical transport equation (the path-length $s$), and models particle transport…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-11-08 Richard Vasques , Kai Krycki , Rachel N. Slaybaugh

The present work provides a critical assessment of numerical solutions of the space-fractional diffusion-advection equation, which is of high significance for applications in various natural sciences. In view of the fact that, in contrast…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-10-27 Robin Stern , Frederic Effenberger , Horst Fichtner , Tobias Schaefer

This manuscript derives adjoint equations for the numerical solution of the spatially inhomogeneous Boltzmann equation using Direct Simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC). The formulation accounts for spatial transport and a range of boundary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Russel Caflisch , Yunan Yang

For the rendering of multiple scattering effects in participating media, methods based on the diffusion approximation are an extremely efficient alternative to Monte Carlo path tracing. However, in sufficiently transparent regions,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2014-04-01 David Koerner , Jamie Portsmouth , Filip Sadlo , Thomas Ertl , Bernd Eberhardt

Direct sampling of multi-dimensional systems with quantum Monte Carlo methods allows exact account of many-body effects or particle correlations. The most straightforward approach to solve the Schr\"odinger equation, Diffusion Monte Carlo,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-07 Ilkka Ruokosenmäki , Tapio T. Rantala

In this paper we construct numerical schemes to approximate linear transport equations with slab geometry by diffusion equations. We treat both the case of pure diffusive scaling and the case where kinetic and diffusive scalings coexist.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-18 Qin Li , Jianfeng Lu , Weiran Sun

We derive approximate iterative analytical solutions of the non-extensive Boltzmann transport equation in the relaxation time approximation. The approximate solutions almost overlap with the exact solution for a considerably wide range of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-06-27 Trambak Bhattacharyya

We present a general phase-space kinetic model for charged particle transport through combined localised and delocalised states, capable of describing scattering collisions, trapping, detrapping and losses. The model is described by a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-09-14 Peter W. Stokes , Bronson Philippa , Daniel Cocks , Ronald D. White

This paper provides numerical results that demonstrate the validity of the nonclassical diffusion approximation to the nonclassical transport equation in certain 1-D diffusive systems. This result provides a more solid foundation in which…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-12-27 Richard Vasques , Rachel Slaybaugh , Kai Krycki

We derive a fluctuating lattice Boltzmann method for the diffusion equation. The derivation removes several shortcomings of previous derivations for fluctuating lattice Boltzmann methods for hydrodynamic systems. The comparative simplicity…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-05-15 Alexander J. Wagner , Kyle Strand

Starting from the recently proposed energy-based deviational formulation for solving the Boltzmann equation [J.-P. Peraud and N. G. Hadjiconstantinou, Phys. Rev. B 84, 2011], which provides significant computational speedup compared to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Jean-Philippe Peraud , Nicolas Hadjiconstantinou

The steady-state simplified Pn (SPn) approximations to the linear Boltzmann equation have been proven to be asymptotically higher-order corrections to the diffusion equation in certain physical systems. In this paper, we present an…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 E. Olbrant , E. W. Larsen , M. Frank , B. Seibold

A linear Boltzmann equation is interpreted as the forward equation for the probability density of a Markov process (K(t), i(t), Y(t)), where (K(t), i(t)) is an autonomous reversible jump process, with waiting times between two jumps with…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-12-04 Giada Basile

We generalize the method of obtaining the fundamental linear partial differential equations such as the diffusion and Schrodinger equation, Dirac and telegrapher's equation from a simple stochastic consideration to arrive at certain…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Karmadeva Maharana

A non-linear Black-Scholes-type equation is studied within counterparty risk models. The classical hypothesis on the uniform Lipschitz-continuity of the non-linear reaction function allows for an equivalent transformation of the semi-linear…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-03-08 Bénédicte Alziary , Peter Takáč

This article is on the simultaneous diffusion approximation and homogenization of the linear Boltzmann equation when both the mean free path $\varepsilon$ and the heterogeneity length scale $\eta$ vanish. No periodicity assumption is made…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-10-11 Claude Bardos , Harsha Hutridurga

We construct a coupled set of nonlinear reaction-diffusion equations which are exactly solvable. The model generalizes both the Burger equation and a Boltzman reaction equation recently introduced by Th. W. Ruijgrok and T. T. Wu.

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-22 Max-Olivier Hongler , Ricardo Lima

This paper extends a recently introduced theory describing particle transport for random statistically homogeneous systems in which the distribution function p(s) for chord lengths between scattering centers is non-exponential. Here, we…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-02-03 Richard Vasques , Edward W. Larsen

The generalized linear Boltzmann equation (GLBE) is a recently developed framework based on non-classical transport theory for modeling the expected value of particle flux in an arbitrary stochastic medium. Provided with a non-classical…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-07-24 Ari Frankel

A nonlinear diffusion equation is proposed to account for thermalization in fermionic and bosonic systems through analytical solutions. For constant transport coefficients, exact time-dependent solutions are derived through nonlinear…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-11-28 Georg Wolschin