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In the current work we consider the numerical solutions of equations of stationary states for a general class of the spatial segregation of reaction-diffusion systems with $m\geq 2$ population densities. We introduce a discrete multi-phase…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-09-19 Avetik Arakelyan , Rafayel Barkhudaryan

In this study, we consider a numerical implementation of the nonlinear Rosenbluth-Trubnikov collision operator for particle simulations in plasma physics in the framework of the finite element method (FEM). The relevant particle evolution…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-02-07 Zhixin Lu , Guo Meng , Tomasz Tyranowski , Alex Chankin

We study from a theoretical viewpoint the fundamental problem of efficiently computing the stationary distribution of general classes of structured Markov processes. In strong contrast with previous work, we consider this fundamental…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-18 Vasileios Kalantzis , Mark S. Squillante , Shashanka Ubaru

We consider in this paper random batch particle methods for efficiently solving the homogeneous Landau equation in plasma physics. The methods are stochastic variations of the particle methods proposed by Carrillo et al. [J. Comput. Phys.:…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-13 José Antonio Carrillo , Shi Jin , Yijia Tang

Motivated by classical vortex blob methods for the Euler equations, we develop a numerical blob method for the aggregation equation. This provides a counterpoint to existing literature on particle methods. By regularizing the velocity field…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-05-27 Katy Craig , Andrea L. Bertozzi

We propose an explicit construction of a stationary solution for a stochastic recursion of the form $X\circ\theta=\phi(X)$ on a partially-ordered Polish space, when the monotonicity of $\phi$ is not assumed. Under certain conditions, we…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-09-08 Pascal Moyal

With the development of low order scaling methods for performing Kohn-Sham Density Functional Theory, it is now possible to perform fully quantum mechanical calculations of systems containing tens of thousands of atoms. However, with an…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-04-03 William Dawson , Stephan Mohr , Laura E. Ratcliff , Takahito Nakajima , Luigi Genovese

In this paper we propose an accurate, and computationally efficient method for incorporating adaptive spatial resolution into weakly-compressible Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) schemes. Particles are adaptively split and merged in an…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-05-17 Abhinav Muta , Prabhu Ramachandran

The most difficult aspect of the realistic modeling of granular materials is how to capture the real shape of the particles. Here we present a method to simulate granular materials with complex-shaped particles. The particle shape is…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-04-18 F. Alonso-Marroquin , Yucang Wang

We present a simulation algorithm that accurately propagates a molecule pair using large time steps without the need to invoke the full exact analytical solutions of the Smoluchowski diffusion equation. Because the proposed method only uses…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2015-09-24 Thorsten Prüstel , Martin Meier-Schellersheim

We analyze two approaches to elimination of a fast variable (velocity) in stochastic systems: moment and cumulant formalisms. With these approaches, we obtain the corresponding Smoluchovski-type equations, which contain only the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-04-06 Denis S. Goldobin , Lyudmila S. Klimenko

Self-consistent field theory (SCFT) is one of the most widely-used framework in studying the equilibrium phase behaviors of inhomogenous polymers. For liquid crystalline polymeric systems, the main numerical challenges of solving SCFT…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-16 Zhijuan He , Kai Jiang , Liwei Tan , Xin Wang

Aggregation and settling are crucial phenomena that involve particulate systems. For particle sizes of millimetre and above, there are reasonable accurate predicting tools. However for smaller particle sizes, there appears to be a void in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-01-15 D D Liyanage , Rajika J K A Thamali , A A K Kumbalatara , J A Weliwita , S Witharana

Global solutions to the multicomponent Smoluchowski coagulation equation are constructed for measure-valued initial data with minimal assumptions on the moments. The framework is based on an abstract formulation of the Arzel\`a-Ascoli…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-15 Marina A. Ferreira , Sakari Pirnes

The Markov Chain Monte Carlo method is at the heart of efficient approximation schemes for a wide range of problems in combinatorial enumeration and statistical physics. It is therefore very natural and important to determine whether…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Pawel Wocjan , Anura Abeyesinghe

Numerical resolution of high-dimensional nonlinear PDEs remains a huge challenge due to the curse of dimensionality. Starting from the weak formulation of the Lawson-Euler scheme, this paper proposes a stochastic particle method (SPM) by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-11 Zhengyang Lei , Sihong Shao , Yunfeng Xiong

To model the dynamics of polymers formed through nucleation, elongated by polymerisation, shortened by depolymerisation and subject to aggregation reactions, we study a nonlinear integro-differential equation. Growth and shrinkage are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Julia Delacour , Marie Doumic , Carmela Moschella , Christian Schmeiser

We show how the steady-state solution of the Smoluchowski (Fokker-Planck) equation for a color reaction-counterdiffusion problem, together with equilibrium trajectory information (e.g., from molecular simulations or confocal microscopy…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2014-07-30 James Carmer , Frank van Swol , Thomas M. Truskett

We present a model for sticky particles in which cluster sizes after a reaction have $\ell$ fewer total particles than the sum of their reactants. The finite particle system is modeled as a Markov process under a mean-field assumption for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-16 Joseph Klobusicky , Matthew Rakauskas

In this work, an efficient approximation scheme has been proposed for getting accurate approximate solution of nonlinear partial differential equations with constant or variable coefficients satisfying initial conditions in a series of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-09-04 Prakash Kumar Das , M. M. Panja