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In this paper, we propose an adaptive proximal inexact gradient (APIG) framework for solving a class of nonsmooth composite optimization problems involving function and gradient errors. Unlike existing inexact proximal gradient methods, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Xilai Fan , Bo Jiang , Ya-Feng Liu

We propose a class of Particle-In-Cell (PIC) methods for the Vlasov-Poisson system with a strong and inhomogeneous external magnetic field with fixed direction, where we focus on the motion of particles in the plane orthogonal to the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-01-25 Francis Filbet , Luis Rodrigues

In this article, we introduce a novel dimensionality reduction formulation for the Poisson's equation in the Vlasov-Poisson system that yields a reduced-order particle-in-cell scheme. This scheme allows a remarkable reduction in the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-06-29 Maryam Reza , Farbod Faraji , Aaron Knoll

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

A method of adapting smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) with periodic boundary conditions for use with the special purpose device GRAPE is presented. GRAPE (GRAvity PipE) solves the Poisson and force equations for an N-body system by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Ralf Klessen

In this paper, Particle-in-Cell algorithms for the Vlasov-Poisson system are presented based on its Poisson bracket structure. The Poisson equation is solved by finite element methods, in which the appropriate finite element spaces are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-10 Anjiao Gu , Yang He , Yajuan Sun

In this paper, we develop an asymptotic-preserving and energy-conserving (APEC) Particle-In-Cell (PIC) algorithm for the Vlasov-Maxwell system. This algorithm not only guarantees that the asymptotic limiting of the discrete scheme is a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-06-14 Lijie Ji , Zhiguo Yang , Zhuoning Li , Dong Wu , Shi Jin , Zhenli Xu

This paper formulates a new particle-in-cell method for the Vlasov-Maxwell system. Under the Lorenz gauge condition, Maxwell's equations for the electromagnetic fields can be written as a collection of scalar and vector wave equations. The…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-01-18 Andrew J. Christlieb , William A. Sands , Stephen White

We introduce an extension of the particle-in-cell (PIC) method that captures the Landau collisional effects in the Vlasov-Maxwell-Landau equations. The method arises from a regularisation of the variational formulation of the Landau…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-04-02 Rafael Bailo , José A. Carrillo , Jingwei Hu

Training deep learning models for point cloud prediction tasks such as shape completion and generation depends critically on loss functions that measure discrepancies between predicted and ground-truth point sets. Commonly used functions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Sasan Sharifipour , Constantino Álvarez Casado , Mohammad Sabokrou , Miguel Bordallo López

We present the parallel particle-in-cell (PIC) code Apar-T and, more importantly, address the fundamental question of the relations between the PIC model, the Vlasov-Maxwell theory, and real plasmas. First, we present four validation tests:…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-11-12 Mickaël Melzani , Christophe Winisdoerffer , Rolf Walder , Doris Folini , Jean M. Favre , Stefan Krastanov , Peter Messmer

We propose a spectral method for the 1D-1V Vlasov-Poisson system where the discretization in velocity space is based on asymmetrically-weighted Hermite functions, dynamically adapted via a scaling $\alpha$ and shifting $u$ of the velocity…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-02 Cecilia Pagliantini , Gian Luca Delzanno , Stefano Markidis

In this work we propose a Hybrid method with Deviational Particles (HDP) for a plasma modeled by the inhomogeneous Vlasov-Poisson-Landau system. We split the distribution into a Maxwellian part evolved by a grid based fluid solver and a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-02-17 Bokai Yan

A novel adaptive technique for electromagnetic Particle In Cell (PIC) plasma simulations is presented here. Two main issues are identified in designing adaptive techniques for PIC simulation: first, the choice of the size of the particle…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 M. E. Innocenti , G. Lapenta , S. Markidis , A. Beck , A. Vapirev

For large-scale point cloud processing, resampling takes the important role of controlling the point number and density while keeping the geometric consistency. % in related tasks. However, current methods cannot balance such different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Xianhe Jiao , Chenlei Lv , Junli Zhao , Ran Yi , Yu-Hui Wen , Zhenkuan Pan , Zhongke Wu , Yong-jin Liu

We present a new approach-the ALVar estimator-to estimation of asymptotic variance in sequential Monte Carlo methods, or, particle filters. The method, which adjusts adaptively the lag of the estimator proposed in [Olsson, J. and Douc, R.…

Computation · Statistics 2022-07-21 Alessandro Mastrototaro , Jimmy Olsson

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

This paper presents a grid-free simulation algorithm for the fully three-dimensional Vlasov--Poisson system for collisionless electron plasmas. We employ a standard particle method for the numerical approximation of the distribution…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-06 Torsten Keßler , Sergej Rjasanow , Steffen Weißer

We discuss a spectral method for the numerical solution of the Vlasov-Poisson system where the velocity space is decomposed by means of an Hermite basis. We describe a semi-implicit time discretization that extends the range of numerical…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-12-19 Enrico Camporeale , Gian Luca Delzanno , Benjamin K. Bergen , J. David Moulton

Resolving numerically Vlasov-Poisson equations for initially cold systems can be reduced to following the evolution of a three-dimensional sheet evolving in six-dimensional phase-space. We describe a public parallel numerical algorithm…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-06-29 Thierry Sousbie , Stéphane Colombi