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A spectral method is considered for approximating the fractional Laplacian and solving the fractional Poisson problem in 2D and 3D unit balls. The method is based on the explicit formulation of the eigenfunctions and eigenvalues of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-12-21 Kailai Xu , Eric Darve

We present an efficient numerical method, inspired by transformation optics, for solving the Poisson equation in complex and arbitrarily shaped geometries. The approach operates by mapping the physical domain to a uniform computational…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Deepak Gautam , Bhooshan Paradkar

Reciprocal space methods for solving Poisson's equation for finite charge distributions are investigated. Improvements to previous proposals are presented, and their performance is compared in the context of a real-space density functional…

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alberto Castro , Angel Rubio , M. J. Stott

We solve Poisson's equation using new multigrid algorithms that converge rapidly. The novel feature of the 2D and 3D algorithms are the use of extra diagonal grids in the multigrid hierarchy for a much richer and effective communication…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 A. J. Roberts

A collection of algorithms is described for numerically computing with smooth functions defined on the unit sphere. Functions are approximated to essentially machine precision by using a structure-preserving iterative variant of Gaussian…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-04-05 Alex Townsend , Heather Wilber , Grady B. Wright

Fast Fourier Transform (FFT)-based solvers for the Poisson equation are highly efficient, exhibiting $O(N\log N)$ computational complexity and excellent parallelism. However, their application is typically restricted to simple, regular…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Zichao Jiang , Jiacheng Lian , Zhuolin Wang

The Poisson equation has applications across many areas of physics and engineering, such as the dynamic process simulation of ocean current. Here we present a quantum Fast Poisson Solver, including the algorithm and the complete and modular…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-17 Shengbin Wang , Zhimin Wang , Wendong Li , Lixin Fan , Zhiqiang Wei , Yongjian Gu

We derive formulas for the matrix elements of the lattice Green function for the discrete Poisson equation on an infinite square lattice. The partial difference equation for the matrix elements is solved by reducing it to a series of first…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Stefan Hollos , Richard Hollos

We propose a novel efficient algorithm to solve Poisson equation in irregular two dimensional domains for electrostatics. It can handle Dirichlet, Neumann or mixed boundary problems in which the filling media can be homogeneous or…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-06-17 Zu-Hui Ma , Weng Cho Chew , Li Jun Jiang

We develop efficient and high-order accurate finite difference methods for elliptic partial differential equations in complex geometry in the Difference Potentials framework. The main novelty of the developed schemes is the use of local…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-28 Qing Xia

We describe a fast, direct solver for elliptic partial differential equations on a two-dimensional hierarchy of adaptively refined, Cartesian meshes. Our solver, inspired by the Hierarchical Poincar\'e-Steklov (HPS) method introduced by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-09 Damyn Chipman , Donna Calhoun , Carsten Burstedde

Over the last two decades, several fast, robust, and high-order accurate methods have been developed for solving the Poisson equation in complicated geometry using potential theory. In this approach, rather than discretizing the partial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-19 Fredrik Fryklund , Leslie Greengard , Shidong Jiang , Samuel Potter

The set of common numerical and analytical problems is introduced in the form of the generalized multidimensional discrete Poisson equation. It is shown that its solutions with square-summable discrete derivatives are unique up to a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-09-27 Roman Werpachowski

We present an efficient solver for massively-parallel direct numerical simulations of incompressible turbulent flows. The method uses a second-order, finite-volume pressure-correction scheme, where the pressure Poisson equation is solved…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-09-13 Pedro Costa

An efficient solver for the three dimensional free-space Poisson equation is presented. The underlying numerical method is based on finite Fourier series approximation. While the error of all involved approximations can be fully controlled,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-10-18 Lukas Exl

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-10 Gilles Poncelet , Jonathan Lambrechts , Thomas Gillis , Philippe Chatelain

The solution of the elliptic partial differential equation has interface singularity at the points which are either the intersections of interfaces or the intersections of interfaces with the boundary of the domain. The singularities that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-05 N. Kishore Kumar , Pankaj Biswas , B. Seshadri Reddy

The computational study of chemical reactions in complex, wet environments is critical for applications in many fields. It is often essential to study chemical reactions in the presence of applied electrochemical potentials, taking into…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-01-20 G. Fisicaro , L. Genovese , O. Andreussi , N. Marzari , S. Goedecker

Simulating the dynamic characteristics of a PN junction at the microscopic level requires solving the Poisson's equation at every time step. Solving at every time step is a necessary but time-consuming process when using the traditional…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-10-26 Zhongyang Zhang , Ling Zhang , Ze Sun , Nicholas Erickson , Ryan From , Jun Fan

A numerical method for solving elliptic PDEs with variable coefficients on two-dimensional domains is presented. The method is based on high-order composite spectral approximations and is designed for problems with smooth solutions. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-07-11 A. Gillman , P. G. Martinsson