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Spectral methods are well suited for solving hydrodynamic problems in which the self-gravity of the flow needs to be considered. Because Poisson's equation is linear, the numerical solution for the gravitational potential for each…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Chi-kwan Chan , Dimitrios Psaltis , Feryal Ozel

We develop a numerical strategy to solve multi-dimensional Poisson equations on dynamically adapted grids for evolutionary problems disclosing propagating fronts. The method is an extension of the multiresolution finite volume scheme used…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-12 Max Duarte , Zdenek Bonaventura , Marc Massot , Anne Bourdon

Fast, high-order accurate algorithms for electromagnetic scattering from axisymmetric objects are of great importance when modeling physical phenomena in optics, materials science (e.g. meta-materials), and many other fields of applied…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-05-22 Jun Lai , Michael O'Neil

We present a novel numerical method for solving the elliptic partial differential equation problem for the electrostatic potential with piecewise constant conductivity. We employ an integral equation approach for which we derive a system of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-01 Kyle Bower , Kirill Serkh , Spyros Alexakis , Adam R Stinchcombe

Computational micromechanics and homogenization require the solution of the mechanical equilibrium of a periodic cell that comprises a (generally complex) microstructure. Techniques that apply the Fast Fourier Transform have attracted much…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-02-21 T. W. J. de Geus , J. Vondrejc , J. Zeman , R. H. J. Peerlings , M. G. D. Geers

We present a fast, direct and adaptive Poisson solver for complex two-dimensional geometries based on potential theory and fast multipole acceleration. More precisely, the solver relies on the standard decomposition of the solution as the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-05-24 Travis Askham , Antoine J Cerfon

A finite element methodology for large classes of variational boundary value problems is defined which involves discretizing two linear operators: (1) the differential operator defining the spatial boundary value problem; and (2) a Riesz…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-08 Brendan Keith , Socratis Petrides , Federico Fuentes , Leszek Demkowicz

In this work, we benchmark and discuss the performance of the scalable methods for the Poisson problem which are used widely in practice: the fast Fourier transform (FFT), the fast multipole method (FMM), the geometric multigrid (GMG), and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-07-12 Amir Gholami , Dhairya Malhotra , Hari Sundar , George Biros

A numerical scheme is presented for approximating fractional order Poisson problems in two and three dimensions. The scheme is based on reformulating the original problem posed over $\Omega$ on the extruded domain…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-05-27 Mark Ainsworth , Christian Glusa

We present a parallel implementation of a direct solver for the Poisson's equation on extreme-scale supercomputers with accelerators. We introduce a chunked-pencil decomposition as the domain-decomposition strategy to distribute work among…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-07-15 Jaber J. Hasbestan , Inanc Senocak

Elliptic partial differential equations are important both from application and analysis points of views. In this paper we apply the Closest Point Method to solving elliptic equations on general curved surfaces. Based on the closest point…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-10-28 Yujia Chen , Colin B. Macdonald

In multi-phase fluid flow, fluid-structure interaction, and other applications, partial differential equations (PDEs) often arise with discontinuous coefficients and singular sources (e.g., Dirac delta functions). These complexities arise…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-24 Chung-Nan Tzou , Samuel Stechmann

We discuss the scalable parallel solution of the Poisson equation within a Particle-In-Cell (PIC) code for the simulation of electron beams in particle accelerators of irregular shape. The problem is discretized by Finite Differences.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2010-04-21 A. Adelmann , P. Arbenz , Y. Ineichen

We present a method that gives highly accurate electrostatic potentials for systems where we have periodic boundary conditions in two spatial directions but free boundary conditions in the third direction. These boundary conditions are…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 Luigi Genovese , Thierry Deutsch , Stefan Goedecker

We present a multi-block finite-difference solver for massively parallel Direct Numerical Simulations (DNS) of incompressible flows. The algorithm combines the versatility of a multi-block solver with the method of eigenfunctions…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-09-14 Pedro Costa

We present a numerical method for solving the Poisson equation on a nested grid. The nested grid consists of uniform grids having different grid spacing and is designed to cover the space closer to the center with a finer grid. Thus our…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Tomoaki Matsumoto , Tomoyuki Hanawa

The Fast Fourier Transform is extended to functions on finite graphs whose edges are identified with intervals of finite length. Spectral and pseudospectral methods are developed to solve a wide variety of time dependent partial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-11 Robert Carlson

An elliptic partial differential equation Lu=f with a zero Dirichlet boundary condition is converted to an equivalent elliptic equation on the unit ball. A spectral Galerkin method is applied to the reformulated problem, using multivariate…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-06-20 Kendall Atkinson , David Chien , Olaf Hansen

A Fourier-based Library of Unbounded Poisson Solvers (FLUPS) for 2D and 3D homogeneous distributed grids is presented. It is designed to handle every possible combination of periodic, symmetric, semi-unbounded and fully unbounded boundary…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-01-19 Denis-Gabriel Caprace , Thomas Gillis , Philippe Chatelain

When a system of first order linear ordinary differential equations has eigenvalues of large magnitude, its solutions exhibit complicated behaviour, such as high-frequency oscillations, rapid growth or rapid decay. The cost of representing…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-26 Tony Hu , James Bremer