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Phase-field models are widely employed to simulate microstructure evolution during processes such as solidification or heat treatment. The resulting partial differential equations, often strongly coupled together, may be solved by a broad…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-06-23 A. D. Boccardo , M. Tong , S. B. Leen , D. Tourret , J. Segurado

Numerical solution of partial differential equations on parallel computers using domain decomposition usually requires synchronization and communication among the processors. These operations often have a significant overhead in terms of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-01-11 Soumyadip Ghosh , Jiacai Lu , Vijay Gupta , Gretar Tryggvason

This paper is the second part of a threefold article, aimed at solving numerically the Poisson problem in three-dimensional prismatic or axisymmetric domains. In the first part of this series, the Fourier Singular Complement Method was…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Patrick Ciarlet , Beate Jung , Samir Kaddouri , Simon Labrunie , Jun Zou

The advection-diffusion and wave equations are the fundamental equations governing any physical law and therefore arise in many areas of physics and astrophysics. For complex problems and geometries, only numerical simulations can give…

Computational Physics · Physics 2014-01-08 J. Pétri

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

The well-known discrete Fourier transform (DFT) can easily be generalized to arbitrary nodes in the spatial domain. The fast procedure for this generalization is referred to as nonequispaced fast Fourier transform (NFFT). Various…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-09 Melanie Kircheis , Daniel Potts

We solve Poisson's equation by combining a spectral-element method with a mapped infinite-element method. We focus on problems in geostatics and geodynamics, where Earth's gravitational field is determined by Poisson's equation inside the…

Geophysics · Physics 2017-06-06 Hom Nath Gharti , Jeroen Tromp

The stability of a differentially rotating fluid subject to its own gravity is a problem with applications across wide areas of astrophysics--from protoplanetary discs (PPDs) to entire galaxies. The shearing box formalism offers a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-04 S. Rendon Restrepo , O. Gressel

In this paper, we study a generalized finite element method for solving second-order elliptic partial differential equations with rough coefficients. The method uses local approximation spaces computed by solving eigenvalue problems on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-17 Christian Alber , Peter Bastian , Moritz Hauck , Robert Scheichl

We present a new multilevel method for calculating Poisson's equation, which often arises form electrostatic problems, by using hierarchical loop bases. This method, termed hierarchical Loop basis Poisson Solver (hieLPS), extends previous…

Computational Physics · Physics 2013-05-16 Z. -H. Ma , W. C. Chew , Y. M. Wu , L. J. Jiang

A new approach to building explicit time-marching stencil computation schemes for the transient 2D acoustic wave equation is implemented. It is based on using Poisson's formula and its three time level modification combined with polynomial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-06-19 Naum M. Khutoryansky

In this paper, we propose fast solvers for Maxwell's equations in rectangular domains. We first discretize the simplified Maxwell's eigenvalue problems by employing the lowest-order rectangular N\'ed\'elec elements and derive the discrete…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-14 Lixiu Wang , Lueling Jia , Zijian Cao , Huiyuan Li , Zhimin Zhang

Recently, the $P_1$-nonconforming finite element space over square meshes has been proved stable to solve Stokes equations with the piecewise constant space for velocity and pressure, respectively. In this paper, we will introduce its…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-27 Chunjae Park

We present a variationally separable splitting technique for the generalized-$\alpha$ method for solving parabolic partial differential equations. We develop a technique for a tensor-product mesh which results in a solver with a linear cost…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-26 Pouria Behnoudfar , Victor M. Calo , Quanling Deng , Peter D. Minev

The invariance for the equation of fast diffusion in the 2D coordinate space has been proved, and its reduction to the 1D (with respect to the spatial variable) analog is demonstrated. On the basis of these results, new exact…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. I. Semenov

We present a direct Poisson solver for massively parallel simulations on three-dimensional Cartesian grids with non-uniform spacing. The method uses a tensor-based formulation in which the operator is diagonalized numerically along two…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-03-11 Pedro Costa , Duarte Palancha , Joshua Romero , Roberto Verzicco , Massimiliano Fatica

We introduce a fast Fourier spectral method for the spatially homogeneous Boltzmann equation with non-cutoff collision kernels. Such kernels contain non-integrable singularity in the deviation angle which arise in a wide range of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-10-28 Jingwei Hu , Kunlun Qi

Several different approaches are proposed for solving fully implicit discretizations of a simplified Boltzmann-Poisson system with a linear relaxation-type collision kernel. This system models the evolution of free electrons in…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-07-15 M. Paul Laiu , Zheng Chen , Cory D. Hauck

A common approach is present concerning the problem of Dirichlet, both for bounded 3D domains and their (unbounded) complements, regarding the fractional (3D) Poisson equation.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-12-13 Toshko Boev , Georgi Georgiev

In this article we study adaptive finite element methods (AFEM) with inexact solvers for a class of semilinear elliptic interface problems. We are particularly interested in nonlinear problems with discontinuous diffusion coefficients, such…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-24 Michael Holst , Ryan Szypowski , Yunrong Zhu