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We formulate a smoothed-particle hydrodynamics numerical method, traditionally used for the Euler equations for fluid dynamics in the context of astrophysical simulations, to solve the non-linear Schrodinger equation in the Madelung…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-11-09 Philip Mocz , Sauro Succi

Path integral molecular dynamics (PIMD), which maps a quantum particle onto a fictitious classical system of ring polymers and propagates the "beads" of this extended classical system using molecular dynamics, is widely used to capture…

In this paper, we develop a class of interacting particle Langevin algorithms to solve inverse problems for partial differential equations (PDEs). In particular, we leverage the statistical finite elements (statFEM) formulation to obtain a…

This paper proposes an adaptive hyper-reduction method to reduce the computational cost associated with the simulation of parametric particle-based kinetic plasma models, specifically focusing on the Vlasov-Poisson equation. Conventional…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-05 Cecilia Pagliantini , Federico Vismara

We present a new method of conducting molecular dynamics simulation in isothermal-isobaric ensemble based on Langevin equations of motion. The stochastic coupling to all particle and cell degrees of freedoms is introduced in a correct way,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-04-28 Xingyu Gao , Jun Fang , Han Wang

Discrete particle simulations are widely used to study large-scale particulate flows in complex geometries where particle-particle and particle-fluid interactions require an adequate representation but the computational cost has to be kept…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2017-11-02 Christoph Rettinger , Ulrich Rüde

The dynamics of collisionless plasmas can be modelled by the Vlasov-Maxwell system of equations. An Eulerian approach is needed to accurately describe processes that are governed by high energy tails in the distribution function, but is of…

Dimerization and subsequent aggregation of polymers and biopolymers often occur under nonequilibrium conditions. When the initial state of the polymer is not collapsed or the final folded native state, the dynamics of dimerization can…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-11-19 Sangita Mondal , Ved Mahajan , Biman Bagchi

We present a new class of Langevin based algorithms, which overcomes many of the known shortcomings of popular adaptive optimizers that are currently used for the fine tuning of deep learning models. Its underpinning theory relies on recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Dong-Young Lim , Sotirios Sabanis

The increasing number of protein-based metamaterials demands reliable and efficient theoretical and computational methods to study the physicochemical properties they may display. In this regard, we develop a simulation strategy based on…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-06-23 J. A. Campos Gonzalez Angulo , G. Wiesehan , R. F. Ribeiro , J. Yuen-Zhou

Smoothed Dissipative Particle Dynamics (SDPD) is a mesoscopic method which allows to select the level of resolution at which a fluid is simulated. In this work, we study the consistency of the resulting thermodynamic properties as a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-10-19 G. Faure , J. Roussel , J. -B. Maillet , G. Stoltz

In this paper, we present a 2D numerical model developed to simulate the dynamics of soft, deformable particles. To accommodate significant particle deformations, the particle surface is represented as a narrow shell composed of mass points…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-04-01 Yohann Trivino , Vincent Richefeu , Farhang Radjai , Komlanvi Lampoh , Jean-Yves Delenne

We present a new algorithm which is named the Dynamical Functional Particle Method, DFPM. It is based on the idea of formulating a finite dimensional damped dynamical system whose stationary points are the solution to the original…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-03-25 Mårten Gulliksson , Sverker Edvardsson , Andreas Lind

A hybrid computational method coupling the lattice-Boltzmann (LB) method and a Langevin-dynamics (LD) method is developed to simulate nanoscale particle and polymer (NPP) suspensions in the presence of both thermal fluctuation and…

A robust, simple and fast procedure for the calculation of uncertainties in relative static dielectric permittivity ($\varepsilon_s$) computed via molecular dynamics (MD) is proposed. It arises as a direct application of well founded…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-07-22 Hernán R. Sánchez , Ramiro M. Irastorza , C. Manuel Carlevaro

A long-standing challenge encountered in modeling plasma dynamics is achieving practical Vlasov equation simulation in multiple spatial dimensions over large length and time scales. While direct multi-dimension Vlasov simulation methods…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Harvey A. Rose , William Daughton

The biological properties of proteins are uniquely determined by their structure and dynamics. A protein in solution populates a structural ensemble of metastable configurations around the global fold. From overall rotation to local…

Biological Physics · Physics 2015-12-09 J. Copperman , M. G. Guenza

Soft materials (e.g., enveloped viruses, liposomes, membranes and supercooled liquids) simultaneously deform or display collective behaviors, while undergoing atomic scale vibrations and collisions. While the multiple space-time character…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-01-03 Peter Ortoleva , Abhishek Singharoy , Stephen Pankavich

Common time-explicit numerical methods for kinetic simulations of plasmas in the low-collisions limit fall into two classes of algorithms: momentum conserving and energy conserving. Each has certain drawbacks. The PIC algorithm does not…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 E. G. Evstatiev , B. A. Shadwick

Lagrangian particle methods based on detailed atomic and molecular models are powerful computational tools for studying the dynamics of microscale and nanoscale systems. However, the maximum time step is limited by the smallest oscillation…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-06-26 Ansel L. Blumers , Zhen Li , George Em Karniadakis