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Particle smoothers are widely used algorithms allowing to approximate the smoothing distribution in hidden Markov models. Existing algorithms often suffer from slow computational time or degeneracy. We propose in this paper a way to improve…

Methodology · Statistics 2011-07-28 Cyrille Dubarry , Randal Douc

Mesh generation is essential for accurate and efficient computational fluid dynamics simulations. To resolve critical features in the flow, adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) is routinely employed in certain regions of the computational domain,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-12-02 Yongzheng Zhu , Shiji Zhao , Yuanye Zhou , Hong Liang , Xin Bian

Current Adaptive Mesh Refinement (AMR) simulations require algorithms that are highly parallelized and manage memory efficiently. As compute engines grow larger, AMR simulations will require algorithms that achieve new levels of efficient…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-19 Jonathan J. Carroll-Nellenback , Brandon Shroyer , Adam Frank , Chen Ding

Adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) offers a practical solution to reduce the computational cost and memory requirement of numerical simulations that use computational meshes. In this work, we introduce a novel smart methodology for adaptive…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-08-23 Akash A. Patel , Masoud Safdari

The increasing demand for larger and higher fidelity simulations has made Adaptive Mesh Refinement (AMR) and unstructured mesh techniques essential to focus compute effort and memory cost on just the areas of interest in the simulation…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Xuan Huang , Will Usher , Valerio Pascucci

To segment 4K or 6K ultra high-resolution images needs extra computation consideration in image segmentation. Common strategies, such as down-sampling, patch cropping, and cascade model, cannot address well the balance issue between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Tiancheng Shen , Yuechen Zhang , Lu Qi , Jason Kuen , Xingyu Xie , Jianlong Wu , Zhe Lin , Jiaya Jia

We present a new technique for transferring momentum and velocity between particles and grid with Particle-In-Cell (PIC) calculations which we call Affine-Particle-In-Cell (APIC). APIC represents particle velocities as locally affine,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 Chenfanfu Jiang , Craig Schroeder , Joseph Teran

We propose a spectral Particle-In-Cell (PIC) algorithm that is based on the combination of a Hankel transform and a Fourier transform. For physical problems that have close-to-cylindrical symmetry, this algorithm can be much faster than…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-05-04 Remi Lehe , Manuel Kirchen , Igor A. Andriyash , Brendan B. Godfrey , Jean-Luc Vay

The task of finding the optimal compression of a polyline with straight-line segments and arcs is performed in many applications, such as polyline compression, noise filtering, and feature recognition. Optimal compression algorithms find…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-11-15 Alexander Gribov

Researchers and designers are facing problems with memory and power walls, considering the pervasiveness of Von-Neumann architecture in the design of processors and the problems caused by reducing the dimensions of deep sub-micron…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Seyed Erfan Fatemieh , Mohammad Reza Reshadinezhad

Using neural networks to solve variational problems, and other scientific machine learning tasks, has been limited by a lack of consistency and an inability to exactly integrate expressions involving neural network architectures. We address…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Jonas A. Actor , Andy Huang , Nathaniel Trask

A novel electromagnetic particle-in-cell algorithm has been developed for fully kinetic plasma simulations on unstructured (irregular) meshes in complex body-of-revolution geometries. The algorithm, implemented in the BORPIC++ code,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-16 Dong-Yeop Na , Fernando L. Teixeira , Yuri A. Omelchenko

Kinetic Particle In Cell (PIC) methods can extend greatly their range of applicability if implicit time differencing and spatial adaption are used to address the wide range of time and length scales typical of plasmas. For implicit…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2008-06-05 Giovanni Lapenta

Spatial stochastic molecular simulations in biology are limited by the intense computation required to track molecules in space either in a discrete time or discrete space framework, meaning that the serial limit has already been reached in…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2016-08-24 I. Hepburn , W. Chen , E. De Schutter

In [8], some exact splittings are proposed for inhomogeneous quadratic differential equations including, for example, transport equations, kinetic equations, and Schr{\"o}dinger type equations with a rotation term. In this work, these exact…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-01 Joackim Bernier , Nicolas Crouseilles , Yingzhe Li

We propose the use of sparse grids to accelerate particle-in-cell (PIC) schemes. By using the so-called `combination technique' from the sparse grids literature, we are able to dramatically increase the size of the spatial cells in…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 Lee F Ricketson , Antoine J Cerfon

Particle picking is a time-consuming step in single-particle analysis and often requires significant interventions from users, which has become a bottleneck for future automated electron cryo-microscopy (cryo-EM). Here we report a deep…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2016-05-09 Feng Wang , Huichao Gong , Gaochao liu , Meijing Li , Chuangye Yan , Tian Xia , Xueming Li , Jianyang Zeng

We present a new sink particle algorithm developed for the Adaptive Mesh Refinement code RAMSES. Our main addition is the use of a clump finder to identify density peaks and their associated regions (the peak patches). This allows us to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Andreas Bleuler , Romain Teyssier

This paper introduces a novel second-order splitting scheme for charged-particle dynamics in strong magnetic fields characterized by the maximal ordering. The proposed scheme is explicit and symmetric, which respectively ensure the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Mengting Hu , Jiyong Li , Bin Wang

The use of explicit particle-in-cell (PIC) method for relativistic plasma simulations is restricted by numerical heating and instabilities that may significantly constrain the choice of time and space steps. To partially eliminate these…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-02-12 Arkady Gonoskov