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One of the challenges when simulating astrophysical flows with self-gravity is to compute the gravitational forces. In contrast to the hyperbolic hydrodynamic equations, the gravity field is described by an elliptic Poisson equation. We…

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We have developed an adaptive multigrid code for solving the Poisson equation in gravitational simulations. Finer rectangular subgrids are adaptively created in locations where the density exceeds a local level-dependent threshold. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 I. Suisalu , E. Saar

We describe an implementation to solve Poisson's equation for an isolated system on a unigrid mesh using FFTs. The method solves the equation globally on mesh blocks distributed across multiple processes on a distributed-memory parallel…

Computational Physics · Physics 2011-06-06 Reuben D. Budiardja , Christian Y. Cardall

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…

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We propose a new least squares finite element method to solve the Poisson equation. By using a piecewisely irrotational space to approximate the flux, we split the classical method into two sequential steps. The first step gives the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Ruo Li , Fanyi Yang

Solving a Poisson equation is generally reduced to solving a linear system with a coefficient matrix $A$ of entries $a_{ij}$, $i,j=1,2,...,n$, from the discretized Poisson equation. Although the variational quantum algorithms are promising…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-25 Hui-Min Li , Zhi-Xi Wang , Shao-Ming Fei

We present Vlasov's equation and its association with Poisson's equation in the context of modelling self-gravitating systems such as Globular Clusters or Galaxies. We first review the classical hypotheses of the model. We continue with a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jerome Perez

Effective relaxation methods are necessary for good multigrid convergence. For many equations, standard Jacobi and Gau{\ss}-Seidel are inadequate, and more sophisticated space decompositions are required; examples include problems with…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Patrick E. Farrell , Matthew G. Knepley , Lawrence Mitchell , Florian Wechsung

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 describe a new algorithm for the integration of self-gravitating fluid systems using SPH method. We split the Hamiltonian of a self-gravitating fluid system to the gravitational potential and others (kinetic and internal energies) and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Takayuki R. Saitoh , Junichiro Makino

A solver for the Poisson equation for 1D, 2D and 3D regular grids is presented. The solver applies the convolution theorem in order to efficiently solve the Poisson equation in spectral space over a rectangular computational domain.…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2023-01-04 Joseph Saverin

We present a framework for quantum computation, similar to Adiabatic Quantum Computation (AQC), that is based on the quantum Zeno effect. By performing randomised dephasing operations at intervals determined by a Poisson process, we are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 Joseph Cunningham , Jérémie Roland

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

We present a method for generating higher-order finite volume discretizations for Poisson's equation on Cartesian cut cell grids in two and three dimensions. The discretization is in flux-divergence form, and stencils for the flux are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-11-18 D. Devendran , D. T. Graves , H. Johansen

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

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…

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Wereportonanewmultiscalemethodapproachforthestudyofsystemswith wide separation of short-range forces acting on short time scales and long-range forces acting on much slower scales. We consider the case of the Poisson-Boltzmann equation that…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-10-22 Giovanni Lapenta , Wei Jiang

It is shown how various ideas that are well established for the solution of Poisson's equation using plane wave and multigrid methods can be combined with wavelet concepts. The combination of wavelet concepts and multigrid techniques turns…

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Goedecker

Self-organized patterns of cathode spots in glow discharges are computed in the cathode boundary layer geometry, which is the one employed in most of the experiments reported in the literature. The model comprises conservation and transport…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 P. G. C. Almeida , M. S. Benilov , M. S. Bieniek

We study metric-compatible Poisson structures in the semi-classical limit of noncommutative emergent gravity. Space-time is realized as quantized symplectic submanifold embedded in R^D, whose effective metric depends on the embedding as…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-09-11 Nikolaj Kuntner , Harold Steinacker