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In kinetic theory, numerically solving the full Boltzmann equation is extremely expensive. This is because the Boltzmann collision operator involves a high-dimensional, nonlinear integral that must be evaluated at each spatial grid point…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-14 Lukas Einkemmer , Jingwei Hu , Shiheng Zhang

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…

A new scheme for numerical integration of the 1D2V relativistic Vlasov-Maxwell system is proposed. Assuming that all particles in a cell of the phase space move with the same velocity as that of the particle located at the center of the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2010-02-18 Akihiro Suzuki , Toshikazu Shigeyama

We present effective numerical algorithms for locally recovering unknown governing differential equations from measurement data. We employ a set of standard basis functions, e.g., polynomials, to approximate the governing equation with high…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-05-05 Kailiang Wu , Dongbin Xiu

The elimination of a fast time scale from the Vlasov equation by Lie-transform methods is an important step in deriving a reduced Vlasov equation such as the drift-kinetic Vlasov equation or the gyrokinetic Vlasov equation. It is shown here…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alain J. Brizard

In this paper we present an approach to approximate numerically the solution of coupled hyperbolic conservation laws. The coupling is achieved through a fixed interface, in which interface conditions are linking the traces of both sides.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-03-18 Nina Aguillon , Raul Borsche

We develop new numerical schemes for Vlasov--Poisson equations with high-order accuracy. Our methods are based on a spatially monotonicity-preserving (MP) scheme and are modified suitably so that positivity of the distribution function is…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-11-08 Satoshi Tanaka , Kohji Yoshikawa , Takashi Minoshima , Naoki Yoshida

We study an iterative low-rank approximation method for the solution of the steady-state stochastic Navier--Stokes equations with uncertain viscosity. The method is based on linearization schemes using Picard and Newton iterations and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-11-04 Kookjin Lee , Howard C. Elman , Bedřich Sousedík

We present a novel structure-preserving framework for solving the Vlasov-Poisson-Landau system of equations using a particle in cell (PIC) discretization combined with discrete gradient time integrators. The Vlasov-Poisson-Landau system is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-02-16 Daniel S. Finn , Joseph V. Pusztay , Matthew G. Knepley , Mark F. Adams

We have developed a deterministic conservative solver for the inhomogeneous Fokker-Planck-Landau equation coupled with the Poisson equation, which is a {classical mean-field} primary model for collisional plasmas. Two subproblems, i.e. the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-06-19 Chenglong Zhang , Irene M. Gamba

In this work we present a low-rank algorithm for computing low-rank approximations of large-scale Lyapunov operator $\varphi$-functions. These computations play a crucial role in implementing of matrix-valued exponential integrators for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-07 Dongping Li , Xiuying Zhang , Hongjiong Tian

We address the problem of numerically approximating the velocity and pressure governed by the Stokes system when the boundary conditions are only partially known and thus do not uniquely determine the velocity-pressure couple. We propose an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-01 Andrea Bonito , Diane Guignard

This paper is devoted to the investigation of inertial dynamical systems with implicit Hessian-driven damping for strongly quasiconvex optimization which is a specific class of nonconvex optimization problems. We first establish exponential…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-27 Zeying Gao , Xiangkai Sun , Liang He

We extend the recently developed entropic and conservative variance reduction framework [M. Sadr, N. G. Hadjiconstantinou, A variance-reduced direct Monte Carlo simulation method for solving the Boltzmann equation over a wide range of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-02-18 Victor Windhab , Andreas Adelmann , Mohsen Sadr

We discuss the design of state-of-the-art numerical methods for molecular dynamics, focusing on the demands of soft matter simulation, where the purposes include sampling and dynamics calculations both in and out of equilibrium. We discuss…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-02-14 Xiaocheng Shang , Martin Kröger , Benedict Leimkuhler

We introduce a new strategy for coupling the parallel in time (parareal) iterative methodology with multiscale integrators. Following the parareal framework, the algorithm computes a low-cost approximation of all slow variables in the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-11-19 Gil Ariel , Seong Jun Kim , Richard Tsai

This article presents a novel and practically useful link between geometric integration, low-discrepancy sampling and code coupling for Lagrangian and Eulerian Vlasov-Poisson solvers. Low-discrepancy sequences, also called quasi-random…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-26 Jakob Ameres

We present a method for improving a Non Local Means operator by computing its low-rank approximation. The low-rank operator is constructed by applying a filter to the spectrum of the original Non Local Means operator. This results in an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-12-08 Victor May , Yosi Keller , Nir Sharon , Yoel Shkolnisky

We are interested in a class of numerical schemes for the optimization of nonlinear hyperbolic partial differential equations. We present continuous and discretized relaxation schemes for scalar, one-- conservation laws. We present…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-07-17 M. Herty , L. Pareschi , S. Steffensen

Conventional explicit electromagnetic particle-in-cell (PIC) algorithms do not conserve discrete energy exactly. Time-centered fully implicit PIC algorithms can conserve discrete energy exactly, but may introduce large dispersion errors in…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 Guangye Chen , Luis Chacón , Lin Yin , Brian J. Albright , David J. Stark , Robert F. Bird