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We present a novel approach to automate and optimize anisotropic p-adaptation in high-order h/p solvers using Reinforcement Learning (RL). The dynamic RL adaptation uses the evolving solution to adjust the high-order polynomials. We develop…

This work presents a case study of a heterogeneous multiphysics solver from the nuclear fusion domain. At the macroscopic scale, an auto-differentiable ODE solver in JAX computes the evolution of the pulsed power circuit and bulk plasma…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-11-18 Jack B. Coughlin , Archis Joglekar , Jonathan Brodrick , Alexander Lavin

We consider scalar semilinear elliptic PDEs, where the nonlinearity is strongly monotone, but only locally Lipschitz continuous. To linearize the arising discrete nonlinear problem, we employ a damped Zarantonello iteration, which leads to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-13 Maximilian Brunner , Dirk Praetorius , Julian Streitberger

We demonstrate that scalable neuromorphic hardware can implement the finite element method, which is a critical numerical method for engineering and scientific discovery. Our approach maps the sparse interactions between neighboring finite…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Bradley H. Theilman , James B. Aimone

Many physical problems involve spatial and temporal inhomogeneities that require a very fine discretization in order to be accurately simulated. Using an adaptive mesh, a high level of resolution is used in the appropriate areas while…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-09-25 Florence Drui , Alexandru Fikl , Pierre Kestener , Samuel Kokh , Adam Larat , Vincent Le Chenadec , Marc Massot

We introduce ABEL, the Adaptable Beginning-to-End Linac simulation framework developed for agile design studies of plasma-based accelerators and colliders. ABEL's modular architecture allows users to simulate particle acceleration across…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2025-07-09 J. B. B. Chen , E. Adli , P. Drobniak , O. G. Finnerud , E. Hørlyk , D. Kalvik , C. A. Lindstrøm , F. Peña , K. Sjobak

We have developed a parallel Particle-Particle, Particle-Mesh (P^3M) simulation code for the T3E well suited to studying the time evolution of systems of particles interacting via gravity and gas forces in cosmological contexts. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 Tom MacFarland , Jakob Pichlmeier , Frazer Pearce , Hugh Couchman

VPIC is a general purpose Particle-in-Cell simulation code for modeling plasma phenomena such as magnetic reconnection, fusion, solar weather, and laser-plasma interaction in three dimensions using large numbers of particles. VPIC's…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Robert Bird , Nigel Tan , Scott V. Luedtke , Stephen Lien Harrell , Michela Taufer , Brian Albright

A customized finite-difference field solver for the particle-in-cell (PIC) algorithm that provides higher fidelity for wave-particle interactions in intense electromagnetic waves is presented. In many problems of interest, particles with…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-04-26 Fei Li , Kyle G. Miller , Xinlu Xu , Frank S. Tsung , Viktor K. Decyk , Weiming An , Ricardo A. Fonseca , Warren B. Mori

We present numerical experiments for geophysics electromagnetic (EM) modeling based upon high-order edge elements and supervised $h+p$ refinement approaches on massively parallel computers. Our high-order $h+p$ refinement strategy is based…

Furthering our understanding of many of today's interesting problems in plasma physics---including plasma based acceleration and magnetic reconnection with pair production due to quantum electrodynamic effects---requires large-scale kinetic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-10-28 Kyle G. Miller , Roman P. Lee , Adam Tableman , Anton Helm , Ricardo A. Fonseca , Viktor K. Decyk , Warren B. Mori

We present an explicit solver of the three-dimensional screened and unscreened Poisson's equation which combines accuracy, computational efficiency and versatility. The solver, based on a mixed plane-wave / interpolating scaling function…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-03-27 Alessandro Cerioni , Luigi Genovese , Alessandro Mirone , Vicente Armando Sole

In this work, we revisit the marking decisions made in the standard adaptive finite element method (AFEM). Experience shows that a na\"{i}ve marking policy leads to inefficient use of computational resources for adaptive mesh refinement…

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We present an object-oriented geophysical and astrophysical spectral-element adaptive refinement (GASpAR) code for application to turbulent flows. Like most spectral-element codes, GASpAR combines finite-element efficiency with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2009-11-11 Duane Rosenberg , Aime' Fournier , Paul Fischer , Annick Pouquet

The apsis toolkit presented in this paper provides a flexible framework for hyperparameter optimization and includes both random search and a bayesian optimizer. It is implemented in Python and its architecture features adaptability to any…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Frederik Diehl , Andreas Jauch

The efficient solution of discretisations of coupled systems of partial differential equations (PDEs) is at the core of much of numerical simulation. Significant effort has been expended on scalable algorithms to precondition Krylov…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2018-02-22 Robert C. Kirby , Lawrence Mitchell

Reduced-order particle-in-cell (PIC) scheme is a novel modeling approach that enables computationally efficient electrostatic kinetic simulations of plasma. In our previous publications, we demonstrated the potentials of a preliminary…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-08-30 Maryam Reza , Farbod Faraji , Aaron Knoll

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

Computational meshes, as a way to partition space, form the basis of much of PDE simulation technology, for instance for the finite element and finite volume discretization methods. In complex simulations, we are often driven to modify an…

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