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In this paper we present a numerical scheme to simulate a moving rigid body with arbitrary shape suspended in a rarefied gas. The rarefied gas is simulated by solving the Boltzmann equation using a DSMC particle method. The motion of the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Samir Shrestha , Sudarshan Tiwari , Axel Klar , Steffen Hardt

It is well known that the Newton method may not converge when the initial guess does not belong to a specific quadratic convergence region. We propose a family of new variants of the Newton method with the potential advantage of having a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-30 Regina S. Burachik , Bethany I. Caldwell , C. Yalçın Kaya

A novel approach to the Effective One-Body description of gravitationally interacting two-body systems is introduced. This approach is based on the post-Minkowskian approximation scheme (perturbation theory in G, without assuming small…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-15 Thibault Damour

The paper starts with a concise description of the recently developed semismooth* Newton method for the solution of general inclusions. This method is then applied to a class of variational inequalities of the second kind. As a result, one…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-23 Helmut Gfrerer , Jiri V. Outrata , Jan Valdman

A tutorial is presented which demonstrates the theory and usage of the Parker-Sochacki method of numerically solving systems of differential equations. Solutions are demonstrated for the case of projectile motion in air, and for the…

Popular Physics · Physics 2010-07-13 Joseph W. Rudmin

Newtonian N-body simulations have been employed successfully over the past decades for the simulation of the cosmological large-scale structure. Such simulations usually ignore radiation perturbations (photons and massless neutrinos) and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-07 Julian Adamek , Jacob Brandbyge , Christian Fidler , Steen Hannestad , Cornelius Rampf , Thomas Tram

This paper is devoted to studying the global and finite convergence of the semi-smooth Newton method for solving a piecewise linear system that arises in cone-constrained quadratic programming problems and absolute value equations. We first…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-24 Nicolas F. Armijo , Yunier Bello-Cruz , Gabriel Haeser

About 300 experiments have tried to determine the value of the Newtonian gravitational constant, G, so far, but large discrepancies in the results have made it impossible to know its value precisely. The weakness of the gravitational…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2014-12-30 G. Rosi , F. Sorrentino , L. Cacciapuoti , M. Prevedelli , G. M. Tino

In this paper, we consider periodic solutions of the $n$-body problem that satisfy symmetry constraints, expressed through invariance under finite group actions. We focus on their stability properties and present algorithms specifically…

In this paper, by combining the algorithm New Q-Newton's method - developed in previous joint work of the author - with Armijo's Backtracking line search, we resolve convergence issues encountered by Newton's method (e.g. convergence to a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-13 Tuyen Trung Truong

The variational approach, used by Feynman in the study of the polaron problem, is generalized to treat a system of N non-relativistic particles interacting with scalar and vector mesons. After integrating out the meson fields in the path…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 C. Alexandrou , F. K. Diakonos

A new methodology is developed to integrate numerically the equations of motion for classical many-body systems in molecular dynamics simulations. Its distinguishable feature is the possibility to preserve, independently on the size of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 I. P. Omelyan , I. M. Mryglod , R. Folk

Newton's method has been an important approach for solving variational inequalities, quasi-Newton method is a good alternative choice to save computational cost. In this paper, we propose a new method for solving monotone variational…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-20 Yuge Ye , Qingna Li , Deren Han

We propose a novel and efficient lifting approach for the optimal control of rigid-body systems with contacts to improve the convergence properties of Newton-type methods. To relax the high nonlinearity, we consider the state, acceleration,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-25 Sotaro Katayama , Toshiyuki Ohtsuka

A new approach to the construction of difference schemes of any order for the many-body problem that preserves all its algebraic integrals is proposed. We introduced additional variables, namely, distances and reciprocal distances between…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-03 Vladimir Gerdt , Mikhail Malykh , Leonid Sevastianov , Yu Ying

The general form of an integral of motion that is a polynomial of order N in the momenta is presented for a Hamiltonian system in two-dimensional Euclidean space. The classical and the quantum cases are treated separately, emphasizing both…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-02-12 S. Post , P. Winternitz

Using geometric mechanics methods, we examine aspects of the dynamics of n mass points in $\mathbb{R}^4$ with a general pairwise potential. We investigate the central force problem, set up the n-body problem and discuss certain properties…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-07-23 Tanya Schmah , Cristina Stoica

To describe the ``slow'' motions of n interacting mass points, we give the most general 4-d non-instantaneous, non-particle symmetric Galilei-invariant variational principle. It involves two-body invariants constructed from particle…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Harry Woodcock , Peter Havas

Learning a many-body Hamiltonian from its dynamics is a fundamental problem in physics. In this work, we propose the first algorithm to achieve the Heisenberg limit for learning an interacting $N$-qubit local Hamiltonian. After a total…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-31 Hsin-Yuan Huang , Yu Tong , Di Fang , Yuan Su

A revised version of the quaternion approach for numerical integration of the equations of motion for rigid polyatomic molecules is proposed. The modified approach is based on a formulation of the quaternion dynamics with constraints. This…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Igor P. Omelyan