English
Related papers

Related papers: A Multilevel Monte Carlo Algorithm for Parabolic A…

200 papers

We introduce an inferential framework for a wide class of semi-linear stochastic differential equations (SDEs). Recent work has shown that numerical splitting schemes can preserve critical properties of such types of SDEs, give rise to…

Computation · Statistics 2025-07-22 Shu Huang , Richard G. Everitt , Massimiliano Tamborrino , Adam M. Johansen

Surface-subsurface flow models for hydrological applications solve a coupled multiphysics problem. This usually consists of some form of the Richards and shallow water equations. A typical setup couples these two nonlinear partial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-25 Valentina Schüller , Philipp Birken , Andreas Dedner

We present an ``equation-free'' multiscale approach to the simulation of unsteady diffusion in a random medium. The diffusivity of the medium is modeled as a random field with short correlation length, and the governing equations are cast…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Dongbin Xiu , Ioannis Kevrekidis

Simulating infiltration in porous media using Richards' equation remains computationally challenging due to its parabolic structure and nonlinear coefficients. While a wide range of numerical methods for differential equations have been…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-16 Arnob Barua , Christopher E. Kees , Dmitri Kuzmin

We present a numerical method for the Monte Carlo simulation of uncoupled continuous-time random walks with a Levy alpha-stable distribution of jumps in space and a Mittag-Leffler distribution of waiting times, and apply it to the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-03-19 Daniel Fulger , Enrico Scalas , Guido Germano

This topical review describes the methodology of continuum variational and diffusion quantum Monte Carlo calculations. These stochastic methods are based on many-body wave functions and are capable of achieving very high accuracy. The…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-02-11 R. J. Needs , M. D. Towler , N. D. Drummond , P. Lopez Rios

This article considers the sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) approximation of ratios of normalizing constants associated to posterior distributions which in principle rely on continuum models. Therefore, the Monte Carlo estimation error and the…

Computation · Statistics 2016-03-04 Pierre Del Moral , Ajay Jasra , Kody Law , Yan Zhou

Monte Carlo simulation is one of the most important tools in the study of diffusion processes. For constant diffusion coefficients, an appropriate Gaussian distribution of particle's steplengths can generate exact results, when compared…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 V. Ruiz Barlett , M. Hoyuelos , H. O. Mártin

This article is a follow up of our submitted paper [11] in which a decomposition of the Richards equation along two soil layers was discussed. A decomposed problem was formulated and a decoupling and linearisation technique was presented to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-14 David Seus , Florin A. Radu , Christian Rohde

We propose a new mathematical model of groundwater flow in porous medium layered over inclined impermeable bed. In its full generality, this is a free-surface problem. To obtain analytically tractable model, we use generalized…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-07 Petr Girg , Lukáš Kotrla

In this paper, we present a sparse grid-based Monte Carlo method for solving high-dimensional semi-linear nonlocal diffusion equations with volume constraints. The nonlocal model is governed by a class of semi-linear partial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Changtao Sheng , Bihao Su , Chenglong Xu

A statistical learning approach for parametric PDEs related to Uncertainty Quantification is derived. The method is based on the minimization of an empirical risk on a selected model class and it is shown to be applicable to a broad range…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-07 Martin Eigel , Reinhold Schneider , Philipp Trunschke , Sebastian Wolf

The goal of this paper is to study convergence and error estimates of the Monte Carlo method for the Navier-Stokes equations with random data. To discretize in space and time, the Monte Carlo method is combined with a suitable deterministic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-05-10 Eduard Feireisl , Mária Lukáčová - Medviďová , Bangwei She , Yuhuan Yuan

This paper is concerned with the Richards equation in a heterogeneous domain, each subdomain of which is homogeneous and represents a rocktype. Our first contribution is to rigorously prove convergence toward a weak solution of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-21 Sabrina Bassetto , Clément Cancès , Guillaume Enchéry , Quang-Huy Tran

The paper considers parabolic equations in non-divergent form with discontinuous coefficients at higher derivatives. Their investigation is most complicated because, in general, in the case of discontinuous coefficients, the uniqueness of a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-04-30 Nikolai Dokuchaev

Bayesian inversions followed by estimations of rare event probabilities are often needed to analyse groundwater hazards. Instead of focusing on the posterior distribution of model parameters, the main interest lies then in the distribution…

Applications · Statistics 2024-01-25 Lea Friedli , Niklas Linde

The subsurface flow is usually subject to uncertain porous media structures. In most cases, however, we only have partial knowledge about the porous media properties. A common approach is to model the uncertain parameters of porous media as…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-11 Yang Liu , Jingfa Li , Shuyu Sun , Bo Yu

Randomness is ubiquitous in modern engineering. The uncertainty is often modeled as random coefficients in the differential equations that describe the underlying physics. In this work, we describe a two-step framework for numerically…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-03 Ting Wang , Jaroslaw Knap

We present an algorithm to sample stochastic differential equations conditioned on rather general constraints, including integral constraints, endpoint constraints, and stochastic integral constraints. The algorithm is a pathspace…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-23 Tobias Grafke

In many models used in engineering and science, material properties are uncertain or spatially varying. For example, in geophysics, and porous media flow in particular, the uncertain permeability of the material is modelled as a random…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-30 Pieterjan Robbe , Dirk Nuyens , Stefan Vandewalle