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DDSCAT 7.2 is a freely available open-source Fortran-90 software package applying the discrete dipole approximation (DDA) to calculate scattering and absorption of electromagnetic waves by targets with arbitrary geometries and complex…

Computational Physics · Physics 2012-05-16 Bruce T. Draine , Piotr J. Flatau

Cylindrical lattice diffusion limited aggregation (DLA), with a narrow width N, is solved for site-sticking conditions using a Markovian matrix method (which was previously developed for the bond-sticking case). This matrix contains the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Boaz Kol , Amnon Aharony

In this paper, a second order finite difference scheme is investigated for time-dependent one-side space fractional diffusion equations with variable coefficients. The existing schemes for the equation with variable coefficients have…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-25 Xue-lei Lin , Pin Lyu , Michael K. Ng , Hai-Wei Sun , Seakweng Vong

This paper studies the spectral properties of large matrices and the preconditioning of linear systems, arising from the finite difference discretization of a time-dependent space-fractional diffusion equation with a variable coefficient…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Muhammad Faisal Khan , Asim Ilyas , Rolf Krause , Stefano Serra-Capizzano , Cristina Tablino-Possio

DDSCAT.5a is a freely available software package which applies the "discrete dipole approximation" (DDA) to calculate scattering and absorption of electromagnetic waves by targets with arbitrary geometries and complex refractive index. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. T. Draine , Piotr J. Flatau

We investigate the wave-optical light scattering properties of deformed thin circular films of constant thickness using the discrete-dipole approximation. Effects on the intensity distribution of the scattered light due to different…

Optics · Physics 2020-10-09 Hannu Parviainen , Kari Lumme

An implicit Euler finite-volume scheme for general cross-diffusion systems with volume-filling constraints is proposed and analyzed. The diffusion matrix may be nonsymmetric and not positive semidefinite, but the diffusion system is assumed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-13 Ansgar Jüngel , Antoine Zurek

A novel numerical method called the Thermal Discrete Dipole Approximation (T-DDA) is proposed for modeling near-field radiative heat transfer in three-dimensional arbitrary geometries. The T-DDA is conceptually similar to the Discrete…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Sheila Edalatpour , Mathieu Francoeur

The structure-preserving doubling algorithm (SDA) is a fairly efficient method for solving problems closely related to Hamiltonian (or Hamiltonian-like) matrices, such as computing the required solutions to algebraic Riccati equations.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-05-19 Zhen-Chen Guo , Eric King-Wah Chu , Xin Liang , Wen-Wei Lin

It is well known that the discretization of fractional diffusion equations (FDEs) with fractional derivatives $\alpha\in(1,2)$, using the so-called weighted and shifted Gr\"unwald formula, leads to linear systems whose coefficient matrices…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-06 Nikos Barakitis , Sven-Erik Ekström , Paris Vassalos

Recently, the volume integral equation (VIE) approach has been proposed as an efficient simulation tool for silicon photonics applications [J. Lightw. Technol. 36, 3765 (2018)]. However, for the high-frequency and strong contrast problems…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-06-26 Samuel P. Groth , Athanasios G. Polimeridis , Alexandra Tambova , Jacob K. White

The boundary integral method is an efficient approach for solving time-harmonic obstacle scattering problems by a bounded scatterer. This paper presents the directional preconditioner for the iterative solution of linear systems of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-09-17 Lexing Ying

DDSCAT 7.3 is an open-source Fortran-90 software package applying the discrete dipole approximation to calculate scattering and absorption of electromagnetic waves by targets with arbitrary geometries and complex refractive index. The…

Computational Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 B. T. Draine , P. J. Flatau

Covariance matrices are central to data assimilation and inverse methods derived from statistical estimation theory. Previous work has considered the application of an all-at-once diffusion-based representation of a covariance matrix…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-11 Jemima M. Tabeart , Selime Gürol , John W. Pearson , Anthony T. Weaver

We present a simple discretization scheme for the hypersingular integral representation of the fractional Laplace operator and solver for the corresponding fractional Laplacian problem. Through singularity subtraction, we obtain a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-29 Victor Minden , Lexing Ying

We consider the numerical approximation of the radiative transfer equation using discontinuous angular and continuous spatial approximations for the even parts of the solution. The even-parity equations are solved using a diffusion…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-09-19 Olena Palii , Matthias Schlottbom

In this paper, we consider a fast and second-order implicit difference method for approximation of a class of time-space fractional variable coefficients advection-diffusion equation. To begin with, we construct an implicit difference…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-12 Yong-Liang Zhao , Ting-Zhu Huang , Xian-Ming Gu , Wei-Hua Luo

Numerical climate- and weather-prediction requires the fast solution of the equations of fluid dynamics. Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) discretisations have several advantageous properties. They can be used for arbitrary domains and support a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-10-13 Jack D. Betteridge , Thomas H. Gibson , Ivan G. Graham , Eike H. Müller

The $p$-step backwards difference formula (BDF) for solving the system of ODEs can result in a kind of all-at-once linear systems, which are solved via the parallel-in-time preconditioned Krylov subspace solvers (see McDonald, Pestana, and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-14 Xian-Ming Gu , Yong-Liang Zhao , Xi-Le Zhao , Bruno Carpentieri , Yu-Yun Huang

A novel hybrid method based on Mie theory and the Discrete Dipole Approximation (DDA) was developed to study the microscopic parameters governing the optical response of tunable photonic crystals (PC). The method is based on a two-step…