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Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods for the numerical solution of partial differential equations have enjoyed considerable success because they are both flexible and robust: They allow arbitrary unstructured geometries and easy control of…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2012-11-06 Andreas Klöckner , Timothy Warburton , Jan S. Hesthaven

3D Gaussian splatting (3DGS) is a transformative technique with profound implications on novel view synthesis and real-time rendering. Given its importance, there have been many attempts to improve its performance. However, with the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Yi Hu , Huiyang Zhou

We develop a third-order conservative semi-Lagrangian discontinuous Galerkin (SLDG) scheme for solving linear transport equations on curvilinear unstructured triangular meshes, tailored for complex geometries. To ensure third-order spatial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-14 Xiaofeng Cai , Yibing Chen , Kunkai Fu , Liujun Pan

In this paper, we develop a sparse grid discontinuous Galerkin (DG) scheme for transport equations and applied it to kinetic simulations. The method uses the weak formulations of traditional Runge-Kutta DG (RKDG) schemes for hyperbolic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-02-08 Wei Guo , Yingda Cheng

High-order Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods offer excellent accuracy for turbulent flow simulations, especially when implemented on GPU-oriented architectures that favor very high polynomial orders. On modern GPUs, high-order polynomial…

A discontinuous Galerkin method for the discretization of the compressible Euler equations, the governing equations of inviscid fluid dynamics, on Cartesian meshes is developed for use of Graphical Processing Units via OCCA, a unified…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-09-01 Andrew C. Kirby , Dimitri J. Mavriplis

We present a GPU parallel implementation of the numeric integration of the Vlasov equation in one spatial dimension based on a second order time-split algorithm with a local modified cubic-spline interpolation. We apply our approach to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Tarcisio M. Rocha Filho

The Vlasov-Poisson equations describe the evolution of a collisionless plasma, represented through a probability density function (PDF) that self-interacts via an electrostatic force. One of the main difficulties in numerically solving this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-20 J. A. Rossmanith , D. C. Seal

We discuss the development, verification, and performance of a GPU accelerated discontinuous Galerkin method for the solutions of two dimensional nonlinear shallow water equations. The shallow water equations are hyperbolic partial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-19 R Gandham , D S Medina , T Warburton

In this paper, we propose an efficient high order semi-Lagrangian (SL) discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method for solving linear convection-diffusion equations. The method generalizes our previous work on developing the SLDG method for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-18 Mingchang Ding , Xiaofeng Cai , Wei Guo , Jing-Mei Qiu

In this paper, we generalize a high order semi-Lagrangian (SL) discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method for multi-dimensional linear transport equations without operator splitting developed in Cai et al. (J. Sci. Comput. 73: 514-542, 2017) to the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-09 Xiaofeng Cai , Wei Guo , Jingmei Qiu

Kinetic plasma simulations solve the Vlasov-Poisson or Vlasov-Maxwell equations to evolve scalar-variable distribution functions in position-velocity phase space and vector-variable electromagnetic fields in physical space. The…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Andrew Ho , Genia Vogman

We present the numerical methods and GPU-accelerated implementation underlying a Total Lagrangian finite element framework for finite-deformation flexible multibody dynamics, introduced in the companion paper [1]. The framework supports…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Zhenhao Zhou , Ruochun Zhang , Ganesh Arivoli , Dan Negrut

In this work we consider Runge-Kutta discontinuous Galerkin methods (RKDG) for the solution of hyperbolic equations enabling high order discretization in space and time. We aim at an efficient implementation of DG for Euler equations on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-12 M. Siebenborn , V. Schulz , S. Schmidt

Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) is a fundamental matrix factorization technique in linear algebra, widely applied in numerous matrix-related problems. However, traditional SVD approaches are hindered by slow panel factorization and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Shifang Liu , Huiyuan Li , Hongjiao Sheng , Haoyuan Gui , Xiaoyu Zhang

We report a Vlasov simulation of cosmic relic neutrinos combined with N-body simulation of cold dark matter in the context of large-scale structure formation in the Universe performed on Fugaku supercomputer. Gravitational dynamics of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-01 Kohji Yoshikawa , Satoshi Tanaka , Naoki Yoshida

We present a matrix-free multigrid method for high-order discontinuous Galerkin (DG) finite element methods with GPU acceleration. A performance analysis is conducted, comparing various data and compute layouts. Smoother implementations are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-03 Cu Cui , Guido Kanschat

Emulating computationally intensive scientific simulations is crucial for enabling uncertainty quantification, optimization, and informed decision-making at scale. Gaussian Processes (GPs) offer a flexible and data-efficient foundation for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Qilong Pan , Sameh Abdulah , Mustafa Abduljabbar , Hatem Ltaief , Andreas Herten , Mathis Bode , Matthew Pratola , Arindam Fadikar , Marc G. Genton , David E. Keyes , Ying Sun

Waves are all around us--be it in the form of sound, electromagnetic radiation, water waves, or earthquakes. Their study is an important basic tool across engineering and science disciplines. Every wave solver serving the computational…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2013-04-23 Andreas Klöckner , Timothy Warburton , Jan S. Hesthaven

In this paper, we develop a class of high order conservative semi-Lagrangian (SL) discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods for solving multi-dimensional linear transport equations. The methods rely on a characteristic Galerkin weak formulation,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-09-25 Xiaofeng Cai , Wei Guo , Jing-Mei Qiu