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We investigate the application of tensor-train (TT) algorithms to multigroup thermal radiation transport (i.e., photon radiation transport). The TT framework enables simulations at discretizations that might otherwise be computationally…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-10 Aditya S. Deshpande , Patrick D. Mullen , Alex A. Gorodetsky , Joshua C. Dolence , Chad D. Meyer , Jonah M. Miller , Luke F. Roberts

In this work, a new numerical method for the transport of Delayed Neutron Precursors (DNPs) is applied to the Aircraft Reactor Experiment (ARE). The pathline method is based on the Method of Characteristics (MOC) and leverages the pathlines…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-02-25 Mathis Caprais , Nathan Greiner , André Bergeron

One of the state-of-the-art strategies for predicting crack propagation, nucleation, and interaction is the phase-field approach. Despite its reliability and robustness, the phase-field approach suffers from burdensome computational cost,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-17 Alena Kopaničáková , Hardik Kothari , Rolf Krause

The method of characteristics (MOC) is widely used for neutron transport calculation in recent decades. However, the key problem determining whether MOC can be applied in highly heterogeneous geometry is how to combine an effective geometry…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 Zhen-Ping Chen , Hua-Qing Zhen , Guang-Yao Sun , Jing Song , Li-Juan Hao , Li-Qin Hu , Yi-Can Wu

For linear problems, domain decomposition methods can be used directly as iterative solvers, but also as preconditioners for Krylov methods. In practice, Krylov acceleration is almost always used, since the Krylov method finds a much better…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-05-17 V. Dolean , M. J. Gander , F. Kwok , R. Masson , W. Kheriji

This is a status report on our endeavor to reveal the mechanism of core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe) by large-scale numerical simulations. Multi-dimensionality of the supernova engine, general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics, energy and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-04-29 Kei Kotake , Kohsuke Sumiyoshi , Shoichi Yamada , Tomoya Takiwaki , Takami Kuroda , Yudai Suwa , Hiroki Nagakura

In this paper, we propose an efficient method for solving multi-dimensional Riesz space fractional diffusion equations with variable coefficients. The Crank-Nicolson (CN) method is used for temporal discretization, while the fourth-order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-01 Yuan-Yuan Huang , Wei Qu , Sean Y. Hon , Siu-Long Lei

Dose calculations in proton therapy require the fast and accurate solution of a high-dimensional transport equation for a large number of (pencil) beams with different energies and directions. Deterministically solving this transport…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-07 Pia Stammer , Niklas Wahl , Jonas Kusch , Danny Lathouwers

We describe modern variants of Monte Carlo methods for Uncertainty Quantification (UQ) of the Neutron Transport Equation, when it is approximated by the discrete ordinates method with diamond differencing. We focus on the mono-energetic 1D…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-10-18 Ivan G. Graham , Matthew J. Parkinson , Robert Scheichl

The goal of this work is to construct and study hybrid and multiplicative two-level overlapping Schwarz algorithms with standard coarse spaces for the almost incompressible linear elasticity and Stokes systems, discretized by mixed finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-03 Mingchao Cai , Luca F. Pavarino

Monte Carlo approaches to radiation transport have several attractive properties such as simplicity of implementation, high accuracy, and good parallel scaling. Moreover, Monte Carlo methods can handle complicated geometries and are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Ernazar Abdikamalov , Adam Burrows , Christian D. Ott , Frank Löffler , Evan O'Connor , Joshua C. Dolence , Erik Schnetter

A novel method to compute time eigenvalues of neutron transport problems is presented based on solutions to the time dependent transport equation. Using these solutions we use the dynamic mode decomposition (DMD) to form an approximate…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-02-11 Ryan G. McClarren

Thermal radiative transfer (TRT) presents significant computational challenges due to the stiff, nonlinear coupling between radiation and material energy, particularly in multigroup, high-fidelity transport models. In this work, we develop…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Samuel Olivier , James S. Warsa , HyeongKae Park

With the tremendous success of deep learning, there exists imminent need to deploy deep learning models onto edge devices. To tackle the limited computing and storage resources in edge devices, model compression techniques have been widely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Sung-En Chang , Yanyu Li , Mengshu Sun , Weiwen Jiang , Runbin Shi , Xue Lin , Yanzhi Wang

This paper presents an iteration method for solving linear particle transport problems in binary stochastic mixtures. It is based on nonlinear projection approach. The method is defined by a hierarchy of equations consisting of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-18 Dmitriy Y. Anistratov

Ion transport, often described by the Poisson--Nernst--Planck (PNP) equations, is ubiquitous in electrochemical devices and many biological processes of significance. In this work, we develop conservative, positivity-preserving, energy…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-15 Jie Ding , Zhongming Wang , Shenggao Zhou

Charged particle transport is an important energy transport mode in the combustion process of inertial confinement fusion plasma. On the one hand, charged particles inside the hot spot have a strong non-equilibrium effect, so it is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-09-26 Chang Liu , Bao Du , Peng Song

The design of low-thrust-based multitarget interplanetary missions requires a method to quickly and accurately evaluate the low-thrust transfer between any two visiting targets. Complete evaluation of the low-thrust transfer includes not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Yue-he Zhu , Ya-zhong Luo

We propose an efficient numerical algorithm for the solution of diffeomorphic image registration problems. We use a variational formulation constrained by a partial differential equation (PDE), where the constraints are a scalar transport…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-02 Andreas Mang , George Biros

We show that using the multi-splitting algorithm as a preconditioner for the domain wall Dirac linear operator, arising in lattice QCD, effectively reduces the inter-node communication cost, at the expense of performing more on-node…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2021-09-09 Jiqun Tu , M. A. Clark , Chulwoo Jung , Robert Mawhinney