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The present paper describes a parallel unstructured-mesh Plasma simulation code based on Finite Volume method. The code dynamically refines and coarses mesh for accurate resolution of the different features regarding the electron density.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-12-26 Imad Kissami , Souhail Maazioui , Fayssal Benkhaldoun

This note is intended as a brief introduction to the theory and practice of perfectly matched layer (PML) absorbing boundaries for wave equations, originally developed for MIT courses 18.369 and 18.336. It focuses on the complex…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2021-08-12 Steven G. Johnson

Masked diffusion models (MDMs) for text offer a compelling alternative to traditional autoregressive language models. Parallel generation makes them efficient, but their computational capabilities and the limitations inherent in their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Anej Svete , Ashish Sabharwal

This paper is concerned with the thermoelastic obstacle scattering problem in three dimensions. A uniaxial perfectly matched layer (PML) method is firstly introduced to truncate the unbounded scattering problem, leading to a truncated PML…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-06 Qianyuan Yin , Changkun Wei , Bo Zhang

As nanofabrication techniques become more precise, with ever smaller feature sizes, the ability to model nonlocal effects in plasmonics becomes increasingly important. While nonlocal models based on hydrodynamics have been implemented using…

Optics · Physics 2021-07-28 Joshua Baxter , Antonino Calà Lesina , Lora Ramunno

In spite of the great potential of large language models (LLMs) across various tasks, their deployment on resource-constrained devices remains challenging due to their excessive computational and memory demands. Quantization has emerged as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Hao Mark Chen , Fuwen Tan , Alexandros Kouris , Royson Lee , Hongxiang Fan , Stylianos I. Venieris

Federated learning (FL) provides a privacy-preserving solution for fine-tuning pre-trained large language models (LLMs) using distributed private datasets, enabling task-specific adaptation while preserving data privacy. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Na Yan , Yang Su , Yansha Deng , Robert Schober

A finite difference method (FDM) applicable to a two dimensional (2D) quantum dot was developed as a non-conventional approach to the theoretical understandings of quantum devices. This method can be applied to a realistic potential with an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-16 Jai Seok Ahn

This paper reviews the state of the art of periodic boundary conditions (PBCs) in Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD) simulations. The mathematical principles and 3D FDTD implementation details are systematically outlined. Techniques for…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-08-06 Aaron J. Kogon , Costas D. Sarris

This study focuses on solving the numerical challenges of imposing absorbing boundary conditions for dynamic simulations in the material point method (MPM). To attenuate elastic waves leaving the computational domain, the current work…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-01-24 Jun Kurima , Bodhinanda Chandra , Kenichi Soga

Matched layers are commonly used in numerical simulations of wave propagation to model (semi-)infinite domains. Attenuation functions describe the damping in layers, and provide a matching of the wave impedance at the interface between the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2016-02-01 Steven Vandekerckhove , Garth N. Wells , Herbert De Gersem , Koen Van Den Abeele

An exact arithmetic, memory efficient direct solution method for finite element method (FEM) computations is outlined. Unlike conventional black-box or low-rank direct solvers that are opaque to the underlying physical problem, the proposed…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-02-13 Javad Moshfegh , Marinos N. Vouvakis

In this paper, we design a truly exact and optimal perfect absorbing layer (PAL) for domain truncation of the two-dimensional Helmholtz equation in an unbounded domain with bounded scatterers. This technique is based on a complex…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-22 Zhiguo Yang , Li-Lian Wang , Yang Gao

Orbital-free density functional theory (OF-DFT) is a promising method for large-scale quantum mechanics simulation as it provides a good balance of accuracy and computational cost. Its applicability to large-scale simulations has been aided…

Leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) as federated learning (FL)-based time series foundation models offers a promising way to transfer the generalization capabilities of LLMs to time series data while preserving access to private data.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Liwei Deng , Qingxiang Liu , Xinhe Niu , Shengchao Chen , Sheng Sun , Yuankai Wu , Guodong Long , Yuxuan Liang

This work proposes and analyzes a fully discrete numerical scheme for solving the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert (LLG) equation, which achieves fourth-order spatial accuracy and third-order temporal accuracy.Spatially, fourth-order accuracy is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-30 Changjian Xie , Cheng Wang

Metasurfaces, consisting of large arrays of interacting subwavelength scatterers, pose significant challenges for general-purpose computational methods due to their large electric dimensions and multiscale nature. This paper introduces an…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-10-07 Emanuele Corsaro , Giovanni Miano , Antonello Tamburrino , Salvatore Ventre , Carlo Forestiere

Direct solvers are a common method for solving finite difference frequency domain (FDFD) systems that arise in numerical solutions of Maxwell's equations. In a direct solver, one factorizes the system matrix. Since the system matrix is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-27 Nathan Zhao , Shanhui Fan

The ability to simulate the partial differential equations (PDE's) that govern multi-phase flow in porous media is essential for different applications such as geologic sequestration of CO2, groundwater flow monitoring and hydrocarbon…

Geophysics · Physics 2022-03-11 Gerald Kelechi Ekechukwu , Romain de Loubens , Mauricio Araya-Polo

A class of nonstandard pseudospectral time domain (PSTD) schemes for solving time-dependent hyperbolic and parabolic partial differential equations (PDEs) is introduced. These schemes use the Fourier collocation spectral method to compute…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-03-23 Bradley E. Treeby , Elliott S. Wise , B. T. Cox