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Spectral methods, thanks to their high accuracy and the possibility to use fast algorithms, represent an effective way to approximate the collisional kinetic equations of Boltzmann type, such as the Boltzmann-Nordheim equation. This…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-10-27 Alexandre Mouton , Thomas Rey

We present a spectral Petrov-Galerkin method for the Boltzmann collision operator. We expand the density distribution $f$ to high order orthogonal polynomials multiplied by a Maxwellian. By that choice, we can approximate on the whole…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-03-06 Gerhard Kitzler , Joachim Schöberl

Ideal gases can be modeled by the Boltzmann equation from statistical physics. Instead of trying to track the position and velocity of a large number of gas molecules, it is possible to describe the particles with a particle distribution…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-27 Vienna B. Rossmanith

In this paper we present a parallelization strategy on distributed memory systems for the Fast Kinetic Scheme --- a semi-Lagrangian scheme developed in [J. Comput. Phys., Vol. 255, 2013, pp 680-698] for solving kinetic equations. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-01-09 Jacek Narski

This paper is concerned with the problem of recovering third-order tensor data from limited samples. A recently proposed tensor decomposition (BMD) method has been shown to efficiently compress third-order spatiotemporal data. Using the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-21 Fan Tian , Mirjeta Pasha , Misha E. Kilmer , Eric Miller , Abani Patra

We present a framework using the Quantized Tensor Train (QTT) decomposition to accurately and efficiently solve volume and boundary integral equations in three dimensions. We describe how the QTT decomposition can be used as a hierarchical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-10-04 Eduardo Corona , Abtin Rahimian , Denis Zorin

In this work, we introduce an interior-point method that employs tensor decompositions to efficiently represent and manipulate the variables and constraints of semidefinite programs, targeting problems where the solutions may not be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-16 Frederik Kelbel , Sergey Dolgov , Dante Kalise , Alessandra Russo

An explicit solution of the stationary one dimensional half-space boundary value problem for the linear Boltzmann equation is presented in the presence of an arbitrarily high constant external field. The collision kernel is assumed to be…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-09-08 C. Dalitz , E. H. de Groot

In intelligent transportation systems, traffic data imputation, estimating the missing value from partially observed data is an inevitable and challenging task. Previous studies have not fully considered traffic data's multidimensionality…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-11-01 Wenwu Gong , Zhejun Huang , Lili Yang

In this paper, new implicit methods with reduced memory are developed for solving the time-dependent Boltzmann transport equation (BTE). One-group transport problems in 1D slab geometry are considered. The reduced-memory methods are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-18 Rylan C. Paye , Dmitriy Y. Anistratov , Jim E. Morel , James S. Warsa

This paper presents a numerical framework for the low-rank approximation of the solution to three-dimensional parabolic problems. The key contribution of this work is the tensorization process based on a tensor-train reformulation of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-15 Gianmarco Manzini , Tommaso Sorgente

We present Tensor4D, an efficient yet effective approach to dynamic scene modeling. The key of our solution is an efficient 4D tensor decomposition method so that the dynamic scene can be directly represented as a 4D spatio-temporal tensor.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Ruizhi Shao , Zerong Zheng , Hanzhang Tu , Boning Liu , Hongwen Zhang , Yebin Liu

In this paper, we propose a tensor type of discretization and optimization process for solving high dimensional partial differential equations. First, we design the tensor type of trial function for the high dimensional partial differential…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-01 Yangfei Liao , Yifan Wang , Hehu Xie

This paper presents a convolution tensor decomposition based model reduction method for solving the Allen-Cahn equation. The Allen-Cahn equation is usually used to characterize phase separation or the motion of anti-phase boundaries in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-06 Ye Lu , Chaoqian Yuan , Han Guo

We develop an efficient algorithm for a spatially inhomogeneous matrix-valued quantum Boltzmann equation derived from the Hubbard model. The distribution functions are $2 \times 2$ matrix-valued to accommodate the spin degree of freedom,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-05-15 Jianfeng Lu , Christian B. Mendl

Tensor network (TN) representation is a powerful technique for computer vision and machine learning. TN structure search (TN-SS) aims to search for a customized structure to achieve a compact representation, which is a challenging NP-hard…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Yu-Bang Zheng , Xi-Le Zhao , Junhua Zeng , Chao Li , Qibin Zhao , Heng-Chao Li , Ting-Zhu Huang

We present a new numerical algorithm based on a relative energy scaling for collisional kinetic equations allowing to study numerically their long time behavior, without the usual problems related to the change of scales in velocity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-04 Francis Filbet , Thomas Rey

This work proposes a novel numerical scheme for solving the high-dimensional Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation with a functional hierarchical tensor ansatz. We consider the setting of stochastic control, whereby one applies control to a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-01 Xun Tang , Nan Sheng , Lexing Ying

We develop a computationally and numerically efficient method to calculate binding energies and corresponding wave functions of quantum mechanical three-body problems in low dimensions. Our approach exploits the tensor structure of the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-03-04 Jonas Thies , Moritz Travis Hof , Matthias Zimmermann , Maxim Efremov

In this paper, we propose a moment method to numerically solve the Vlasov equations using the framework of the NRxx method developed in [6, 8, 7] for the Boltzmann equation. Due to the same convection term of the Boltzmann equation and the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-09-05 Zhenning Cai , Ruo Li , Yanli Wang