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Efficient and accurate numerical approximation of the full Boltzmann equation has been a longstanding challenging problem in kinetic theory. This is mainly due to the high dimensionality of the problem and the complicated collision…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-07 Jingwei Hu , Yubo Wang

High-dimensional partial-differential equations (PDEs) arise in a number of fields of science and engineering, where they are used to describe the evolution of joint probability functions. Their examples include the Boltzmann and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-17 A. M. P. Boelens , D. Venturi , D. M. Tartakovsky

The numerical approximation of partial differential equations (PDEs) poses formidable challenges in high dimensions since classical grid-based methods suffer from the so-called curse of dimensionality. Recent attempts rely on a combination…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-31 Lorenz Richter , Leon Sallandt , Nikolas Nüsken

We are concerned with the numerical solution of a class integro-differential equations, known as Neural Field Equations, which describe the large-scale dynamics of spatially structured networks of neurons. These equations have many…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-09-01 Pedro M. Lima , Evelyn Buckwar

In this paper, we develop a numerical resolution of the space-time fractional advection-dispersion equation. After time discretization, we utilize collocation technique and implement a product integration method in order to simplify the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-05-09 S. Javadi , M. Jani , E. Babolian

High-dimensional partial differential equations (PDEs) are ubiquitous in economics, science and engineering. However, their numerical treatment poses formidable challenges since traditional grid-based methods tend to be frustrated by the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-07-20 Lorenz Richter , Leon Sallandt , Nikolas Nüsken

Several different approaches are proposed for solving fully implicit discretizations of a simplified Boltzmann-Poisson system with a linear relaxation-type collision kernel. This system models the evolution of free electrons in…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-07-15 M. Paul Laiu , Zheng Chen , Cory D. Hauck

We present a new method based on functional tensor decomposition and dynamic tensor approximation to compute the solution of a high-dimensional time-dependent nonlinear partial differential equation (PDE). The idea of dynamic approximation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-14 Alec Dektor , Daniele Venturi

We introduce the tensor numerical method for solving optimal control problems that are constrained by fractional 2D and 3D elliptic operators with variable coefficients. We solve the governing equation for the control function which…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-07 Britta Schmitt , Boris N. Khoromskij , Venera Khoromskaia , Volker Schulz

Nonlinear filtering with correlated noise leads to a Duncan-Mortensen-Zakai (DMZ) equation in the form of a stochastic partial differential equation (SPDE). Unlike the independent noise case, the presence of correlation prevents the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Yuhua Meng , Stephen S. -T. Yau , Zhiwen Zhang

Event-by-event QCD kinetic theory simulations are hindered by the large numerical cost of evaluating the high-dimensional collision integral in the Boltzmann equation. In this work, we show that a neural network can be used to obtain an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-18 Sergio Barrera Cabodevila , Aleksi Kurkela , Florian Lindenbauer

Discrete-velocity approximations represent a popular way for computing the Boltzmann collision operator. The direct numerical evaluation of such methods involve a prohibitive cost, typically $O(N^{2d+1})$ where $d$ is the dimension of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-01-15 Clément Mouhot , Lorenzo Pareschi , Thomas Rey

Dynamic mode decomposition (DMD) has become a powerful data-driven method for analyzing the spatiotemporal dynamics of complex, high-dimensional systems. However, conventional DMD methods are limited to matrix-based formulations, which…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-05 Ziqin He , Mengqi Hu , Yifei Lou , Can Chen

Tensor network (TN) methods are well established for computing partition functions in statistical mechanics, though this use has traditionally been limited to lattice models. We extend the scope of TN methodology to interacting particle…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-29 Gunhee Park , Tomislav Begušić , Si-Jing Du , Johnnie Gray , Garnet Kin-Lic Chan

The kinetic Boltzmann equation models gas dynamics over a wide range of spatial and temporal scales. Simplified versions of the full Boltzmann collision operator, such as the classical Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook and the closely related…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-29 James A. Rossmanith , Preeti Sar

Motion planning and control problems are embedded and essential in almost all robotics applications. These problems are often formulated as stochastic optimal control problems and solved using dynamic programming algorithms. Unfortunately,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-01-12 Alex A. Gorodetsky , Sertac Karaman , Youssef M. Marzouk

In this work, we present a hierarchical domain decomposition method for the multi-scale Boltzmann equation based on moment realizability matrices, a concept introduced by Levermore, Morokoff, and Nadiga in \cite{lev-mor-nad-1998}. This…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-07 Domenico Caparello , Lorenzo Pareschi , Thomas Rey

We introduce numerical solvers for the steady-state Boltzmann equation based on the symmetric Gauss-Seidel (SGS) method. Due to the quadratic collision operator in the Boltzmann equation, the SGS method requires solving a nonlinear system…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-11-27 Tianai Yin , Zhenning Cai , Yanli Wang

This article proposes a new statistical numerical method to address gas kinetics problems obeying the Boltzmann equation. This method is inspired from some Monte-Carlo algorithms used in linear transport physics, where virtual particles are…

Tensor B-spline methods are a high-performance alternative to solve partial differential equations (PDEs). This paper gives an overview on the principles of Tensor B-spline methodology, shows their use and analyzes their performance in…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Dmytro Shulga , Oleksii Morozov , Volker Roth , Felix Friedrich , Patrick Hunziker
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