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I describe a modification to the original Fast Multipole Method (FMM) of Greengard & Rokhlin that approximates the gravitation field of an FMM cell as a small uniform grid (a "gridlet") of effective masses. The effective masses on a gridlet…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-07-31 Nickolay Y. Gnedin

We develop an algorithm for the asymptotically fast evaluation of layer potentials close to and on the source geometry, combining Geometric Global Accelerated QBX (`GIGAQBX') and target-specific expansions. GIGAQBX is a fast high-order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-11-18 Matt Wala , Andreas Klöckner

This paper introduces a parallel directional fast multipole method (FMM) for solving N-body problems with highly oscillatory kernels, with a focus on the Helmholtz kernel in three dimensions. This class of oscillatory kernels requires a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-01-08 Austin R. Benson , Jack Poulson , Kenneth Tran , Björn Engquist , Lexing Ying

The Fast Multipole Method (FMM) is well known to possess a bottleneck arising from decreasing workload on higher levels of the FMM tree [Greengard and Gropp, Comp. Math. Appl., 20(7), 1990]. We show that this potential bottleneck can be…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2010-08-17 Matthew G. Knepley

In this paper, we propose a fast multipole method (FMM) for 3-D linearized Poisson-Boltzmann (PB) equation in layered media. The main framework of the algorithm is analogous to the FMM for Helmholtz and Laplace equation in layered media…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-02 Bo Wang , Wen Zhong Zhang , Wei Cai

Fast Multipole Methods (FMMs) based on the oscillatory Helmholtz kernel can reduce the cost of solving N-body problems arising from Boundary Integral Equations (BIEs) in acoustic or electromagnetics. However, their cost strongly increases…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-11 Igor Chollet , Xavier Claeys , Pierre Fortin , Laura Grigori

The Laplace-Beltrami problem on closed surfaces embedded in three dimensions arises in many areas of physics, including molecular dynamics (surface diffusion), electromagnetics (harmonic vector fields), and fluid dynamics (vesicle…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-12 Dhwanit Agarwal , Michael O'Neil , Manas Rachh

The Fast Multipole Method (FMM) is an efficient numerical algorithm for computation of long-ranged forces in $N$-body problems within gravitational and electrostatic fields. This method utilizes multipole expansions of the Green's function…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Emilio McAllister Fognini , Marta M. Betcke , Ben T. Cox

This article introduces a new fast direct solver for linear systems arising out of wide range of applications, integral equations, multivariate statistics, radial basis interpolation, etc., to name a few. \emph{The highlight of this new…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-07-08 Sivaram Ambikasaran , Eric Darve

The fast multipole method (FMM) has received growing attention in the beam physics simulation. In this study, we formulate an interpolation-based FMM for the computation of the relativistic space-charge field. Different to the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 Yi-Kai Kan , Franz X. Kärtner , Sabine Le Borne , Jens-Peter M. Zemke

The Fast Multipole Method (FMM) provides a highly efficient computational tool for solving constant coefficient partial differential equations (e.g. the Poisson equation) on infinite domains. The solution to such an equation is given as the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-01-04 A. Gillman , P. G. Martinsson

The Fast Multipole Method (FMM) reduces the computation of pairwise two-body interactions among $N$-particles to order $N$, whose computation cost should be of order $N^2$ by brute force. However, its implementation is somewhat complicated…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-09-03 Yasuhiro Kajima

In this paper, we use multithreaded fast Fourier transforms provided in three highly optimized packages, FFTW-2.1.5, FFTW-3.3.7, and Intel MKL FFT, to present a novel model-based parallel computing technique as a very effective and portable…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-08-17 Semyon Khokhriakov , Ravi Reddy , Alexey Lastovetsky

We introduce the use of the Fast Multipole Method (FMM) to speed up gravitational lensing ray tracing calculations. The method allows very fast calculation of ray deflections when a large number of deflectors, $N_*$, is involved, while…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-21 J. Jiménez Vicente , E. Mediavilla

We derive a Fast Multipole Method (FMM) where a low-rank approximation of the kernel is obtained using the Empirical Interpolation Method (EIM). Contrary to classical interpolation-based FMM, where the interpolation points and basis are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-08-25 Fabien Casenave

In this paper, we present a fast multipole method (FMM) for solving the two-dimensional Laplace equation in a half-plane with Robin boundary conditions. The method is based on a novel expansion theory for the reaction component of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-30 Chunzhi Xiang , Bo Wang , Wenzhong Zhang , Wei Cai

Quadrature by Expansion (QBX) is a quadrature method for approximating the value of the singular integrals encountered in the evaluation of layer potentials. It exploits the smoothness of the layer potential by forming locally-valid…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-06 Matt Wala , Andreas Klöckner

In this paper, we present a fast boundary integral method accelerated by the fast multipole method (FMM) for acoustic wave scattering governed by the scalar Helmholtz equation in multi-layered two-dimensional media. Multiple scatterers are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Linfeng Xia , Heng Yuan , Bo Wang , Wei Cai

Fast multipole methods (FMM) were originally developed for accelerating $N$-body problems for particle-based methods. FMM is more than an $N$-body solver, however. Recent efforts to view the FMM as an elliptic Partial Differential Equation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-09 Huda Ibeid , Rio Yokota , David Keyes

Integral equation methods for the solution of partial differential equations, when coupled with suitable fast algorithms, yield geometrically flexible, asymptotically optimal and well-conditioned schemes in either interior or exterior…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-05 Andreas Klöckner , Alexander Barnett , Leslie Greengard , Michael O'Neil