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A grid-overlay finite difference method is proposed for the numerical approximation of the fractional Laplacian on arbitrary bounded domains. The method uses an unstructured simplicial mesh and an overlay uniform grid for the underlying…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-08 Weizhang Huang , Jinye Shen

We extend our finite difference time domain method for numerical solution of the Schrodinger equation to cases where eigenfunctions are complex-valued. Illustrative numerical results for an electron in two dimensions, subject to a confining…

Computational Physics · Physics 2008-07-05 I. Wayan Sudiarta , D. J. Wallace Geldart

Fourth-order differential equations play an important role in many applications in science and engineering. In this paper, we present a three-field mixed finite-element formulation for fourth-order problems, with a focus on the effective…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-13 Patrick E. Farrell , Abdalaziz Hamdan , Scott P. MacLachlan

We present a real-space formulation and higher-order finite-difference implementation of periodic Orbital-free Density Functional Theory (OF-DFT). Specifically, utilizing a local reformulation of the electrostatic and kernel terms, we…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-12-23 Swarnava Ghosh , Phanish Suryanarayana

It is known that the digital waveguide (DW) method for solving the wave equation numerically on a grid can be manipulated into the form of the standard finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method (also known as the ``leapfrog'' recursion).…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 Julius O. Smith

The finite strain theory is reformulated in the frame of the Tangential Differential Calculus (TDC) resulting in a unification in a threefold sense. Firstly, ropes, membranes and three-dimensional continua are treated with one set of…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Thomas-Peter Fries , Daniel Schöllhammer

A more accurate, stable, finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) algorithm is developed for simulating Maxwell's equations with isotropic or anisotropic dielectric materials. This algorithm is in many cases more accurate than previous…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Gregory R. Werner , Carl A. Bauer , John R. Cary

Geometric particle-in-cell discretizations have been derived based on a discretization of the fields that is conforming with the de Rham structure of the Maxwell's equation and a standard particle-in-cell ansatz for the fields by deriving…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-10 Katharina Kormann , Eric Sonnendrücker

The Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD) method is a well-known technique for the analysis of quantum devices. It solves a discretized Schrodinger equation in an explicitly iterative process. However, the method requires the spatial grid…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-12-05 Frederick Ira Moxley , Weizhong Dai

Static electric response properties of atoms and molecules are reported within the real-space Cartesian grid implementation of pseudopotential Kohn-Sham (KS) density functional theory (DFT). A detailed systematic investigation is made for a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-04-26 Tanmay Mandal , Abhisek Ghosal , Amlan K. Roy

The continuum description of active particle systems is an efficient instrument to analyze a finite size particle dynamics in the limit of a large number of particles. However, it is often the case that such equations appear as nonlinear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-30 Nikita Kruk , José A. Carrillo , Heinz Koeppl

We develop efficient and high-order accurate finite difference methods for elliptic partial differential equations in complex geometry in the Difference Potentials framework. The main novelty of the developed schemes is the use of local…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-28 Qing Xia

Ill-conditioning of the system matrix is a well-known complication in immersed finite element methods and trimmed isogeometric analysis. Elements with small intersections with the physical domain yield problematic eigenvalues in the system…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-17 F. de Prenter , C. V. Verhoosel , E. H. van Brummelen , J. A. Evans , C. Messe , J. Benzaken , K. Maute

Several finite difference methods are proposed for the infinitesimal generator of 1D asymmetric $\alpha$-stable L\'{e}vy motions, based on the fact that the operator becomes a multiplier in the spectral space. These methods take the general…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-08-21 Yanghong Huang , Xiao Wang

In this paper we study the variational method and integral equation methods for a conical diffraction problem for imperfectly conducting gratings modeled by the impedance boundary value problem of the Helmholtz equation in periodic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-05 Guanghui Hu , Jiayi Zhang , Linlin Zhu

A two-channel problem is considered within a method based on first order differential equations that are equivalent to the corresponding Schr\"odinger equation but are more convenient for dealing with resonant phenomena. Using these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 S. A. Rakityansky , N. Elander

A Discrete Fourier Transform Method (DFTM) for discrimination between the signal of neutrons and gamma rays in organic scintillation detectors is presented. The method is based on the transformation of signals into the frequency domain…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-11-03 M. J. Safari , F. Abbasi Davani , H. Afarideh , S. Jamili , E. Bayat

We propose a finite difference scheme to simulate solutions to a certain type of hyperbolic stochastic partial differential equation (HSPDE). These solutions can in turn estimate so called volatility modulated Volterra (VMV) processes and…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-02-10 Fred Espen Benth , Heidar Eyjolfsson

We discuss algorithms applicable to the numerical solution of second-order ordinary differential equations by finite-differences. We make particular reference to the solution of the dissipative particle dynamics fluid model, and present…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 Keir E. Novik , Peter V. Coveney

In multi-phase fluid flow, fluid-structure interaction, and other applications, partial differential equations (PDEs) often arise with discontinuous coefficients and singular sources (e.g., Dirac delta functions). These complexities arise…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-24 Chung-Nan Tzou , Samuel Stechmann