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We develop a family of compact high-order semi-Lagrangian label-setting methods for solving the eikonal equation. These solvers march the total 1-jet of the eikonal, and use Hermite interpolation to approximate the eikonal and parametrize…

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The widely used AZURV1 transport benchmarks package provides a suite of solutions to isotropic scattering transport problems with a variety of initial conditions (Ganapol 2001). Most of these solutions have an initial condition that is a…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-06-16 William Bennett , Ryan G. McClarren

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…

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We present ECOM (Equilibrium solver via COnformal Mapping), a fast and accurate fixed boundary solver for toroidally axisymmetric magnetohydrodynamic equilibria with or without a toroidal flow. ECOM combines conformal mapping and Fourier…

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This study investigates numerical methods to solve nonlinear transport problems characterized by various sorption isotherms with a focus on the Freundlich type of isotherms. We describe and compare second order accurate numerical schemes,…

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Efficient numerical solution of the acoustic Helmholtz equation in heterogeneous media remains challenging, particularly for large-scale problems with spatially-varying density - a limitation that restricts applications in biomedical…

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Traveltime tomography is a very effective tool to reconstruct acoustic, seismic or electromagnetic wave speed distribution. To infer the velocity image of the medium from the measurements of first arrivals is a typical example of ill-posed…

Geophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Vignoli , L. Zanzi

Entropic optimal transport (EOT) via Sinkhorn iterations is widely used in modern machine learning, yet GPU solvers remain inefficient at scale. Tensorized implementations suffer quadratic HBM traffic from dense $n\times m$ interactions,…

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Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-21 Michael V. Klibanova Jingzhi Li , Wenlong Zhang

A hybrid Maxwell solver for fully relativistic and electromagnetic (EM) particle-in-cell (PIC) codes is described. In this solver, the EM fields are solved in $k$ space by performing an FFT in one direction, while using finite difference…

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To recover the flow information encoded in travel-time data of time-distance helioseismology, accurate forward modeling and a robust inversion of the travel times are required. We accomplish this using three-dimensional finite-frequency…

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Motivated by the study of uniaxial crystal optics, we consider a coupled system of $3D$ anisotropic wave equations, in which they have the same speed only in one direction but distinct speeds in the other directions. Moreover, this system…

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Accurate reconstruction of 2D and 3D isotope densities is a desired capability with great potential impact in applications such as evaluation and development of next-generation nuclear fuels. Neutron time-of-flight (TOF) resonance imaging…

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For the first time, a globally convergent numerical method is developed and Lipschitz stability estimate is obtained for the challenging problem of travel time tomography in 3D for formally determined incomplete data. The semidiscrete case…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-04-16 Michael V. Klibanov

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