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We formulate and test a hybrid fluid-Monte Carlo scheme for the treatment of elastic collisions in gases and plasmas. While our primary focus and demonstrations of applicability are for moderately collisional plasmas, as described by the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 L. F. Ricketson , M. S. Rosin , R. E. Caflisch , Andris M. Dimits

We propose and investigate a new multi-level Monte Carlo scheme for numerical solutions of the kinetic Boltzmann equation for neutral species in edge plasmas. In particular, this method explicitly exploits a key structural property of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-12-11 Gregory J. Parker , Maxim V. Umansky , Benjamin D. Dudson

This short note presents an extension of the hybrid, model-adaptation method introduced in [T.~Laidin, \textit{arXiv 2202.03696}, 2022] for linear collisional kinetic equations in a diffusive scaling to the nonlinear mean-field…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-16 Tino Laidin , Thomas Rey

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

In this article, we are interested in the asymptotic analysis of a finite volume scheme for one dimensional linear kinetic equations, with either Fokker-Planck or linearized BGK collision operator. Thanks to appropriate uniform estimates,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-11-12 Marianne Bessemoulin-Chatard , Maxime Herda , Thomas Rey

This paper introduces and analyses interacting underdamped Langevin algorithms, termed Kinetic Interacting Particle Langevin Monte Carlo (KIPLMC) methods, for statistical inference in latent variable models. We propose a diffusion process…

Computation · Statistics 2026-04-17 Paul Felix Valsecchi Oliva , O. Deniz Akyildiz

We are interested in this work in the numerical resolution of the Quantum Liouville-BGK equation, which arises in the derivation of quantum hydrodynamical models from first principles. Such models are often obtained in some asymptotic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-21 Romain Duboscq , Olivier Pinaud

Cellular scale decision making is modulated by the dynamics of signalling molecules and their diffusive trajectories from a source to small absorbing sites on the cellular surface. Diffusive capture problems are computationally challenging…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-16 Alan E. Lindsay , Andrew J. Bernoff

The kinetic Monte Carlo (kMC) method is used in many scientific fields in applications involving rare-event transitions. Due to its discrete stochastic nature, efforts to parallelize kMC approaches often produce unbalanced time evolutions…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-01-04 Jerome P. Nilmeier , Jaime Marian

In this work, high order asymptotic preserving schemes are constructed and analysed for kinetic equations under a diffusive scaling. The framework enables to consider different cases: the diffusion equation, the advection-diffusion equation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-24 Megala Anandan , Benjamin Boutin , Nicolas Crouseilles

In this paper, we propose a general framework to design asymptotic preserving schemes for the Boltzmann kinetic kinetic and related equations. Numerically solving these equations are challenging due to the nonlinear stiff collision (source)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-13 Francis Filbet , S. Jin

The Direct Simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) method is widely employed for simulating rarefied nonequilibrium gas flows. With advances in aerospace engineering and micro/nano-scale technologies, gas flows exhibit the coexistence of rarefied and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-07-01 Hao Jin , Sha Liu , Sirui Yang , Junzhe Cao , Congshan Zhuo , Chengwen Zhong

In this paper we develop high-order asymptotic-preserving methods for the spatially inhomogeneous quantum Boltzmann equation. We follow the work in Li and Pareschi, where asymptotic preserving exponential Runge-Kutta methods for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-10-30 Jingwei Hu , Qin Li , Lorenzo Pareschi

Microscopic processes on surfaces such as adsorption, desorption, diffusion and reaction of interacting particles can be simulated using kinetic Monte Carlo (kMC) algorithms. Even though kMC methods are accurate, they are computationally…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-12-24 Yannis Pantazis , Markos Katsoulakis

In this work we numerically study the diffusive limit of run & tumble kinetic models for cell motion due to chemotaxis by means of asymptotic preserving schemes. It is well-known that the diffusive limit of these models leads to the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-10-18 Jose A. Carrillo , Bokai Yan

We propose a control variate multilevel Monte Carlo method for the kinetic BGK model of the Boltzmann equation subject to random inputs. The method combines a multilevel Monte Carlo technique with the computation of the optimal control…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-17 Jingwei Hu , Lorenzo Pareschi , Yubo Wang

In this paper, we introduce a bi-fidelity algorithm for velocity discretization of Boltzmann-type kinetic equations under multiple scales. The proposed method employs a simpler and computationally cheaper low-fidelity model to capture a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-29 Nicolas Crouseilles , Zhen Hao , Liu Liu

We recently demonstrated that standard fixed-time lattice random-walk models cannot be modified to properly represent biased diffusion processes in more than two dimensions. The origin of this fundamental limitation appears to be the fact…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2009-11-10 Michel G. Gauthier , Gary W. Slater

We analyse the convergence and stability of a micro-macro acceleration algorithm for Monte Carlo simulations of stiff stochastic differential equations with a time-scale separation between the fast evolution of the individual stochastic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Przemysław Zieliński , Hannes Vandecasteele , Giovanni Samaey

Kinetic transport models are mesoscopic mathematical descriptions of the transport of particles as well as their interactions with the background media or among themselves, and they have wide applications in many areas of mathematical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-08 Kimberly Matsuda , Fengyan Li