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This paper presents a new code for performing multidimensional radiation hydrodynamic (RHD) simulations on parallel computers involving anisotropic radiation fields and nonequilibrium effects. The radiation evolution modules described here…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 John C. Hayes , Michael L. Norman

We present a new solver for coupled nonlinear elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs). The solver is based on pseudo-spectral collocation with domain decomposition and can handle one- to three-dimensional problems. It has three…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Harald P. Pfeiffer , Lawrence E. Kidder , Mark A. Scheel , Saul A. Teukolsky

We present an extension of the Piecewise Parabolic Method to special relativistic fluid dynamics in multidimensions. The scheme is conservative, dimensionally unsplit, and suitable for a general equation of state. Temporal evolution is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Mignone , T. Plewa , G. Bodo

A new approach to simulating warm and hot dense matter that combines density functional theory based calculations of the electronic structure to classical molecular dynamics simulations with pair interaction potentials is presented. The new…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 C. E. Starrett , J. Daligault , D. Saumon

This paper is concerned with the numerical solution of porous-media flow and transport problems , i. e. heterogeneous, advection-diffusion problems. Its aim is to investigate numerical schemes for these problems in which different time…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-05-20 Thi-Thao-Phuong Hoang , Caroline Japhet , Michel Kern , Jean E. Roberts

Numerical solution of equations governing time domain simulations in computational electromagnetics, is usually based on grid methods in space and on explicit schemes for the time evolution. A predefined grid in the problem domain and a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-04-29 Guido Ala , Elisa Francomano

We describe a fourth-order accurate finite-difference time-domain scheme for solving dispersive Maxwell's equations with nonlinear multi-level carrier kinetics models. The scheme is based on an efficient single-step three time-level…

This paper introduces a novel formulation of the Particle-In-Cell (PIC) method for the modeling of relativistic plasmas, which leverages the ability of the Pseudo-Spectral Analytical Time-Domain solver (PSATD) to handle arbitrary time…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-12-29 Olga Shapoval , Edoardo Zoni , Remi Lehe , Maxence Thevenet , Jean-Luc Vay

We briefly report and elaborate on some conditions allowing a hydrodynamic description of the impact of a very short and arbitrarily intense laser pulse onto a cold plasma, as well as the localization of the first wave-breaking due to the…

We consider the free boundary problem for a plasma--vacuum interface in ideal incompressible magnetohydrodynamics. Unlike the classical statement, where the vacuum magnetic field obeys the div-curl system of pre-Maxwell dynamics, we do not…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-02-17 Paolo Secchi , Yuan Yuan

Contributions of the current-current and Darwin interactions and weak-relativistic addition to kinetic energy in the quantum hydrodynamic equations are considered. Features of hydrodynamic equations for two-dimensional layer of plasma…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2014-07-02 Pavel Andreev , Alexey Ivanov , Leonid Kuz'menkov

The capability to accurately predict flood flows via numerical simulations is a key component of contemporary flood risk management practice. However, modern flood models lack the capacity to accurately model flow interactions with linear…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-12-09 James Mckenna , Vassilis Glenis , Chris Kilsby

This paper is concerned with boundary integral equation methods for solving the two-dimensional fluid-solid interaction problem. We reduce the problem to three differential systems of boundary integral equations via direct and indirect…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-09-01 Tao Yin , George C. Hsiao , Liwei Xu

Two-fluid ideal plasma equations are a generalized form of the ideal MHD equations in which electrons and ions are considered as separate species. The design of efficient numerical schemes for the these equations is complicated on account…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-07-31 Harish Kumar , Siddhartha Mishra

In the paper, a novel algorithm employing pseudo-spectral approach is developed for the PKN model of hydrofracturing. The respective solvers based on this approach compute both the solution and its temporal derivative. In comparison with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-03-26 Michal Wrobel , Gennady Mishuris

The accuracy and stability of implicit CFD codes are frequently impaired by the decoupling between variables, which can ultimately lead to numerical divergence. Coupled solvers, which solve all the governing equations simultaneously, have…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-09-24 Francisco Pimenta , Manuel A. Alves

We develop a new semi-analytical method for solving multilayer diffusion problems with time-varying external boundary conditions and general internal boundary conditions at the interfaces between adjacent layers. The convergence rate of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-26 Elliot J. Carr , Nathan G. March

Implicit particle-in-cell codes offer advantages over their explicit counterparts in that they suffer weaker stability constraints on the need to resolve the higher frequency modes of the system. This feature may prove particularly valuable…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Mathieu Drouin , Laurent Gremillet , Jean-Claude Adam , Anne Héron

Kinetic equations are difficult to solve numerically due to their high dimensionality. A promising approach for reducing computational cost is the dynamical low-rank algorithm, which decouples the dimensions of the phase space by proposing…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-26 Jack Coughlin , Jingwei Hu