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We present a fast, direct and adaptive Poisson solver for complex two-dimensional geometries based on potential theory and fast multipole acceleration. More precisely, the solver relies on the standard decomposition of the solution as the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-05-24 Travis Askham , Antoine J Cerfon

We present an efficient numerical method, inspired by transformation optics, for solving the Poisson equation in complex and arbitrarily shaped geometries. The approach operates by mapping the physical domain to a uniform computational…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Deepak Gautam , Bhooshan Paradkar

Large classes of materials systems in physics and engineering are governed by magnetic and electrostatic interactions. Continuum or mesoscale descriptions of such systems can be cast in terms of integral equations, whose direct…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-08-15 Xikai Jiang , Jiyuan Li , Xujun Zhao , Jian Qin , Dmitry Karpeev , Juan Hernandez-Ortiz , Juan de Pablo , Olle Heinonen

We present a fast and accurate algorithm to solve Poisson problems in complex geometries, using regular Cartesian grids. We consider a variety of configurations, including Poisson problems with interfaces across which the solution is…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-11-07 Alexandre Noll Marques , Jean-Christophe Nave , Rodolfo Ruben Rosales

We propose an efficient algorithm for the evaluation of the potential and its gradient of gravitational/electrostatic $N$-body systems, which we call particle mesh multipole method (PMMM or PM$^3$). PMMM can be understood both as an…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-20 Keigo Nitadori

The Fast Multipole Method (FMM) computes pairwise interactions between particles with an efficiency that scales linearly with the number of particles. The method works by grouping particles based on their spatial distribution and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-08-05 He Zhang

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

We propose a mesh refinement technique for solving elliptic difference equations on unbounded domains based on the fast lattice Green's function (FLGF) method. The FLGF method exploits the regularity of the Cartesian mesh and uses the fast…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 Benedikt Dorschner , Ke Yu , Gianmarco Mengaldo , Tim Colonius

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

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

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

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 Fast Multipole Method (FMM) offers an acceleration for pairwise interaction calculation, known as $N$-body problems, from $\mathcal{O}(N^2)$ to $\mathcal{O}(N)$ with $N$ particles. This has brought dramatic increase in the capability of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-09-21 Felipe A. Cruz , L. A. Barba

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) 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

The non-linear induction problem in ferromagnetic media is solved using the fixed-point iteration method, where the linearized problem at each iteration is treated by means of a modal approach. The proposed approach does not require meshing…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-12-13 Anastassios Skarlatos , Theodoros Theodoulidis

We introduce jaxFMM, an open-source, adaptive, highly parallel point-charge Fast Multipole Method implementation for the Laplace kernel written in JAX. It is based on a non-uniform refinement strategy, which results in extremely concise and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-11-20 Robert Kraft , Florian Bruckner , Dieter Suess , Claas Abert

In this paper a method is presented for evaluating the convolution of the Green's function for the Laplace operator with a specified function $\rho(\vec x)$ at all grid points in a rectangular domain $\Omega \subset {\mathrm R}^{d}$ ($d =…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-08-27 Christopher R. Anderson

We present a fast, adaptive multiresolution algorithm for applying integral operators with a wide class of radially symmetric kernels in dimensions one, two and three. This algorithm is made efficient by the use of separated representations…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-08-14 Gregory Beylkin , Vani Cheruvu , Fernando Pérez

We describe a technique to analytically compute the multipole moments of a charge distribution confined to a planar triangle, which may be useful in solving the Laplace equation using the fast multipole boundary element method (FMBEM) and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 John P. Barrett , Joseph A. Formaggio , Thomas J. Corona