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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…

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We present an efficient computational approach to perform real-space electronic structure calculations using an adaptive higher-order finite-element discretization of Kohn-Sham density-functional theory (DFT). To this end, we develop an…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Phani Motamarri , Michael R Nowak , Kenneth Leiter , Jaroslaw Knap , Vikram Gavini

This study presents a novel optimisation technique for atomic structure calculations using the Flexible Atomic Code, focussing on complex multielectron systems relevant to $r$-process nucleosynthesis and kilonova modelling. We introduce a…

Optical force responses underpin nanophotonic actuator design, which requires a large number of force simulations to optimize structures. Commonly used computation methods, such as the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method, are…

Optics · Physics 2023-06-30 Bo Gao , Henkjan Gersen , Simon Hanna

We construct new, efficient, and accurate high-order finite differencing operators which satisfy summation by parts. Since these operators are not uniquely defined, we consider several optimization criteria: minimizing the bandwidth, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Peter Diener , Ernst Nils Dorband , Erik Schnetter , Manuel Tiglio

Orbital-free density functional theory (OF-DFT) is a promising method for large-scale quantum mechanics simulation as it provides a good balance of accuracy and computational cost. Its applicability to large-scale simulations has been aided…

This paper introduces a new computational framework to derive electromagnetic field derivatives with respect to multiple design parameters up to any order with the Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD) technique. Specifically, only one FDTD…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-23 Kae-An Liu , Costas D. Sarris

This paper introduces a new approach for the computation of electromagnetic field derivatives, up to any order, with respect to the material and geometric parameters of a given geometry, in a single Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Kae-An Liu , Hans-Dieter Lang , Costas D. Sarris

This paper proposes some efficient and accurate adaptive two-grid (ATG) finite element algorithms for linear and nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs). The main idea of these algorithms is to utilize the solutions on the $k$-th…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-22 Yukun Li , Yi Zhang

Orbital-free density functional theory (OFDFT) offers a challenging way of electronic-structure calculations scaled as $\mathcal{O}(N)$ computation for system size $N$. We here develop a scheme of the OFDFT calculations based on the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-09-06 Fumihiro Imoto , Masatoshi Imada , Atsushi Oshiyama

We present an accurate, efficient and massively parallel finite-element code, DFT-FE, for large-scale ab-initio calculations (reaching $\sim 100,000$ electrons) using Kohn-Sham density functional theory (DFT). DFT-FE is based on a local…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Phani Motamarri , Sambit Das , Shiva Rudraraju , Krishnendu Ghosh , Denis Davydov , Vikram Gavini

We introduce a method that combines neural operators, physics-informed machine learning, and standard numerical methods for solving PDEs. The proposed approach extends each of the aforementioned methods and unifies them within a single…

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Hybrid density functional approximations (DFAs) offer compelling accuracy for ab initio electronic-structure simulations of molecules, nanosystems, and bulk materials, addressing some deficiencies of computationally cheaper, frequently used…

In the present work, we investigate the computational efficiency afforded by higher-order finite-element discretization of the saddle-point formulation of orbital-free density functional theory. We first investigate the robustness of viable…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Phani Motamarri , Mrinal Iyer , Jaroslaw Knap , Vikram Gavini

This article aims to demonstrate and discuss the applications of automatic differentiation (AD) for finding derivatives in PDE-constrained optimization problems and Jacobians in non-linear finite element analysis. The main idea is to…

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High precision atomic data is indispensable for experiments involving studies of fundamental interactions, astrophysics, atomic clocks, plasma science, and others. We develop new parallel atomic structure codes and explore the difficulties…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2021-03-11 C. Cheung , M. S. Safronova , S. G. Porsev

Ab initio molecular dynamics (AIMD) with hybrid density functionals and plane wave basis is computationally expensive due to the high computational cost of exact exchange energy evaluation. Recently, we proposed a strategy to combine…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-01-11 Sagarmoy Mandal , Vaishali Thakkur , Nisanth N. Nair

In this work, we develop and analyze a higher-order finite element method for the multidimensional fragmentation equation. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study to establish a rigorous, conforming finite element framework…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-10 Arushi , Naresh Kumar

Adaptive finite element methods are a powerful tool to obtain numerical simulation results in a reasonable time. Due to complex chemical and mechanical couplings in lithium-ion batteries, numerical simulations are very helpful to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-17 Raphael Schoof , Lennart Flür , Florian Tuschner , Willy Dörfler

High-order accurate summation-by-parts (SBP) finite difference (FD) methods constitute efficient numerical methods for simulating large-scale hyperbolic wave propagation problems. Traditional SBP FD operators that approximate first-order…

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