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The Maximum Entropy Method (MEM) is a popular data analysis technique based on Bayesian inference, which has found various applications in the research literature. While the MEM itself is well-grounded in statistics, I argue that its…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2020-11-03 Alexander Rothkopf

Stochastic hybrid systems combine continuous-time stochastic dynamics with discrete reset events, producing intrinsically non-Gaussian and often multimodal uncertainty. A consistent propagation law must also account for boundary-induced…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-21 Kaito Iwasaki , Tejaswi K. C. , Anthony Bloch , Maani Ghaffari , Taeyoung Lee

Fluid simulations are often performed using the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations (INSE), leading to sparse linear systems which are difficult to solve efficiently in parallel. Recently, kinetic methods based on the…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Yixin Chen , Wei Li , Rui Fan , Xiaopei Liu

Moment-closure methods are popular tools to simplify the mathematical analysis of stochastic models defined on networks, in which high dimensional joint distributions are approximated (often by some heuristic argument) as functions of lower…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2011-05-25 Tim Rogers

In this contribution we derive and analyze a new numerical method for kinetic equations based on a variable transformation of the moment approximation. Classical minimum-entropy moment closures are a class of reduced models for kinetic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-22 Tobias Leibner , Mario Ohlberger

There are two components in this work that allow solutions of the turbulent channel problem: one is the Galilean-transformed Navier-Stokes equation which gives a theoretical expression for the Reynolds stress; and the second the maximum…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-07-24 T. -W. Lee

In this paper, we present an entropy-stable (ES) discretization using a nodal discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method for the ideal multi-ion magneto-hydrodynamics (MHD) equations. We start by performing a continuous entropy analysis of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-05 Andrés M Rueda-Ramírez , Aleksey Sikstel , Gregor J Gassner

Entropy solutions have been widely accepted as the suitable solution framework for systems of conservation laws in several space dimensions. However, recent results in \cite{CDL1,CDL2} have demonstrated that entropy solutions may not be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-01 Ulrik S. Fjordholm , Roger Käppeli , Siddhartha Mishra , Eitan Tadmor

The maximum entropy principle (MEP) is one of the most prominent methods to investigate and model complex systems. Despite its popularity, the standard form of the MEP can only generate Boltzmann-Gibbs distributions, which are ill-suited…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-03-30 Pablo A. Morales , Fernando E. Rosas

In this paper, we present an efficient numerical method to address a thermodynamically consistent gas flow model in porous media involving compressible gas and deformable rock. The accurate modeling of gas flow in porous media often poses…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-16 Huangxin Chen , Yuxiang Chen , Jisheng Kou , Shuyu Sun

We consider the problem of estimating a probability distribution that maximizes the entropy while satisfying a finite number of moment constraints, possibly corrupted by noise. Based on duality of convex programming, we present a novel…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-22 Tobias Sutter , David Sutter , Peyman Mohajerin Esfahani , John Lygeros

The present paper deals with the problem of improving the efficiency of large scale turbulent flow simulations. The high-fidelity methods for modelling turbulent flows become available for a wider range of applications thanks to the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-04-10 Boris Krasnopolsky

Achieving accurate numerical results of hydrodynamic loads based on the potential-flow theory is very challenging for structures with sharp edges, due to the singular behavior of the local-flow velocities. In this paper, we introduce the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-23 Ying Wang , Yanlin Shao , Jikang Chen , Hui Liang

Many fields of physics use quantum Monte Carlo techniques, but struggle to estimate dynamic spectra via the analytic continuation of imaginary-time quantum Monte Carlo data. One of the most ubiquitous approaches to analytic continuation is…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-10-10 Thomas Chuna , Nicholas Barnfield , Tobias Dornheim , Michael P. Friedlander , Tim Hoheisel

We establish Extended Thermodynamics (ET) of rarefied polyatomic gases with six independent fields, i.e., the mass density, the velocity, the temperature and the dynamic pressure, without adopting the near-equilibrium approximation. The…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-04-23 Tommaso Ruggeri

We explore the use of the method of Maximum Entropy (ME) as a technique to generate approximations. In a first use of the ME method the "exact" canonical probability distribution of a fluid is approximated by that of a fluid of hard…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Chih-Yuan Tseng , Ariel Caticha

We present a novel discontinuous Galerkin finite element method for numerical simulations of the rotating thermal shallow water equations in complex geometries using curvilinear meshes, with arbitrary accuracy. We derive an entropy…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-19 Kieran Ricardo , Kenneth Duru , David Lee

In this paper, we consider a pressure-velocity formulation of the heterogeneous wave equation and employ the constraint energy minimizing generalized multiscale finite element method (CEM-GMsFEM) to solve this problem. The proposed method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-06 Eric Chung , Sai-Mang Pun

The standard implementation of the Maximum Entropy Method (MEM) follows Bryan and deploys a Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) to limit the dimensionality of the underlying solution space apriori. Here we present arguments based on the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2013-01-08 Alexander Rothkopf

In this paper, we first propose a filter-based continuous Ensemble Eddy Viscosity (EEV) model for stochastic turbulent flow problems. We then propose a generic algorithm for a family of fully discrete, grad-div regularized, efficient…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-15 Brandiece N. Berry , Md Mahmudul Islam , Muhammad Mohebujjaman , Neethu Suma Raveendran