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The Vlasov-Poisson system describes the time evolution of a plasma in the so-called collisionless regime. The investigation of a high-temperature plasma that is influenced by an exterior magnetic field is one of the most significant aspects…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-11 Jan Bartsch , Patrik Knopf , Stefania Scheurer , Jörg Weber

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

In this paper, we present very first results for the adaptive solution on a grid of the phase space of the Vlasov equation arising in particles accelarator and plasma physics. The numerical algorithm is based on a semi-Lagrangian method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Nicolas Besse , Francis Filbet , Michael Gutnic , Ioana Paun , Eric Sonnendrücker

This paper presents a grid-free simulation algorithm for the fully three-dimensional Vlasov--Poisson system for collisionless electron plasmas. We employ a standard particle method for the numerical approximation of the distribution…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-06 Torsten Keßler , Sergej Rjasanow , Steffen Weißer

We made a comparative analysis of numerical methods for multidimensional optimization. The main parameter is a number of computations of the test function to reach necessary accuracy, as it is computationally "slow". For complex functions,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-10-09 Ivan L. Andronov , Maria G. Tkachenko

We present a multilevel Monte Carlo (MLMC) method for the uncertainty quantification of variably saturated porous media flow that are modeled using the Richards' equation. We propose a stochastic extension for the empirical models that are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-03-22 Prashant Kumar , Carmen Rodrigo , Francisco J. Gaspar , Cornelis W. Oosterlee

A type of parallel augmented subspace scheme for eigenvalue problems is proposed by using coarse space in the multigrid method. With the help of coarse space in multigrid method, solving the eigenvalue problem in the finest space is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-19 Fei Xu , Hehu Xie , Ning Zhang

Fast and accurate solutions of the Grad--Shafranov (GS) equation are essential for equilibrium analysis, integrated modeling, and surrogate model construction in magnetic confinement fusion. In this work, we address a fundamental question:…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-01-07 Huasheng Xie , Yueyan Li

Inverse problems occur in a variety of parameter identification tasks in engineering. Such problems are challenging in practice, as they require repeated evaluation of computationally expensive forward models. We introduce a unifying…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-02 Simon Weissmann , Ashia Wilson , Jakob Zech

We propose a variance reduction framework for variational inference using the Multilevel Monte Carlo (MLMC) method. Our framework is built on reparameterized gradient estimators and "recycles" parameters obtained from past update history in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-12-03 Masahiro Fujisawa , Issei Sato

We continue our study [Domain Uncertainty Quantification in Computational Electromagnetics, JUQ (2020), 8:301--341] of the numerical approximation of time-harmonic electromagnetic fields for the Maxwell lossy cavity problem for uncertain…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-15 Rubén Aylwin , Carlos Jerez-Hanckes , Christoph Schwab , Jakob Zech

The multi-level Monte Carlo method proposed by M. Giles (2008) approximates the expectation of some functionals applied to a stochastic process with optimal order of convergence for the mean-square error. In this paper, a modified…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-01-20 Kristian Debrabant , Andreas Rößler

We present a novel variant of the multi-level Monte Carlo method that effectively utilizes a reserved computational budget on a high-performance computing system to minimize the mean squared error. Our approach combines concepts of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-21 Niklas Baumgarten , Sebastian Krumscheid , Christian Wieners

This work addresses uncertainty quantification of electromagnetic devices determined by the eddy current problem. The multilevel Monte Carlo (MLMC) method is used for the treatment of uncertain parameters while the devices are discretized…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Armin Galetzka , Zeger Bontinck , Ulrich Römer , Sebastian Schöps

In financial engineering, prices of financial products are computed approximately many times each trading day with (slightly) different parameters in each calculation. In many financial models such prices can be approximated by means of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-24 Sebastian Becker , Arnulf Jentzen , Marvin S. Müller , Philippe von Wurstemberger

This work presents stochastic optimization methods targeted at least-squares problems involving Monte Carlo integration. While the most common approach to solving these problems is to apply stochastic gradient descent (SGD) or similar…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-04-27 Gustavo T. Pfeiffer , Yoichi Sato

Optimizing highly complex cost/energy functions over discrete variables is at the heart of many open problems across different scientific disciplines and industries. A major obstacle is the emergence of many-body effects among certain…

The Vlasov-Maxwell system of equations, which describes classical plasma physics, is extremely challenging to solve, even by numerical simulation on powerful computers. By linearizing and assuming a Maxwellian background distribution…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-19 Alexander Engel , Graeme Smith , Scott E. Parker

A multigrid method is proposed for solving nonlinear eigenvalue problems by the finite element method. With this new scheme, solving nonlinear eigenvalue problem is decomposed to a series of solutions of linear boundary value problems on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-01-09 Hehu Xie

In this article we develop a multi-grid multi-level Monte Carlo (MGMLMC) method for the stochastic Stokes-Darcy interface model with random hydraulic conductivity both in the porous media domain and on the interface. Because the randomness…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-03-07 Zhipeng Yang , Xiaoming He , Li Zhang , Ju Ming
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