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We show how to accelerate the direct solution of the Boltzmann equation using Graphics Processing Units (GPUs). In order to fully exploit the computational power of the GPU, we choose a method of solution which combines a finite difference…

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This work presents the GPU acceleration of the open-source code CaNS for very fast massively-parallel simulations of canonical fluid flows. The distinct feature of the many-CPU Navier-Stokes solver in CaNS is its fast direct solver for the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-02-15 Pedro Costa , Everett Phillips , Luca Brandt , Massimiliano Fatica

The Poisson equation has applications across many areas of physics and engineering, such as the dynamic process simulation of ocean current. Here we present a quantum Fast Poisson Solver, including the algorithm and the complete and modular…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-17 Shengbin Wang , Zhimin Wang , Wendong Li , Lixin Fan , Zhiqiang Wei , Yongjian Gu

Faster explicit elastic wavefield simulations are required for large and complex three-dimensional media using a structured finite element method. Such wavefield simulations are suitable for GPUs, which have exhibited improved computational…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Tsuyoshi Ichimura , Kohei Fujita , Muneo Hori , Maddegedara Lalith

Discontinuous Galerkin (dG) methods on meshes consisting of polygonal/polyhedral (henceforth, collectively termed as \emph{polytopic}) elements have received considerable attention in recent years. Due to the physical frame basis functions…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-16 Zhaonan Dong , Emmanuil H. Georgoulis , Thomas Kappas

This paper presents a p-adaptive high-order hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin spectral element method (HDG-SEM) for solving the Poisson equation in electrostatic plasma simulations using particle-in-cell (PIC) schemes. This approach…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-04-06 Tobias Ott , Stephen Copplestone , Marcel Pfeiffer

Partial differential equations (PDEs) are often computationally challenging to solve, and in many settings many related PDEs must be be solved either at every timestep or for a variety of candidate boundary conditions, parameters, or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Tian Qin , Alex Beatson , Deniz Oktay , Nick McGreivy , Ryan P. Adams

In this paper, our goal is to efficiently solve the Vlasov equation on GPUs. A semi-Lagrangian discontinuous Galerkin scheme is used for the discretization. Such kinetic computations are extremely expensive due to the high-dimensional phase…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 Lukas Einkemmer

Accurate and fast calculations of localized surface plasmon resonances (LSPR) in metallic nanoparticles is essential for applications in sensing, nano-optics, and energy harvesting. Although full-wave numerical techniques such as the…

The entropy-stable discontinuous Galerkin method for compressible Euler equations with buoyancy is implemented on graphics processing unit (GPU) hardware. We measure the performance of the solver on three-dimensional problems: the rising…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Henry Waterhouse , Maciej Waruszewski , Lucas C. Wilcox , Francis X. Giraldo

We present a parallel implementation of a direct solver for the Poisson's equation on extreme-scale supercomputers with accelerators. We introduce a chunked-pencil decomposition as the domain-decomposition strategy to distribute work among…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-07-15 Jaber J. Hasbestan , Inanc Senocak

This paper presents a GPU-accelerated framework for solving block tridiagonal linear systems that arise naturally in numerous real-time applications across engineering and scientific computing. Through a multi-stage permutation strategy…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-08 Roland Schwan , Daniel Kuhn , Colin N. Jones

The expedient design of precision components in aerospace and other high-tech industries requires simulations of physical phenomena often described by partial differential equations (PDEs) without exact solutions. Modern design problems…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-01-11 Daniel J Magee , Kyle E Niemeyer

Global spectral methods offer the potential to compute solutions of partial differential equations numerically to very high accuracy. In this work, we develop a novel global spectral method for linear partial differential equations on cubes…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-25 Christoph Strössner , Daniel Kressner

We present a set of rules to guide the design of GPU algorithms. These rules are grounded on the principle of reducing waste in GPU utility to achieve good speed up. In accordance to these rules, we propose GPU algorithms for 2D…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-07-02 Zhenghai Chen , Tiow-Seng Tan , Hong-Yang Ong

We describe a finite-volume method for solving the Poisson equation on oct-tree adaptive meshes using direct solvers for individual mesh blocks. The method is a modified version of the method presented by Huang and Greengard (2000), which…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. M. Ricker

Experimentally-measured pressure fields play an important role in understanding many fluid dynamics problems. Unfortunately, pressure fields are difficult to measure directly with non-invasive, spatially resolved diagnostics, and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-04-16 Fernando Zigunov , John Charonko

The prediction of a dielectric breakdown in a high-voltage device is based on criteria that evaluate the electric field along field lines. Therefore it is necessary to efficiently compute the electric field at arbitrary points in space. A…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-03 Cedric Münger , Steffen Börm , Jörg Ostrowski

In recent years, neural implicit representations gained popularity in 3D reconstruction due to their expressiveness and flexibility. However, the implicit nature of neural implicit representations results in slow inference time and requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Songyou Peng , Chiyu "Max" Jiang , Yiyi Liao , Michael Niemeyer , Marc Pollefeys , Andreas Geiger

We present the numerical methods and GPU-accelerated implementation underlying a Total Lagrangian finite element framework for finite-deformation flexible multibody dynamics, introduced in the companion paper [1]. The framework supports…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Zhenhao Zhou , Ruochun Zhang , Ganesh Arivoli , Dan Negrut