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We solve Poisson's equation using new multigrid algorithms that converge rapidly. The novel feature of the 2D and 3D algorithms are the use of extra diagonal grids in the multigrid hierarchy for a much richer and effective communication…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 A. J. Roberts

In this paper, we report the advantages of using a stochastic algorithm in the context of mineral exploration based on gravity measurements. This approach has the advantage over deterministic methods in that it allows one to find the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-09-25 Fabrizio Donzelli , Alexander Bihlo , Mauricio Kischinhevsky , Colin G. Farquharson

We present a multigrid algorithm for self consistent solution of the Kohn-Sham equations in real space. The entire problem is discretized on a real space mesh with a high order finite difference representation. The resulting self consistent…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-31 Jian Wang , Thomas L. Beck

Optimal exploitation of supercomputing resources for the evaluation of electrostatic forces remains a challenge in molecular dynamics simulations of very large systems. The most efficient methods are currently based on particle-mesh Ewald…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-09-23 Federica Troni , Davide Grassano , Jayashree Narayan , Benoît Roux , Sara Bonella

Vico et al. (2016) suggest a fast algorithm for computing volume potentials, beneficial to fields with problems requiring the solution of the free-space Poisson's equation, such as beam and plasma physics. Currently, the standard is the…

One of the challenges when simulating astrophysical flows with self-gravity is to compute the gravitational forces. In contrast to the hyperbolic hydrodynamic equations, the gravity field is described by an elliptic Poisson equation. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-30 Michael Schlottke-Lakemper , Andrew R. Winters , Hendrik Ranocha , Gregor J. Gassner

We study efficient simulation of steady state for rarefied gas flow, which is modeled by the Boltzmann equation with BGK-type collision term. A nonlinear multigrid solver is proposed to resolve the efficiency issue by the following…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-28 Zhicheng Hu , Guanghan Li

Multigrid solvers are among the most efficient methods for solving the Poisson equation, which is ubiquitous in computational physics. For example, in the context of incompressible flows, it is typically the costliest operation. The present…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-10 Gilles Poncelet , Jonathan Lambrechts , Thomas Gillis , Philippe Chatelain

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

Elliptic equations play a crucial role in turbulence models for magnetic confinement fusion. Regardless of the chosen modeling approach - whether gyrokinetic, gyrofluid, or drift-fluid - the Poisson equation and Amp\`{e}re's law lead to…

We discuss the scalable parallel solution of the Poisson equation within a Particle-In-Cell (PIC) code for the simulation of electron beams in particle accelerators of irregular shape. The problem is discretized by Finite Differences.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2010-04-21 A. Adelmann , P. Arbenz , Y. Ineichen

We present a coarse-grid projection (CGP) method for accelerating incompressible flow computations, which is applicable to methods involving Poisson equations as incompressibility constraints. The CGP methodology is a modular approach that…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-10-08 Omer San , Anne E. Staples

In this work, we propose an efficient and robust multigrid method for solving the time-fractional heat equation. Due to the nonlocal property of fractional differential operators, numerical methods usually generate systems of equations for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-08-28 Francisco J. Gaspar , Carmen Rodrigo

We present a direct Poisson solver for massively parallel simulations on three-dimensional Cartesian grids with non-uniform spacing. The method uses a tensor-based formulation in which the operator is diagonalized numerically along two…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-03-11 Pedro Costa , Duarte Palancha , Joshua Romero , Roberto Verzicco , Massimiliano Fatica

With the hardware support for half-precision arithmetic on NVIDIA V100 GPUs, high-performance computing applications can benefit from lower precision at appropriate spots to speed up the overall execution time. In this paper, we investigate…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2020-07-16 Kyaw L. Oo , Andreas Vogel

A solver for the Poisson equation for 1D, 2D and 3D regular grids is presented. The solver applies the convolution theorem in order to efficiently solve the Poisson equation in spectral space over a rectangular computational domain.…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2023-01-04 Joseph Saverin

We compare different Poisson solvers within the context of an electrostatic Vlasov-Poisson system. These schemes are implemented as part of the IPPL (Independent Parallel Particle Layer) library (Frey et al., 2024), which provides…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Sonali Mayani , Paul Fischill , Sriramkrishnan Muralikrishnan , Andreas Adelmann

Poisson's equation plays an important role in modeling many physical systems. In electrostatic self-consistent low-temperature plasma (LTP) simulations, Poisson's equation is solved at each simulation time step, which can amount to a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-09-18 Ihda Chaerony Siffa , Markus M. Becker , Klaus-Dieter Weltmann , Jan Trieschmann

An efficient solver for the three dimensional free-space Poisson equation is presented. The underlying numerical method is based on finite Fourier series approximation. While the error of all involved approximations can be fully controlled,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-10-18 Lukas Exl

The demand for substantial increases in the spatial resolution of global weather- and climate- prediction models makes it necessary to use numerically efficient and highly scalable algorithms to solve the equations of large scale…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-06-16 Eike H. Mueller , Robert Scheichl