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We present a detailed description of the essentially entropic lattice Boltzmann model. The entropic lattice Boltzmann model guarantees unconditional numerical stability by iteratively solving the nonlinear entropy evolution equation. In…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-11-23 Mohammad Atif , Praveen Kumar Kolluru , Santosh Ansumali

Wrapping a computation domain with a perfectly matched layer (PML) is one of the most effective methods of imitating/approximating the radiation boundary condition in Maxwell and wave equation solvers. Many PML implementations often use a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-03 Liang Chen , Mehmet Burak Ozakin , Shehab Ahmed , Hakan Bagci

This manuscript investigates the following aspects of the one dimensional dissipative Boltzmann equation associated to variable hard-spheres kernel: (1) we show the optimal cooling rate of the model by a careful study of the system…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-28 Ricardo Alonso , Véronique Bagland , Yingda Cheng , Bertrand Lods

We use the Burnett spectral method to solve the Boltzmann equation whose collision term is modeled by separate treatments for the low-frequency part and high-frequency part of the solution. For the low-frequency part representing the sketch…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-10-25 Zhenning Cai , Yanli Wang

Solving the stationary nonlinear Fokker-Planck equations is important in applications and examples include the Poisson-Boltzmann equation and the two layer neural networks. Making use of the connection between the interacting particle…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-03 Lei Li , Yijia Tang , Jingtong Zhang

It has been demonstrated that Lattice Boltzmann schemes (LBSs) are very efficient for Computational AeroAcoustics (CAA). In order to handle the issue of absorbing acoustic boundary conditions for LBS, three kinds of damping terms are…

Computational Physics · Physics 2012-03-30 Hui Xu , Pierre Sagaut

We propose an Adaptive Perfectly Matched Layer (APML) to be used in diffraction grating modeling. With a properly tailored co-ordinate stretching depending both on the incident field and on grating parameters, the APML may efficiently…

This paper presents a parallel and fully conservative adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) implementation of a finite-volume-based kinetic solver for compressible flows. Time-dependent H-type refinement is combined with a two-population…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-04-08 Ruben M. Strässle , S. A. Hosseini , I. V. Karlin

In this paper we study the sensitivities of electron dose calculations with respect to the stopping power and the transport coefficients. We focus on the application to radiotherapy simulations. We use a Fokker-Planck approximation to the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-10-22 Richard C. Barnard , Martin Frank , Kai Krycki

Highly robust and efficient estimators for the generalized linear model with a dispersion parameter are proposed. The estimators are based on three steps. In the first step the maximum rank correlation estimator is used to consistently…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-03-29 Michael Amiguet , Alfio Marazzi , Marina Valdora , Victor Yohai

We present a spectral Petrov-Galerkin method for the Boltzmann collision operator. We expand the density distribution $f$ to high order orthogonal polynomials multiplied by a Maxwellian. By that choice, we can approximate on the whole…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-03-06 Gerhard Kitzler , Joachim Schöberl

Artificial boundary conditions (BCs) play a ubiquitous role in numerical simulations of transport phenomena in several diverse fields, such as fluid dynamics, electromagnetism, acoustics, geophysics, and many more. They are essential for…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-04-30 Friedemann Klass , Alessandro Gabbana , Andreas Bartel

The perfectly matched layers (PML) and exterior complex scaling (ECS) methods for absorbing boundary conditions are analyzed using spectral decomposition. Both methods are derived through analytical continuations from unitary to contractive…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 A. Scrinzi , H. P. Stimming , N. J . Mauser

A theoretical model of the influence of detection bandwidth properties on observed line shapes in laser absorption spectroscopy is described. The model predicts artificial frequency shifts, extra broadenings and line asymmetries which must…

The conventional Perfectly Matched Layer (PML) is unstable for certain kinds of anisotropic media. This instability is intrinsic and independent of PML formulation or implementation. The Multi-axial PML (MPML) removes such instability using…

Geophysics · Physics 2016-12-22 Kai Gao , Lianjie Huang

We present a stable discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method with a perfectly matched layer (PML) for three and two space dimensional linear elastodynamics, in velocity-stress formulation, subject to well-posed linear boundary conditions. First,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-08 Kenneth Duru , Leonhard Rannabauer , Alice-Agnes Gabriel , Gunilla Kreiss , Michael Bader

When simulating multicomponent mixtures via the Lattice Boltzmann Method, it is desirable to control the mutual diffusivity between species while maintaining the viscosity of the solution fixed. This goal is herein achieved by a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-07-20 Michele Monteferrante , Simone Melchionna , Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi

We study the Bathnagar-Gross-Krook (BGK) equation in a smooth bounded domain featuring a diffusive reflection boundary condition with general collision frequency. We prove that the BGK equation admits a unique global solution with an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-09 Hongxu Chen , Christian Klingenberg , Marlies Pirner

Perfectly Matched Layers (PML) has become a very common method for the numerical approximation of wave and wave-like equations on unbounded domains. This technique allows one to obtain accurate solutions while working on a finite…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-11 Kurt Bryan , Michael S. Vogelius

In dilute gas kinetic theory, model collision dynamics such as Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook (BGK) model is often used to get a better insight and numerical modelling. BGK model and its variants assume that highly nonlinear collision term can be…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-08-26 Samarth Agrawal , S. K. Singh , Santosh Ansumali