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Fourier transform-based methods enable accurate, dispersion-free simulations of time-domain scattering problems by evaluating solutions to the Helmholtz equation at a discrete set of frequencies sufficient to approximate the inverse Fourier…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-29 Oscar P. Bruno , Manuel A. Santana

In a previous paper, we computed expressions for the Detweiler-Whiting singular field of point scalar, electromagnetic and gravitational charges following a geodesic of the Schwarzschild spacetime. We now extend this to the case of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-01-29 Anna Heffernan , Adrian Ottewill , Barry Wardell

Recently, we proposed a method for calculating the ``radiation reaction'' self-force exerted on a charged particle moving in a strong field orbit in a black hole spacetime. In this approach, one first calculates the contribution to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-19 Leor Barack

State-of-the-art computations of the gravitational self-force (GSF) on massive particles in black hole spacetimes involve numerical evolution of the metric perturbation equations in the time-domain, which is computationally very costly. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-11-27 Sarp Akcay , Niels Warburton , Leor Barack

The transport of charged particles or photons in a scattering medium can be modelled with a Boltzmann equation. The mathematical treatment for scattering in such scenarios is often simplified if evaluated in a frame where the scattering…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-02-27 Nils W. Schween , Brian Reville

The asymptotic nature of unbound binary-black-hole encounters provides a clean method for comparing different approaches for modeling the two-body problem in general relativity. In this work, we use numerical relativity simulations of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-11 Oliver Long , Harald P. Pfeiffer , Lawrence E. Kidder , Mark A. Scheel

Gravitational waveforms and fluxes from extreme mass--ratio inspirals can be computed using time--domain methods with accuracy that is fast approaching that of frequency--domain methods. We study in detail the computational efficiency of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-12-18 Jonathan L. Barton , David J. Lazar , Daniel J. Kennefick , Gaurav Khanna , Lior M. Burko

We address brittle fracture in anisotropic materials featuring two-fold and four-fold symmetric fracture toughness. For these two classes, we develop two variational phase-field models based on the family of regularizations proposed by…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Tymofiy Gerasimov , Laura De Lorenzis

The recent development of spectral method has been praised for its high-order convergence in simulating complex physical problems. The combination of embedded boundary method and spectral method becomes a mainstream way to tackle…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-03-08 Po-Yi Wu , Cheng-Hong Robert Kao , Tony Wen-Hann Sheu

We present a new technique for time-domain numerical evolution of the scalar field generated by a pointlike scalar charge orbiting a black hole. Time-domain evolution offers an efficient way for calculating black hole perturbations,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Leor Barack , Darren A Golbourn

Extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) are expected to have considerable eccentricity when emitting gravitational waves (GWs) in the LISA band. Developing GW templates that remain phase accurate over these long inspirals requires the use of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-25 Benjamin Leather , Niels Warburton

The purpose of this research is to describe an efficient iterative method suitable for obtaining high accuracy solutions to high frequency time-harmonic scattering problems. The method allows for both refinement of local polynomial degree…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-12-26 Ryan Galagusz , Steve McFee

To fully exploit the capabilities of next-generation gravitational wave detectors, we need to significantly improve the accuracy of our models of gravitational-wave-emitting systems. This paper focuses on one way of doing so: by taking…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-07 Andrew Spiers , Adam Pound , Jordan Moxon

In this work we have used for the first time pseudo-spectral methods to perform numerical simulations of spherically symmetric black hole formations on a Friedman-Robertson-Walker universe. With these methods, the differential equations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-07 Albert Escrivà

In this paper, we propose a numerical method to approximate the solution of partial differential equations in irregular domains with no-flux boundary conditions by means of spectral methods. The main features of this method are its…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Alfonso Bueno-Orovio , Victor M. Perez-Garcia , Flavio H. Fenton

Self-consistent field theory (SCFT) has proven to be a powerful tool for modeling equilibrium microstructures of soft materials, particularly for multiblock polymers. A very successful approach to numerically solving the SCFT set of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-01-04 David M. Ackerman , Kris Delaney , Glenn H. Fredrickson , Baskar Ganapathysubramanian

The foundations are laid for the numerical computation of the actual worldline for a particle orbiting a black hole and emitting gravitational waves. The essential practicalities of this computation are here illustrated for a scalar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-05-12 Steven Detweiler , Eirini Messaritaki , Bernard F. Whiting

We present a calculation of the scalar field self-force (SSF) acting on a scalar-charge particle in a strong-field orbit around a Kerr black hole. Our calculation specializes to circular and equatorial geodesic orbits. The analysis is an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-30 Niels Warburton , Leor Barack

Numerical simulations of extereme mass ratio inspirals, the mostimportant sources for the LISA detector, face several computational challenges. We present a new approach to evolving partial differential equations occurring in black hole…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-09 Charalampos Markakis , Michael F. O'Boyle , Pablo D. Brubeck , Leor Barack

Ordered momentum mappings present optimal convergence in soft and collinear configurations and are particularly suitable for the numerical implementation of local subtraction schemes. However, ordered mappings cannot be directly applied in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-18 Xuan Chen , Matteo Marcoli