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This work presents neural network based minimal entropy closures for the moment system of the Boltzmann equation, that preserve the inherent structure of the system of partial differential equations, such as entropy dissipation and…

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Direct simulation of physical processes on a kinetic level is prohibitively expensive in aerospace applications due to the extremely high dimension of the solution spaces. In this paper, we consider the moment system of the Boltzmann…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-18 Steffen Schotthöfer , Tianbai Xiao , Martin Frank , Cory D. Hauck

We present a data-driven approach to construct entropy-based closures for the moment system from kinetic equations. The proposed closure learns the entropy function by fitting the map between the moments and the entropy of the moment…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-17 William A. Porteous , M. Paul Laiu , Cory D. Hauck

As one of the main governing equations in kinetic theory, the Boltzmann equation is widely utilized in aerospace, microscopic flow, etc. Its high-resolution simulation is crucial in these related areas. However, due to the high…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-29 Zhengyi Li , Bin Dong , Yanli Wang

In this contribution we derive and analyze a new numerical method for kinetic equations based on a variable transformation of the moment approximation. Classical minimum-entropy moment closures are a class of reduced models for kinetic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-22 Tobias Leibner , Mario Ohlberger

Moment-closure methods are popular tools to simplify the mathematical analysis of stochastic models defined on networks, in which high dimensional joint distributions are approximated (often by some heuristic argument) as functions of lower…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2011-05-25 Tim Rogers

The Boltzmann equation, a fundamental equation in kinetic theory, serves as a bridge between microscopic particle dynamics and macroscopic continuum mechanics. However, deriving closed macroscopic moment systems from the Boltzmann equation…

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In this paper we approximate the radiative transfer equations by the method of moments, constructing mesoscopic approximations of arbitrary order of the otherwise microscopic system. To define the necessary closure a minimum entropy…

Computational Physics · Physics 2008-12-17 Philipp Monreal , Martin Frank

The entropy-based moment method is a well-known discretization for the velocity variable in kinetic equations which has many desirable theoretical properties but is difficult to implement with high-order numerical methods. The regularized…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-01 Graham W. Alldredge , Martin Frank , Jan Giesselmann

This paper is concerned with approximations of the Boltzmann equation based on the method of moments. We propose a generalization of the setting of the moment-closure problem from relative entropy to {\phi}-divergences and a corresponding…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-03-18 M. R. A. Abdel-Malik , E. H. van Brummelen

The moments of spatial probabilistic systems are often given by an infinite hierarchy of coupled differential equations. Moment closure methods are used to approximate a subset of low order moments by terminating the hierarchy at some order…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-30 Oliver K. Ernst , Tom Bartol , Terrence Sejnowski , Eric Mjolsness

This paper presents a numerical approximation technique for the Boltzmann equation based on a moment system approximation in velocity dependence and a discontinuous Galerkin finite-element approximation in position dependence. The closure…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-02-04 M. R. A. Abdelmalik , E. H. van Brummelen

We propose a Restricted Boltzmann Machine (RBM) neural network using a quantum thermodynamics formalism and the maximization of entropy as the cost function for the optimization problem. We verify the possibility of using an entropy…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-03-18 Roshawn Terrell , Eleanor Watson , Timofey Golubev

Complex dynamical systems are used for predictions in many domains. Because of computational costs, models are truncated, coarsened, or aggregated. As the neglected and unresolved terms become important, the utility of model predictions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Abhinav Gupta , Pierre F. J. Lermusiaux

We propose a new entropy-compatible neural network method for scalar hyperbolic conservation laws and establish, to our knowledge, the first explicit \(L^1\) convergence rates in this setting that apply to piecewise smooth entropy…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Jiachuan Cao , Buyang Li , Hao Li

The closure problem in fluid modeling is a well-known challenge to modelers aiming to accurately describe their system of interest. Over many years, analytic formulations in a wide range of regimes have been presented but a practical,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 Romit Maulik , Nathan A. Garland , Xian-Zhu Tang , Prasanna Balaprakash

We address the approximation of entropy solutions to initial-boundary value problems for nonlinear strictly hyperbolic conservation laws using neural networks. A general and systematic framework is introduced for the design of efficient and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-16 Igor Ciril , Khalil Haddaoui , Yohann Tendero

We study the existing algorithms that solve the multidimensional martingale optimal transport. Then we provide a new algorithm based on entropic regularization and Newton's method. Then we provide theoretical convergence rate results and we…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-12-31 Hadrien De March

We consider the problem of estimating a probability distribution that maximizes the entropy while satisfying a finite number of moment constraints, possibly corrupted by noise. Based on duality of convex programming, we present a novel…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-22 Tobias Sutter , David Sutter , Peyman Mohajerin Esfahani , John Lygeros

Maxwell-Amp\`{e}re-Nernst-Planck (MANP) equations were recently proposed to model the dynamics of charged particles. In this study, we enhance a numerical algorithm of this system with deep learning tools. The proposed hybrid algorithm…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-12 Cheng Chang , Zhouping Xin , Tieyong Zeng
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