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We present and study a Particle method for the stationary solutions of a class of transport equations. This method is inspired by non-stationary Particle methods, the time variable being replaced by one spatial variable. Particles…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-13 Rafael Bailo , Julie Binard , Pierre Degond , Pascal Noble

In the context of PDE-constrained optimization theory, source identification problems traditionally entail particles emerging from an unknown source distribution inside a domain, moving according to a prescribed stochastic process,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-22 Richard B. Lehoucq , Scott A. McKinley , Petr Plecháč

This paper aims to investigate the numerical approximation of a general second order parabolic stochastic partial differential equation(SPDE) driven by multiplicative and additive noise. Our main interest is on such SPDEs where the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-19 Jean Daniel Mukam , Antoine Tambue

Boltzmann machines are undirected graphical models with two-state stochastic variables, in which the logarithms of the clique potentials are quadratic functions of the node states. They have been widely studied in the neural computing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-02-01 Neil D. Lawrence , Christopher M. Bishop , Michael I. Jordan

Conservation laws in the form of elliptic and parabolic partial differential equations (PDEs) are fundamental to the modeling of many problems such as heat transfer and flow in porous media. Many of such PDEs are stochastic due to the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-11-19 Amir H. Delgoshaie , Peter W. Glynn , Patrick Jenny , Hamdi A. Tchelepi

The diffusion of tracer particles immersed in a granular gas under uniform shear flow (USF) is analyzed within the framework of the inelastic Boltzmann equation. Two different but complementary approaches are followed to achieve exact…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-01-01 David González Méndez , Vicente Garzó

Stochastic differential equations (SDE) are widely used in modeling stochastic dynamics in literature. However, SDE alone is not enough to determine a unique process. A specified interpretation for stochastic integration is needed.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-10-18 Jianghong Shi , Tianqi Chen , Ruoshi Yuan , Bo Yuan , Ping Ao

Closed-form stochastic filtering equations can be derived in a general setting where probability distributions are replaced by some specific outer measures. In this article, we study how the principles of the sequential Monte Carlo method…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-05-07 Jeremie Houssineau , Branko Ristic

Different techniques of event biasing have been implemented in the particle-based Monte Carlo simulations of a 15nm n-channel MOSFET. The primary goal is to achieve enhancement in the channel statistics and faster convergence in the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-10-27 Sharnali Islam , Mihail Nedjalkov , Shaikh Ahmed

For a number of applications like low-source reactor start-up or neutron coincidence counting it is necessary to take into account the stochastic nature of neutron transport and go beyond the average neutron density, which is solution of a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-12-04 Philippe Humbert

The claim that Monte Carlo is the most accurate method is a case of misattributed credit. This claim is based on experience with advanced systems MCNPX, Geant4 and EGS. These systems achieve remarkable performance because they use most…

Medical Physics · Physics 2026-03-13 Oleg N Vassiliev , Radhe Mohan

We derive quantum Boltzmann equations from Schwinger-Dyson equations in gradient expansion for a weakly coupled scalar field theory with a spatially varying mass. We find that at higher order in gradients a full description of the system…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Michael Joyce , Kimmo Kainulainen , Tomislav Prokopec

The solution to a stochastic optimal control problem can be determined by computing the value function from a discretization of the associated Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation. Alternatively, the problem can be reformulated in terms of a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-29 Sebastian Reich

Stochastic differential equations (SDEs) or diffusions are continuous-valued continuous-time stochastic processes widely used in the applied and mathematical sciences. Simulating paths from these processes is usually an intractable problem,…

Computation · Statistics 2020-05-27 Qi Wang , Vinayak Rao , Yee Whye Teh

The present work considers diffusive shock acceleration at non-relativistic shocks using a system of stochastic differential equations (SDE) equivalent to the Fokker-Planck equation. We compute approximate solutions of the transport of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Marcowith , J. G. Kirk

We describe a hybrid Direct Simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) code for simultaneously solving the collisional Boltzmann equation for gas and the collisionless Boltzmann equation for stars and dark matter for problems important to galaxy…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Martin D. Weinberg

Numerical resolution of high-dimensional nonlinear PDEs remains a huge challenge due to the curse of dimensionality. Starting from the weak formulation of the Lawson-Euler scheme, this paper proposes a stochastic particle method (SPM) by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-11 Zhengyang Lei , Sihong Shao , Yunfeng Xiong

Accurately simulating photon transport is crucial for non-destructive testing and medical diagnostic applications using X-ray radiography and computed tomography (CT). Solving a discretized form of the linear Boltzmann equation is a…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-10-28 Edward T. Norris , Steve Wagstaff , Xin Liu

Accurate path integral Monte Carlo or molecular dynamics calculations of isotope effects have until recently been expensive because of the necessity to reduce three types of errors present in such calculations: statistical errors due to…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-05-10 Konstantin Karandashev , Jiri Vanicek

We introduce a new path integral Monte Carlo method for investigating nonadiabatic systems in thermal equilibrium and demonstrate an approach to reducing stochastic error. We derive a general path integral expression for the partition…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-07-11 Neil Raymond , Dmitri Iouchtchenko , Pierre-Nicholas Roy , Marcel Nooijen