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Minimizing the sum of a convex function and a composite function appears in various fields. The generalized Levenberg--Marquardt (LM) method, also known as the prox-linear method, has been developed for such optimization problems. The…

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In this paper we consider the spatial semi-discretization of conservative PDEs. Such finite dimensional approximations of infinite dimensional dynamical systems can be described as flows in suitable matrix spaces, which in turn leads to the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-01 Michele Benzi , Milo Viviani

We describe an implicit procedure for solving linear equation systems resulting from the discretization of the three dimensional (seven variables) linear Fokker-Planck equation. The discretization of the Fokker-Planck equation is performed…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Maximiliano Ujevic , Patricio S. Letelier

We present a dynamical low-rank (DLR) method for the Vlasov-Poisson-Fokker-Planck (VPFP) system. Our main contributions are two-fold: (i) a conservative spatial discretization of the Fokker-Planck operator that factors into velocity-only…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-28 Shiheng Zhang , Jingwei Hu

The Fokker-Planck (FP) equation governing the evolution of the probability density function (PDF) is applicable to many disciplines but it requires specification of the coefficients for each case, which can be functions of space-time and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 Xiaoli Chen , Liu Yang , Jinqiao Duan , George Em Karniadakis

An encoder-decoder neural network has been used to examine the possibility for acceleration of a partial integro-differential equation, the Fokker-Planck-Landau collision operator. This is part of the governing equation in the massively…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-12-21 M. A. Miller , R. M. Churchill , A. Dener , C. S. Chang , T. Munson , R. Hager

Implicit particle-in-cell codes offer advantages over their explicit counterparts in that they suffer weaker stability constraints on the need to resolve the higher frequency modes of the system. This feature may prove particularly valuable…

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Astrophysical plasmas in relativistic spacetimes, such as black hole accretion flows, are often weakly collisional and require kinetic modeling to capture non-local transport and particle acceleration. However, the extreme scale separation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-17 Tyler Trent , Dimitrios Psaltis , Feryal Özel

We present the newly developed stochastic model of the galactic cosmic ray (GCR) particles transport in the heliosphere. Mathematically Parker transport equation (PTE) describing non-stationary transport of charged particles in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-23 A. Wawrzynczak , R. Modzelewska , A. Gil

Solving the Fokker-Planck equation for high-dimensional complex turbulent dynamical systems is an important and practical issue. However, most traditional methods suffer from the curse of dimensionality and have difficulties in capturing…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-12-06 Nan Chen , Andrew J. Majda

We present a new multi-fluid, multi-temperature plasma solver with adaptive Cartesian mesh (ACM) based on a full-Newton (non-linear, implicit) scheme for collisional low-temperature plasma. The particle transport is described using the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-08-19 Robert Arslanbekov , Vladimir Kolobov

Recently, a family of models that couple multifluid systems to the full Maxwell equations draw a lot of attention in laboratory, space, and astrophysical plasma modeling. These models are more complete descriptions of the plasma than…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 Liang Wang , Ammar Hakim , Jonathan Ng , Chuanfei Dong , Kai Germaschewski

The aim of the present paper is twofold:(1) We carry on with developing an abstract method for deriving decay estimates on the semigroup associated to non-symmetric operators in Banach spaces as introduced in [10]. We extend the method so…

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We develop a unified relative entropy framework for macroscopic limits of kinetic equations with Riesz-type interactions and Fokker-Planck relaxation. Our analysis covers three prototypical singular regimes: the diffusive limit leading to a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Young-Pil Choi , Jinwook Jung

An efficient method is presented as a means of an approximate, analytic time-dependent solution of the Fokker-Planck equation (FPE) for the Langevin model subjected to additive and multiplicative noise. We have assumed that the dynamical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-10-19 Hideo Hasegawa

Kinetic simulations of collisionless (or weakly collisional) plasmas using the Vlasov equation are often infeasible due to high resolution requirements and the exponential scaling of computational cost with respect to dimension. Recently,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-10-12 Erika Ye , Nuno F. G. Loureiro

This paper explores the use of a discrete singular convolution algorithm as a unified approach for numerical integration of the Fokker-Planck equation. The unified features of the discrete singular convolution algorithm are discussed. It is…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 G. W. Wei

Equilibria in magnetic confinement devices result from force balancing between the Lorentz force and the plasma pressure gradient. In an axisymmetric configuration like a tokamak, such an equilibrium is described by an elliptic equation for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-13 Daniel A. Serino , Qi Tang , Xian-Zhu Tang , Tzanio V. Kolev , Konstantin Lipnikov

We propose a novel deterministic particle method to numerically approximate the Landau equation for plasmas. Based on a new variational formulation in terms of gradient flows of the Landau equation, we regularize the collision operator to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-05-26 Jose A. Carrillo , Jingwei Hu , Li Wang , Jeremy Wu