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We present a numerical algorithm that enables a phase-space adaptive Eulerian Vlasov-Fokker-Planck (VFP) simulation of an inertial confinement fusion (ICF) capsule implosion. The approach relies on extending a recent mass, momentum, and…
We describe the implementation of kinetic solvers in 1d2v phase space using adaptive Cartesian mesh. Spherical coordinates in velocity space are used to simplify the Lorentz and Fokker-Planck collisional operators. The key capabilities of…
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We propose ZeroFPR, a nonmonotone linesearch algorithm for minimizing the sum of two nonconvex functions, one of which is smooth and the other possibly nonsmooth. ZeroFPR is the first algorithm that, despite being fit for fully nonconvex…