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A new form of the model collision operator for a Boltzmann gas of hard spheres and Coulomb plasma is derived. One-component and many-component systems are considered. The collision operator proposed takes properly into account the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-09-23 Viacheslav V. Belyi

Efficient and accurate spectral solvers for nonlocal models in any spatial dimension are presented. The approach we pursue is based on the Fourier multipliers of nonlocal Laplace operators introduced in a previous work. It is demonstrated…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-30 Bacim Alali , Nathan Albin

The linearized collision operator of the Boltzmann equation can in a natural way be written as a sum of a positive multiplication operator, the collision frequency, and an integral operator. Compactness of the integral operator for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-01-19 Niclas Bernhoff

We introduce a new arbitrarily high-order method for the rapid evaluation of hyperbolic potentials (space-time integrals involving the Green's function for the scalar wave equation). With $M$ points in the spatial discretization and $N_t$…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-11 Nour G. Al Hassanieh , Alex H. Barnett , Leslie Greengard

We introduce numerical solvers for the steady-state Boltzmann equation based on the symmetric Gauss-Seidel (SGS) method. Due to the quadratic collision operator in the Boltzmann equation, the SGS method requires solving a nonlinear system…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-11-27 Tianai Yin , Zhenning Cai , Yanli Wang

This article describes methods for the deterministic simulation of the collisional Boltzmann equation. It presumes that the transport and collision parts of the equation are to be simulated separately in the time domain. Time stepping…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2009-11-19 Akil Narayan , Andreas Klöckner

Numerically solving the Boltzmann kinetic equations with the small Knudsen number is challenging due to the stiff nonlinear collision term. A class of asymptotic preserving schemes was introduced in [6] to handle this kind of problems. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-09-20 Francis Filbet , Jingwei Hu , Shi Jin

We propose an adaptive Hermite spectral method for the three-dimensional velocity space of the Boltzmann equation guided by a newly developed frequency indicator. For the homogeneous problem, the indicator is defined by the contribution of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-23 Sihong Shao , Yanli Wang , Jie Wu

The bottleneck of micromagnetic simulations is the computation of the long-ranged magnetostatic fields. This can be tackled on regular N-node grids with Fast Fourier Transforms in time N logN, whereas the geometrically more versatile finite…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-10-04 Evaggelos Kritsikis , Jean-Christophe Toussaint , Olivier Fruchart

Interpolating scaling functions give a faithful representation of a localized charge distribution by its values on a grid. For such charge distributions, using a Fast Fourier method, we obtain highly accurate electrostatic potentials for…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 Luigi Genovese , Thierry Deutsch , Alexey Neelov , Stefan Goedecker , Gregory Beylkin

We present $\mathcal{O}(N^2)$ estimators for the small-scale power spectrum and bispectrum in cosmological simulations. In combination with traditional methods, these allow spectra to be efficiently computed across a vast range of scales,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-21 Oliver H. E. Philcox

Integrating machine learning techniques in established numerical solvers represents a modern approach to enhancing computational fluid dynamics simulations. Within the lattice Boltzmann method (LBM), the collision operator serves as an…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-12-12 Mario Christopher Bedrunka , Tobias Horstmann , Ben Picard , Dirk Reith , Holger Foysi

Our knowledge about the "cold" Universe often relies on molecular spectra. A general property of such spectra is that the energy level populations are rarely at local thermodynamic equilibrium. Solving the radiative transfer thus requires…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-23 Jérôme Loreau , François Lique , Alexandre Faure

We present new efficient (O(N log N)) methods for computing three quantities crucial to electronic structure calculations: the ionic potential, the electron-ion contribution to the Born-Oppenheimer forces, and the electron-ion contribution…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 Nicholas Choly , Efthimios Kaxiras

Using the test-particle method, we solve numerically the Boltzmann equation for an ultra-cold gas of trapped fermions with realistic particle number and trap geometry in the normal phase. We include a mean-field potential and in-medium…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-01-28 Pierre-Alexandre Pantel , Dany Davesne , Michael Urban

The Allen-Cahn equation is solved numerically by operator splitting Fourier spectral methods. The basic idea of the operator splitting method is to decompose the original problem into sub-equations and compose the approximate solution of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-02-10 Jaemin Shin , Hyun Geun Lee , June-Yub Lee

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

An iterative scheme can be used to find a steady-state solution to the Boltzmann equation, however, it is very slow to converge in the near-continuum flow regime. In this paper, a synthetic iterative scheme is developed to speed up the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 Lei Wu , Jun Zhang , Haihu Liu , Yonghao Zhang , Jason Reese

The fast multipole method (FMM) has had great success in reducing the computational complexity of solving the boundary integral form of the Helmholtz equation. We present a formulation of the Helmholtz FMM that uses Fourier basis functions…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-03-20 Cris Cecka , Eric Darve

Spectral data is routinely broadened in order to improve appearance, approximate a higher sampling level or model experimental measurement effects. While there has been extensive work in the signal processing field to develop efficient…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-09-22 Jessica Farmer , Adam J. Jackson