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We introduce a novel strategy for cosmological Boltzmann codes leading to an increase in speed by a factor of \sim 30 for small scale Fourier modes. We (re-)investigate the tight coupling approximation and obtain analytic formulae reaching…
We introduce a general purpose algorithm for rapidly computing certain types of oscillatory integrals which frequently arise in problems connected to wave propagation and general hyperbolic equations. The problem is to evaluate numerically…
The construction of discrete velocity models or numerical methods for the Boltzmann equation, may lead to the necessity of computing the collision operator as a sum over lattice points. The collision operator involves an integral over a…
A practical and simple stable method for calculating Fourier integrals is proposed, effective both at low and at high frequencies. An approach based on the fruitful idea of Levin, to use of the collocation method to approximate the slowly…
We present a numerical method for the velocity-space, spatially homogeneous, collisional Boltzmann equation for electron transport in low-temperature plasma (LTP) conditions. Modeling LTP plasmas is useful in many applications, including…
A global solution of the Schr\"odinger equation for explicitly time-dependent Hamiltonians is derived by integrating the non-linear differential equation associated with the time-dependent wave operator. A fast iterative solution method is…
We present algorithms for solving spatially nonlocal diffusion models on the unit sphere with spectral accuracy in space. Our algorithms are based on the diagonalizability of nonlocal diffusion operators in the basis of spherical harmonics,…
The standard particle-in-cell algorithm suffers from grid heating. There exists a gridless alternative which bypasses the deposition step and calculates each Fourier mode of the charge density directly from the particle positions. We show…
A fast algorithm (linear in the degrees of freedom) for the solution of linear variable-coefficient rational-order fractional integral and differential equations is described. The approach is related to the ultraspherical method for…
A deterministic method is proposed for solving the Boltzmann equation. The method employs a Galerkin discretization of the velocity space and adopts, as trial and test functions, the collocation basis functions based on weights and roots of…
We investigate the properties of the collision operator associated to the linear Boltzmann equation for dissipative hard-spheres arising in granular gas dynamics. We establish that, as in the case of non-dissipative interactions, the gain…
We numerically solve the Boltzmann equation for trapped fermions in the normal phase using the test-particle method. After discussing a couple of tests in order to estimate the reliability of the method, we apply it to the description of…
This work introduces novel unconditionally stable operator splitting methods for solving the time dependent nonlinear Poisson-Boltzmann (NPB) equation for the electrostatic analysis of solvated biomolecules. In a pseudo-transient…
We present a fast algorithm for evaluating the (non-smooth) solution of the free-space two-dimensional (2D) scalar wave equation with many point sources, each with a high-frequency band-limited time signature. Such an algorithm is key to an…
The linearized collision operator of the Boltzmann equation for single species can be written as a sum of a positive multiplication operator, the collision frequency, and a compact integral operator. This classical result has more recently,…
We consider hard-potential cutoff multi-species Boltzmann operators modeling microscopic binary elastic collisions and bimolecular reversible chemical reactions inside a gaseous mixture. We prove that the spectral gap estimate derived for…
Grad's method is used on the linearized Boltzmann collision operator to derive the most general expressions for the collision coefficients for a multi-component, multi-temperature plasma up to rank-2. In doing so, the collision coefficients…
Starting from the recently proposed energy-based deviational formulation for solving the Boltzmann equation [J.-P. Peraud and N. G. Hadjiconstantinou, Phys. Rev. B 84, 2011], which provides significant computational speedup compared to…
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