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Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-28 Lorenzo Pareschi , Thomas Rey

We describe a spectral method for the numerical solution of the Vlasov-Poisson system where the velocity space is decomposed by means of an Hermite basis, and the configuration space is discretized via a Fourier decomposition. The novelty…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-12-19 E. Camporeale , G. L. Delzanno , B. K. Bergen , J. D. Moulton

This paper introduces a subgradient extragradient algorithm with a conjugate gradient-type direction to solve pseudomonotone variational inequality problems in Hilbert spaces. The algorithm features a self-adaptive strategy that eliminates…

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In this paper, a two-step inertial Tseng extragradient method involving self-adaptive and Armijo-like step sizes is introduced for solving variational inequalities with a quasimonotone cost function in the setting of a real Hilbert space.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-16 Jian-Wen Peng , Jun-Jie Luo , Abubakar Adamu

This paper describes an angular adaptivity algorithm for Boltzmann transport applications which for the first time shows evidence of $\mathcal{O}(n)$ scaling in both runtime and memory usage, where $n$ is the number of adapted angles. This…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-01-29 S. Dargaville , A. G. Buchan , R. P. Smedley-Stevenson , P. N Smith , C. C. Pain

Spectral methods, thanks to the high accuracy and the possibility to use fast algorithms, represent an effective way to approximate the Boltzmann collision operator. On the other hand, the loss of some local invariants leads to the wrong…

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We discuss a spectral method for the numerical solution of the Vlasov-Poisson system where the velocity space is decomposed by means of an Hermite basis. We describe a semi-implicit time discretization that extends the range of numerical…

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In this paper, we propose the unfitted spectral element method for solving elliptic interface and corresponding eigenvalue problems. The novelty of the proposed method lies in its combination of the spectral accuracy of the spectral element…

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We propose a new spectral Lagrangian based deterministic solver for the non-linear Boltzmann Transport Equation for Variable Hard Potential (VHP) collision kernels with conservative or non-conservative binary interactions. The method is…

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The problem of developing an adaptive isogeometric method (AIGM) for solving elliptic second-order partial differential equations with truncated hierarchical B-splines of arbitrary degree and different order of continuity is addressed. The…

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We present a novel method to solve the spatially homogeneous and isotropic relativistic Boltzmann equation. We employ a basis set of orthogonal polynomials dynamically adapted to allow for emergence of chemical non-equilibrium. Two time…

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We deal with parametric estimation for a parabolic linear second order stochastic partial differential equation (SPDE) with a small dispersion parameter based on high frequency data which are observed in time and space. By using the thinned…

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We point out an equivalence between the discrete velocity method of solving the Boltzmann equation, of which the lattice Boltzmann equation method is a special example, and the approximations to the Boltzmann equation by a Hermite…

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We present a spectral Petrov-Galerkin method for the Boltzmann collision operator. We expand the density distribution $f$ to high order orthogonal polynomials multiplied by a Maxwellian. By that choice, we can approximate on the whole…

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Previously we developed an adaptive method in angle, based on solving in Haar wavelet space with a matrix-free multigrid for Boltzmann transport problems. This method scalably mapped to the underlying P$^0$ space during every matrix-free…

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We develop an efficient algorithm for a spatially inhomogeneous matrix-valued quantum Boltzmann equation derived from the Hubbard model. The distribution functions are $2 \times 2$ matrix-valued to accommodate the spin degree of freedom,…

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An adaptive method for parabolic partial differential equations that combines sparse wavelet expansions in time with adaptive low-rank approximations in the spatial variables is constructed and analyzed. The method is shown to converge and…

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