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A multiscale stochastic-deterministic coupling method is proposed to investigate the complex interactions between turbulent and rarefied gas flows within a unified framework. This method intermittently integrates the general synthetic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-03-14 Liyan Luo , Songyan Tian , Lei Wu

We examine the structure of Direct Simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC)-resolved internal compression layers in rarefied micro-nozzle flows and show that their apparent parametric complexity is largely a registration and finite-thickness scaling…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-14 Ehsan Roohi , Amirmehran Mahdavi

The Direct Simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) method, developed originally to calculate rarefied gas dynamical problems, is applied to continuous flow including shocks assuming that the Knudsen number is sufficiently small. In particular, we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Takuya Matsuda , Hiromi Mizutani , Henri. M. J. Boffin

Dynamical systems in engineering and physics are often subject to irregular excitations that are best modeled as random. Monte Carlo simulations are routinely performed on such random models to obtain statistics on their long-term response.…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-07-08 Zhenwei Xu , Roshan S. Kaundinya , Shobhit Jain , George Haller

We present Generative Monte Carlo (GMC), a novel paradigm for particle transport simulation that integrates generative artificial intelligence directly into the stochastic solution of the linear Boltzmann equation. By reformulating the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-12-17 Joseph A. Farmer , Aidan Murray , Johannes Krotz , Ryan G. McClarren

This paper introduces a new asymptotic-preserving Monte Carlo (APMC) method for simulating multi-species gas flows. This method decomposes the collision operator of the traditional APMC methods into macro and micro collision parts: the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-10-29 Fei Fei

We develop a formalism and present an algorithm for optimization of the trial wave-function used in fixed-node diffusion quantum Monte Carlo (DMC) methods. We take advantage of a basic property of the walker configuration distribution…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-13 Fernando A. Reboredo , Randolph Q. Hood , Paul R. C. Kent

We introduce the concept of directed loops in stochastic series expansion and path integral quantum Monte Carlo methods. Using the detailed balance rules for directed loops, we show that it is possible to smoothly connect generally…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 Olav F. Syljuasen , Anders W. Sandvik

The collision process is essential to the Direct Simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) method, as it incorporates the fundamental principles of the Boltzmann and Kac stochastic equations. A series of collision algorithms, known as the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-11-12 Ahmad Shoja-sani , Maryam Javani , Ehsan Roohi , Stefan Stefanov

We study several aspects of the recently introduced fixed-phase spin-orbit diffusion Monte Carlo (FPSODMC) method, in particular, its relation to the fixed-node method and its potential use as a general approach for electronic structure…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-10-18 Cody A. Melton , Lubos Mitas

Neutrino Direct Simulation Monte Carlo ($\nu$DSMC) is a Monte Carlo method for solving the neutrino Boltzmann equation in the early Universe, designed to track the evolution of cosmic neutrinos across a wide range of cosmological scenarios.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-26 Oleksii Ihnatenko , Maksym Ovchynnikov

Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods represent a powerful family of computational techniques for tackling complex quantum many-body problems and performing calculations of stationary state properties. QMC is among the most accurate and…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-01-08 Alfonso Annarelli , Dario Alfè , Andrea Zen

We introduce a `virtual-move' Monte Carlo (VMMC) algorithm for systems of pairwise-interacting particles. This algorithm facilitates the simulation of particles possessing attractions of short range and arbitrary strength and geometry, an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Stephen Whitelam , Phillip L. Geissler

Accurate determination of electronic properties of correlated oxides remains a significant challenge for computational theory. Traditional Hubbard-corrected density functional theory (DFT+U) frequently encounters limitations in precisely…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-03-19 Hyeondeok Shin , Kevin Gasperich , Tomas Rojas , Anh T. Ngo , Jaron T. Krogel , Anouar Benali

We propose a novel approach called Self-Learning Hybrid Monte Carlo (SLHMC) which is a general method to make use of machine learning potentials to accelerate the statistical sampling of first-principles density-functional-theory (DFT)…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-08-05 Yuki Nagai , Masahiro Okumura , Keita Kobayashi , Motoyuki Shiga

Neural surrogates for molecular scattering provide a route to continuously evaluable and differentiable direct simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) collision kernels, but a small pointwise deflection-angle error is not sufficient evidence that a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Ehsan Roohi

We present a Nested Markov chain Monte Carlo (NMC) scheme for building equilibrium averages based on accurate potentials such as density functional theory. Metropolis sampling of a reference system, defined by an inexpensive but approximate…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Jeff Leiding , Joshua D. Coe

Monte Carlo methods are widely used in particle physics to integrate and sample probability distributions (differential cross sections or decay rates) on multi-dimensional phase spaces. We present a Neural Network (NN) algorithm optimized…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-10-21 Matthew D. Klimek , Maxim Perelstein

We investigate the stochastic Direct Simulation Monte Carlo method (DSMC) for numerically solving the collision-term in heavy-ion transport theories of the Boltzmann-Uehling-Uhlenbeck (BUU) type. The first major modification we consider is…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 G. Kortemeyer , F. Daffin , W. Bauer

Latent state space systems are ubiquitous in statistical modelling, arising naturally when a time series is observed through a noisy measurement function, however training deep state space models (DSSM) at scale remains difficult. Two…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-21 John-Joseph Brady , Nikolas Nusken , Yunpeng Li