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Aims. Numerical test-particle simulations are a reliable and frequently used tool to test analytical transport theories and to predict mean-free paths. The comparison between solutions of the diffusion equation and the particle flux is used…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-17 R. C. Tautz , J. Bolte , A. Shalchi

Sampling viable 3D structures (e.g., molecules and point clouds) with SE(3)-invariance using diffusion-based models proved promising in a variety of real-world applications, wherein SE(3)-invariant properties can be naturally characterized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Zihan Zhou , Ruiying Liu , Jiachen Zheng , Xiaoxue Wang , Tianshu Yu

One of the great challenges in understanding stars is measuring their masses. The best methods for measuring stellar masses include binary interaction, asteroseismology and stellar evolution models, but these methods are not ideal for red…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-26 Hilding R. Neilson , Fabien Baron , Ryan Norris , Brian Kloppenborg , John B. Lester

We have developed a new, very efficient numerical scheme to solve the CR diffusion convection equation that can be applied to the study of the nonlinear time evolution of CR modified shocks for arbitrary spatial diffusion properties. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 T. W. Jones , H. Kang

This work focuses on stability analysis of numerical solutions to jump diffusions and jump diffusions with Markovian switching. Due to the use of Poisson processes, using asymptotic expansions as in the usual approach of treating diffusion…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-07-11 Zhixin Yang , G. Yin , Haibo Li

The dynamics and thermal structure of the surface layers of stars with outer convection zones can be studied in some detail by means of numerical simulations of time-dependent compressible convection. In an effort to investigate the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Matthias Steffen

We compare four different methods to calculate radiative transfer through a magnetized stellar atmosphere, and apply them to the case of magnetic white dwarfs. All methods are numerically stable enough to allow determination of the magnetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Stefan Jordan , Holger Schmidt

In this paper, we derive two bound-preserving and mass-conserving schemes based on the fractional-step method and high-order compact (HOC) finite difference method for nonlinear convection-dominated diffusion equations. We split the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-16 Baolin Kuang , Hongfei Fu , Shusen Xie

Stars play a key role in the evolution of the Universe, as sources of radiation, as dynamical engines, and as chemical factories. Outputs of stellar models are then central to various studies in astrophysics. Stellar physics links…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-18 P. Eggenberger

In this paper, we develop and analyze a stochastic algorithm for solving space-time fractional diffusion models, which are widely used to describe anomalous diffusion dynamics. These models pose substantial numerical challenges due to the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-29 Tengteng Cui , Chengtao Sheng , Bihao Su , Zhi Zhou

We find a numerical self-consistent stellar model by finding the distribution function of a thin disk that satisfies simultaneously the Fokker-Planck and Poisson equations. The solution of the Fokker-Planck equation is found by a direct…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Maximiliano Ujevic , Patricio S. Letelier

A numerical method to solve the fractional diffusion equation, which could also be easily extended to many other fractional dynamics equations, is considered. These fractional equations have been proposed in order to describe anomalous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 S. B. Yuste , L. Acedo

In this paper we study the problem of the numerical calculation (by Monte Carlo Methods) of the effective diffusivity for a particle moving in a periodic divergent-free velocity filed, in the limit of vanishing molecular diffusion. In this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2009-11-13 G. A. Pavliotis , A. M. Stuart , K. C. Zygalakis

Understanding the geometry of learned distributions is fundamental to improving and interpreting diffusion models, yet systematic tools for exploring their landscape remain limited. Standard latent-space interpolations fail to respect the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-26 Elio Moreau , Florentin Coeurdoux , Grégoire Ferre , Eric Vanden-Eijnden

(Abridged) We describe the results of three-dimensional (3D) numerical simulations designed to study turbulent convection in the stellar interiors, and compare them to stellar mixing-length theory (MLT). Simulations in 2D are significantly…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Casey A. Meakin , David Arnett

An attempt at understanding downward overshooting in the convective envelopes of post-main-sequence stars has been made on the basis of three-dimensional large-eddy simulations, using artificially modified OPAL opacity and taking into…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-08 Chun-Lin Tian , Li-Cai Deng , Kwing-Lam Chan

Explicit numerical finite difference schemes for partial differential equations are well known to be easy to implement but they are particularly problematic for solving equations whose solutions admit shocks, blowups and discontinuities.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-10-19 Christopher. N. Angstmann , Bruce I. Henry , Byron A. Jacobs , Anna V. McGann

This paper detailedly discusses the locally one-dimensional numerical methods for efficiently solving the three-dimensional fractional partial differential equations, including fractional advection diffusion equation and Riesz fractional…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-07-07 Weihua Deng , Minghua Chen

We simulate convection near the solar surface, where the continuum optical depth is of order unity. Hence, to determine the radiative heating and cooling in the energy conservation equation, we must solve the radiative transfer equation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Robert Stein , Aake Nordlund

Context. The anelastic approximation is often adopted in numerical calculation with low Mach number, such as stellar internal convection. This approximation requires frequent global communication, because of an elliptic partial differential…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 H. Hotta , M. Rempel , T. Yokoyama , Y. Iida , Y. Fan