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In this paper, an efficient iterative method is proposed for solving multiple scattering problem in locally inhomogeneous media. The key idea is to enclose the inhomogeneity of the media by well separated artificial boundaries and then…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-23 Ziqing Xie , Rui Zhang , Bo Wang , Li-lian Wang

This paper introduces a novel approach to algebraic multigrid methods for large systems of linear equations coming from finite element discretizations of certain elliptic second order partial differential equations. Based on a discrete…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-30 Lukas Kogler , Joachim Schöberl

This paper presents a new fading model for MIMO channels, the Jacobi fading model. It asserts that $H$, the transfer matrix which couples the $m_t$ inputs into $m_r$ outputs, is a sub-matrix of an $m\times m$ random (Haar-distributed)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-08-16 Ronen Dar , Meir Feder , Mark Shtaif

We propose a convenient matrix-free neural architecture for the multigrid method. The architecture is simple enough to be implemented in less than fifty lines of code, yet it encompasses a large number of distinct multigrid solvers. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-09 Vladimir Fanaskov

The present work develops hybrid multigrid methods for high-order discontinuous Galerkin discretizations of elliptic problems. Fast matrix-free operator evaluation on tensor product elements is used to devise a computationally efficient PDE…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 Niklas Fehn , Peter Munch , Wolfgang A. Wall , Martin Kronbichler

Since the mass of the electron is very small relative to atomic masses, Thomson scattering of low-energy photons ($h\nu \ll m_ec^2$) produces thermal Doppler frequency shifts that are much larger than atomic Doppler widths. A method is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 G. B. Rybicki , D. G. Hummer

The multigrid algorithm is an efficient numerical method for solving a variety of elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs). The method damps errors at progressively finer grid scales, resulting in faster convergence compared to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-06 Francisco Holguin , GS Sidharth , Gavin Portwood

In a recent article the authors showed that the radiative Transfer equations with multiple frequencies and scattering can be formulated as a nonlinear integral system. In the present article, the formulation is extended to handle reflective…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-12 Olivier Pironneau , Pierre-Henri Tournier

Achieving efficient and accurate simulation of the radiative transfer has long been a research challenge. Here we introduce the general synthetic iterative scheme as an easy-to-implement approach to address this issue. First, a macroscopic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-07-08 Kaiyuan Wang , Yanbing Zhang , Qi Li , Lei Wu

Multigrid methods have proven to be an invaluable tool to efficiently solve large sparse linear systems arising in the discretization of partial differential equations (PDEs). Algebraic multigrid methods and in particular adaptive algebraic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-27 Hanno Gottschalk , Karsten Kahl

Numerical simulations of the propagation of charged particles through magnetic fields solving the equation of motion often leads to the usage of an interpolation in case of discretely defined magnetic fields, typically given on a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-14 L. Schlegel , A. Frie , B. Eichmann , P. Reichherzer , J. Becker Tjus

In this work we design a receiver that iteratively passes soft information between the channel estimation and data decoding stages. The receiver incorporates sparsity-based parametric channel estimation. State-of-the-art sparsity-based…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-19 Thomas L. Hansen , Peter B. Jørgensen , Mihai-Alin Badiu , Bernard H. Fleury

We introduce a numerical method that enables efficient modelling of light scattering by large, disordered ensembles of non-spherical particles incorporated in stratified media, including when the particles are in close vicinity to each…

The Transfer Matrix Method (TMM) is a widely used technique for modeling linear propagation of electromagnetic waves through stratified layered media. However, since its extension to inhomogeneous and nonlinear systems is not…

Optics · Physics 2025-06-23 Karol Sajnok , Michał Matuszewski

This paper proposes a mode multigrid (MMG) method, and applies it to accelerate the convergence of the steady state flow on unstructured grids. The dynamic mode decomposition (DMD) technique is used to analyze the convergence process of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-02-27 Yilang Liu , Weiwei Zhang , Jiaqing Kou

The basic idea of an extremely fast convergent iterative method, the Forth-and-Back Implicit Lambda Iteration (FBILI), is briefly described and the applications of the method to various RT problems are listed and discussed.

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-25 Olga Atanackovic-Vukmanovic

We present an alternative scheme for obtaining effective power dissipation in planar composites, extending the recently proposed concept of metagrating (MGs), sparse arrangements of polarizable particles (meta-atoms), to realize…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-06-22 Yarden Yashno , Ariel Epstein

This study concerns the fast and accurate solution of multilevel non-LTE radiation transfer problems. We propose and evaluate an alternative iterative scheme to the classical MALI method. Our study is indeed based on the application of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 S. Nicolas , L. Bigarré , F. Paletou

We propose and analyze an iterative high-order hybridized discontinuous Galerkin (iHDG) discretization for linear partial differential equations. We improve our previous work (SIAM J. Sci. Comput. Vol. 39, No. 5, pp. S782--S808) in several…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-23 Sriramkrishnan Muralikrishnan , Minh-Binh Tran , Tan Bui-Thanh

This article presents an on-line tool (rttools.irap.omp.eu) and its accompanying software ressources for the numerical solution of basic radiation transfer out of local thermodynamic equilibrium (LTE). State-of-the-art stationary iterative…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-09 J. Lambert , F. Paletou , E. Josselin , J. -M. Glorian