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We describe an implicit general relativistic hydrodynamics code. The evolution equations are formulated in comoving coordinates. A conservative finite differencing of the Einstein equations is outlined, and artificial viscosity and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-05-12 Matthias Liebendoerfer , Stephan Rosswog , Friedrich-Karl Thielemann

In this paper, a novel adaptive finite element method is proposed to solve the Kohn-Sham equation based on the moving mesh (nonnested mesh) adaptive technique and the augmented subspace method. Different from the classical self-consistent…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-01 Guanghui Hu , Hehu Xie , Fei Xu , Gang Zhao

Reciprocal space methods for solving Poisson's equation for finite charge distributions are investigated. Improvements to previous proposals are presented, and their performance is compared in the context of a real-space density functional…

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alberto Castro , Angel Rubio , M. J. Stott

A new method of solution to the local spin density approximation to the electronic Schr\"{o}dinger equation is presented. The method is based on an efficient, parallel, adaptive multigrid eigenvalue solver. It is shown that adaptivity is…

mtrl-th · Physics 2009-09-25 E. Bylaska , S. Khon , S. Baden , A. Edelman , R. Kawai , M. E. G. Ong , J. H. Weare

A general real-space multigrid algorithm MIKA (Multigrid Instead of the K-spAce) for the self-consistent solution of the Kohn-Sham equations appearing in the state-of-the-art electronic-structure calculations is described. The most…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 T. Torsti , M. Heiskanen , M. J. Puska , R. M. Nieminen

Context. High-resolution numerical methods have been developed for nonlinear, discontinuous problems as they appear in simulations of astrophysical objects. One of the strategies applied is the concept of artificial viscosity. Aims.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-19 Harald Höller , Antti Koskela , Ernst Dorfi , Werner Benger

In this paper, we study finite dimensional approximations of Kohn-Sham models, which are widely used in electronic structure calculations. We prove the convergence of the finite dimensional approximations and derive the a priori error…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-08-10 Huajie Chen , Xingao Gong , Lianhua He , Zhang Yang , Aihui Zhou

Real-space grids are a powerful alternative for the simulation of electronic systems. One of the main advantages of the approach is the flexibility and simplicity of working directly in real space where the different fields are discretized…

Based on the numerical method proposed in [G. Hu, X. Xie, F. Xu, J. Comput. Phys., 355 (2018), 436-449.] for Kohn-Sham equation, further improvement on the efficiency is obtained in this paper by i). designing a numerical method with the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-05 Guanghui Hu , Hehu Xie , Fei Xu

A globally-adaptive curvilinear coordinate formalism is shown to be easily convertible to a class of curvilinear transformations locally optimized around atom sites by a few parameters. Parameter transferability is established for a…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-31 D. R. Hamann

Optimal exploitation of supercomputing resources for the evaluation of electrostatic forces remains a challenge in molecular dynamics simulations of very large systems. The most efficient methods are currently based on particle-mesh Ewald…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-09-23 Federica Troni , Davide Grassano , Jayashree Narayan , Benoît Roux , Sara Bonella

The complex-scaling method can be used to calculate molecular resonances within the Born-Oppenheimer approximation, assuming the electronic coordinates are dilated independently of the nuclear coordinates. With this method, one will…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-16 Teng Bian , Sabre Kais

This paper presents a numerical method for variable coefficient elliptic PDEs with mostly smooth solutions on two dimensional domains. The PDE is discretized via a multi-domain spectral collocation method of high local order (order 30 and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-12-09 Tracy Babb , Adrianna Gillman , Sijia Hao , Per-Gunnar Martinsson

A numerical scheme is described for accurately accommodating oblique, non-aligned, boundaries, on a three-dimensional cartesian grid. The scheme gives second-order accuracy in the solution for potential of Poisson's equation using compact…

Computational Physics · Physics 2011-05-09 Ian H Hutchinson

We generalize the interpolative separable density fitting (ISDF) method, used for compressing the four-index electron repulsion integral (ERI) tensor, to incorporate adaptive real space grids for potentially highly localized single-particle…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-02-17 Hai Zhu , Chia-Nan Yeh , Miguel A. Morales , Leslie Greengard , Shidong Jiang , Jason Kaye

A method for constructing first integral preserving numerical schemes for time-dependent partial differential equations on non-uniform grids is presented. The method can be used with both finite difference and partition of unity approaches,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-04 Sølve Eidnes , Brynjulf Owren , Torbjørn Ringholm

We have applied the Finite Element Method to the self-consistent electronic structure calculations of molecules and solids for the first time. In this approach all the calculations are performed in "real space" and the use of non-uniform…

mtrl-th · Physics 2009-10-28 Eiji Tsuchida , Masaru Tsukada

A new approach to the kinetic simulation of plasmas in complex geometries, based on the Particle-in- Cell (PIC) simulation method, is explored. In the two dimensional (2d) electrostatic version of our method, called the Arbitrary…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 C. A. Fichtl , J. M. Finn , K. L. Cartwright

In this paper, we introduce a new scheme for the efficient numerical treatment of the electronic Schr\"odinger equation for molecules. It is based on the combination of a many-body expansion, which corresponds to the so-called bond order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-07-20 Sambasiva Rao Chinnamsetty , Michael Griebel , Jan Hamaekers

Classical algorithms for predicting the equilibrium geometry of strongly correlated molecules require expensive wave function methods that become impractical already for few-atom systems. In this work, we introduce a variational quantum…