High-order adaptive rank integrators for multi-scale linear kinetic transport equations in the hierarchical tucker format

WA Sands, W Guo, JM Qiu, T Xiong - arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.19479, 2024 - arxiv.org
In this paper, we present a new adaptive rank approximation technique for computing
solutions to the high-dimensional linear kinetic transport equation. The approach we …

Hypocoercivity and diffusion limit of a finite volume scheme for linear kinetic equations

M Bessemoulin-Chatard, M Herda, T Rey - Mathematics of Computation, 2020 - ams.org
In this article, we are interested in the asymptotic analysis of a finite volume scheme for one-
dimensional linear kinetic equations, with either a Fokker–Planck or linearized BGK collision …

Monte Carlo gradient in optimization constrained by radiative transport equation

Q Li, L Wang, Y Yang - SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, 2023 - SIAM
Can Monte Carlo (MC) solvers be directly used in gradient-based methods for PDE-
constrained optimization problems? In these problems, a gradient of the loss function is …

On a discrete framework of hypocoercivity for kinetic equations

A Blaustein, F Filbet - Mathematics of Computation, 2024 - ams.org
We propose and study a fully discrete finite volume scheme for the linear Vlasov-Fokker-
Planck equation written as an hyperbolic system using Hermite polynomials in velocity. This …

The aw–rascle traffic model: Enskog-type kinetic derivation and generalisations

G Dimarco, A Tosin - Journal of Statistical Physics, 2020 - Springer
We study the derivation of second order macroscopic traffic models from kinetic descriptions.
In particular, we recover the celebrated Aw–Rascle model as the hydrodynamic limit of an …

On asymptotic preserving schemes for a class of stochastic differential equations in averaging and diffusion approximation regimes

CE Bréhier, S Rakotonirina-Ricquebourg - Multiscale Modeling & Simulation, 2022 - SIAM
We introduce and study a notion of asymptotic preserving schemes, related to convergence
in distribution, for a class of slow-fast stochastic differential equations. In some examples …

A hybrid fluid-kinetic model for hydrogenic atoms in the plasma edge of tokamaks based on a micro-macro decomposition of the kinetic equation

N Horsten, G Samaey, M Baelmans - Journal of Computational Physics, 2020 - Elsevier
Monte Carlo (MC) simulations of the full kinetic equation for the neutral particles in the
plasma edge become computationally costly for reactor-relevant regimes. To accelerate the …

Multilevel asymptotic-preserving Monte Carlo for kinetic-diffusive particle simulations of the Boltzmann-BGK equation

B Mortier, P Robbe, M Baelmans, G Samaey - Journal of Computational …, 2022 - Elsevier
We develop a novel multilevel asymptotic-preserving Monte Carlo method, called Multilevel
Kinetic-Diffusion Monte Carlo (ML-KDMC), for simulating the kinetic Boltzmann transport …

Kinetic‐diffusion asymptotic‐preserving Monte Carlo algorithms for plasma edge neutral simulation

B Mortier, M Baelmans… - Contributions to Plasma …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract We developed novel Monte Carlo simulation strategies for the neutral model in
plasma edge simulations where both low‐collisional and high‐collisional regimes are …

A multilevel Monte Carlo method for asymptotic-preserving particle schemes in the diffusive limit

E Løvbak, G Samaey, S Vandewalle - Numerische Mathematik, 2021 - Springer
Kinetic equations model distributions of particles in position-velocity phase space. Often,
one is interested in studying the long-time behavior of particles in high-collisional regimes in …