scholarly journals A diffusion Monte Carlo algorithm with very small time‐step errors

1993 ◽  
Vol 99 (4) ◽  
pp. 2865-2890 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. J. Umrigar ◽  
M. P. Nightingale ◽  
K. J. Runge
2021 ◽  
Vol 154 (21) ◽  
pp. 214110
Author(s):  
Tyler A. Anderson ◽  
C. J. Umrigar

Author(s):  
Shuenn-Yih Chang ◽  
Chiu-Li Huang

The discontinuity at the end of an impulse will lead to an extra impulse and thus an extra displacement. Consequently, an amplitude distortion is introduced in the numerical solution. The difficulty arising from the discontinuity at the end of an impulse can be overcome by using a very small time step to perform the step-by-step integration since it reduces the extra impulse and thus extra displacement. However, computational efforts might be significantly increased since the small time step is performed for a complete step-by-step integration procedure. A remedy is devised to computationally efficiently overcome this difficulty by using a very small time step immediately upon termination of the applied impulse. This is because that the extra impulse caused by the discontinuity is almost proportional to the discontinuity value at the end of the impulse and the step size. The feasibility of this proposed remedy is analytically and numerically confirmed herein.


Author(s):  
K. Firoozbakhsh ◽  
M. T. Ahmadian ◽  
M. Hasanian

During the circulation of RBC it undergoes elastic deformation as it passes through micro-capillaries where the inner diameter of the constriction can be about 3 micro meters. It means RBC shape must be changed in order to pass through these narrow channels. The role of mechanical behavior of RBC and the deformability traits of RBC are observed with the several experimental studies [1]. Several methods were implemented to simulate the mechanical behavior of RBCs in micro-capillaries [1, 2]. One of the most recent methods is Moving Particle Semi-implicit method (MPS) which is a Lagrangian method with semi-implicit algorithm that guaranties the incompressibility of the fluid. MPS method was implemented for simulation of RBC motion through parallel plates by Tsubota et al. 2006 [3]. Due to small Reynolds number and the Diffusion number restrictions, implementation of small time step size would be necessary which leads to long time simulation. By the way in case of complex geometries or FSI problems, standard MPS method has a delicate pressure solver which leads to diverge the solution. So in these cases using a small time step can help to overcome the problem. Some studies have applied a new approach for time integration and the fractional time step method is employed to overcome the noticed problem. Yohsuke Imai and coworkers (2010) have developed the former studies with two main new approaches [4]. Firstly, evaluation of viscosity is upgraded and secondly boundary condition is assumed to be periodic. Although the developments are really impressive and MPS method has turned into a practical method for simulation of RBC motion in micro-capillaries, but still there are some considerations about using large time steps and error of the velocity profile consequently.


1987 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 412-419 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stuart M. Rothstein ◽  
Narayan Patil ◽  
Jan Vrbik

2001 ◽  
Vol 15 (10n11) ◽  
pp. 1752-1755 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. A. FORBERT ◽  
S. A. CHIN

We derive a fourth-order diffusion Monte Carlo algorithm for solving quantum many-body problems. The method uses a factorization of the imaginary time propagator in terms of the usual local energy E and Langevin operators L as well as an additional pseudo-potential consisting of the double commutator [EL, [L, EL]]. A new factorization of the propagator of the Fokker-Planck equation enables us to implement the Langevin algorithm to the necessary fourth order. We achieve this by the addition of correction terms to the drift steps and the use of a position-dependent Gaussian random walk. We show that in the case of bulk liquid helium the systematic step size errors are indeed fourth order over a wide range of step sizes.


2014 ◽  
Vol 638-640 ◽  
pp. 1869-1872
Author(s):  
Xin Jiang Cai ◽  
Shi Zhu Tian

The characteristics of explicit numerical integral method is without iteration, and the characteristics of inexplicit numerical integral method is unconditionally stable. The traditional CD-Newmark method has the shortcoming of the bigger upper frequency leads to a small time step, a modified combined integral method named MCD-Newmark release the fixed DOF of numerical substructure, then obtained the parameters range of stable condition of experimental substructure, and the unconditionally stable of numerical substructure is also researched,then the strict stability conditions of the traditional CD-Newmark algorithm is resolved. The study provides reference for structural seismic test.


2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Xinhua Lu ◽  
Bingjiang Dong ◽  
Bing Mao ◽  
Xiaofeng Zhang

The first-order Lax-Friedrichs (LF) scheme is commonly used in conjunction with other schemes to achieve monotone and stable properties with lower numerical diffusion. Nevertheless, the LF scheme and the schemes devised based on it, for example, the first-order centered (FORCE) and the slope-limited centered (SLIC) schemes, cannot achieve a time-step-independence solution due to the excessive numerical diffusion at a small time step. In this work, two time-step-convergence improved schemes, the C-FORCE and C-SLIC schemes, are proposed to resolve this problem. The performance of the proposed schemes is validated in solving the one-layer and two-layer shallow-water equations, verifying their capabilities in attaining time-step-independence solutions and showing robustness of them in resolving discontinuities with high-resolution.


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