Multipole methods
Fast multipole methods were introduced in Greengard and Rokhlin's seminal paper in the Journal of Computational Physics in 1987, in which they reduced an O(N-squared) evaluation of the potential and force fields in N-body systems with Coulombic or gravitational potentials to an O(N) computation. They have since become a popular tool in many fields of computational science and modelling, having applications to N-body problems with various potential functions as well as electromagnetic scattering and incompressible fluid dynamics.
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A Fast Multipole Method for the Bessel potential
Marc Molinari, Simon Cox (Investigators), Neil O'Brien
The fast multipole method (FMM) proposed by Greengard and Rokhlin provides a method by which the O(N-squared) many-body problem can be reduced to O(N) complexity. In this project, a multipole method is developed to calculate the energy of a system of vortices in a high temperature superconductor, where the many-body interactions give rise to rich and complex physics. The method developed here is suitable for systems where the interactions are governed by a Bessel potential rather than the usual logarithmic potentials occurring in gravitational and electrostatic problems. We derive and apply vectorised forms of the Gegenbauer addition formulae in order to achieve the O(N) scaling associated with fast multipole methods.
Centre for Doctoral Training in Next Generation Computational Modelling
Hans Fangohr, Ian Hawke, Peter Horak (Investigators), Susanne Ufermann Fangohr, Thorsten Wittemeier, Kieran Selvon, Alvaro Perez-Diaz, David Lusher, Ashley Setter, Emanuele Zappia, Hossam Ragheb, Ryan Pepper, Stephen Gow, Jan Kamenik, Paul Chambers, Robert Entwistle, Rory Brown, Joshua Greenhalgh, James Harrison, Jonathon Waters, Ioannis Begleris, Craig Rafter
The £10million Centre for Doctoral Training was launched in November 2013 and is jointly funded by EPSRC, the University of Southampton, and its partners.
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