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Main Authors: Stammer, Pia, Burlacu, Tiberiu, Wahl, Niklas, Lathouwers, Danny, Kusch, Jonas
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.09484
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author Stammer, Pia
Burlacu, Tiberiu
Wahl, Niklas
Lathouwers, Danny
Kusch, Jonas
author_facet Stammer, Pia
Burlacu, Tiberiu
Wahl, Niklas
Lathouwers, Danny
Kusch, Jonas
contents Deterministically solving charged particle transport problems at a sufficient spatial and angular resolution is often prohibitively expensive, especially due to their highly forward peaked scattering. We propose a model order reduction approach which evolves the solution on a low-rank manifold in time, making computations feasible at much higher resolutions and reducing the overall run-time and memory footprint. For this, we use a hybrid dynamical low-rank approach based on a collided-uncollided split, i.e., the transport equation is split through a collision source method. Uncollided particles are described using a ray tracer, facilitating the inclusion of boundary conditions and straggling, whereas collided particles are represented using a moment method combined with the dynamical low-rank approximation. Here the energy is treated as a pseudo-time and a rank adaptive integrator is chosen to dynamically adapt the rank in energy. We can reproduce the results of a full-rank reference code at a much lower rank and thus computational cost and memory usage. The solution further achieves comparable accuracy with respect to TOPAS MC as previous deterministic approaches.
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spellingShingle A Deterministic Dynamical Low-rank Approach for Charged Particle Transport
Stammer, Pia
Burlacu, Tiberiu
Wahl, Niklas
Lathouwers, Danny
Kusch, Jonas
Numerical Analysis
Computational Physics
Medical Physics
Deterministically solving charged particle transport problems at a sufficient spatial and angular resolution is often prohibitively expensive, especially due to their highly forward peaked scattering. We propose a model order reduction approach which evolves the solution on a low-rank manifold in time, making computations feasible at much higher resolutions and reducing the overall run-time and memory footprint. For this, we use a hybrid dynamical low-rank approach based on a collided-uncollided split, i.e., the transport equation is split through a collision source method. Uncollided particles are described using a ray tracer, facilitating the inclusion of boundary conditions and straggling, whereas collided particles are represented using a moment method combined with the dynamical low-rank approximation. Here the energy is treated as a pseudo-time and a rank adaptive integrator is chosen to dynamically adapt the rank in energy. We can reproduce the results of a full-rank reference code at a much lower rank and thus computational cost and memory usage. The solution further achieves comparable accuracy with respect to TOPAS MC as previous deterministic approaches.
title A Deterministic Dynamical Low-rank Approach for Charged Particle Transport
topic Numerical Analysis
Computational Physics
Medical Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.09484