Simulation with fluctuating and singular rates

DOI10.4208/CICP.300313.130114AMaRDI QIDQ5372269zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Farzin Barekat, Russel Caflisch

Publication date 27 October 2017

Published in Communications in Computational Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1310.4555

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Monte Carlo methods (65C05) Random number generation in numerical analysis (65C10) Statistical mechanics of plasmas (82D10)

Abstract: In this paper we present a method to generate independent samples for a general random variable, either continuous or discrete. The algorithm is an extension of the acceptance-rejection method, and it is particularly useful for kinetic simulation in which the rates are fluctuating in time and have singular limits, as occurs for example in simulation of recombination interactions in a plasma. Although it depends on some additional requirements, the new method is easy to implement and rejects less samples than the acceptance-rejection method.

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