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Monte Carlo tracking drift-diffusion trajectories algorithm for solving narrow escape problems. / Sabelfeld, Karl K.; Popov, Nikita.
In: Monte Carlo Methods and Applications, Vol. 26, No. 3, 01.09.2020, p. 177-191.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Monte Carlo tracking drift-diffusion trajectories algorithm for solving narrow escape problems
AU - Sabelfeld, Karl K.
AU - Popov, Nikita
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2020 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston 2020. Copyright: Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2020/9/1
Y1 - 2020/9/1
N2 - This study deals with a narrow escape problem, a well-know difficult problem of evaluating the probability for a diffusing particle to reach a small part of a boundary far away from the starting position of the particle. A direct simulation of the diffusion trajectories would take an enormous computer simulation time. Instead, we use a different approach which drastically improves the efficiency of the diffusion trajectory tracking algorithm by introducing an artificial drift velocity directed to the target position. The method can be efficiently applied to solve narrow escape problems for domains of long extension in one direction which is the case in many practical problems in biology and chemistry. The algorithm is meshless both in space and time, and is well applied to solve high-dimensional problems in complicated domains. We present in this paper a detailed numerical analysis of the method for the case of a rectangular parallelepiped. Both stationary and transient diffusion problems are handled.
AB - This study deals with a narrow escape problem, a well-know difficult problem of evaluating the probability for a diffusing particle to reach a small part of a boundary far away from the starting position of the particle. A direct simulation of the diffusion trajectories would take an enormous computer simulation time. Instead, we use a different approach which drastically improves the efficiency of the diffusion trajectory tracking algorithm by introducing an artificial drift velocity directed to the target position. The method can be efficiently applied to solve narrow escape problems for domains of long extension in one direction which is the case in many practical problems in biology and chemistry. The algorithm is meshless both in space and time, and is well applied to solve high-dimensional problems in complicated domains. We present in this paper a detailed numerical analysis of the method for the case of a rectangular parallelepiped. Both stationary and transient diffusion problems are handled.
KW - drift-diffusion trajectory
KW - first passage time
KW - Narrow escape problem
KW - random walk on spheres
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85089728639&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1515/mcma-2020-2073
DO - 10.1515/mcma-2020-2073
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85089728639
VL - 26
SP - 177
EP - 191
JO - Monte Carlo Methods and Applications
JF - Monte Carlo Methods and Applications
SN - 0929-9629
IS - 3
ER -
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