Thèse soutenue

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Auteur / Autrice : Ali Tarhini
Direction : Christian LécotAli Mneimne
Type : Thèse de doctorat
Discipline(s) : Mathématiques appliquées
Date : Soutenance en 2008
Etablissement(s) : Chambéry

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Monte Carlo (MC) methods are probabilistic methods based on the use of random numbers in repeated experiments. Quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) methods are deterministic versions of Monte Carlo methods. Random sequences are replaced by low discrepancy sequences. These sequences ha ve a better uniform repartition in the s-dimensional unit cube. We use a special class of low discrepany sequences called (t,s)-sequences. In this work, we develop and analyze Monte Carlo and quasi-Monte Carlo particle methods for agglomeration phenomena. We are interested, in particular, in the numerical simulation of the discrete coagulation equations (the Smoluchowski equation), the continuous coagulation equation, the continuous coagulation-fragmentation equation and the general dynamics equation (GDE) for aerosols. In all these particle methods, we write the equation verified by the mass distribution density and we approach this density by a sum of n Dirac measures ; these measures are weighted when simulating the GDE equation. We use an explicit Euler disretiza tion scheme in time. For the simulation of coagulation and coagulation-fragmentation, the numerical particles evolves by using random numbers (for MC simulations) or by quasi-Monte Carlo quadratures. To insure the convergence of the numerical scheme, we reorder the numerical particles by their increasing mass at each time step. In the case of the GDE equation, we use a fractional step iteration scheme : coagulation is simulated as previously, other phenomena (like condensation, evaporation and deposition) are integrated by using a deterministic particle method for solving hyperbolic partial differential equation. We prove the convergence of the QMC numerical scheme in the case of the coagulation equation and the coagulation-fragmentation equation, when the number n of numerical particles goes to infinity. All our numerical tests show that the numerical solutions calculated by QMC algorithms converges to the exact solutions and gives better results than those obtained by the corresponding Monte Carlo strategies.