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A Characteristic Mapping Method for Vlasov-Poisson with Extreme Resolution Properties

Numerical Analysis 2024-05-14 v2 Numerical Analysis Computational Physics Plasma Physics

Abstract

We propose an efficient semi-Lagrangian characteristic mapping method for solving the one+one-dimensional Vlasov-Poisson equations with high precision on a coarse grid. The flow map is evolved numerically and exponential resolution in linear time is obtained. Global third-order convergence in space and time is shown and conservation properties are assessed. For benchmarking, we consider linear and nonlinear Landau damping and the two-stream instability. We compare the results with a Fourier pseudo-spectral method. The extreme fine-scale resolution features are illustrated showing the method's capabilities to efficiently treat filamentation in fusion plasma simulations.

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@article{arxiv.2311.09379,
  title  = {A Characteristic Mapping Method for Vlasov-Poisson with Extreme Resolution Properties},
  author = {Philipp Krah and Xi-Yuan Yin and Julius Bergmann and Jean-Christophe Nave and Kai Schneider},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.09379},
  year   = {2024}
}

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Code is available at https://github.com/orgs/CharacteristicMappingMethod/repositories

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