Conservative discretization of the Landau collision integral
Plasma Physics
2017-04-26 v2
Abstract
We describe a density-, momentum-, and energy-conserving discretization of the nonlinear Landau collision integral. The method is suitable for both the finite-element and discontinuous Galerkin methods and does not require structured meshes. The conservation laws for the discretization are proven algebraically and demonstrated numerically for an axially symmetric nonlinear relaxation problem using a finite-element implementation.
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@article{arxiv.1611.07881,
title = {Conservative discretization of the Landau collision integral},
author = {Eero Hirvijoki and Mark Adams},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1611.07881},
year = {2017}
}
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8 pages, 1 figure, 2 tables