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The vmf90 program for the numerical resolution of the Vlasov equation for mean-field systems

Computational Physics 2014-05-23 v2 Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

The numerical resolution of the Vlasov equation provides complementary information with respect to analytical studies and forms an important research tool in domains such as plasma physics. The study of mean-field models for systems with long-range interactions is another field in which the Vlasov equation plays an important role. We present the vmf90 program that performs numerical simulations of the Vlasov equation for this class of mean-field models with the semi-Lagrangian method.

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@article{arxiv.1310.0805,
  title  = {The vmf90 program for the numerical resolution of the Vlasov equation for mean-field systems},
  author = {Pierre de Buyl},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1310.0805},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

7 pages, 2 figures. the manuscript is related to the program vmf90 https://github.com/pdebuyl/vmf90. Updated to accepted version