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Uncertainty Quantification for the Homogeneous Landau-Fokker-Planck Equation via Deterministic Particle Galerkin methods

Numerical Analysis 2023-12-13 v1 Numerical Analysis Analysis of PDEs Computational Physics Plasma Physics

Abstract

We design a deterministic particle method for the solution of the spatially homogeneous Landau equation with uncertainty. The deterministic particle approximation is based on the reformulation of the Landau equation as a formal gradient flow on the set of probability measures, whereas the propagation of uncertain quantities is computed by means of a sg representation of each particle. This approach guarantees spectral accuracy in uncertainty space while preserving the fundamental structural properties of the model: the positivity of the solution, the conservation of invariant quantities, and the entropy production. We provide a regularity results for the particle method in the random space. We perform the numerical validation of the particle method in a wealth of test cases.

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@article{arxiv.2312.07218,
  title  = {Uncertainty Quantification for the Homogeneous Landau-Fokker-Planck Equation via Deterministic Particle Galerkin methods},
  author = {Rafael Bailo and José Antonio Carrillo and Andrea Medaglia and Mattia Zanella},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.07218},
  year   = {2023}
}

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23 pages, 13 figures