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We demonstrate the application of the Dynamic Mode Decomposition (DMD) for the diagnostic analysis of the nonlinear dynamics of a magnetized plasma in resistive magnetohydrodynamics. The DMD method is an ideal spatio-temporal matrix…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-05-23 Roy Taylor , J. Nathan Kutz , Kyle Morgan , Brian Nelson

The relativistic Vlasov-Maxwell system is a kinetic model for collisionless plasmas. For the two-dimensional model, global well-posedness of this model is known and was proven by deriving global bounds on the momentum support of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-11-28 Matthew Hernandez , Neel Patel , Elena Salguero

The hybrid Vlasov-Maxwell system of equations is suitable to describe a magnetized plasma at scales of the order of or larger than proton kinetic scales. An exact stationary solution is presented by revisiting previous results with a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-06-06 F. Malara , O. Pezzi , F. Valentini

The Vlasov-Poisson system is employed in its reduced form version (1D1V) as a test bed for the applicability of Physics Informed Neural Network (PINN) to the wave-particle resonance. Two examples are explored: the Landau damping and the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-08-25 Jai Kumar , David Zarzoso , Virginie Grandgirard , Jan Ebert , Stefan Kesselheim

We consider the linear stability problem for a 3D cylindrically symmetric equilibrium of the relativistic Vlasov-Maxwell system that describes a collisionless plasma. For an equilibrium whose distribution function decreases monotonically…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Zhiwu Lin , Walter Strauss

Engineering simulations are usually based on complex, grid-based, or mesh-free methods for solving partial differential equations. The results of these methods cover large fields of physical quantities at very many discrete spatial…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-08-08 Eduardo Di Costanzo , Niklas Kühl , Jean-Christophe Marongiu , Thomas Rung

We present a new algorithm for the discretization of the Vlasov-Maxwell system of equations for the study of plasmas in the kinetic regime. Using the discontinuous Galerkin finite element method for the spatial discretization, we obtain a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-11-22 J. Juno , A. Hakim , J. TenBarge , E. Shi , W. Dorland

Plasma kinetics, for both flat and curved spacetime, is conventionally performed on the mass shell, a 7--dimensional time-phase space with a Vlasov vector field, also known as the Liouville vector field. The choice of this time-phase space…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-01-28 Finlay Gunneberg , Jonathan Gratus , Harvey Stanfield

The present paper describes a parallel unstructured-mesh Plasma simulation code based on Finite Volume method. The code dynamically refines and coarses mesh for accurate resolution of the different features regarding the electron density.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-12-26 Imad Kissami , Souhail Maazioui , Fayssal Benkhaldoun

Recent developments in the study of pulsar radio emission revealed that the microphysics of quantum electrodynamic (QED) pair cascades at pulsar polar caps may be responsible for generating the observed coherent radio waves. However,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-22 Dingyi Ye , Alexander Y. Chen

Running kinetic plasma physics simulations using grid-based solvers is very demanding both in terms of memory as well as computational cost. This is primarily due to the up to six-dimensional phase space and the associated unfavorable…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-10-28 Lukas Einkemmer , Alexander Moriggl

We propose a spectral method for the 1D-1V Vlasov-Poisson system where the discretization in velocity space is based on asymmetrically-weighted Hermite functions, dynamically adapted via a scaling $\alpha$ and shifting $u$ of the velocity…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-02 Cecilia Pagliantini , Gian Luca Delzanno , Stefano Markidis

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-14 Philipp Krah , Xi-Yuan Yin , Julius Bergmann , Jean-Christophe Nave , Kai Schneider

Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations have been widely applied to study macromolecules including proteins. However, high-dimensionality of the datasets produced by simulations makes it difficult for thorough analysis, and further hinders a…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2022-05-17 Hao Tian , Peng Tao

The time evolution of a collisionless plasma is modeled by the relativistic Vlasov-Maxwell system which couples the Vlasov equation (the transport equation) with the Maxwell equations of electrodynamics. In this work, the setting is two and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-11-30 Jörg Weber

When particle speeds are large the motion of a collisionless plasma is modeled by the relativistic Vlasov Maxwell system. Large time behavior of solutions which depend on one position variable and two momentum variables is considered. In…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-01-02 Robert Glassey , Stephen Pankavich , Jack Schaeffer

In this study, the Vlasov-Poisson equation with or without collision term for plasma is solved by the unified gas kinetic scheme (UGKS). The Vlasov equation is a differential equation describing time evolution of the distribution function…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-10-18 Dongxin Pana , Chengwen Zhong , Congshan Zhuo , Wei Tan

Dynamic mode decomposition (DMD) provides a principled approach to extract physically interpretable spatial modes from time-resolved flow field data, along with a linear model for how the amplitudes of these modes evolve in time. Recently,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-07-29 Aditya G. Nair , Benjamin Strom , Bingni W. Brunton , Steven L. Brunton

The motion of a collisionless plasma - a high-temperature, low-density, ionized gas - is described by the Vlasov-Maxwell system. In the presence of large velocities, relativistic corrections are meaningful, and when symmetry of the particle…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-12-31 Robert Glassey , Stephen Pankavich , Jack Schaeffer

We review a scalable two- and three-dimensional computer code for low-temperature plasma simulations in multi-material complex geometries. Our approach is based on embedded boundary (EB) finite volume discretizations of the minimal…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 Robert Marskar