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We present a way to combine Vlasov and two-fluid codes for the simulation of a collisionless plasma in large domains while keeping full information of the velocity distribution in localized areas of interest. This is made possible by…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 M. Rieke , T. Trost , R. Grauer

We provide appropriate tools for the analysis of dynamics and chaos for one-dimensional systems with periodic boundary conditions. Our approach allows for the investigation of the dependence of the largest Lyapunov exponent on various…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-22 Pankaj Kumar , Bruce N. Miller

We extend the recently-developed explicit, energy-conserving particle-in-cell (PIC) scheme of [1] to the relativistic Vlasov-Maxwell system. As in the non-relativistic case, the method is built on an optimization problem that is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Lee Ricketson , Jingwei Hu

We present a semi-Lagrangian method for the numerical resolution of Vlasov-type equations on multi-patch meshes. Following N. Crouseilles et al. [A parallel Vlasov solver based on local cubic spline interpolation on patches. Journal of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-26 Pauline Vidal , Emily Bourne , Virginie Grandgirard , Michel Mehrenberger , Eric Sonnendrücker

We study systematically stationary solutions to the coupled Vlasov and Poisson equations which have `self-similar' or scaling symmetry in phase space. In particular, we find analytically {\it all} spherically symmetric distribution…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 R. N. Henriksen , Lawrence M. Widrow

The calculation of potential energy surfaces for quantum dynamics can be a time consuming task -- especially when a high level of theory for the electronic structure calculation is required. We propose an adaptive interpolation algorithm…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-08-24 Markus Kowalewski , Elisabeth Larsson , Alfa Heryudono

A common strategy in the numerical solution of partial differential equations is to define a uniform discretization of a tensor-product multi-dimensional logical domain, which is mapped to a physical domain through a given coordinate…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-09-13 Edoardo Zoni , Yaman Güçlü

We develop a general distributed implementation of an adaptive fast multipole method in three space dimensions. We rely on a balanced type of adaptive space discretisation which supports a highly transparent and fully distributed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-13 Jonathan Bull , Stefan Engblom

We present the numerical flow iteration (NuFI) for solving the Vlasov--Poisson equation. In a certain sense specified later herein, NuFI provides infinite resolution of the distribution function. NuFI exactly preserves positivity, all…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-16 Matthias Kirchhart , Rostislav-Paul Wilhelm

We present a fast, adaptive multiresolution algorithm for applying integral operators with a wide class of radially symmetric kernels in dimensions one, two and three. This algorithm is made efficient by the use of separated representations…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-08-14 Gregory Beylkin , Vani Cheruvu , Fernando Pérez

We develop a conservative phase-space grid-adaptivity strategy for the Vlasov-Fokker-Planck equation in a planar geometry. The velocity-space grid is normalized to the thermal speed and shifted by the bulk-fluid velocity. The…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-03-14 William Tsubasa Taitano , Luis Chacon , Andrei Simakov , Steven Anderson

Phase type (PH) distributions are widely used in modeling and simulation due to their generality and analytical properties. In such settings, it is often necessary to construct a PH distribution that aligns with real-world data by matching…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-28 Eliran Sherzer , Yehezkel Resheff , Miklos Telek

A multiscale numerical method is proposed for the solution of semi-linear elliptic stochastic partial differential equations with localized uncertainties and non-linearities, the uncertainties being modeled by a set of random parameters. It…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-01-23 Anthony Nouy , Florent Pled

We present a computational study for a family of discontinuous Galerkin methods for the one dimensional Vlasov-Poisson system that has been recently introduced. We introduce a slight modification of the methods to allow for feasible…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-10-02 Blanca Ayuso de Dios , Soheil Hajian

In this paper, we prove the global existence of solutions to the relativistic Vlasov-Poisson system for general initial data in convex bounded domains of two space dimensions, assuming the specular reflection boundary conditions for the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Yanmin Mu , Dehua Wang

Metastability is a common obstacle to performing long molecular dynamics simulations. Many numerical methods have been proposed to overcome it. One method is parallel replica dynamics, which relies on the rapid convergence of the underlying…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-20 Andrew Binder , Tony Lelièvre , Gideon Simpson

The motion of a collisionless plasma - a high-temperature, low-density, ionized gas - is described by the Vlasov-Maxwell (VM) system. These equations are considered in one space dimension and two momentum dimensions without the assumption…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-04-18 Robert Glassey , Stephen Pankavich , Jack Schaeffer

The purpose of the current work is to find numerical solutions of the steady state inhomogeneous Vlasov equation. This problem has a wide range of applications in the kinetic simulation of non-thermal plasmas. However, the direct…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-08-14 Markus Gasteiger , Lukas Einkemmer , Alexander Ostermann , David Tskhakaya

The combination of reduced basis and collocation methods enables efficient and accurate evaluation of the solutions to parameterized PDEs. In this paper, we study the stochastic collocation methods that can be combined with reduced basis…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-19 Heyrim Cho , Howard C. Elman

In high-temperature plasma physics, a strong magnetic field is usually used to confine charged particles. Therefore, for studying the classical mathematical models of the physical problems it needs to consider the effect of external…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-05 Anjiao Gu , Yajuan Sun