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A method for solving linearized Vlasov equation for low-frequency, long-wavelength electromagnetic modes in magnetically confined inhomogeneous plasmas is described. The relevant non-local solution that includes the lowest-significant-order…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-12-09 Bamandas Basu

Running kinetic simulations using grid-based methods is extremely expensive due to the up to six-dimensional phase space. Recently, it has been shown that dynamical low-rank algorithms can drastically reduce the required computational…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-08-31 Fabio Cassini , Lukas Einkemmer

In this work we study a multi-step scheme on time-space grids proposed by W. Zhao et al. [28] for solving backward stochastic differential equations, where Lagrange interpolating polynomials are used to approximate the time-integrands with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-09-05 Long Teng , Aleksandr Lapitckii , Michael Günther

A starting point for deriving the Vlasov equation is the BBGKY hierarchy that describes the dynamics of coupled marginal distribution functions. With a large value of the plasma parameter one can justify eliminating 2-point correlations in…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-10-11 F. Pegoraro , P. J. Morrison

Although the Vlasov equation is used as a good approximation for a sufficiently large $N$, Braun and Hepp have showed that the time evolution of the one particle distribution function of a $N$ particle classical Hamiltonian system with long…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-15 T. M. Rocha Filho , A. E. Santana , J. R. S. Moura , M. A. Amato , A. Figueiredo

Collisionless plasmas, mostly present in astrophysical and space environments, often require a kinetic treatment as given by the Vlasov equation. Unfortunately, the six-dimensional Vlasov equation can only be solved on very small parts of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-05-03 Simon Lautenbach , Rainer Grauer

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

The standard approach for integrating the multidimensional Vlasov equation using grid based, conservative schemes is based on a time splitting approach. Here, we show that although the truncation error is of second order, time splitting can…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 H. Schmitz , R. Grauer

We present Vlasov's equation and its association with Poisson's equation in the context of modelling self-gravitating systems such as Globular Clusters or Galaxies. We first review the classical hypotheses of the model. We continue with a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jerome Perez

The Poisson-Fermi model is an extension of the classical Poisson-Boltzmann model to include the steric and correlation effects of ions and water treated as nonuniform spheres in aqueous solutions. Poisson-Boltzmann electrostatic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-07-04 Jen-Hao Chen , Ren-Chuen Chen , Jinn-Liang Liu

In recent years, GPU-accelerated optimization solvers based on second-order methods (e.g., interior-point methods) have gained momentum with the advent of mature and efficient GPU-accelerated direct sparse linear solvers, such as cuDSS.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Alexis Montoison , François Pacaud , Sungho Shin , Mihai Anitescu

Vlasov solvers that operate on a phase-space grid are highly accurate but also numerically demanding. Coarse velocity space resolutions, which are unproblematic in particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations, can lead to numerical heating or…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-04-06 Florian Allmann-Rahn , Simon Lautenbach , Rainer Grauer

In this paper we present a methodology for data accesses when solving batches of Tridiagonal and Pentadiagonal matrices that all share the same left-hand-side (LHS) matrix. The intended application is to the numerical solution of Partial…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-07-13 Enda Carroll , Andrew Gloster , Miguel D. Bustamante , Lennon Ó' Náraigh

A numerical method is proposed to solve the full-Eulerian time-dependent Vlasov-Poisson system in high dimension. The algorithm relies on the construction of a tensor decomposition of the solution whose rank is adapted at each time step.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-04-05 Virginie Ehrlacher , Damiano Lombardi

In this paper, we present a GPU-accelerated direct-sum boundary integral method to solve the linear Poisson-Boltzmann (PB) equation. In our method, a well-posed boundary integral formulation is used to ensure the fast convergence of Krylov…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-12 Weihua Geng , Ferosh Jacob

The problem of solving a system of polynomial equations is one of the most fundamental problems in applied mathematics. Among them, the problem of solving a system of binomial equations form a important subclass for which specialized…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-03-03 Tianran Chen , Dhagash Mehta

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 is needed to consider the effect of external…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-11 Anjiao Gu , Yajuan Sun

Resolving numerically Vlasov-Poisson equations for initially cold systems can be reduced to following the evolution of a three-dimensional sheet evolving in six-dimensional phase-space. We describe a public parallel numerical algorithm…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-06-29 Thierry Sousbie , Stéphane Colombi

Simulations of physical phenomena are essential to the expedient design of precision components in aerospace and other high-tech industries. These phenomena are often described by mathematical models involving partial differential equations…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-01-05 Daniel Magee , Kyle E Niemeyer

The Vlasov-Maxwell equations provide kinetic simulations of collisionless plasmas, but numerically solving them on classical computers is often impractical. This is due to the computational resource constraints imposed by the time evolution…