Related papers: Vlasov on GPU (VOG Project)
In this paper, our goal is to efficiently solve the Vlasov equation on GPUs. A semi-Lagrangian discontinuous Galerkin scheme is used for the discretization. Such kinetic computations are extremely expensive due to the high-dimensional phase…
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…
The discontinuous Galerkin (DG) finite element method is conservative, lends itself well to parallelization, and is high-order accurate due to its close affinity with the theory of quadrature and orthogonal polynomials. When applied with an…
Kinetic plasma simulations solve the Vlasov-Poisson or Vlasov-Maxwell equations to evolve scalar-variable distribution functions in position-velocity phase space and vector-variable electromagnetic fields in physical space. The…
This paper presents an optimized and scalable semi-Lagrangian solver for the Vlasov-Poisson system in six-dimensional phase space. Grid-based solvers of the Vlasov equation are known to give accurate results. At the same time, these solvers…
An efficient solver for the three dimensional free-space Poisson equation is presented. The underlying numerical method is based on finite Fourier series approximation. While the error of all involved approximations can be fully controlled,…
In this paper, we describe our approach to develop a simulation software application for the fully kinetic Vlasov equation which will be used to explore physics beyond the gyrokinetic model. Simulating the fully kinetic Vlasov equation…
In this paper, we introduce a quasi-Newton method optimized for efficiently solving quasi-linear elliptic equations and systems, with a specific focus on GPU-based computation. By approximating the Jacobian matrix with a combination of…
Kinetic simulations of collisionless (or weakly collisional) plasmas using the Vlasov equation are often infeasible due to high resolution requirements and the exponential scaling of computational cost with respect to dimension. Recently,…
This work deals with the numerical solution of the Vlasov equation. This equation gives a kinetic description of the evolution of a plasma, and is coupled with Poisson's equation for the computation of the self-consistent electric field.…
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…
We present a GPU parallel implementation of the numeric integration of the Vlasov equation in one spatial dimension based on a second order time-split algorithm with a local modified cubic-spline interpolation. We apply our approach to…
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…
The purpose of the present paper is to compare two semi-Lagrangian methods in the context of the four-dimensional Vlasov--Poisson equation. More specifically, our goal is to compare the performance of the more recently developed…
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…
Existing approaches to solving the Vlasov equation treat the system as a partial differential equation on a phase space grid, and track in either an Eulerian, Lagrangian, or semi-Lagrangian picture. We present an alternative approach, which…
In this paper, we develop a high order semi-Lagrangian (SL) discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method for nonlinear Vlasov-Poisson (VP) simulations without operator splitting. In particular, we combine two recently developed novel techniques: one…
In this paper, a novel high order semi-Lagrangian (SL) spectral volume (SV) method is proposed and studied for nonlinear Vlasov-Poisson (VP) simulations via operator splitting. The proposed algorithm combines both advantages of…
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…
The Vlasov-Maxwell system of equations, which describes classical plasma physics, is extremely challenging to solve, even by numerical simulation on powerful computers. By linearizing and assuming a Maxwellian background distribution…