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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

A new scheme for numerical integration of the 1D2V relativistic Vlasov-Maxwell system is proposed. Assuming that all particles in a cell of the phase space move with the same velocity as that of the particle located at the center of the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2010-02-18 Akihiro Suzuki , Toshikazu Shigeyama

In this paper, Particle-in-Cell algorithms for the Vlasov-Poisson system are presented based on its Poisson bracket structure. The Poisson equation is solved by finite element methods, in which the appropriate finite element spaces are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-10 Anjiao Gu , Yang He , Yajuan Sun

An integrator for a class of stochastic Lie-Poisson systems driven by Stratonovich noise is developed. The integrator is suited for Lie-Poisson systems that also admit an isospectral formulation, which enables scalability to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-17 Sagy Ephrati , Erik Jansson , Annika Lang , Erwin Luesink

A new splitting is proposed for solving the Vlasov-Maxwell system. This splitting is based on a decomposition of the Hamiltonian of the Vlasov-Maxwell system and allows for the construction of arbitrary high order methods by composition…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-01-06 Nicolas Crouseilles , Lukas Einkemmer , Erwan Faou

In this work, we present a novel family of explicit relaxation Particle-in-Cell (ER-PIC) methods for the Vlasov-Poisson equation with a strong magnetic field. These schemes achieve exact energy conservation by combining a splitting…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Lina Wang , Bin Wang

A variable stepsize exponential multistep integrator, with contour integral approximation of the operator-valued exponential functions, is proposed for solving semilinear parabolic equations with nonsmooth initial data. By this approach,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-17 Buyang Li , Shu Ma

This work is devoted to the numerical simulation of a Vlasov-Poisson model describing a charged particle beam under the action of a rapidly oscillating external electric field. We construct an Asymptotic Preserving numerical scheme for this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-11 Nicolas Crouseilles , Mohammed Lemou , Florian Méhats

We present a new numerical multiscale integrator for stiff and highly oscillatory dynamical systems. The new algorithm can be seen as an improved version of the seamless Heterogeneous Multiscale Method by E, Ren, and Vanden-Eijnden and the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-04-17 Yoonsang Lee , Bjorn Engquist

We introduce a novel class of time integrators for dispersive equations which allow us to reproduce the dynamics of the solution from the classical $ \varepsilon = 1$ up to long wave limit regime $ \varepsilon \ll 1 $ on the natural time…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-11 María Cabrera Calvo , Frédéric Rousset , Katharina Schratz

A fully variational, unstructured, electromagnetic particle-in-cell integrator is developed for integration of the Vlasov-Maxwell equations. Using the formalism of Discrete Exterior Calculus, the field solver, interpolation scheme and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Jonathan Squire , Hong Qin , William M. Tang

We propose a new semi-Lagrangian Vlasov-Poisson solver. It employs elements of metric to follow locally the flow and its deformation, allowing one to find quickly and accurately the initial phase-space position $Q(P)$ of any test particle…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-02 S. Colombi , C. Alard

The automatic selection of an appropriate time step size has been considered extensively in the literature. However, most of the strategies developed operate under the assumption that the computational cost (per time step) is independent of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-14 Lukas Einkemmer

Xiao and Qin [Computer Physics Comm., 265:107981, 2021] recently proposed a remarkably simple modification of the Boris algorithm to compute the guiding centre of the highly oscillatory motion of a charged particle with step sizes that are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-05-26 Christian Lubich , Yanyan Shi

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 introduce and analyze a discontinuous Petrov-Galerkin method with optimal test functions for the heat equation. The scheme is based on the backward Euler time stepping and uses an ultra-weak variational formulation at each time step. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-07-04 Thomas Führer , Norbert Heuer , Jhuma Sen Gupta

Hamiltonian particle-based simulations of plasma dynamics are inherently computationally intensive, primarily due to the large number of particles required to obtain accurate solutions. This challenge becomes even more acute in many-query…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-19 Emmanuel Franck , Laurent Navoret , Vincent Vigon , Raphaël Côte , Guillaume Steimer

The kinetic analyses of many-particle soft matter often employ many simulation studies of various physical phenomena which supplement the experimental limitations or compliment the theoretical findings of the study. Such simulations are…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-05-28 Allen Lobo , Vinod Kumar Sayal

In this paper we propose a numerical method to solve a 2D advection-diffusion equation, in the highly oscillatory regime. We use an efficient and robust integrator which leads to an accurate approximation of the solution without any time…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-27 Clarissa Astuto , Mohammed Lemou , Giovanni Russo

We present a variationally separable splitting technique for the generalized-$\alpha$ method for solving parabolic partial differential equations. We develop a technique for a tensor-product mesh which results in a solver with a linear cost…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-26 Pouria Behnoudfar , Victor M. Calo , Quanling Deng , Peter D. Minev