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We discuss the development, analysis, implementation, and numerical assessment of a spectral method for the numerical simulation of the three-dimensional Vlasov-Maxwell equations. The method is based on a spectral expansion of the velocity…

This paper discusses energy-conserving time-discretizations for finite element particle-in-cell discretizations of the Vlasov--Maxwell system. A geometric spatially discrete system can be obtained using a standard particle-in-cell…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-21 Katharina Kormann , Eric Sonnendrücker

We study the conservation properties of the Hermite-discontinuous Galerkin (Hermite-DG) approximation of the Vlasov-Maxwell equations. In this semi-discrete formulation, the total mass is preserved independently for every plasma species.…

A discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method suitable for large-scale astrophysical simulations on Cartesian meshes as well as arbitrary static and moving Voronoi meshes is presented. Most major astrophysical fluid dynamics codes use a finite…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Philip Mocz , Mark Vogelsberger , Debora Sijacki , Ruediger Pakmor , Lars Hernquist

We design a consistent Galerkin scheme for the approximation of the vectorial modified Korteweg-de Vries equation. We demonstrate that the scheme conserves energy up to machine precision. In this sense the method is consistent with the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-10-11 James Jackaman , Georgios Papamikos , Tristan Pryer

We develop a novel and efficient discontinuous Galerkin spectral element method (DG-SEM) for the spherical rotating shallow water equations in vector invariant form. We prove that the DG-SEM is energy stable, and discretely conserves mass,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-19 Kieran Ricardo , David Lee , Kenneth Duru

The micro-macro (mM) decomposition approach is considered for the numerical solution of the Vlasov--Poisson--Lenard--Bernstein (VPLB) system, which is relevant for plasma physics applications. In the mM approach, the kinetic distribution…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-05-11 Eirik Endeve , Cory D. Hauck

In this paper we propose and analyze finite element discontinuous Galerkin methods for the one- and two-dimensional stochastic Maxwell equations with multiplicative noise. The discrete energy law of the semi-discrete DG methods were…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-21 Jiawei Sun , Chi-Wang Shu , Yulong Xing

In this paper, we present and study discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods for one-dimensional multi-symplectic Hamiltonian partial differential equations. We particularly focus on semi-discrete schemes with spatial discretization only, and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-15 Zheng Sun , Yulong Xing

The semi-Lagrangian discontinuous Galerkin method, coupled with a splitting approach in time, has recently been introduced for the Vlasov--Poisson equation. Since these methods are conservative, local in space, and able to limit numerical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-14 Lukas Einkemmer

In this work, we develop a novel numerical scheme to solve the classical Keller--Segel (KS) model which simultaneously preserves its intrinsic mathematical structure and achieves optimal accuracy. The model is reformulated into a gradient…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-23 X. Yin , X. Lan , Y. Qin

The propagation of electromagnetic waves in general media is modeled by the time-dependent Maxwell's partial differential equations (PDEs), coupled with constitutive laws that describe the response of the media. In this work, we focus on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-10-11 Vrushali A. Bokil , Yingda Cheng , Yan Jiang , Fengyan Li

Energy conserving particle-in-cell schemes are constructed for a class of reduced relativistic Vlasov--Maxwell equations of laser-plasma interaction. Discrete Poisson equation is also satisfied by the numerical solution. Specifically,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-30 Yingzhe Li

In this paper we consider Runge-Kutta discontinuous Galerkin (RKDG) schemes for Vlasov-Poisson systems that model collisionless plasmas. One-dimensional systems are emphasized. The RKDG method, originally devised to solve conservation laws,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-12-18 Yingda Cheng , Irene M. Gamba , Philip J. Morrison

We design, analyze, and implement a new conservative Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method for the simulation of solitary wave solutions to the generalized Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) Equation. The key feature of our method is the conservation, at…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-14 Yanlai Chen , Bo Dong , Rebecca Pereira

In this paper, we develop a high order structure-preserving local discontinuous Galerkin (DG) scheme for the compressible self-gravitating Euler equations, which pose great challenges due to the presence of time-dependent gravitational…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-07 Liang Pan , Wei Chen , Jianxian Qiu , Tao Xiong

Many modern discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods for conservation laws make use of summation by parts operators and flux differencing to achieve kinetic energy preservation or entropy stability. While these techniques increase the robustness…

We design an arbitrary-order free energy satisfying discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method for solving time-dependent Poisson-Nernst-Planck systems. Both the semi-discrete and fully discrete DG methods are shown to satisfy the corresponding…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-12-21 Hailiang Liu , Zhongming Wang

Variable-order time-fractional wave equations provide a flexible model for wave phenomena with evolving memory effects and anomalous temporal dynamics. Their numerical approximation is challenging because the variable-order fractional…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Lu Zhang

In this paper, we propose a novel Local Macroscopic Conservative (LoMaC) low rank tensor method with discontinuous Galerkin (DG) discretization for the physical and phase spaces for simulating the Vlasov-Poisson (VP) system. The LoMaC…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-14 Wei Guo , Jannatul Ferdous Ema , Jing-Mei Qiu