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We present a new Vlasov code for collisionless plasmas in the nonrelativistic regime. A Darwin approximation is used for suppressing electromagnetic vacuum modes. The spatial integration is based on an extension of the flux-conservative…

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 H. Schmitz , R. Grauer

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

Spectral approximation based on Hermite-Fourier expansion of the Vlasov-Poisson model for a collisionless plasma in the electro-static limit is provided, by including high-order artificial collision operators of Lenard-Bernstein type. These…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-02 Daniele Funaro , Gianmarco Manzini

The linearized Vlasov-Poisson system can be exactly solved using the $G$-transform, an integral transform introduced in Refs. 1-3 that removes the electric field term, leaving a simple advection equation. We investigate how this integral…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-08-28 Jeffrey M. Heninger , Philip J. Morrison

This paper presents the RBG-Maxwell framework, a relativistic collisional plasma simulator on GPUs. We provide detailed discussions on the fundamental equations, numerical algorithms, implementation specifics, and key testing outcomes. The…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-08-10 Ming-Yan Sun , Peng Xu , Jun-Jie Zhang , Qun Wang , Tai-Jiao Du , Jian-Guo Wang

The Hamiltonian formulations for the perturbed Vlasov-Maxwell equations and the perturbed ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations are expressed in terms of the perturbation derivative $\partial{\cal F}/\partial\epsilon \equiv [{\cal F},…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 Alain J. Brizard , Cristel Chandre

Numerical approximation of the Boltzmann equation presents a challenging problem due to its high-dimensional, nonlinear, and nonlocal collision operator. Among the deterministic methods, the Fourier-Galerkin spectral method stands out for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-20 Jingwei Hu , Xiaodong Huang , Jie Shen , Haizhao Yang

Strong electric fields in the auroral and equatorial electrojets can distort the background ion distribution function away from Maxwellian. We developed a collisional plasma kinetic model using the Boltzmann equation and a simple BGK…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-08-13 Rattanakorn Koontaweepunya , Yakov S. Dimant , Meers M. Oppenheim

The interaction of radio-frequency waves with a plasma is described by a Fokker-Planck equation with an added quasilinear term. Methods for solving this equation on a computer are discussed.

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Charles F. F. Karney

The problem posed by the possible existence/non-existence of spatially non-symmetric kinetic equilibria has remained unsolved in plasma theory. For collisionless magnetized plasmas this involves the construction of stationary solutions of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-04 Claudio Cremaschini , Massimo Tessarotto

Decoupled fractional Laplacian wave equation can describe the seismic wave propagation in attenuating media. Fourier pseudospectral implementations, which solve the equation in spatial frequency domain, are the only existing methods for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-01-08 Yiran Xu , Jingye Li , Guofei Pang , Zhikai Wang , Xiaohong Chen

We present results of a 2D3V kinetic Vlasov simulation of the Weibel instability. The kinetic Vlasov simulation allows us to investigate the velocity distribution of dilute plasmas, in which the effect of collisions between particles is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-02-11 Akihiro Suzuki , Toshikazu Shigeyama

In this paper, we propose a meshfree method based on the Gaussian radial basis function (RBF) to solve both classical and fractional PDEs. The proposed method takes advantage of the analytical Laplacian of Gaussian functions so as to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-21 John Burkardt , Yixuan Wu , Yanzhi Zhang

Strong collisional shocks in multi-ion plasmas are featured in many high-energy-density environments, including Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF) implosions. However, their basic structure and its dependence on key parameters (e.g., the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-11-22 Brett D. Keenan , Andrei N. Simakov , Luis Chacon , William T. Taitano

In the present contribution, we derive from kinetic theory a unified fluid model for multicomponent plasmas by accounting for the electromagnetic field influence. We deal with a possible thermal nonequilibrium of the translational energy of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2011-03-07 Benjamin Graille , Thierry E. Magin , Marc Massot

Electrostatic structures have been observed in many regions of space plasmas, including the solar wind, the magnetosphere, the auroral acceleration region. One possible theoretical description of some of these structures is the concept of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-02-06 C. S. Ng

This paper is concerned with the Vlasov-Poisson-Boltzmann system for plasma particles of two species in three space dimensions. The Boltzmann collision kernel is assumed to be angular non-cutoff with $-3<\gamma<-2s$ and $1/2\leq s<1$, where…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-17 Renjun Duan , Shuangqian Liu

We discuss the statistical mechanics of violent relaxation in stellar systems following the pioneering work of Lynden-Bell (1967). The solutions of the gravitational Vlasov-Poisson system develop finer and finer filaments so that a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. H. Chavanis

We describe an implicit procedure for solving linear equation systems resulting from the discretization of the three dimensional (seven variables) linear Fokker-Planck equation. The discretization of the Fokker-Planck equation is performed…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Maximiliano Ujevic , Patricio S. Letelier

In this work, we study a new spectral Petrov-Galerkin approximation of space-time fractional reaction-diffusion equations with viscosity terms built by Riemann-Liouville fractional-order derivatives. The proposed method is reliant on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-11-26 Zhe Yu , Boying Wu , Jiebao Sun , Wenjie Liu