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We explore the possibilities of applying structure-preserving numerical methods to a plasma hybrid model with kinetic ions and mass-less fluid electrons satisfying the quasi-neutrality relation. The numerical schemes are derived by finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-04-05 Yingzhe Li , Martin Campos Pinto , Florian Holderied , Stefan Possanner , Eric Sonnendrücker

This paper deals with the numerical resolution of the Vlasov-Poissonsystem with a strong external magnetic field by Particle-In-Cell(PIC) methods. In this regime, classical PIC methods are subject tostability constraints on the time and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-11-24 Francis Filbet , Luis Miguel Rodrigues

Semi-discrete and fully discrete mixed finite element methods are considered for Maxwell-model-based problems of wave propagation in linear viscoelastic solid. This mixed finite element framework allows the use of a large class of existing…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-16 Hao Yuan , Xiaoping Xie

Recent development of structure-preserving geometric particle-in-cell (PIC) algorithms for Vlasov-Maxwell systems is summarized. With the arriving of 100 petaflop and exaflop computing power, it is now possible to carry out direct…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-06-26 Jianyuan Xiao , Hong Qin , Jian Liu

In this paper, we develop an asymptotic-preserving and energy-conserving (APEC) Particle-In-Cell (PIC) algorithm for the Vlasov-Maxwell system. This algorithm not only guarantees that the asymptotic limiting of the discrete scheme is a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-06-14 Lijie Ji , Zhiguo Yang , Zhuoning Li , Dong Wu , Shi Jin , Zhenli Xu

In this paper, we present an efficient Particle-In-Cell algorithm for the simulation of the three dimensional Vlasov-Poisson system in the presence of a strong external magnetic field. When the intensity of the magnetic field is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-29 Francis Filbet , Chang Yang

In a previous paper, we developed a new particle-in-cell method for the Vlasov-Maxwell system in which the electromagnetic fields and the equations of motion for the particles were cast in terms of scalar and vector potentials through a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-11-12 Andrew J. Christlieb , William A. Sands , Stephen White

We present in this paper detailed numerical Vlasov simulations of the Hamiltonian Mean-Field model. This model is used as a representative of the class of systems under long-range interactions. We check existing results on the stability of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2010-06-15 Pierre de Buyl

Conventional explicit electromagnetic particle-in-cell (PIC) algorithms do not conserve discrete energy exactly. Time-centered fully implicit PIC algorithms can conserve discrete energy exactly, but may introduce large dispersion errors in…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 Guangye Chen , Luis Chacón , Lin Yin , Brian J. Albright , David J. Stark , Robert F. Bird

Wereportonanewmultiscalemethodapproachforthestudyofsystemswith wide separation of short-range forces acting on short time scales and long-range forces acting on much slower scales. We consider the case of the Poisson-Boltzmann equation that…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-10-22 Giovanni Lapenta , Wei Jiang

We study a system of Maxwell's equations that describes the time evolution of electromagnetic fields with an additional electric scalar variable to make the system amenable to a mixed finite element spatial discretization. We demonstrate…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Archana Arya , Kaushik Kalyanaraman

This paper investigates subcycling of particle orbits in variational, geometric particle-in-cell methods addressing the Vlasov--Maxwell system in magnetized plasmas. The purpose of subcycling is to allow different time steps for different…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-11-13 Eero Hirvijoki , Katharina Kormann , Filippo Zonta

A Hamiltonian approach to the solution of the Vlasov-Poisson equations has been developed. Based on a nonlinear canonical transformation, the rapidly oscillating terms in the original Hamiltonian are transformed away, yielding a new…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Stephan I. Tzenov , Ronald C. Davidson

We revisit the Scovel-Weinstein framework (Scovel & Weinstein, CPAM 1994) for reducing the Vlasov-Poisson system while preserving its Hamiltonian structure. Standard particle-in-cell (PIC) algorithms approximate the distribution function by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-22 Mandela B. Quashie , J. W. Burby , Andrew J. Christlieb , Qi Tang

Discontinuous Galerkin methods are developed for solving the Vlasov-Maxwell system, methods that are designed to be systematically as accurate as one wants with provable conservation of mass and possibly total energy. Such properties in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-10-24 Yingda Cheng , Irene M. Gamba , Fengyan Li , Philip J. Morrison

Many conservative physical systems can be described using the Hamiltonian formalism. A notable example is the Vlasov-Poisson equations, a set of partial differential equations that govern the time evolution of a phase-space density function…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Vincent Souveton , Sébastien Terrana

We present an explicit temporal discretization of particle-in-cell schemes for the Vlasov equation that results in exact energy conservation when combined with an appropriate spatial discretization. The scheme is inspired by a simple,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-15 Lee F. Ricketson , Jingwei Hu

An explicit high-order noncanonical symplectic algorithm for ideal two-fluid systems is developed. The fluid is discretized as particles in the Lagrangian description, while the electromagnetic fields and internal energy are treated as…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-11-23 Jianyuan Xiao , Hong Qin , Philip J. Morrison , Jian Liu , Zhi Yu , Ruili Zhang , Yang He

In collisionless and weakly collisional plasmas, the particle distribution function is a rich tapestry of the underlying physics. However, actually leveraging the particle distribution function to understand the dynamics of a weakly…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-05-29 James Juno

We present an adaptation of the so-called structural method \cite{CMM23} for Hamiltonian systems, and redesign the method for this specific context, which involves two coupled differential systems. Structural schemes decompose the problem…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-24 Stéphane Clain , Emmanuel Franck , Victor Michel-Dansac