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The ALLIANCE code is developed to solve a new set of four-dimensional electromagnetic drift-kinetic equations in slab geometry [J. Plasma Phys. 88 905880117 (2022)]. The nonlinear equations are useful for the study of magnetized plasma…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-10-07 Evgeny A. Gorbunov , Bogdan Teaca

We study an asymptotic analysis of a coupled system of kinetic and fluid equations. More precisely, we deal with the nonlinear Vlasov-Fokker-Planck equation coupled with the compressible isentropic Navier-Stokes system through a drag force…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-06-18 Young-Pil Choi , Jinwook Jung

We present a differentiable dynamics solver that is able to handle frictional contact for rigid and deformable objects within a unified framework. Through a principled mollification of normal and tangential contact forces, our method…

We present an extension of the multi-moment advection scheme (Minoshima et al., 2011, J. Comput. Phys.) to the three-dimensional case, for full electromagnetic Vlasov simulations of magnetized plasma. The scheme treats not only point values…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Takashi Minoshima , Yosuke Matsumoto , Takanobu Amano

Phase space matching between two plasma-accelerator (PA) stages and between a PA and a traditional accelerator component is a critical issue for emittance preservation of beams accelerated by PAs. The drastic differences of the transverse…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2016-03-30 X. L. Xu , Y. P. Wu , C. J. Zhang , F. Li , Y. Wan , J. F. Hua , C. -H. Pai , W. Lu , P. Yu , W. An , W. B. Mori , M. J. Hogan , C. Joshi

The kinetic equation of Wigner -- Vlasov -- Boltzmann with collision integral in relaxation BGK (Bhatnagar, Gross and Krook) form in coordinate space for quantum non--degenerate (Maxwellian) collisional plasma is used. Exact expression…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-03-15 A. V. Latyshev , A. A. Yushkanov

Resolving numerically Vlasov-Poisson equations for initially cold systems can be reduced to following the evolution of a three-dimensional sheet evolving in six-dimensional phase-space. We describe a public parallel numerical algorithm…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-06-29 Thierry Sousbie , Stéphane Colombi

We consider a sharp-interface approach for the inviscid isothermal dynamics of compressible two-phase flow, that accounts for phase transition and surface tension effects. To fix the mass exchange and entropy dissipation rate across the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-11-10 Christian Rohde , Christoph Zeiler

The boundary problem about behaviour (oscillations) of the electronic plasmas with arbitrary degree of degeneration of electronic gas in half-space with diffusion boundary conditions is analytically solved. The kinetic equation of Vlasov -…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-01-06 A. V. Latyshev , S. Suleimanova

We present the extension of an efficient and highly parallelisable framework for incompressible fluid flow simulations to viscoplastic fluids. The system is governed by incompressible conservation of mass, the Cauchy momentum equation and a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-07-09 Knut Sverdrup , Nikolaos Nikiforakis , Ann Almgren

We develop a functional analytic approach to the study of the Kramers and kinetic Fokker-Planck equations which parallels the classical $H^1$ theory of uniformly elliptic equations. In particular, we identify a function space analogous to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-24 D. Albritton , S. Armstrong , J. -C. Mourrat , M. Novack

A novel method aimed at a kinetic moments closure for a magnetized plasma with arbitrary collisionality is proposed. The intended first application is to a tokamak edge and scrape-off-layer plasma. The velocity distribution function for…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-01-09 R. E. Waltz , F. D. Halpern , Z. Deng , J. Candy

The boundary problem about behavior (oscillations) of the electronic plasmas with arbitrary degree of degeneration of electronic gas in half-space with specular boundary conditions is analytically solved. The kinetic equation of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-03-07 A. V. Latyshev , S. Sh. Suleymanova

Particle acceleration by turbulence plays a role in many astrophysical environments. The non- linear evolution of the underlying cosmic-ray spectrum is complex and can be described by a Fokker-Planck equation, which in general has to be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Julius Donnert , Gianfranco Brunetti

Numerous formulations of finite volume schemes for the Euler and Navier-Stokes equations exist, but in the majority of cases they have been developed for structured and stationary meshes. In many applications, more flexible mesh geometries…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Diego Muñoz , Volker Springel , Robert Marcus , Mark Vogelsberger , Lars Hernquist

Simulation of plasmas in electromagnetic fields requires numerical solution of a kinetic equation that describes the time evolution of the particle distribution function. In this paper we propose a finite volume scheme based on integral…

The hybrid Vlasov-Maxwell system of equations is suitable to describe a magnetized plasma at scales of the order of or larger than proton kinetic scales. An exact stationary solution is presented by revisiting previous results with a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-06-06 F. Malara , O. Pezzi , F. Valentini

A formalism for treating modulational interactions of electrostatic fields in collisionless quantum plasmas is developed, based on the kinetic Wigner-Poisson model of quantum plasma. This formalism can be used in a range of problems of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Fatema Sayed , Sergey V. Vladimirov , Yuriy Tyshetskiy , Osamu Ishihara

High-speed chemically active flows present significant computational challenges due to their disparate space and time scales, where stiff chemistry often dominates simulation time. While modern supercomputing scientific codes achieve…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Anthony Carreon , Jagmohan Singh , Shivank Sharma , Shuzhi Zhang , Venkat Raman

Kinetic physics, including finite Larmor radius (FLR) effects, are known to affect the physics of magnetized plasma phenomena such as the Kelvin-Helmholtz and Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities. Accurately incorporating FLR effects into fluid…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-08-14 Jack Coughlin , Jingwei Hu , Uri Shumlak