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In this paper, we introduce and discuss an exactly energy-conserving Particle-in-Cell method for arbitrary curvilinear coordinates. The flexibility provided by curvilinear coordinates enables the study of plasmas in complex-shaped domains…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-10-30 Joost Croonen , Luca Pezzini , Fabio Bacchini , Giovanni Lapenta

In this paper we are concerned with energy-conserving methods for Poisson problems, which are effectively solved by defining a suitable generalization of HBVMs, a class of energy-conserving methods for Hamiltonian problems. The actual…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-10 Pierluigi Amodio , Luigi Brugnano , Felice Iavernaro

We introduce an energy-based model, which seems especially suited for constrained systems. The proposed model provides an alternative to the popular port-Hamiltonian framework and exhibits similar properties such as energy dissipation as…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-10 R. Altmann , P. Schulze

This work presents new parallelizable numerical schemes for the integration of Dissipative Particle Dynamics with Energy conservation (DPDE). So far, no numerical scheme introduced in the literature is able to correctly preserve the energy…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-02-17 A. -A. Homman , J. -B. Maillet , J. Roussel , G. Stoltz

The state of art of charge-conserving electromagnetic finite element particle-in-cell has grown by leaps and bounds in the past few years. These advances have primarily been achieved for leap-frog time stepping schemes for Maxwell solvers,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-10 Omkar H. Ramachandran , Leo C. Kempel , John Luginsland , B. Shanker

Time-centered, hence second-order, methods for integrating the relativistic momentum of charged particles in an electromagnetic field are derived. A new method is found by averaging the momentum before use in the magnetic rotation term, and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-05-24 Adam V. Higuera , John R. Cary

Energy-preserving numerical methods for solving the Hodge wave equation is developed in this paper. Based on the de Rham complex, the Hodge wave equation can be formulated as a first-order system and mixed finite element methods using…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-08 Yongke Wu , Yanhong Bai

In this paper, a novel sixth order energy-conserved method is proposed for solving the three-dimensional time-domain Maxwell's equations. The new scheme preserves five discrete energy conservation laws, three momentum conservation laws,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-02-06 Chaolong Jiang , Wenjun Cai , Yushun Wang , Haochen Li

A new methodology is developed to integrate numerically the equations of motion for classical many-body systems in molecular dynamics simulations. Its distinguishable feature is the possibility to preserve, independently on the size of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 I. P. Omelyan , I. M. Mryglod , R. Folk

We investigate discretization strategies for a recently introduced class of energy-based models. The model class encompasses classical port-Hamiltonian systems, generalized gradient flows, and certain systems with algebraic constraints. Our…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-29 Robert Altmann , Attila Karsai , Philipp Schulze

The computation of multiphase flows presents a subtle energetic equilibrium between potential (i.e., surface) and kinetic energies. The use of traditional interface-capturing schemes provides no control over such a dynamic balance. In the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 N. Valle , F. X. Trias , J. Castro

The traditional explicit electrostatic momentum-conserving Particle-in-cell algorithm requires strict resolution of the electron Debye length to deliver numerical accuracy. The explicit electrostatic energy-conserving Particle-in-Cell…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-08-31 Andrew T. Powis , Igor D. Kaganovich

The stochastic differential equations for a model of dissipative particle dynamics, with both total energy and total momentum conservation at every time-step, are presented. The algorithm satisfies detailed balance as well as the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Allan D. Mackie , Josep Bonet Avalos

This paper develops a comprehensive mathematical framework for energy-based modeling of physical systems, with particular emphasis on preserving fundamental structural properties throughout the modeling and discretization process. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-11 M. H. M Rashid

The numerical simulation of multiphase flows presents several challenges, namely the transport of different phases within de domain and the inclusion of capillary effects. Here, these are approached by enforcing a discrete…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-10-11 Nicol'as Valle , F. Xavier Trias , Jes'us Castro

In this paper, we construct a semi-implicit finite difference method for the time dependent Poisson-Nernst-Planck system. Although the Poisson-Nernst-Planck system is a nonlinear system, the numerical method presented in this paper only…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-01-17 Dongdong He , Kejia Pan

Molecular dynamics (MD) is a widely-used tool for simulating the molecular and materials properties. It is a common wisdom that molecular dynamics simulations should obey physical laws and, hence, lots of effort is put into ensuring that…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-08-23 Lina Zhang , Yi-Fan Hou , Fuchun Ge , Pavlo O. Dral

This paper presents a novel structure-preserving scheme for Euler equations, focusing on the numerical conservation of entropy and kinetic energy. Explicit flux functions engineered to conserve entropy are introduced within the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-20 Kunal Bahuguna , Ramesh Kolluru , S. V. Raghurama Rao

Particle-in-cell (PIC) plasma simulations are a productive and valued tool for the study of nonlinear plasma phenomena, yet there are basic questions about the simulation methods themselves that remain unanswered. Here we study one such…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-06-22 J. U. Brackbill

In this paper, we generalize the idea in our previous work for the Vlasov-Amp\`{e}re (VA) system \cite{cheng_va} and develop energy-conserving discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods for the Vlasov-Maxwell (VM) system. The VM system is a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-18 Yingda Cheng , Andrew J. Christlieb , Xinghui Zhong