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In this study, the Vlasov-Poisson equation with or without collision term for plasma is solved by the unified gas kinetic scheme (UGKS). The Vlasov equation is a differential equation describing time evolution of the distribution function…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-10-18 Dongxin Pana , Chengwen Zhong , Congshan Zhuo , Wei Tan

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

In this paper, we consider numerical approximations for the viscous Cahn-Hilliard equation with hyperbolic relaxation. This type of equations processes energy-dissipative structure. The main challenge in solving such a diffusive system…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-18 Xiaofeng Yang , Jia Zhao

In this paper, we analyze a scheme for the time-dependent variable density Navier-Stokes equations. The algorithm is implicit in time, and the space approximation is based on a low-order staggered non-conforming finite element, the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-07-06 Jean-Claude Latché , Khaled Saleh

We develop a semi-implicit algorithm for time-accurate simulation of the compressible Navier-Stokes equations, with special reference to wall-bounded flows. The method is based on linearization of the partial convective fluxes associated…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-08-31 Davide Modesti , Sergio Pirozzoli

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

Continuum Vlasov simulations can be utilized for highly accurate modelling of fully kinetic plasmas. Great progress has been made recently regarding the applicability of the method in realistic plasma configurations. However, a reduction of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-09-28 Florian Allmann-Rahn , Rainer Grauer , Katharina Kormann

We develop a conservative phase-space grid-adaptivity strategy for the Vlasov-Fokker-Planck equation in a planar geometry. The velocity-space grid is normalized to the thermal speed and shifted by the bulk-fluid velocity. The…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-03-14 William Tsubasa Taitano , Luis Chacon , Andrei Simakov , Steven Anderson

We present a Newton-Krylov solver for a viscous-plastic sea-ice model. This constitutive relation is commonly used in climate models to describe the material properties of sea ice. Due to the strong nonlinearity introduced by the material…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-28 Yu-hsuan Shih , Carolin Mehlmann , Martin Losch , Georg Stadler

We extend the recently-developed explicit, energy-conserving particle-in-cell (PIC) scheme of [1] to the relativistic Vlasov-Maxwell system. As in the non-relativistic case, the method is built on an optimization problem that is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Lee Ricketson , Jingwei Hu

We propose a class of conservative discontinuous Galerkin methods for the Vlasov-Poisson system written as a hyperbolic system using Hermite polynomials in the velocity variable. These schemes are designed to be systematically as accurate…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-07 Francis Filbet , Tao Xiong

A discontinuous Galerkin method for approximating the Vlasov-Poisson system of equations describing the time evolution of a collisionless plasma is proposed. The method is mass conservative and, in the case that piecewise constant functions…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2011-10-04 R. E. Heath , I. M. Gamba , P. J. Morrison , C. Michler

We propose a high order adaptive-rank implicit integrators for stiff time-dependent PDEs, leveraging extended Krylov subspaces to efficiently and adaptively populate low-rank solution bases. This allows for the accurate representation of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-05 Hamad El Kahza , William Taitano , Jing-Mei Qiu , Luis Chacón

Numerical methods that approximate the solution of the Vlasov-Poisson equation by a low-rank representation have been considered recently. These methods can be extremely effective from a computational point of view, but contrary to most…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-07-09 Lukas Einkemmer , Christian Lubich

In this paper, we investigate the global existence of strong solutions for the inhomogeneous incompressible viscoelastic system with only velocity dissipation on $\mathbb{R}^{2}$. Due to the criticality of the time-weight, the methods for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Chengfei Ai , Yong Wang , Yunshun Wu

The hybrid kinetic-ion fluid-electron plasma model is widely used to study challenging multi-scale problems in space and laboratory plasma physics. Here, a novel conservative scheme for this model employing implicit particle-in-cell…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-04-13 A. Stanier , L. Chacon

The motion of a fully ionized plasma of electrons and ions is generally governed by the Vlasov-Maxwell-Landau system. We prove the global existence of solutions near Maxwellians to the Cauchy problem of the system for the long-range…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-05-25 Renjun Duan

We consider the relativistic Vlasov--Maxwell (RVM) equations in the limit when the light velocity $c$ goes to infinity. In this regime, the RVM system converges towards the Vlasov--Poisson system and the aim of this paper is to construct…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-01-06 Nicolas Crouseilles , Lukas Einkemmer , Erwan Faou

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

This paper presents an asymptotic preserving (AP) all Mach number finite volume shock capturing method for the numerical solution of compressible Euler equations of gas dynamics. Both isentropic and full Euler equations are considered. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-06-02 S. Boscarino , G. Russo , L. Scandurra