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Kinetic simulations of relativistic gases and plasmas are critical for understanding diverse astrophysical and terrestrial systems, but the accurate construction of the relativistic Maxwellian, the Maxwell-J\"uttner (MJ) distribution, on a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 Grant Johnson , Ammar Hakim , James Juno

In this work, we investigate the propagation of electromagnetic waves in the Cole-Cole dispersive medium by using the discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method to solve the coupled time-domain Maxwell's equations and polarization equation. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-25 Jiangming Xie , Maojun Li , Miao-Jung Yvonne Ou

The Vlasov-Poisson systems of equations (VP) describes the evolution of a distribution of collisionless particles under the effect of a collective-field potential. VP is at the basis of the study of the gravitational instability of…

In this work, an exponential Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method is proposed to solve numerically Vlasov type equations. The DG method is used for space discretization which is combined exponential Lawson Runge-Kutta method for time…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-01 Nicolas Crouseilles , Xue Hong

In this paper, we propose a novel Local Macroscopic Conservative (LoMaC) low rank tensor method with discontinuous Galerkin (DG) discretization for the physical and phase spaces for simulating the Vlasov-Poisson (VP) system. The LoMaC…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-14 Wei Guo , Jannatul Ferdous Ema , Jing-Mei Qiu

Numerical schemes that preserve the structure of the kinetic equations can provide stable simulation results over a long time. An electromagnetic particle-in-cell solver for the Vlasov-Maxwell equations that preserves at the discrete level…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-24 Benedikt Perse , Katharina Kormann , Eric Sonnendrücker

Computational costs of numerically solving multidimensional partial differential equations (PDEs) increase significantly when the spatial dimensions of the PDEs are high, due to large number of spatial grid points. For multidimensional…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-05-01 Yuan Liu , Yingda Cheng , Shanqin Chen , Yong-Tao Zhang

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

In this paper we present energy-conserving, mixed discontinuous Galerkin (DG) and continuous Galerkin (CG) schemes for the solution of a broad class of physical systems described by Hamiltonian evolution equations. These systems often arise…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-08-07 A. Hakim , G. Hammett , E. Shi , N. Mandell

The study of uncertainty propagation is of fundamental importance in plasma physics simulations. To this end, in the present work we propose a novel stochastic Galerkin (sG) particle {method} for collisional kinetic models of plasmas under…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-22 Andrea Medaglia , Lorenzo Pareschi , Mattia Zanella

Plasmonic nanostructures significantly improve the performance of photoconductive devices (PCDs) in generating terahertz radiation. However, they are geometrically intricate and result in complicated electromagnetic (EM) field and carrier…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-14 Liang Chen , Hakan Bagci

Understanding fundamental kinetic processes is important for many problems, from plasma physics to gas dynamics. A first-principles approach to these problems requires a statistical description via the Boltzmann equation, coupled to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-09-02 Ammar Hakim , James Juno

High-resolution simulations of particle-based kinetic plasma models typically require a high number of particles and thus often become computationally intractable. This is exacerbated in multi-query simulations, where the problem depends on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-10 Jan S. Hesthaven , Cecilia Pagliantini , Nicolò Ripamonti

A novel space-time discretization for the (linear) scalar-valued dissipative wave equation is presented. It is a structured approach, namely, the discretization space is obtained tensorizing the Virtual Element (VE) discretization in space…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-31 Paola Francesca Antonietti , Francesca Bonizzoni , Marco Verani

The dynamics of collisionless plasmas can be modelled by the Vlasov-Maxwell system of equations. An Eulerian approach is needed to accurately describe processes that are governed by high energy tails in the distribution function, but is of…

The discontinuous Galerkin (DG) finite element method is conservative, lends itself well to parallelization, and is high-order accurate due to its close affinity with the theory of quadrature and orthogonal polynomials. When applied with an…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-03-01 D. W. Crews

Dynamical low-rank (DLR) approximation has gained interest in recent years as a viable solution to the curse of dimensionality in the numerical solution of kinetic equations including the Boltzmann and Vlasov equations. These methods…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-12 Jack Coughlin , Jingwei Hu , Uri Shumlak

Kinetic equations are difficult to solve numerically due to their high dimensionality. A promising approach for reducing computational cost is the dynamical low-rank algorithm, which decouples the dimensions of the phase space by proposing…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-26 Jack Coughlin , Jingwei Hu

The application of discontinuous Galerkin (DG) schemes to hyperbolic systems of conservation laws requires a careful interplay between space discretization, carried out with local polynomials and numerical fluxes at inter-cells, and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Maya Briani , Gabriella Puppo , Giuseppe Visconti

In this work, we propose an accurate, robust, and stable discretization of the gamma-based compressible multicomponent model by Shyue [J. Comput. Phys., 142 (1998), 208-242] where each component follows a stiffened gas equation of state…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-10 Rémi Abgrall , Pratik Rai , Florent Renac