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For decades, the Vlasov-Darwin model has been recognized to be attractive for particle-in-cell (PIC) kinetic plasma simulations in non-radiative electromagnetic regimes, to avoid radiative noise issues and gain computational efficiency.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-05-04 Guangye Chen , Luis Chacon

High-order semi-Lagrangian methods for kinetic equations have been under rapid development in the past few decades. In this work, we propose a semi-Lagrangian adaptive rank (SLAR) integrator in the finite difference framework for linear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-28 Nanyi Zheng , Daniel Hayes , Andrew Christlieb , Jing-Mei Qiu

We consider Vlasov-type scaling for Markov evolution of birth-and-death type in continuum, which is based on a proper scaling of corresponding Markov generators and has an algorithmic realization in terms of related hierarchical chains of…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2015-01-27 Dmitri Finkelshtein , Yuri Kondratiev , Oleksandr Kutoviy

This paper formulates a new particle-in-cell method for the Vlasov-Maxwell system. Under the Lorenz gauge condition, Maxwell's equations for the electromagnetic fields can be written as a collection of scalar and vector wave equations. The…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-01-18 Andrew J. Christlieb , William A. Sands , Stephen White

We study the linearized Vlasov-Poisson equation in the gravitational case around steady states that are decreasing and continuous functions of the energy. We identify the absolutely continuous spectrum and give criteria for the existence of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-04-15 Matias Moreno , Paola Rioseco , Hanne Van Den Bosch

In this article, we derive a semi-Lagrangian scheme for the solution of the Vlasov equation represented as a low-parametric tensor. Grid-based methods for the Vlasov equation have been shown to give accurate results but their use has mostly…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-03-05 Katharina Kormann

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 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 present the particle method for simulating the solution to the path-dependent McKean-Vlasov equation, in which both the drift and the diffusion coefficients depend on the whole trajectory of the process up to the current time t, as well…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-06-18 Armand Bernou , Yating Liu

We present a GPU parallel implementation of the numeric integration of the Vlasov equation in one spatial dimension based on a second order time-split algorithm with a local modified cubic-spline interpolation. We apply our approach to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Tarcisio M. Rocha Filho

The evolution of an initial perturbation in Vlasov plasma is studied in the intrinsically nonlinear long-time limit dominated by the effects of particle trapping. After the possible transient linear exponential Landau damping, the evolution…

chao-dyn · Physics 2008-02-03 M. B. Isichenko

A semi-Lagrangian method for parabolic problems is proposed, that extends previous work by the authors to achieve a fully conservative, flux-form discretization of linear and nonlinear diffusion equations. A basic consistency and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-06 Luca Bonaventura , Roberto Ferretti

We propose a defiltering method of turbulent flow fields for Lagrangian particle tracking using machine learning techniques. Numerical simulation of Lagrangian particle tracking is commonly used in various fields. In general, practical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-11-21 Tomoya Oura , Koji Fukagata

We present Vlasov's equation and its association with Poisson's equation in the context of modelling self-gravitating systems such as Globular Clusters or Galaxies. We first review the classical hypotheses of the model. We continue with a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jerome Perez

We discuss a spectral method for the numerical solution of the Vlasov-Poisson system where the velocity space is decomposed by means of an Hermite basis. We describe a semi-implicit time discretization that extends the range of numerical…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-12-19 Enrico Camporeale , Gian Luca Delzanno , Benjamin K. Bergen , J. David Moulton

In high-temperature plasma physics, a strong magnetic field is usually used to confine charged particles. Therefore, for studying the classical mathematical models of the physical problems it needs to consider the effect of external…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-05 Anjiao Gu , Yajuan Sun

For a system of partial differential equations that has an extended Kovalevskaya form, a reduction procedure is presented that allows one to use a local (point, contact, or higher) symmetry of a system and a symmetry-invariant conservation…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2026-03-16 Kostya Druzhkov , Alexei Cheviakov

In this paper, we present an efficient algorithm for the long time behavior of plasma simulations. We will focus on 4D drift-kinetic model, where the plasma's motion occurs in the plane perpendicular to the magnetic field and can be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-10-01 Francis Filbet , Chang Yang

As a counterpoint to recent numerical methods for crystal surface evolution, which agree well with microscopic dynamics but suffer from significant stiffness that prevents simulation on fine spatial grids, we develop a new numerical method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-24 Katy Craig , Jian-Guo Liu , Jianfeng Lu , Jeremy L. Marzuola , Li Wang

When the Vlasov equation is investigated numerically using the method of test particles, the particle-particle interactions that inevitably arise in the simulation (but are not present in the Vlasov equation itself) result in an…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 C. Jarzynski , G. F. Bertsch