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In this article, we present the structure-preserving discretization of linear one-dimensional port-Hamiltonian (PH) systems of two conservation laws using discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods. We recall the DG discretization procedure which…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-19 Tobias Thoma , Paul Kotyczka

Validity of fluid models breaks down for non-thermal or weakly collisional plasmas which often occur e.g. in the solar wind. In these regimes one has to resort to modelling through the first-principle Vlasov-Maxwell system, but its…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-12-01 Rostislav-Paul Wilhelm , Fabio Bacchini

This paper presents a re-formulation of the boundary integral method (BIM) for the Debye-Huckel model of molecular and colloidal electrostatics that removes the mathematical singularities that have been accepted as an intrinsic part of the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-10-14 Q. Sun , E. Klaseboer , D. Y. C. Chan

Variational symplectic algorithms have recently been developed for carrying out long-time simulation of charged particles in magnetic fields. As a direct consequence of their derivation from a discrete variational principle, these…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Jonathan Squire , Hong Qin , William M. Tang

We introduce an efficient split finite element (FE) discretization of a y-independent (slice) model of the rotating shallow water equations. The study of this slice model provides insight towards developing schemes for the full 2D case.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-24 Werner Bauer , Jörn Behrens , Colin J. Cotter

Modeling stiff partial differential equations (PDEs) with sharp gradients remains a significant challenge for scientific machine learning. While Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) struggle with spectral bias and slow training times,…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Akshay Govind Srinivasan , Balaji Srinivasan

Reduced magnetohydrodynamics is a simplified set of magnetohydrodynamics equations with applications to both fusion and astrophysical plasmas, possessing a noncanonical Hamiltonian structure and consequently a number of conserved…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-10-05 Michael Kraus , Emanuele Tassi , Daniela Grasso

We propose a multiscale spectral generalized finite element method (MS-GFEM) for discontinuous Galerkin (DG) discretizations. The method builds local approximations on overlapping subdomains as the sum of a local source solution and a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-15 Christian Alber , Lukas Holbach

In collisionless and weakly collisional plasmas, the particle distribution function is a rich tapestry of the underlying physics. However, actually leveraging the particle distribution function to understand the dynamics of a weakly…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-05-29 James Juno

This work presents a probabilistic scheme for solving semilinear nonlocal diffusion equations with volume constraints and integrable kernels. The nonlocal model of interest is defined by a time-dependent semilinear partial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-05-03 Minglei Yang , Guannan Zhang , Diego Del-Castillo-Negrete , Yanzhao Cao

We present and compare distributed parallelization strategies for the particle-in-Fourier (PIF) schemes used in kinetic plasma simulations. The different strategies are i) domain decomposition, where both the particles and Fourier modes are…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Sriramkrishnan Muralikrishnan , Paul Fischill , Andreas Adelmann , Robert Speck

As a multi-purpose Particle-In-Cell (PIC) code, Smilei gathers many different features in a single software. Combining some of them is challenging. In particular, spectral solvers and patch based load balancing have a priori non compatible…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-12-30 Julien Derouillat , Arnaud Beck

This work proposes a hyper-reduction method for nonlinear parametric dynamical systems characterized by gradient fields such as Hamiltonian systems and gradient flows. The gradient structure is associated with conservation of invariants or…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-24 Cecilia Pagliantini , Federico Vismara

A new method ( PI-DFT ) which combines path integrals and density functional theory is proposed as a pathway to many fields of physics. Within path integral theory it is possible to construct particle densities without explicitly…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter Borrmann

We introduce a novel particle-in-Fourier (PIF) scheme that extends its applicability to non-periodic boundary conditions. Our method handles free space boundary conditions by replacing the Fourier Laplacian operator in PIF with a mollified…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-18 Changxiao Nigel Shen , Antoine Cerfon , Sriramkrishnan Muralikrishnan

We consider a general discretization strategy for Hamiltonian field theories generated by Lie-Poisson brackets which we call dual PIC (DPIC). This method involves prescribing two different discrete representations of the dynamical variable…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-08-23 William Barham , Philip J. Morrison

We propose a new class of finite element approximations to ideal compressible magnetohydrodynamic equations in smooth regime. Following variational approximations developed for fluid models in the last decade, our discretizations are built…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-29 Valentin Carlier , Martin Campos-Pinto

The present paper is devoted to the convergence analysis of an asymptotic preserving particle scheme designed to serve as a particle pusher in a Particle-In-Cell (PIC) method for the Vlasov equation with a strong inhomogeneous magnetic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-04 Francis Filbet , L Miguel Rodrigues , Kim Han Trinh

The recently developed energy conserving semi-implicit method (ECsim) for PIC simulation is applied to multiple scale problems where the electron-scale physics needs to be only partially retained and the interest is on the macroscopic or…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-05-24 Giovanni Lapenta , Diego Gonzalez-Herrero , Elisabetta Boella

By combining concepts from particle-in-cell (PIC) and hybridized discontinuous Galerkin (HDG) methods, we present a particle-mesh scheme which allows for diffusion-free advection, satisfies mass and momentum conservation principles in a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-27 Jakob M. Maljaars , Robert Jan Labeur , Nathaniel Trask , Deborah Sulsky