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The Vlasov--Maxwell equations are used for the kinetic description of magnetized plasmas. As they are posed in an up to 3+3 dimensional phase space, solving this problem is extremely expensive from a computational point of view. In this…

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In plasma simulations, where the speed of light divided by a characteristic length is at a much higher frequency than other relevant parameters in the underlying system, such as the plasma frequency, implicit methods begin to play an…

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In this paper, we present a model based on a local thermodynamic equilibrium, weakly ionized plasma-mixture model used for medical and technical applications in etching processes. We consider a simplified model based on the Maxwell-Stefan…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-01-26 Juergen Geiser

The dynamics of plasmas are governed by a set of non-linear differential equations which remain challenging to solve directly for large 2D and 3D problems. Here we investigate how tensor networks could be applied to plasmas described by the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-12-19 Ryan J. J. Connor , Preetma Soin , Callum W. Duncan , Andrew J. Daley

Two-fluid relativistic plasma flow equations combine the equations of relativistic hydrodynamics with Maxwell's equations for electromagnetic fields, which involve divergence constraints for the magnetic and electric fields. When developing…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-27 Jaya Agnihotri , Deepak Bhoriya , Harish Kumar , Praveen Chandrashekar , Dinshaw S. Balsara

The two-fluid plasma equations for a single ion species, with full transport terms, including temperature and magnetic field dependent ion and electron viscous stresses and heat fluxes, frictional drag force, and ohmic heating term have…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-02-04 Z. Li , D. Livescu

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

This paper presents a novel, efficient, high-order accurate, and stable spectral element-based model for computing the complete three-dimensional linear radiation and diffraction problem for floating offshore structures. We present a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-23 Jens Visbech , Allan P. Engsig-Karup , Harry B. Bingham

An efficient finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) algorithm is built to solve the transverse electric 2D Maxwell's equations with inhomogeneous dielectric media where the electric fields are discontinuous across the dielectric interface.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-07-14 Timothy Meagher , Bin Jiang , Peng Jiang

Many astrophysical systems can only be accurately modelled when the behaviour of their baryonic gas components is well understood. The residual distribution (RD) family of partial differential equation (PDE) solvers produce approximate…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-07 Ben Morton , Sadegh Khochfar , Zhenyu Wu

We present a new multi-fluid, multi-temperature plasma solver with adaptive Cartesian mesh (ACM) based on a full-Newton (non-linear, implicit) scheme for collisional low-temperature plasma. The particle transport is described using the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-08-19 Robert Arslanbekov , Vladimir Kolobov

Convergence of a triple splitting method originally proposed by T. T\"uckmantel,et.al. [IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, 38(9):2383--2389, 2010] for the solution of a simple Vlasov-Maxwell system, that describes laser plasma…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-02-17 Georg Jansing , Achim Schädle

In this work, we present a numerical method that remedies the instabilities of the conventional FDTD approach for solving Maxwell's equations in a space-time dependent magneto-electric medium with direct application to the simulation of the…

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We present a six-moment multi-fluid model, which solves the governing equations for both ions and electrons, with pressure anisotropy along and perpendicular to the magnetic field direction, as well as the complete set of Maxwell equations.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 Zhenguang Huang , Gabor Toth , Bart van der Holst , Yuxi Chen , Tamas Gombosi

Alfv\'en-like operators are of interest in magnetohydrodynamics, which is used in plasma physics to study the macroscopic behavior of plasma. Motivated by this important and complex application, we focus on a parameter-dependent curl-div…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-12-26 Mariarosa Mazza , Carla Manni , Ahmed Ratnani , Stefano Serra-Capizzano , Hendrik Speleers

A basic model for describing plasma dynamics is given by the Euler-Maxwell system, in which compressible ion and electron fluids interact with their own self-consistent electromagnetic field. In this paper we consider the "one-fluid"…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-05-24 Yu Deng , Alexandru D. Ionescu , Benoit Pausader

This paper describes the main features of a pioneering unsteady solver for simulating ideal two-fluid plasmas on unstructured grids, taking profit of GPGPU (General-purpose computing on graphics processing units). The code, which has been…

Hot and tenuous plasmas are frequently far from local thermodynamic equilibrium, necessitating sophisticated methods for determining the associated plasma dielectric tensor and normal mode response. The Arbitrary Linear Plasma Solver…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Kristopher Klein , Daniel Verscharen

The weak turbulence model, also known as the quasilinear theory in plasma physics, has been a cornerstone in modeling resonant particle-wave interactions in plasmas. This reduced model stems from the Vlasov-Poisson/Maxwell system under the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-11-14 Kun Huang , Irene M. Gamba

A Maxwell solver derived from finite element method with \mathcal{O}(N) computing cost is developed to improve the numerical dispersion properties in relativistic particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations. The correction of the dispersion relation…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-08-06 Yingchao Lu , Chengkun Huang , Patrick Kilian , Fan Guo , Hui Li , Edison Liang