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We discuss the interpolation of the electric and magnetic fields within a charge-conserving Particle-In-Cell scheme. The choice of the interpolation procedure for the fields acting on a particle can be constrained by analyzing conservation…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2012-09-14 Igor V. Sokolov

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…

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

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

This paper deals with the numerical resolution of the Vlasov-Poissonsystem with a strong external magnetic field by Particle-In-Cell(PIC) methods. In this regime, classical PIC methods are subject tostability constraints on the time and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-11-24 Francis Filbet , Luis Miguel Rodrigues

Discontinuous Galerkin methods are developed for solving the Vlasov-Maxwell system, methods that are designed to be systematically as accurate as one wants with provable conservation of mass and possibly total energy. Such properties in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-10-24 Yingda Cheng , Irene M. Gamba , Fengyan Li , Philip J. Morrison

We introduce a new numerical technique, namely triangular tessellation, to calculate the free energy associated with the adsorption of a colloidal particle at a flat interface. The theory and numerical scheme presented here are sufficiently…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-14 Joost de Graaf , Marjolein Dijkstra , Rene van Roij

This paper investigates subcycling of particle orbits in variational, geometric particle-in-cell methods addressing the Vlasov--Maxwell system in magnetized plasmas. The purpose of subcycling is to allow different time steps for different…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-11-13 Eero Hirvijoki , Katharina Kormann , Filippo Zonta

We present the applications of variational-wavelet approach for computing multiresolution/multiscale representation for solution of some approximations of Vlasov-Maxwell-Poisson equations.

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Antonina N. Fedorova , Michael G. Zeitlin

We analyze the anti-symmetric properties of a spectral discretization for the one-dimensional Vlasov-Poisson equations. The discretization is based on a spectral expansion in velocity with the symmetrically weighted Hermite basis functions,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-31 Opal Issan , Oleksandr Koshkarov , Federico D. Halpern , Boris Kramer , Gian Luca Delzanno

A new modified Vlasov equation has been obtained in this paper for the systems with dissipative phenomena such as, for example, plasma with irradiation.

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-05-24 E. E. Perepelkin , B. I. Sadovnikov , N. G. Inozemtseva

A stochastic representation for the solutions of the Poisson-Vlasov equation, with several charged species, is obtained. The representation involves both an exponential and a branching process and it provides an intuitive characterization…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2010-08-31 Elena Floriani , R. Lima , R. Vilela Mendes

This paper aims at developing new shape functions adapted to smooth vanishing coefficients for scalar wave equation. It proposes the numerical analysis of their interpolation properties. The interpolation is local but high order convergence…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-08-16 Lise-Marie Imbert-Gerard

A new approximation method for inverting the Poisson's equation is presented for a continuously distributed and finite-sized source in an unbound domain. The advantage of this image multipole method arises from its ability to place the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 James H. H. Chan , Tzihong Chiueh

The motion of a collisionless plasma - a high-temperature, low-density, ionized gas - is described by the Vlasov-Maxwell (VM) system. These equations are considered in one space dimension and two momentum dimensions without the assumption…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-04-18 Robert Glassey , Stephen Pankavich , Jack Schaeffer

The adaptive partition of unity interpolation method, introduced by Aiton and Driscoll, using Chebyshev local interpolants, is explored for interpolating functions with sharp gradients representing two-medium problems. For functions that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-21 Alfa Heryudono , Mehdi Raessi

In this article, we introduce a novel dimensionality reduction formulation for the Poisson's equation in the Vlasov-Poisson system that yields a reduced-order particle-in-cell scheme. This scheme allows a remarkable reduction in the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-06-29 Maryam Reza , Farbod Faraji , Aaron Knoll

We develop a computational method for modeling electrostatic interactions of arbitrarily-shaped, polarizable objects on colloidal length scales, including colloids/nanoparticles, polymers, and surfactants, dispersed in explicit ion…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-06-18 Emily Krucker-Velasquez , James W. Swan , Zachary Sherman

A multispecies, collisionless plasma is modeled by the Vlasov-Poisson system. Assuming that the electric field decays with sufficient rapidity as $t \to\infty$, we show that the velocity characteristics and spatial averages of the particle…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-01-25 Stephen Pankavich

This paper proposes an adaptive hyper-reduction method to reduce the computational cost associated with the simulation of parametric particle-based kinetic plasma models, specifically focusing on the Vlasov-Poisson equation. Conventional…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-05 Cecilia Pagliantini , Federico Vismara