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We propose a new semi-Lagrangian Vlasov-Poisson solver. It employs elements of metric to follow locally the flow and its deformation, allowing one to find quickly and accurately the initial phase-space position $Q(P)$ of any test particle…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-02 S. Colombi , C. Alard

This work introduces a generalized characteristic mapping method designed to handle non-linear advection with source terms. The semi-Lagrangian approach advances the flow map, incorporating the source term via the Duhamel integral. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-25 Xi-Yuan Yin , Philipp Krah , Jean-Christophe Nave , Kai Schneider

The Vlasov equation is a kinetic model describing the evolution of charged particles, and is coupled with Poisson's equation, which rules the evolution of the self-consistent electric field. In this paper, we introduce a new class of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-12-13 Thomas Respaud , Eric Sonnendrücker

A discontinuous Galerkin method for approximating the Vlasov-Poisson system of equations describing the time evolution of a collisionless plasma is proposed. The method is mass conservative and, in the case that piecewise constant functions…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2011-10-04 R. E. Heath , I. M. Gamba , P. J. Morrison , C. Michler

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 is needed to consider the effect of external…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-11 Anjiao Gu , Yajuan Sun

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 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

We present a new method for solving the relativistic Vlasov--Maxwell system of equations, applicable to a wide range of extreme high-energy-density astrophysical and laboratory environments. The method directly discretizes the kinetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-20 James Juno , Grant Johnson , Alexander Philippov , Ammar Hakim , Alexander Chernoglazov , Shuzhe Zeng

In this paper, a novel high order semi-Lagrangian (SL) spectral volume (SV) method is proposed and studied for nonlinear Vlasov-Poisson (VP) simulations via operator splitting. The proposed algorithm combines both advantages of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-08 Xinyue Zhang , Xiaofeng Cai , Waixiang Cao

A common strategy in the numerical solution of partial differential equations is to define a uniform discretization of a tensor-product multi-dimensional logical domain, which is mapped to a physical domain through a given coordinate…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-09-13 Edoardo Zoni , Yaman Güçlü

Running kinetic plasma physics simulations using grid-based solvers is very demanding both in terms of memory as well as computational cost. This is primarily due to the up to six-dimensional phase space and the associated unfavorable…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-10-28 Lukas Einkemmer , Alexander Moriggl

We present a novel method for solving the linearized Vlasov--Poisson equation, based on analyticity properties of the equilibrium and initial condition through Cauchy-type integrals, that produces algebraic expressions for the distribution…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-07-05 Frank M. Lee , B. A. Shadwick

We construct the approximate solutions to the Vlasov--Poisson system in a half-space, which arises in the study of the quasi-neutral limit problem in the presence of a sharp boundary layer, referred as to the plasma sheath in the context of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-01-17 Chang-Yeol Jung , Bongsuk Kwon , Masahiro Suzuki , Masahiro Takayama

A long-standing challenge encountered in modeling plasma dynamics is achieving practical Vlasov equation simulation in multiple spatial dimensions over large length and time scales. While direct multi-dimension Vlasov simulation methods…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Harvey A. Rose , William Daughton

In this paper, we propose the parametrized maximum principle preserving (MPP) flux limiter, originally developed in [Z. Xu, Math. Comp., (2013), in press], to the semi- Lagrangian finite difference weighted essentially non-oscillatory…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-18 Tao Xiong , Jing-Mei Qiu , Zhengfu Xu , Andrew Christlieb

A numerical method is proposed to solve the full-Eulerian time-dependent Vlasov-Poisson system in high dimension. The algorithm relies on the construction of a tensor decomposition of the solution whose rank is adapted at each time step.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-04-05 Virginie Ehrlacher , Damiano Lombardi

We propose a dynamic domain semi-Lagrangian method for stochastic Vlasov equations driven by transport noises, which arise in plasma physics and astrophysics. This method combines the volume-preserving property of stochastic characteristics…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-06 Jianbo Cui , Derui Sheng , Chenhui Zhang , Tau Zhou

Existing approaches to solving the Vlasov equation treat the system as a partial differential equation on a phase space grid, and track in either an Eulerian, Lagrangian, or semi-Lagrangian picture. We present an alternative approach, which…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-07-27 Jonathan P. Edelen , Stephen D. Webb

We present a computational study for a family of discontinuous Galerkin methods for the one dimensional Vlasov-Poisson system that has been recently introduced. We introduce a slight modification of the methods to allow for feasible…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-10-02 Blanca Ayuso de Dios , Soheil Hajian

A semi-Lagrangian Characteristic Mapping method for the solution of the tracer transport equations on the sphere is presented. The method solves for the solution operator of the equations by approximating the inverse of the diffeomorphism…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-01 Seth Taylor , Jean-Christophe Nave