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Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-11-01 Osama A. Marzouk

The one-dimensional Vlasov-Poisson system is considered and a particle method is developed to approximate solutions without compact support which tend to a fixed background of charge as $| x | \to \infty$. Such a system of equations can be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-01-03 Stephen Pankavich

The present paper describes a parallel unstructured-mesh Plasma simulation code based on Finite Volume method. The code dynamically refines and coarses mesh for accurate resolution of the different features regarding the electron density.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-12-26 Imad Kissami , Souhail Maazioui , Fayssal Benkhaldoun

In this paper, we propose a moment method to numerically solve the Vlasov equations using the framework of the NRxx method developed in [6, 8, 7] for the Boltzmann equation. Due to the same convection term of the Boltzmann equation and the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-09-05 Zhenning Cai , Ruo Li , Yanli Wang

Optimal exploitation of supercomputing resources for the evaluation of electrostatic forces remains a challenge in molecular dynamics simulations of very large systems. The most efficient methods are currently based on particle-mesh Ewald…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-09-23 Federica Troni , Davide Grassano , Jayashree Narayan , Benoît Roux , Sara Bonella

A multispecies, collisionless plasma is modeled by the Vlasov-Poisson system. Assuming the plasma is neutral and the electric field decays with sufficient rapidity as $t \to\infty$, we show that solutions can be constructed with arbitrarily…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-06 Grace Mattingly , Stephen Pankavich , Jonathan Ben-Artzi

In multi-phase fluid flow, fluid-structure interaction, and other applications, partial differential equations (PDEs) often arise with discontinuous coefficients and singular sources (e.g., Dirac delta functions). These complexities arise…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-24 Chung-Nan Tzou , Samuel Stechmann

Numerical methods that approximate the solution of the Vlasov-Poisson equation by a low-rank representation have been considered recently. These methods can be extremely effective from a computational point of view, but contrary to most…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-07-09 Lukas Einkemmer , Christian Lubich

The aim of various technical applications (for example fusion research) is to control a plasma by magnetic fields in a desired fashion. In our model the plasma is described by the Vlasov-Poisson system that is equipped with an external…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-10-12 Patrik Knopf

In this work, we propose a new semi-Lagrangian (SL) finite difference scheme for nonlinear advection-diffusion problems. To ensure conservation, which is fundamental for achieving physically consistent solutions, the governing equations are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-05 Silvia Preda , Walter Boscheri , Matteo Semplice , Maurizio Tavelli

We revisit Parker's conjecture of current singularity formation in 3D line-tied plasmas using a recently developed numerical method, variational integration for ideal magnetohydrodynamics in Lagrangian labeling. With the frozen-in equation…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-01-03 Yao Zhou , Yi-Min Huang , Hong Qin , A. Bhattacharjee

Kinetic plasma simulations solve the Vlasov-Poisson or Vlasov-Maxwell equations to evolve scalar-variable distribution functions in position-velocity phase space and vector-variable electromagnetic fields in physical space. The…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Andrew Ho , Genia Vogman

We describe an algorithm that computes the linear dispersion relation of waves and instabilities in relativistic plasmas within a Vlasov-Maxwell description. The method used is fully relativistic and involves explicit integration of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J Petri , J G Kirk

We consider a 1D-2V Vlasov-Fokker-Planck multi-species ionic description coupled to fluid electrons. We address temporal stiffness with implicit time stepping, suitably preconditioned. To address temperature disparity in time and space, we…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-05-09 William T. Taitano , Luis Chacon , Andrei N. Simakov

Energy minimization algorithms, such as graph cuts, enable the computation of the MAP solution under certain probabilistic models such as Markov random fields. However, for many computer vision problems, the MAP solution under the model is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-07-31 Yongsub Lim , Kyomin Jung , Pushmeet Kohli

We consider the Vlasov-Poisson-Landau system, a classical model for a dilute collisional plasma interacting through Coulombic collisions and with its self-consistent electrostatic field. We establish global stability and well-posedness near…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-01-19 Hongjie Dong , Yan Guo , Zhimeng Ouyang

This paper introduces a Particle Flow Map Level Set (PFM-LS) method for high-fidelity interface tracking. We store level-set values, gradients, and Hessians on particles concentrated in a narrow band around the interface, advecting them via…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-01-16 Jinjin He , Taiyuan Zhang , Zhiqi Li , Junwei Zhou , Duowen Chen , Bo Zhu

We propose a novel score-based particle method for solving the Landau equation in plasmas, that seamlessly integrates learning with structure-preserving particle methods [arXiv:1910.03080]. Building upon the Lagrangian viewpoint of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-09 Yan Huang , Li Wang

Energy conserving particle-in-cell schemes are constructed for a class of reduced relativistic Vlasov--Maxwell equations of laser-plasma interaction. Discrete Poisson equation is also satisfied by the numerical solution. Specifically,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-30 Yingzhe Li

Semi-Lagrangian methods have traditionally been developed in the framework of hyperbolic equations, but several extensions of the Semi-Lagrangian approach to diffusion and advection--diffusion problems have been proposed recently. These…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-05-20 L. Bonaventura , R. Ferretti