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The main concern of the present paper is the study of the multi-scale dynamics of thermonuclear fusion plasmas via a multi-species Fokker-Planck kinetic model. One of the goals is the generalization of the standard Fokker-Planck collision…
The Dougherty model Fokker-Planck operator is extended to describe nonlinear full-f collisions between multiple species in plasmas. Simple relations for cross-species interactions are developed which obey conservation laws, and reproduce…
Particle-based stochastic approximations of the Boltzmann equation are popular tools for simulations of non-equilibrium gas flows, for which the Navier-Stokes-Fourier equations fail to provide accurate description. However, these numerical…
We consider a multi component gas mixture with translational and internal energy degrees of freedom without chemical reactions assuming that the number of particles of each species remains constant. We will illustrate the derived model in…
We formulate and test a hybrid fluid-Monte Carlo scheme for the treatment of elastic collisions in gases and plasmas. While our primary focus and demonstrations of applicability are for moderately collisional plasmas, as described by the…
We propose a general multi-species Fokker-Planck model. We prove consistency of our model: conservation properties, positivity of all temperatures, H-Theorem and the shape of equilibrium as Maxwell distributions with the same mean velocity…
While accurate simulations of dense gas flows far from the equilibrium can be achieved by Direct Simulation adapted to the Enskog equation, the significant computational demand required for collisions appears as a major constraint. In order…
Generalising the work of Lenard and Bernstein, we introduce a new, fully relativistic model to describe collisional plasmas. Like the Fokker-Planck operator, this equation represents velocity diffusion and conserves particle number.…
In dilute gas kinetic theory, model collision dynamics such as Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook (BGK) model is often used to get a better insight and numerical modelling. BGK model and its variants assume that highly nonlinear collision term can be…
This paper proposes a novel numerical integrator for modeling multispecies Coulomb collisions in kinetic plasmas. The proposed scheme provides an energy-, momentum-, and positivity-preserving particle discretization of the nonlinear Landau…
The focus of this work is to create benchmark simulations of decay rates to statistical equilibrium in transport plasma models for Coulomb particle interactions given by a coupled Vlasov-Poisson Fokker-Planck-Landau equation, as well as…
This paper considers a kinetic equation for an unbounded two-dimensional single species point vortex system. No axisymmetric flow is assumed. Using the kinetic theory based on the Klimontovich formalism, we derive a collision term…
Coulomb collisions in particle simulations for weakly coupled plasmas are modeled by the Landau-Fokker-Planck equation, which is typically solved by Monte-Carlo (MC) methods. One of the main disadvantages of MC is the timestep accuracy…
Energetic electrons are of interest in many types of plasmas, however previous modeling of their properties has been restricted to the use of linear Fokker-Planck collision operators or non-relativistic formulations. Here, we describe a…
We describe a new approach for modeling the transport of high energy particles accelerated during flares from the acceleration region in the solar corona until their eventual thermalization in the flare footpoint. Our technique numerically…
A new analytically and numerically manageable model collision operator is developed specifically for turbulence simulations. The like-particle collision operator includes both pitch-angle scattering and energy diffusion and satisfies the…
We derive the transport equations from the Vlasov-Fokker-Planck equation when the velocity space is spherically symmetric. The Shkarofsky's form of Fokker-Planck-Rosenbluth collision operator is employed in the Vlasov-Fokker-Planck…
We consider a non reactive multi component gas mixture.We propose a class of models, which can be easily generalized to multiple species. The two species mixture is modelled by a system of kinetic BGK equations featuring two interaction…
With the significant advancements in parallel computing techniques, the particle-particle (PP) model has been effectively utilized in various plasma-related applications. However, PP has been limited for solving only electrostatic problems…
Under low-collisionality conditions the isotropic part of the electron velocity distribution function in a plasma becomes non-local and the electrons can be described by a single global distribution function . This is also the regime…