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A unified numerically solvable framework for dispersion relations with arbitrary number of species drifting at arbitrary directions and with Krook collision is derived for linear uniform/homogenous kinetic plasma, which largely extended the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-08-30 Huasheng Xie

Two-dimensional Maxwell-Vlasov equilibria with finite electric fields, axial ("toroidal") plasma flow and isotropic pressure are constructed in plane geometry by using the quasineutrality condition to express the electrostatic potential in…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-10-16 G. N. Throumoulopoulos , H. Tasso

Numerical methods for solving the ideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations in more than one space dimension must either confront the challenge of controlling errors in the discrete divergence of the magnetic field, or else be faced with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-19 Christiane Helzel , James A. Rossmanith , Bertram Taetz

The paper develops high-order physical-constraint-preserving (PCP) methods for general relativistic hydrodynamic (GRHD) equations, equipped with a general equation of state. Here the physical constraints, describing the admissible states of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-05-10 Kailiang Wu

In this paper a characteristics-based open boundary condition (CBC) is proposed for the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) system of equations. The algorithm is carefully designed and implemented in the context of a high-order flux reconstruction…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Xiaoliang Zhang , Chunlei Liang

In this work we derive a reduced one-fluid plasma model from the relativistic Vlasov--Boltzmann--Maxwell system using a moment hierarchy reduction combined with strong-guide-field anisotropic ordering. The unresolved higher-moment sector of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-05-08 Madison J. Newell , Salman A. Nejad

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-06-30 Yingda Cheng , Andrew J. Christlieb , Wei Guo , Benjamin Ong

We describe a new model for the study of weakly-collisional, magnetized plasmas derived from exploiting the separation of the dynamics parallel and perpendicular to the magnetic field. This unique system of equations retains the particle…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-10-06 James Juno , Ammar Hakim , Jason M. TenBarge

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…

Adaptive multilevel finite element methods are developed and analyzed for certain elliptic systems arising in geometric analysis and general relativity. This class of nonlinear elliptic systems of tensor equations on manifolds is first…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-01-12 Michael Holst

We propose a numerical method to solve the three-dimensional static Maxwell equations in a singular axisymmetric domain, generated by the rotation of a singular polygon around one of its sides. The mathematical tools and an in-depth study…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-07 Franck Assous , Irina Raichik

We resolve a longstanding open problem in the computational modeling of nonlinear plates by introducing a numerical method that exactly enforces the isometry constraint, namely, that the first fundamental form of the mid-surface coincides…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-11 Brendan Keith , Frédéric Marazzato

We propose and implement a third-order accurate numerical scheme for the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation, which describes magnetization dynamics in ferromagnetic materials under large damping parameters. This method offers two key…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-10-29 Changjian Xie , Cheng Wang

A method of solving Maxwell equations in a vicinity of a multipole particle (moving along an arbitrary trajectory) is proposed. The method is based on a geometric construction of a trajectory-adapted coordinate system, which simplifies…

Classical Physics · Physics 2009-04-18 Jerzy Kijowski , Piotr Podles

Finding fast yet accurate numerical solutions to the Helmholtz equation remains a challenging task. The pollution error (i.e. the discrepancy between the numerical and analytical wave number k) requires the mesh resolution to be kept fine…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-24 Vandana Dwarka , Roel Tielen , Matthias Möller , Kees Vuik

This paper is devoted to the numerical symplectic approximation of the charged-particle dynamics (CPD) with arbitrary electromagnetic fields. By utilizing continuous-stage methods and exponential integrators, a general class of symplectic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-05 Ting Li , Bin Wang

We present an adaptive multiresolution method for the numerical simulation of ideal magnetohydrodynamics in two space dimensions. The discretization uses a finite volume scheme based on a Cartesian mesh and an explicit compact Rung-Kutta…

The magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations model a wide range of plasma physics applications and are characterized by a nonlinear system of partial differential equations that strongly couples a charged fluid with the evolution of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-30 J. H. Adler , T. Benson , E. C. Cyr , P. E. Farrell , S. MacLachlan , R. Tuminaro

The main objective of this work, is to show two inequivalent methods to obtain new spherical symmetric solutions of Einstein's Equations with anisotropy in the pressures in isotropic coordinates. This was done inspired by the MGD method,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-01-08 C. Las Heras , P. León

We present and analyze a new hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin (HDG) method for the steady state Maxwell equations. In order to make the problem well-posed, a condition of divergence is imposed on the electric field. Then a Lagrange…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-05-10 Huangxin Chen , Weifeng Qiu , Ke Shi