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Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-10 Rémi Abgrall , Wasilij Barsukow

We develop new numerical schemes for Vlasov--Poisson equations with high-order accuracy. Our methods are based on a spatially monotonicity-preserving (MP) scheme and are modified suitably so that positivity of the distribution function is…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-11-08 Satoshi Tanaka , Kohji Yoshikawa , Takashi Minoshima , Naoki Yoshida

We extend the simplex-in-cell (SIC) technique recently introduced in the context of collisionless dark matter fluids (Abel et al. 2012; Hahn et al. 2012) to the case of collisionless plasmas. The six-dimensional phase space distribution…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 Julian Kates-Harbeck , Samuel Totorica , Jonathan Zrake , Tom Abel

Over the past decades, the volume-of-fluid (VOF) method has been the method of choice for simulating atomization processes, owing to its unique ability to discretely conserve mass. Current state-of-the-art VOF methods, however, rely on the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-01-29 Fabien Evrard , Robert Chiodi , Berend van Wachem , Olivier Desjardins

This article presents a multi-physics methodology for the numerical simulation of physical systems that involve the non-linear interaction of multi-phase reactive fluids and elastoplastic solids, inducing high strain-rates and high…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-06-04 Tim Wallis , Philip T. Barton , Nikolaos Nikiforakis

We present the numerical flow iteration (NuFI) for solving the Vlasov--Poisson equation. In a certain sense specified later herein, NuFI provides infinite resolution of the distribution function. NuFI exactly preserves positivity, all…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-16 Matthias Kirchhart , Rostislav-Paul Wilhelm

With the aim of efficiently simulating three-dimensional multiphase turbulent flows with a phase-field method, we propose a new discretization scheme for the biharmonic term (the 4th-order derivative term) of the Cahn-Hilliard equation.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-05-24 Hao-Ran Liu , Chong Shen Ng , Kai Leong Chong , Detlef Lohse , Roberto Verzicco

We propose to integrate the Vlasov-Poisson equations giving the evolution of a dynamical system in phase-space using a continuous set of local basis functions. In practice, the method decomposes the density in phase-space into small smooth…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 C. Alard , S. Colombi

We present a practical cell-centred volume-of-fluid method developed within a pure Eulerian setting for the simulation of compressible solid-fluid problems. The method builds on a previously published diffuse-interface Godunov-type scheme…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-04-25 Timothy R. Law , Philip T. Barton

The complexity of binary droplet collisions increases for the collision of immiscible liquids with the occurrence of triple lines and thin encapsulating films. The Volume of Fluid (VOF) method is extended with an efficient interface…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-06-22 Johanna Potyka , Kathrin Schulte

This work primarily focuses on the study of three gradient reconstruction techniques applied to the calculation of viscous terms in a cell-centered, finite volume formulation for general unstructured grids. The work also addresses different…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-02-13 Frederico Bolsoni Oliveira , João Luiz F. Azevedo

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 numerical flow iteration method has recently been proposed as a memory-slim solution method for the Vlasov--Poisson system. It stores the temporal evolution of the electric field and reconstructs the solution in each time step by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-13 Rostislav-Paul Wilhelm , Katharina Kormann

When simulating three-dimensional flows interacting with deformable and elastic obstacles, current methods often encounter complexities in the governing equations and challenges in numerical implementation. In this work, we introduce a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-09 Andreu F. Gallen , Joan Muñoz Biosca , Mario Castro , Aurora Hernández-Machado

This work describes three diffuse-interface methods for the simulation of immiscible, compressible multiphase fluid flows and elastic-plastic deformation in solids. The first method is the localized-artificial-diffusivity approach of Cook…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-09-21 Suhas S. Jain , Michael C. Adler , Jacob R. West , Ali Mani , Parviz Moin , Sanjiva K. Lele

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

The accurate prediction of occurrence and strength of kinetic instabilities in plasmas remains a significant challenge in nuclear fusion research. To accurately capture the plasmas dynamics one is required to solve the Vlasov equation for…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-04-30 Rostislav-Paul Wilhelm , Jan Eifert , Manuel Torrilhon

In this study, the Vlasov-Poisson equation with or without collision term for plasma is solved by the unified gas kinetic scheme (UGKS). The Vlasov equation is a differential equation describing time evolution of the distribution function…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-10-18 Dongxin Pana , Chengwen Zhong , Congshan Zhuo , Wei Tan

In this work, we develop an accelerated sharp-interface method based on (Hu et al., JCP, 2006) and (Luo et al., JCP, 2015) for multiphase flows simulations. Traditional multiphase simulation methods use the minimum time step of all fluids…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-05-13 Tian Long , Jinsheng Cai , Shucheng Pan

This paper presents a finite volume method for simulating two-phase flows using a level set approach coupled with volume of fluid method capable of simulating sharp fluid interfaces. The efficiency of the method is a result of the fact that…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-07-20 Konstantinos G. Lyras , Jack Lee