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We present a novel structure-preserving framework for solving the Vlasov-Poisson-Landau system of equations using a particle in cell (PIC) discretization combined with discrete gradient time integrators. The Vlasov-Poisson-Landau system is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-02-16 Daniel S. Finn , Joseph V. Pusztay , Matthew G. Knepley , Mark F. Adams

We present a novel family of particle discretisation methods for the nonlinear Landau collision operator. We exploit the metriplectic structure underlying the Vlasov-Maxwell-Landau system in order to obtain disretisation schemes that…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-04-30 Sandra Jeyakumar , Michael Kraus , Matthew J. Hole , David Pfefferlé

We propose a collision-oriented particle system to approximate a class of Landau-type equations. This particle system is formally derived from a particle system with random collisions in the grazing regime, and happens to be a special…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-08-30 Kai Du , Lei Li

We propose a novel deterministic particle method to numerically approximate the Landau equation for plasmas. Based on a new variational formulation in terms of gradient flows of the Landau equation, we regularize the collision operator to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-05-26 Jose A. Carrillo , Jingwei Hu , Li Wang , Jeremy Wu

We consider in this paper random batch particle methods for efficiently solving the homogeneous Landau equation in plasma physics. The methods are stochastic variations of the particle methods proposed by Carrillo et al. [J. Comput. Phys.:…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-13 José Antonio Carrillo , Shi Jin , Yijia Tang

The multispecies Landau collision operator describes the two-particle, small scattering angle or grazing collisions in a plasma made up of different species of particles such as electrons and ions. Recently, a structure preserving…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-26 José A. Carrillo , Jingwei Hu , Samuel Q. Van Fleet

Structure-preserving particle methods have recently been proposed for a class of nonlinear continuity equations, including aggregation-diffusion equation in [J. Carrillo, K. Craig, F. Patacchini, Calc. Var., 58 (2019), pp. 53] and the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-19 Jingwei Hu , Samuel Q. Van Fleet , Andy T. S. Wan

The Landau collision integral is often considered the gold standard in the context of kinetic plasma simulation due to its conservative properties, despite challenges involved in its discretization. The primary challenge when implementing…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-06-23 Joseph Pusztay , Filippo Zonta , Matt Knepley , Mark Adams

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

We introduce an extension of the particle-in-cell (PIC) method that captures the Landau collisional effects in the Vlasov-Maxwell-Landau equations. The method arises from a regularisation of the variational formulation of the Landau…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-04-02 Rafael Bailo , José A. Carrillo , Jingwei Hu

We have developed a deterministic conservative solver for the inhomogeneous Fokker-Planck-Landau equation coupled with the Poisson equation, which is a {classical mean-field} primary model for collisional plasmas. Two subproblems, i.e. the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-06-19 Chenglong Zhang , Irene M. Gamba

We propose a particle method for numerically solving the Landau equation, inspired by the score-based transport modeling (SBTM) method for the Fokker-Planck equation. This method can preserve some important physical properties of the Landau…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-20 Vasily Ilin , Jingwei Hu , Zhenfu Wang

This paper contributes new insights into discretizing Coulomb collisions in kinetic plasma models. Building on the previous works [Carrillo et al. J. Comp. Phys. X 7:100066 (2020), Hirvijoki and Burby Phys. Plasmas 27(8):082307 (2020)], I…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-05-12 Eero Hirvijoki

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…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-12-28 Filippo Zonta , Joseph V. Pusztay , Eero Hirvijoki

In this paper, we present a new framework for addressing the nonlinear Landau collision operator in terms of particle-in-cell methods. We employ the underlying metriplectic structure of the collision operator and, using a macro particle…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-02-15 Eero Hirvijoki , Michael Kraus , Joshua W. Burby

In this paper, we propose a structure preserving method using a Crank-Nicolson's type method with an implicit Gauss-Seidel fractional iteration. Such a method is of first-order accuracy in time and second-order accuracy in space, stable and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-19 Changjian Xie

The design of particle simulation methods for collisional plasma physics has always represented a challenge due to the unbounded total collisional cross section, which prevents a natural extension of the classical Direct Simulation Monte…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-09 Andrea Medaglia , Lorenzo Pareschi , Mattia Zanella

Inspired by the gradient flow viewpoint of the Landau equation and the corresponding dynamic formulation of the Landau metric in [arXiv:2007.08591], we develop a novel implicit particle method for the Landau equation in the framework of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-01 Yan Huang , Li Wang

We prove a quantitative result of convergence of a conservative stochastic particle system to the solution of the homogeneous Landau equation for hard potentials. There are two main difficulties: (i) the known stability results for this…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-10-06 Nicolas Fournier , Arnaud Guillin

A thermodynamically consistent particle-based model for fluid dynamics with continuous velocities and a non-ideal equation of state is presented. Excluded volume interactions are modeled by means of biased stochastic multiparticle…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Thomas Ihle , Erkan Tuzel , Daniel M. Kroll
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