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We develop a semi-discrete optimal transport scheme for the compressible semi-geostrophic equations, a system that plays an important role in modelling large-scale atmospheric dynamics and frontogenesis. Unlike the incompressible case, the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Théo Lavier , Beatrice Pelloni

In this paper, we propose a high order conservative semi-Lagrangian scheme (SL) for the ellipsoidal BGK model of the Boltzmann transport equation. To avoid the time step restriction induced by the convection term, we adopt the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-12 Sebastiano Boscarino , Seung Yeon Cho , Giovanni Russo , Seok-Bae Yun

The super simple Vlasov (ssV) code was developed to study instabilities, turbulence, and reconnection in weakly magnetized plasmas, such as the solar wind in the dissipation range and the edge of fusion plasmas. The ssV code overcomes the…

The semi-Lagrangian discontinuous Galerkin method, coupled with a splitting approach in time, has recently been introduced for the Vlasov--Poisson equation. Since these methods are conservative, local in space, and able to limit numerical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-14 Lukas Einkemmer

A method for solving model nonlinear equations describing plasma oscillations in the presence of viscosity and resistivity is given. By first going to the Lagrangian variables and then transforming the space variable conveniently, the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-04-15 E. Infeld , G. Rowlands , A. A. Skorupski

This paper presents a novel high-order cell-centered Lagrangian scheme for 2D compressible hydrodynamics by bridging the multi-moment constrained finite volume method (MCV) [16, 51, 52] with a nodal Riemann solver. This scheme (denoted by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-07 Xiaoteng Zhang , Xun Wang , Zhijun Shen , Chao Yang

We demonstrate that the Vlasov equation describing collisionless self-gravitating matter may be solved with the so-called Schr\"odinger method (ScM). With the ScM, one solves the Schr\"odinger-Poisson system of equations for a complex wave…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-03 Michael Kopp , Kyriakos Vattis , Constantinos Skordis

This paper proposes an adaptive hyper-reduction method to reduce the computational cost associated with the simulation of parametric particle-based kinetic plasma models, specifically focusing on the Vlasov-Poisson equation. Conventional…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-05 Cecilia Pagliantini , Federico Vismara

The aim of this work is to investigate semi-Lagrangian approximation schemes on unstructured grids for viscous transport and conservative equations with measurable coefficients that satisfy a one-sided Lipschitz condition. To establish the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-15 Fabio Camilli , Adriano Festa , Luciano Marzufero

We propose a novel reformulation of the Vlasov-Amp{\`e}re equations for plasmas. This reformulation exposes discrete symmetries to achieve simultaneous conservation of mass, momentum, and energy; preservation of Gauss's law involution;…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-10-29 William T Taitano , Joshua W Burby , Alex Alekseenko

Inaccurate description of the equilibrium can yield to spurious effects in gyrokinetic turbulence simulations. Also, the Vlasov solver and time integration schemes impact the conservation of physical quantities, especially in long-term…

In this paper, we propose a high-order energy-conserving semi-Lagrangian discontinuous Galerkin(ECSLDG) method for the Vlasov-Ampere system. The method employs a semi-Lagrangian discontinuous Galerkin scheme for spatial discretization of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-30 Xiaofeng Cai , Qingtao Li , Hongtao Liu , Haibiao Zheng

We propose a new semi-Lagrangian Vlasov-Poisson solver. It employs elements of metric to follow locally the flow and its deformation, allowing one to find quickly and accurately the initial phase-space position $Q(P)$ of any test particle…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-02 S. Colombi , C. Alard

We propose an efficient semi-Lagrangian method for solving the two-dimensional incompressible Euler equations with high precision on a coarse grid. The new approach evolves the flow map using the gradient-augmented level set method (GALSM).…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-21 Xi-Yuan Yin , Olivier Mercier , Badal Yadav , Kai Schneider , Jean-Christophe Nave

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

We present fourth-order conservative non-splitting semi-Lagrangian (SL) Hermite essentially non-oscillatory (HWENO) schemes for linear transport equations with applications for nonlinear problems including the Vlasov-Poisson system, the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-09 Nanyi Zheng , Xiaofeng Cai , Jing-Mei Qiu , Jianxian Qiu

A variational method is used to derive a self-consistent macro-particle model for relativistic electromagnetic kinetic plasma simulations. Extending earlier work [E. G. Evstatiev and B. A. Shadwick, J. Comput. Phys., vol. 245, pp. 376-398,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2014-04-22 A. B. Stamm , B. A. Shadwick , E. G. Evstatiev

Advective transport of scalar quantities through surfaces is of fundamental importance in many scientific applications. From the Eulerian perspective of the surface it can be quantified by the well-known integral of the flux density. The…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2016-06-30 Daniel Karrasch

We present and discuss a novel approach to deal with conservation properties for the simulation of nonlinear complex porous media flows in the presence of: 1) multiscale heterogeneity structures appearing in the elliptic-pressure-velocity…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-15 Juan Galvis , Eduardo Abreu , Ciro Diaz , Jonh Perez

When extended to two-phase flows, weakly compressible models lead to a non-conservative system, which precludes its treatment using standard finite volume techniques. In this paper, a novel HLLC-type path-conservative scheme is formulated…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-01 Ashley Melvin , J. C. Mandal