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We explore the use of field solvers as approximations of classical Vlasov-Poisson systems. This correspondence is investigated in both electrostatic and gravitational contexts. We demonstrate the ability of field solvers to be excellent…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-03-04 Andrew Eberhardt , Arka Banerjee , Michael Kopp , Tom Abel

The recent 1/2-equation model of turbulence is a simplification of the standard Kolmogorov-Prandtl 1-equation URANS model. Surprisingly, initial numerical tests indicated that the 1/2-equation model produces comparable velocity statistics…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-31 Wei-Wei Han , Rui Fang , William Layton

Small thermodynamic systems exhibit peculiar behavior different from that observed in long-scale systems. Non-equilibrium processes taking place in those systems are strongly influenced by the presence of fluctuations which can be large.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. M. Rubi

Numerical simulations of self-gravitating systems are generally based on N-body codes, which solve the equations of motion of a large number of interacting particles. This approach suffers from poor statistical sampling in regions of low…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-27 Giovanni Manfredi , Jean-Louis Rouet , Bruce Miller , Yui Shiozawa

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 analytical and numerical investigations of the energy loss rate of the test particle in a magnetized electron plasma are developed on the basis of the Vlasov-Poisson equations, and the main results are presented. The Larmor rotation of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 H. B. Nersisyan

In this paper we present a novel particle method for the Vlasov--Poisson equation. Unlike in conventional particle methods, the particles are not interpreted as point charges, but as point values of the distribution function. In between the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-04 Rostislav-Paul Wilhelm , Matthias Kirchhart

This chapter is devoted to the computation of equilibrium (thermodynamic) properties of quantum systems. In particular, we will be interested in the situation where the interaction between particles is so strong that it cannot be treated as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-03 Alexei Filinov , Jens Böning , Michael Bonitz

We survey some results that provide different versions of classical results through different summability methods. Specifically, in order to adapt such classical results, we analyze which properties should satisfy the summability methods.…

We provide a hybrid method that captures the polynomial speed of convergence and polynomial speed of mixing for Markov processes. The hybrid method that we introduce is based on the coupling technique and renewal theory. We propose to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-11-07 Yao Li , Hui Xu

We combine computer simulations and analytical theory to investigate the glassy dynamics in dense assemblies of athermal particles evolving under the sole influence of self-propulsion. The simulations reveal that when the persistence time…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-30 Grzegorz Szamel , Elijah Flenner , Ludovic Berthier

A universal method of strictly calculating self-consistent fields of realistic plasma particles could be strictly derived from three basic tools in theoretical plasma physics: particle simulation, Vlasov-Maxwell theory and fluid theory.

Plasma Physics · Physics 2010-08-17 H. Lin

We present a proof showing that the weak error of a system of $n$ interacting stochastic particles approximating the solution of the McKean-Vlasov equation is $\mathcal O(n^{-1})$. Our proof is based on the Kolmogorov backward equation for…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-08-07 Abdul-Lateef Haji-Ali , Håkon Hoel , Raúl Tempone

An infinite system of point particles placed in $\mathds{R}^d$ is studied. The particles are of two types; they perform random walks in the course of which those of distinct types repel each other. The interaction of this kind induces an…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-07-18 Yuri Kozitsky , Michael Röckner

It is often the case in numerical relativity that schemes that are known to be convergent for well posed systems are used in evolutions of weakly hyperbolic (WH) formulations of Einstein's equations. Here we explicitly show that with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-16 Gioel Calabrese , Jorge Pullin , Olivier Sarbach , Manuel Tiglio

We report experimental results on the behavior of an ensemble of inelastically colliding particles, excited by a vibrated piston in a vertical cylinder. When the particle number is increased, we observe a transition from a regime where the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Eric Falcon , Stephan Fauve , Claude Laroche

Self-consistent multi-particle simulation plays an important role in studying beam-beam effects and space charge effects in high-intensity beams. The Poisson equation has to be solved at each time-step based on the particle density…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2014-10-15 J. Qiang , S. Paret

This paper outlines a variety of possible applications of the Vlasov equation and its generalization, i.e., the Klimontovich equation, in various areas of many-body physics. In particular, these equations are shown to be used in…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-06-22 Łukasz A. Turski

Thermalization of classical fields is investigated in a \phi^4 scalar field theory in 1+1 dimensions, discretized on a lattice. We numerically integrate the classical equations of motion using initial conditions sampled from various…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Gert Aarts , Gian Franco Bonini , Christof Wetterich

We change a previous time-stepping algorithm for solving a multi-scale Vlasov-Poisson system within a Particle-In-Cell method, in order to do accurate long time simulations. As an exponential integrator, the new scheme allows to use large…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-19 Emmanuel Frenod , Sever Hirstoaga , Mathieu Lutz