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A discontinuous Galerkin method for the Vlasov-Poisson system
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 are used as a basis, the method preserves the positivity of
the electron distribution function and weakly enforces continuity of the
electric field through mesh interfaces and boundary conditions. The performance
of the method is investigated by computing several examples and error estimates
associated system's approximation are stated. In particular, computed results
are benchmarked against established theoretical results for linear advection
and the phenomenon of linear Landau damping for both the Maxwell and Lorentz
distributions. Moreover, two nonlinear problems are considered: nonlinear
Landau damping and a version of the two-stream instability are computed. For
the latter, fine scale details of the resulting long-time BGK-like state are
presented. Conservation laws are examined and various comparisons to theory are
made. The results obtained demonstrate that the discontinuous Galerkin method
is a viable option for integrating the Vlasov-Poisson system.Comment: To appear in Journal for Computational Physics, 2011. 63 pages, 86
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Long time simulation of a highly oscillatory Vlasov equation with an exponential integrator
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 time steps compared to the size of oscillations in the solution
A dynamical adaptive tensor method for the Vlasov-Poisson system
A numerical method is proposed to solve the full-Eulerian time-dependent
Vlasov-Poisson system in high dimension. The algorithm relies on the
construction of a tensor decomposition of the solution whose rank is adapted at
each time step. This decomposition is obtained through the use of an efficient
modified Progressive Generalized Decomposition (PGD) method, whose convergence
is proved. We suggest in addition a symplectic time-discretization splitting
scheme that preserves the Hamiltonian properties of the system. This scheme is
naturally obtained by considering the tensor structure of the approximation.
The efficiency of our approach is illustrated through time-dependent 2D-2D
numerical examples
Long time simulation of a beam in a periodic focusing channel via a two-scale PIC-method
We study the two-scale asymptotics for a charged beam under the action of a
rapidly oscillating external electric field. After proving the convergence to
the correct asymptotic state, we develop a numerical method for solving the
limit model involving two time scales and validate its efficiency for the
simulation of long time beam evolution
High order and energy preserving discontinuous Galerkin methods for the Vlasov-Poisson system
We present a computational study for a family of discontinuous Galerkin
methods for the one dimensional Vlasov-Poisson system that has been recently
introduced. We introduce a slight modification of the methods to allow for
feasible computations while preserving the properties of the original methods.
We study numerically the verification of the theoretical and convergence
analysis, discussing also the conservation properties of the schemes. The
methods are validated through their application to some of the benchmarks in
the simulation of plasma physics.Comment: 44 pages, 28 figure
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