Explicit charge-conserving and modified energy-conserving PIC methods using the SAV approach

DOI10.48550/ARXIV.2610.16028MaRDI QIDQ7395263arXivFDO

Authors Chengyu Fan, Nicolas Crouseilles, Jingwei Hu

Publication date 12 October 2026

Published in arXiv

Tldr We develop explicit second-order particle-in-cell (PIC) methods for the Vlasov--Ampère and Vlasov--Maxwell systems using the scalar auxiliary variable (SAV) approach with two schemes per system: predictor-based scheme and symmetric splitting scheme, exactly preserving discrete Gauss law and a modified total energy.

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.48550/ARXIV.2610.16028

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Vlasov equations (35Q83) Probabilistic methods, particle methods, etc. for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M75) Statistical mechanics of plasmas (82D10)

arXiv classification

math.NA

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