A new scheme to treat the numerical Tcherenkov instability for electromagnetic particle simulations

DOI10.1006/JCPH.1997.5818MaRDI QIDQ1377899zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jacques Segré, Franck Assous, Pierre Degond

Publication date 26 January 1998

Published in Journal of Computational Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1006/jcph.1997.5818

zbMATH Keywords

electromagnetic particle simulationsexplicit time-stepping methodfinite elementfluid plasmaTcherenkov instabilityVlasov-Maxwell problemwaves

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with optics and electromagnetic theory (35Q60) Stability and convergence of numerical methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M12) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M60) Applications to the sciences (65Z05) Waves and radiation in optics and electromagnetic theory (78A40) Statistical mechanics of plasmas (82D10)

Review text

The authors consider the Vlasov-Maxwell problem. They develop a finite element approximation and suggest that instabilities in the solution may be reduced by introduction of a parameter in an explicit time-stepping method. The method is illustrated by applying it to waves in a fluid plasma and it is shown that the Tcherenkov instability can be reduced by the process. Diagrams are given showing the effectiveness of the method in a number of cases.

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