Stability and conservation properties of Hermite-based approximations of the Vlasov-Poisson system

DOI10.1007/S10915-021-01537-5MaRDI QIDQ2049075zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Daniele Funaro, Gianmarco Manzini

Publication date 24 August 2021

Published in Journal of Scientific Computing (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.00691

zbMATH Keywords

conservation lawsHermite polynomialsspectral methodsVlasov equationVlasov-Poisson system

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Orthogonal polynomials and functions of hypergeometric type (Jacobi, Laguerre, Hermite, Askey scheme, etc.) (33C45) PDEs in connection with optics and electromagnetic theory (35Q60) Vlasov equations (35Q83) Finite difference methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M06) Stability and convergence of numerical methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M12) Spectral, collocation and related methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M70) Spectral, collocation and related methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N35) Electro- and magnetostatics (78A30) Statistical mechanics of plasmas (82D10)

Abstract: Spectral approximation based on Hermite-Fourier expansion of the Vlasov-Poisson model for a collisionless plasma in the electro-static limit is provided, by including high-order artificial collision operators of Lenard-Bernstein type. These differential operators are suitably designed in order to preserve the physically-meaningful invariants (number of particles, momentum, energy). In view of time-discretization, stability results in appropriate norms are presented. In this study, necessary conditions link the magnitude of the artificial collision term, the number of spectral modes of the discretization, as well as the time-step. The analysis, carried out in full for the Hermite discretization of a simple linear problem in one-dimension, is then partly extended to cover the complete nonlinear Vlasov-Poisson model.

Review text

The paper analyzes the spectral method for the numerical solution of the Vlasov-Poisson system, which describes the distribution of collisionless plasma in the electrostatic limit. The method uses Hermite functions, defined as Hermite polynomials multiplied by the Gaussian function. The authors distinguish two types of Hermite functions. In dependence on the concrete Gaussian function, the functions are either symmetrically or asymmetrically weighted. This results in two definitions of stabilizing Lenard-Bernstein diffusive operators, which are both proved to be dissipative and preserve the first modes of spectral expansion. The stability is first studied for the simplified one-dimensional model, where the absolute stability in weighted norms is proven for both symmetric and antisymmetric basis functions, and it is shown that the main conservation properties are maintained. Then, the results are partly extended to the complete nonlinear Vlassov-Poisson system.

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