Variational framework for structure-preserving electromagnetic particle-in-cell methods

DOI10.1007/S10915-022-01781-3zbMATH Open1494.35145arXiv2101.09247OpenAlexW3124391312MaRDI QIDQ2147459FDOQ2147459

Authors: Martin Campos Pinto, Katharina Kormann, Eric Sonnendrücker 

Publication date: 20 June 2022

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

Abstract: In this article we apply a discrete action principle for the Vlasov--Maxwell equations in a structure-preserving particle-field discretization framework. In this framework the finite-dimensional electromagnetic potentials and fields are represented in a discrete de Rham sequence involving general finite element spaces, and the particle-field coupling is represented by a set of projection operators that commute with the differential operators. With a minimal number of assumptions which allow for a variety of finite elements and shape functions for the particles, we show that the resulting variational scheme has a general discrete Poisson structure and thus leads to a semi-discrete Hamiltonian system. By introducing discrete interior products we derive a second type of space discretization which is momentum preserving, based on the same finite elements and shape functions. We illustrate our method by applying it to spline finite elements, and to a new spectral discretization where the particle-field coupling relies on discrete Fourier transforms.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.09247

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zbMATH Keywords

variational methodsHamiltonian structureparticle-in-cellVlasov-Maxwellstructure-preserving finite elementscommuting de Rham diagram

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Numerical computation using splines (65D07) Maxwell equations (35Q61) Vlasov equations (35Q83) de Rham theory in global analysis (58A12) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M60) Electromagnetic theory (general) (78A25) Spectral, collocation and related methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M70) Numerical methods for discrete and fast Fourier transforms (65T50) Numerical solution of discretized equations for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M22)

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• GitHub
• GEMPIC

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