A Monte Carlo method with negative particles for Coulomb collisions

DOI10.1016/J.JCP.2015.06.021zbMATH Open1349.82131OpenAlexW835525904MaRDI QIDQ2374673FDOQ2374673

Authors: Bokai Yan, Russel Caflisch 

Publication date: 5 December 2016

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2015.06.021

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zbMATH Keywords

Monte Carlo methodBoltzmann equationCoulomb collisionsprediction-correctionnegative particle method

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Monte Carlo methods (65C05) Stochastic particle methods (65C35) Statistical mechanics of plasmas (82D10) Ionized gas flow in electromagnetic fields; plasmic flow (76X05)

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• Monte-Carlo method for two component plasmas
• Direct simulation Monte Carlo schemes for Coulomb interactions in plasmas
• Multilevel Monte Carlo simulation of Coulomb collisions
• A corrected method for Coulomb scattering in arbitrarily weighted particle-in-cell plasma simulations
• Overcoming the numerical sign problem in the Wigner dynamics via adaptive particle annihilation
• Asymptotic preserving and time diminishing schemes for rarefied gas dynamic
• Particle simulation of Coulomb collisions: Comparing the methods of Takizuka \& Abe and Nanbu
• A hybrid method with deviational particles for spatial inhomogeneous plasma

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