On the velocity space discretization for the Vlasov-Poisson system: comparison between implicit Hermite spectral and particle-in-cell methods

DOI10.1016/J.CPC.2015.09.002zbMATH Open1344.35147arXiv1312.4991OpenAlexW1547558873WikidataQ115045351 ScholiaQ115045351MaRDI QIDQ312042FDOQ312042

Authors: E. Camporeale, B. K. Bergen, G. L. Delzanno, J. D. Moulton 

Publication date: 13 September 2016

Published in: Computer Physics Communications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We describe a spectral method for the numerical solution of the Vlasov-Poisson system where the velocity space is decomposed by means of an Hermite basis, and the configuration space is discretized via a Fourier decomposition. The novelty of our approach is an implicit time discretization that allows exact conservation of charge, momentum and energy. The computational efficiency and the cost-effectiveness of this method are compared to the fully-implicit PIC method recently introduced by Markidis and Lapenta (2011) and Chen et al. (2011). The following examples are discussed: Langmuir wave, Landau damping, ion-acoustic wave, two-stream instability. The Fourier-Hermite spectral method can achieve solutions that are several orders of magnitude more accurate at a fraction of the cost with respect to PIC. This paper concludes the study presented in Camporeale et al. (2013) where the same method has been described for a semi-implicit time discretization, and was compared against an explicit PIC.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1312.4991

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zbMATH Keywords

spectral methodsplasma physicsVlasov equationmultiscale simulations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Vlasov equations (35Q83) Spectral, collocation and related methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M70)

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