New velocity-space discretization for continuum kinetic calculations and Fokker-Planck collisions

DOI10.1016/J.JCP.2013.02.041zbMATH Open1349.82094arXiv1210.5289OpenAlexW2001536272MaRDI QIDQ347648FDOQ347648

Authors: Matt Landreman, Darin R. Ernst 

Publication date: 5 December 2016

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

Abstract: Numerical techniques for discretization of velocity space in continuum kinetic calculations are described. An efficient spectral collocation method is developed for the speed coordinate - the radius in velocity space - employing a novel set of non-classical orthogonal polynomials. For problems in which Fokker-Planck collisions are included, a common situation in plasma physics, a procedure is detailed to accurately and efficiently treat the field term in the collision operator (in the absence of gyrokinetic corrections). When species with disparate masses are included simultaneously, a careful extrapolation of the Rosenbluth potentials is performed. The techniques are demonstrated in neoclassical calculations of the bootstrap current and plasma flows in a tokamak.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1210.5289

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zbMATH Keywords

plasmaFokker-Planckorthogonal polynomialskineticphase spacevelocity space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Probabilistic methods, particle methods, etc. for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N75) Spectral, collocation and related methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N35) Stochastic methods (Fokker-Planck, Langevin, etc.) applied to problems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C31) Statistical mechanics of plasmas (82D10)

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Uses Software

• Matlab
• ORTHPOL
• PETSc
• Differentiation Matrix Suite

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