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

DOI10.1016/j.jcp.2013.02.041zbMath1349.82094arXiv1210.5289MaRDI QIDQ347648

Matt Landreman, Darin R. Ernst

Publication date: 5 December 2016

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

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

zbMATH Keywords

plasma; orthogonal polynomials; phase space; Fokker-Planck; kinetic; velocity space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

65N75: Probabilistic methods, particle methods, etc. for boundary value problems involving PDEs

65N35: Spectral, collocation and related methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs

82C31: Stochastic methods (Fokker-Planck, Langevin, etc.) applied to problems in time-dependent statistical mechanics

82D10: Statistical mechanics of plasmas

Uses Software

• Matlab
• ORTHPOL
• PETSc
• Differentiation Matrix Suite