A discontinuous Galerkin method for the Vlasov-Poisson system

DOI10.1016/J.JCP.2011.09.020zbMATH Open1244.82081arXiv1009.3046OpenAlexW2043376739MaRDI QIDQ422933FDOQ422933

Authors: R. E. Heath, Irene M. Gamba, P. J. Morrison, C. Michler 

Publication date: 18 May 2012

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

Abstract: A discontinuous Galerkin method for approximating the Vlasov-Poisson system of equations describing the time evolution of a collisionless plasma is proposed. The method is mass conservative and, in the case that piecewise constant functions are used as a basis, the method preserves the positivity of the electron distribution function and weakly enforces continuity of the electric field through mesh interfaces and boundary conditions. The performance of the method is investigated by computing several examples and error estimates associated system's approximation are stated. In particular, computed results are benchmarked against established theoretical results for linear advection and the phenomenon of linear Landau damping for both the Maxwell and Lorentz distributions. Moreover, two nonlinear problems are considered: nonlinear Landau damping and a version of the two-stream instability are computed. For the latter, fine scale details of the resulting long-time BGK-like state are presented. Conservation laws are examined and various comparisons to theory are made. The results obtained demonstrate that the discontinuous Galerkin method is a viable option for integrating the Vlasov-Poisson system.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1009.3046

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zbMATH Keywords

discontinuous Galerkin methodLandau dampingVlasov-Poisson systemtwo-stream instabilityLorentz distributionBGK states

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Vlasov equations (35Q83) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M60) Magnetohydrodynamics and electrohydrodynamics (76W05) Statistical mechanics of plasmas (82D10)

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