An energy- and charge-conserving, nonlinearly implicit, electromagnetic 1D-3V Vlasov-Darwin particle-in-cell algorithm

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DOI10.1016/J.CPC.2014.05.010zbMATH Open1360.78014arXiv1310.1832OpenAlexW2005687578MaRDI QIDQ525837FDOQ525837


Authors: Guangye Chen, Luis Chacón Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 5 May 2017

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

Abstract: A recent proof-of-principle study proposes a nonlinear electrostatic implicit particle-in-cell (PIC) algorithm in one dimension (Chen, Chacon, Barnes, J. Comput. Phys. 230 (2011) 7018). The algorithm employs a kinetically enslaved Jacobian-free Newton-Krylov (JFNK) method, and conserves energy and charge to numerical round-off. In this study, we generalize the method to electromagnetic simulations in 1D using the Darwin approximation of Maxwell's equations, which avoids radiative aliasing noise issues by ordering out the light wave. An implicit, orbit-averaged time-space-centered finite difference scheme is applied to both the 1D Darwin field equations (in potential form) and the 1D-3V particle orbit equations to produce a discrete system that remains exactly charge- and energy-conserving. Furthermore, enabled by the implicit Darwin equations, exact conservation of the canonical momentum per particle in any ignorable direction is enforced via a suitable scattering rule for the magnetic field. Several 1D numerical experiments demonstrate the accuracy and the conservation properties of the algorithm.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1310.1832




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