Recovering the damping rates of cyclotron damped plasma waves from simulation data

DOI10.4208/CICP.OA-2016-0091zbMATH Open1373.76355arXiv1609.07646OpenAlexW2526258744MaRDI QIDQ5372602FDOQ5372602

Authors: Cedric Schreiner, Patrick Kilian, Felix Spanier 

Publication date: 27 October 2017

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

Abstract: Plasma waves with frequencies close to the particular gyrofrequencies of the charged particles in the plasma lose energy due to cyclotron damping. We briefly discuss the gyro-resonance of low frequency plasma waves and ions particularly with regard to particle-in-cell (PiC) simulations. A setup is outlined which uses artificially excited waves in the damped regime of the wave mode's dispersion relation to track the damping of the wave's electromagnetic fields. Extracting the damping rate directly from the field data in real or Fourier space is an intricate and non-trivial task. We therefore present a simple method of obtaining the damping rate {Gamma} from the simulation data. This method is described in detail, focusing on a step-by-step explanation of the course of actions. In a first application to a test simulation we find that the damping rates obtained from this simulation generally are in good agreement with theoretical predictions. We then compare the results of one-, two- and three-dimensional simulation setups and simulations with different physical parameter sets.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.07646

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Packaged methods for numerical algorithms (65Y15) Quantum dynamics and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82C10) Statistical mechanics of plasmas (82D10) Quantum hydrodynamics and relativistic hydrodynamics (76Y05) Hydrodynamic and hydromagnetic problems in astronomy and astrophysics (85A30) Software, source code, etc. for problems pertaining to fluid mechanics (76-04)

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