Convergence analysis of a discontinuous Galerkin/Strang splitting approximation for the Vlasov-Poisson equations

DOI10.1137/120898620MaRDI QIDQ5495208zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Alexander Ostermann, L. Einkemmer

Publication date 31 July 2014

Published in SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1211.2353

zbMATH Keywords

convergence analysisdiscontinuous Galerkin approximationrecurrenceStrang splittingVlasov-Poisson equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Boltzmann equations (35Q20) Vlasov equations (35Q83) Numerical methods for initial value problems involving ordinary differential equations (65L05) Stability and convergence of numerical methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M12) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M60) Statistical mechanics of plasmas (82D10)

Abstract: A rigorous convergence analysis of the Strang splitting algorithm with a discontinuous Galerkin approximation in space for the Vlasov--Poisson equations is provided. It is shown that under suitable assumptions the error is of order $mathcalO(a{u}^2+h^q+h^q/au)$, where $au$ is the size of a time step, $h$ is the cell size, and $q$ the order of the discontinuous Galerkin approximation. In order to investigate the recurrence phenomena for approximations of higher order as well as to compare the algorithm with numerical results already available in the literature a number of numerical simulations are performed.

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