New applications for the Boris Spectral Deferred Correction algorithm for plasma simulations

DOI10.1016/J.AMC.2022.127706MaRDI QIDQ6380432arXivFDO

Authors Kris Smedt, Daniel Ruprecht, Jitse Niesen, S. M. Tobias, Joonas Nättilä

Publication date 15 October 2021

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite difference methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M20) Finite difference methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M06) Statistical mechanics of plasmas (82D10) Numerical methods for initial value problems involving ordinary differential equations (65L05) Spectral, collocation and related methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M70) Mathematical modeling or simulation for problems pertaining to fluid mechanics (76-10)

Abstract: The paper investigates two new use cases for the Boris Spectral Deferred Corrections (Boris-SDC) time integrator for plasma simulations. First, we show that using Boris-SDC as a particle pusher in an electrostatic particle-in-cell (PIC) code can, at least in the linear regime, improve simulation accuracy compared with the standard second order Boris method. In some instances, the higher order of Boris-SDC even allows a much larger time step, leading to modest computational gains. Second, we propose a modification of Boris-SDC for the relativistic regime. Based on an implementation of Boris-SDC in the extsc{runko} PIC code, we demonstrate for a relativistic Penning trap that Boris-SDC retains its high order of convergence for velocities ranging from $0.5c$ to $>0.99c$. We also show that for the force-free case where acceleration from electric and magnetic field cancel, Boris-SDC produces less numerical drift than Boris.

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